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09/04/2008 02:23:17 AM · #1 |
I have been using iView for all my image handling, but I recently fried my hardrive and had to download a trial of lightroom to fill in for it. But anyway, I work on weddings and need to separate images into categories within lightroom and then move them into individual folders for uploading to our printer. The problem that I'm running into, is that iView has a action that physically moves all the separated, categorized files from one folder to another and so far I haven't found something to do that in Lightroom (besides exporting them to another folder which takes up too much time). Keep in mind that my photographers shoot in Jpeg (barf) and the process of "exporting" all the jpeg files into... jpeg takes up a lot of time and duplicates the files.
Is there a way, to edit the files in lightroom, and then move (not copy) them to another location while keeping the changes you made. If we were shooting RAW obviously I would have to export them, but I just want to MOVE them for now. Can anybody help me???
Here's an example of the workflow I need to follow:
- 900 Jpegs in folder X need to be labeled like follows.. Prep, Prebride, pregroom, ceremony, formals, reception etc.
- Images need to be corrected for exposure, color, etc.
- Select Images need to be moved into separate respective folders on my hard drive labeled like.. 00_PREPERATION, 01_PREBRIDE, etc.
- I can't take the time to export everything from jpeg to jpeg, its just lame. But I need to keep all the changes I make.
HELP!
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09/04/2008 03:16:06 AM · #2 |
This is from memory (I don't have lightroom in front of me). You can move them manually, then when you try and view them in lightroom it notes that the image is missing. You then get an option to locate the image, and I 'think' it checks there for the other missing ones as well.
Easy (I think)
Message edited by author 2008-09-04 09:10:02. |
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09/04/2008 05:40:42 AM · #3 |
This is actually quite simple if I understand correctly.
Go through the folder of 900 images (using your example here). Label the images. I assume you're keywording them or adding to the "Label" field. Either is fine.
On the left hand folder navigation pane, create the subfolders wherever you want. I'd put them in the folder you're working on and I'll explain why later. One you've created them, filter your images based on the field where you added the labels. This is done by switching to thumbnail view and looking above the thumbnails. Here you will find the filter options. Filter by metadata field equal to whatever you want.
Now you should only see the photos you labeled with say "preperation". Select all (Apple+A or Ctrl+A depending on platform). Drag them to the new folder in the left hand pane. This should move them. Do this for each label.
Since all subfolders are in the parent folder for the wedding, you can view each one individually, or click on the parent folder and get all of the images for all subfolders.
Hope this helps!
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09/04/2008 07:20:11 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by Cidpilot:
Is there a way, to edit the files in lightroom, and then move (not copy) them to another location |
One clarification... Lightroom's overall design is to "protect" the originals. All of your changes are reverseable because none of the changes are made to the originals. Instead, the changes you make are more like "recorded instructions" which can then be applied to an image as it is processed (exported).
So when you say you want to edit the files ... you have left the realm of simply moving the files around, you now want Lightroom to make a new copy of the file by exporting your edits. In raw this makes 100% sense. With jpegs (as you've noted) it makes less sense unless you remember that Lightroom is protected your originals so that you can go back and redo things without any loss of quality. (if it actually made changes to your originals I would think you would soon find yourself regretting it)
Anyway, so yes, if you use Lightroom to manage jpegs then you will essentially have two copies of each "processed" (exported) file.
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09/04/2008 08:59:34 AM · #5 |
David makes an important distinction that I forgot to mention at the end of my post.
Since the changes are not saved in the JPG itself, you'll still find yourself exporting from those individual directories. Sorry for any mis-communication!
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