ColMac9090
Active Member
- Joined
- Jan 25, 2011
- Messages
- 247
- Location
- Edinburgh, Scotland
- Lightroom Experience
- Intermediate
- Lightroom Version
- Classic
- Lightroom Version Number
- LR Classic 11.1
- Operating System
- Windows 10
Unusually, I want LR to do some destructive editing for me. I've scanned in several thousand old old black and white images for use in family history software. All images are in LR Classic and I want them to stay there. My FH software uses these images in charts etc.
As they are scanned, 100% of them need cropping (and other edits since many are damaged). The problem is that If I do the cropping in LR, then the edits stay in LR and are not visible to my Fam Hist software.
I have been switching them to Photoshop and editing there before returning to LR as normal, but that it quite cumbersome, and I was wondering if there was a better way to achieve this in LR.
My first thoughts were to export all at 100% to a new location, and telling LR to "Add to this catalog", then delete the originals. I am aware that where I have undertaken other edits (than cropping) I do risk losing the original unedited picture, but I think that risk is worth taking as I have not done that many. I might however isolate them and find a way to keep and stack the originals.
Any comments or better suggestions would be welcome.
As they are scanned, 100% of them need cropping (and other edits since many are damaged). The problem is that If I do the cropping in LR, then the edits stay in LR and are not visible to my Fam Hist software.
I have been switching them to Photoshop and editing there before returning to LR as normal, but that it quite cumbersome, and I was wondering if there was a better way to achieve this in LR.
My first thoughts were to export all at 100% to a new location, and telling LR to "Add to this catalog", then delete the originals. I am aware that where I have undertaken other edits (than cropping) I do risk losing the original unedited picture, but I think that risk is worth taking as I have not done that many. I might however isolate them and find a way to keep and stack the originals.
Any comments or better suggestions would be welcome.