Christopher
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Hi! I just joined, and am excited to learn as I'm a bit of a newbie with lightroom. I have always just used photoshop and managed my files manually (started using PS in the early 90's).
I'm hoping I can get some feedback on my setup so that I know I'm not missing anything.
Some background, my computer was ancient, so I just archived all of my old stuff and wanted to start fresh with Lightroom CC so that I could move my process to my ipad/phone until I could upgrade my desktop. So for the last year, I've been simply importing my images to the cloud and setting up albums in Lightroom CC. It's worked great so far.
So I just purchased a new iMac and am setting up Lightroom Classic CC. I am hoping to keep my main photos on the cloud, but have a local copy now as well, that is 100% synced so that I can still do work remotely.
This is how I have it set up: I simply set LR Classic to sync to my cloud catalog, and set a custom location for the local copy of the data. I did not set LR CC to save a copy of the files to my desktop, as I didn't want two separate copies of the files. It seems to be working well, and I still use LR CC for all of my RAW imports.
Setting this up took a lot of Googling and head scratching, but I think I've got it?
Any advice would be very helpful. I want as simple a setup as possible. I'm an amateur enthusiast photographer, and I find simply organizing by LR CC album to be the easiest for my workflow.
Most of my work is now done on my iMac 21.5 Retina with Mojave, but I often edit on my ipad, iphone, and occasionally on my work Windows 10 machine.
Thank you!
Cheers,
Chris
I'm hoping I can get some feedback on my setup so that I know I'm not missing anything.
Some background, my computer was ancient, so I just archived all of my old stuff and wanted to start fresh with Lightroom CC so that I could move my process to my ipad/phone until I could upgrade my desktop. So for the last year, I've been simply importing my images to the cloud and setting up albums in Lightroom CC. It's worked great so far.
So I just purchased a new iMac and am setting up Lightroom Classic CC. I am hoping to keep my main photos on the cloud, but have a local copy now as well, that is 100% synced so that I can still do work remotely.
This is how I have it set up: I simply set LR Classic to sync to my cloud catalog, and set a custom location for the local copy of the data. I did not set LR CC to save a copy of the files to my desktop, as I didn't want two separate copies of the files. It seems to be working well, and I still use LR CC for all of my RAW imports.
Setting this up took a lot of Googling and head scratching, but I think I've got it?
Any advice would be very helpful. I want as simple a setup as possible. I'm an amateur enthusiast photographer, and I find simply organizing by LR CC album to be the easiest for my workflow.
Most of my work is now done on my iMac 21.5 Retina with Mojave, but I often edit on my ipad, iphone, and occasionally on my work Windows 10 machine.
Thank you!
Cheers,
Chris