summerseddy
Member
- Joined
- Jun 23, 2019
- Messages
- 34
- Lightroom Experience
- Advanced
- Lightroom Version
- Classic
- Lightroom Version Number
- 8.3.1
- Operating System
- Windows 10
So I'm not a heavy user of LR, up until recently I used it for basic edits, syncing edits across a set, launching into PS and back again and exports.
My PC is kinda slow and sluggish so I tended to create new catalogs for new jobs or if personal use perhaps a new catalog for the month (August '19 etc).
I've just had my first commission job, and it's taxed my flow more than normal weddings and family shoots. I created a catalog for this job and imported the images, however I have continually created more and more virtual copies as my client has requested to see different edits of the originals. For example, 2-3 different colour kinds (uniformed into a set), 2-3 monochrome versions and 1-2 Sepia. This has all been very reasonable request by the client, it's just usually when I do portrait work the client is familiar with my style and 1-2 variations is enough (basically they like what they get and that's that haha!). This however was different and can understand the necessity for seeing different styles as it's part of a shop design etc.
Anyway... too late now, my library is a mess, but for future how can I best go about sorting this stuff better?
For example, right now I have edited some shots as being used with Really Nice Images preset Agfacolour 40s, and in order to make it easily apparent I have just given those files 2 stars, or a red label or something. What would be really nice would be to finish the set (or at the outset) have those files in a labelled collection or something. Right now I can't seem to figure out how to highlight a bunch of images and send them to some kind of custom named collection or subfolder or something...
Can anyone help? Is there a nice tutorial for organisation in this regard, for projects and different edits of the same files?
TIA!
My PC is kinda slow and sluggish so I tended to create new catalogs for new jobs or if personal use perhaps a new catalog for the month (August '19 etc).
I've just had my first commission job, and it's taxed my flow more than normal weddings and family shoots. I created a catalog for this job and imported the images, however I have continually created more and more virtual copies as my client has requested to see different edits of the originals. For example, 2-3 different colour kinds (uniformed into a set), 2-3 monochrome versions and 1-2 Sepia. This has all been very reasonable request by the client, it's just usually when I do portrait work the client is familiar with my style and 1-2 variations is enough (basically they like what they get and that's that haha!). This however was different and can understand the necessity for seeing different styles as it's part of a shop design etc.
Anyway... too late now, my library is a mess, but for future how can I best go about sorting this stuff better?
For example, right now I have edited some shots as being used with Really Nice Images preset Agfacolour 40s, and in order to make it easily apparent I have just given those files 2 stars, or a red label or something. What would be really nice would be to finish the set (or at the outset) have those files in a labelled collection or something. Right now I can't seem to figure out how to highlight a bunch of images and send them to some kind of custom named collection or subfolder or something...
Can anyone help? Is there a nice tutorial for organisation in this regard, for projects and different edits of the same files?
TIA!