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Rooky007

Rooky007

Rooky007

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I am thinking of moving over to Lightroom 4 from Aperture 3 as I am fed up of waiting for aperture to bring out a new version..

Has anyone made this move and for what reason please
 
Yeah I know it cross platform. But wondering if people have left aperture for Lightroom 4 as apple seem slow updating many software recently.
 
Rooky007 said:
Yeah I know it cross platform. But wondering if people have left aperture for Lightroom 4 as apple seem slow updating many software recently.
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If its not powering the big profit devices or servicing the app store then Apple aren't really bothered. A huge portion of their portfolio has just fallen by the wayside in recent years.

If you value support, go with a real software company. Lightroom is fantastic and its not that expensive these days.
 
I've been using Lightroom from just before version 3 came out. Love it. Got a nice workflow in place for getting my photos onto my website in a fully custom gallery backed by Flickr. Works perfectly.
 
Have bough it today via Adobe for £71 for the sale that going on today only.

Now I need to get the work flow right in the Catalog anyone want to show me a screen shot?
 
one thing that confuse me at the moment is month folders they not in order ive got Aug, Nov, Oct in that order and in a life I cant get it in month orders
 
^ Great purchase. Here's my folder hierarchy for lightroom:

Pictures
.._Photographs
....Images
......<folders relating to events or holidays etc here
....Library
......<Lightroom library files/folders in here
.._Graphics
....Images
......<folders relating to web images, stocks, design projects
....Library
......<Pixa Library file in here

As you can see, it's super organised, tidy, easy to locate stuff. Any images on my system fit into either Lightroom or Pixa and then have sub folders within each of those to keep them tidy.

I then have lightroom showing the _Photographs > Images folder as the top level parent so each of my event folders shows in the LR sidebar. Use "Show Parent" and "Hide Parent" from the context menu to specify this.

Hope this helps.

Neil
 
Hey, Sorry for the delay. Here's a merged image showing a bit more information for how I have my images organised:

Lightroom%20Organisation.jpg


Hopefully it is pretty self explanatory. The folder hierarchy is in my previous post for you to compare against.

If you right click on the most top level folder within lightroom you can use the two options I screened in the image to choose which is your top level folder. As you can see I have it set to "Images"

I have found this setup works perfectly for my needs. Maybe others do not agree, I don;t care at all. This works for me, other ways will work for others. I have put this here for people to take inspiration from if they wish. Not to force anyone to do it this way.
 
rctneil said:
Hey, Sorry for the delay. Here's a merged image showing a bit more information for how I have my images organised:

Lightroom%20Organisation.jpg


Hopefully it is pretty self explanatory. The folder hierarchy is in my previous post for you to compare against.

If you right click on the most top level folder within lightroom you can use the two options I screened in the image to choose which is your top level folder. As you can see I have it set to "Images"

I have found this setup works perfectly for my needs. Maybe others do not agree, I don;t care at all. This works for me, other ways will work for others. I have put this here for people to take inspiration from if they wish. Not to force anyone to do it this way.
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No problem we all got busy lives :)

I would like to say thank you ever so much for doing this for me and it made things clear :)

That pretty good structure that pal :) so let say inside the Holidays folder you put in sub folders of the holiday ie Spain, USA????

At the moment I have got Lightroom to do it Year/month/day but I think it going to clutter everything up wont it?

Ive decided to leave aperture as it is and keep the photos there what already been done.

As I bough a new camera start of November so I will use Lightroom from 1st of number where all images are from my new camera.
 
Hey,

No problem at all. I'm not a big photographer at all. I tried Lightroom out when I was first tidying out all my digital photographs and thought there must be a better way of organising them. Lightroom also allowed me to use multi word keywords whereas the app I was trying at the time (Google Picasa) didn't.

Currently, I mainly use it for the Library module but as I am getting my first DSLR shortly. (Waiting for the Nikon 5200) I hope to use it more and more and to start learning how to edit them properly.

Now I have my underlying structure sorted I can keep them all tidy. My structure can change around every now and again, depending on the photos just taken. If I figure out I have taken a lot of a certain type I can them sub divide it and nest the folders appropriately. It does all depend on the subjects of the photos taken.

I have enjoyed using Lightroom and it does have a wide variety of plugins available. I use Jeffrey Friedl's Flickr publish plugin a lot to publish photos to Flickr which I then pull onto my website using their API.

Neil
 
Do you find that plugin better than the built in Flickr that already on Lightroom?

I have moved over from aperture as aperture is lacking too much then again Aperture had some somethings better. But I fancy a change and Lightroom has amazed me.
 
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