Digital Photography Tips from the Top Floor

Adam B(GMF) · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 1:19 pm Post subject: Lightroon is a pain in the ****

I've got a raw file - i open it in photoshop, im asked if i want to stack it with the orginal, all seems fine, unless I make a few versions in PS (using Save As), then i have to re-import them into lightroom because lightroom won't automattically see them, and they're not automattically where i want them.

Also if the file gets too big lightroom won't import it.

Probably going back to using bridge at this rate
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Mussakka · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 2:28 pm Post subject:

What if you open it in Lightroom initially and then open it in Photoshop via Lightroom? Will it not stack all the versions then?

I know when I first opened a file in PS via LR I couldn't find the PSD afterwards. Took me forever to find where it was.
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Adam B(GMF) · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 4:42 pm Post subject:

it stacks the first one, but if i do several "save as" copies it does not work grrrr Sad

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Phooto · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 4:53 pm Post subject:

You can set LR to automatically import from a watched directory, let it copy them from a working folder, and do your 'Save As' to the working folder. Neat, because it will give you immediate backups too.

Every now and then, you can delete all the files in the watched folder, because they will have been imported.
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Adam B(GMF) · Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:17 am Post subject:

Go point. I can make this a high level directory?

Still doesn't get over the too large file size
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mgilvey · Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 6:00 am Post subject:

Why are you bringing it back into LR? I generally use LR as my starting point. I do everything I can in LR because what LR can do, it does MUCH better than Photoshop. After I get it looking the way I want, then I export the appropriate format for PS.
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Adam B(GMF) · Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 9:19 am Post subject:

I'm using LR to manage all my photos. I find that I need to seach through old images from time to time. Sometimes I want to reprocess one or two of them.
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afpalmer · Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 10:03 am Post subject:

Are you using the latest version? Can't say I have ever had a problem with file sizes so I am afriad I can't help with that...

Check your settings when importing - you can change it to set photos in date order, or as they are in your existing directory.
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