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Re: [OM] IMG: My Struggle to Learn to Use Lightroom

Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: My Struggle to Learn to Use Lightroom
From: ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 20:26:09 +0000
Piers

Aperture was there before LR as a DMS and Capture One does it as well (which is 
why I moved to C1 from Aperture).

Chris

> On 9 Jan 17, at 18:55, Piers Hemy <piers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> In this respect, you have missed the single biggest advantage of LR (which 
> is, as far as I am aware, unique to LR). IT isn't just an image editor, it is 
> an image management database too. You do not need to change any of your 
> existing file structure, just leave your images where they are ("import" them 
> into LR so as to give LR the information it needs to find them, of course) 
> and then start to use LR keywords to classify the images. By all means use 
> Family, Little League, Airport, Skydiving, Pretty, Boys, Girls in as many 
> combinations as you please for each image. The beauty of this approach is 
> that it is infinitely flexible and can be modified, expanded, developed as 
> your needs evolve. And unlike a classification using the PC file/folder 
> structure, it is multi-dimensional. You are not forced to choose whether a 
> given image is an "Airport" image or a "Pretty Girl" image - give that image 
> all three keywords, and you can later search for images meeting the "Pretty" 
> and "Girl" criteria
 . Or "Airport" and "Girl". Or...

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