Organization is important to me. I have discovered how difficult it is to clean up a mess on a hard drive. Actually still working on that. I have tens of thousands of photos. Most without metadata. So I am working bit by bit on that. Made a mess pretty quickly on my first attempt at importing to a LR catalogue. Deleted that. I did learn a lot from all of that. I want to have a better understanding of how to organize and manage metadata before my second try at creating a LR catalogue.
I only want one catalogue.
I want the photos that the catalogue uses stored on an external hard drive, not my laptop.
I want to use folders, it is my understanding that if there is a loss of data collections are not saved.
I want to be careful to organize properly.
I want to be able to import all file formats including JPG.
I want to learn more about metadata between the different adobe products.
I want to utilize metadata correctly.
I am working in Bridge CC to add metadata and I did more work to organize photos on a hard drive dedicated to LR that I will use to add photos to the LR catalogue. Since the year is so important to metadata I set the folders up like Photos 2014, Photos 2015, Photos 2016. That way everything in the folder has the same copyright year. Within the folders I have categories like dogs, cats, plants etc. When I create the catalogue and add photos and folders to LR I don't anticipate any difficulties. I am concerned about subsequent additions.
I have a 3 terabyte hard drive that is full, another nearly full, definitely do not want that to connect to LR. I want to take organized photos from these two drives and add to the hard drive dedicated to LR. I know I can set up LR to not duplicate photos. Love that. As I add photos to the dedicated hard drive with metadata than connect to LR will it only add new photos or will it also include folders. Will it duplicate folders? Ignore folders? Or, will LR understand to add new photos to the folders in LR that share the same name as the folders that are on the hard drive? Or do I need to make subsequent additions of photos separate from folders? Than put them in related folders after they are added to LR? I am assuming once they are in LR I can add them or place them in the folders I choose. Is that correct?
On metadata, one thing I have read is once you put the photo in LR manage the metadata only in LR. But it does sound like I am okay to work on metadata in Bridge prior to adding to LR. What would be helpful to know about organization, folders and metadata prior to creating my next catalogue?
Thanks
Terri
I only want one catalogue.
I want the photos that the catalogue uses stored on an external hard drive, not my laptop.
I want to use folders, it is my understanding that if there is a loss of data collections are not saved.
I want to be careful to organize properly.
I want to be able to import all file formats including JPG.
I want to learn more about metadata between the different adobe products.
I want to utilize metadata correctly.
I am working in Bridge CC to add metadata and I did more work to organize photos on a hard drive dedicated to LR that I will use to add photos to the LR catalogue. Since the year is so important to metadata I set the folders up like Photos 2014, Photos 2015, Photos 2016. That way everything in the folder has the same copyright year. Within the folders I have categories like dogs, cats, plants etc. When I create the catalogue and add photos and folders to LR I don't anticipate any difficulties. I am concerned about subsequent additions.
I have a 3 terabyte hard drive that is full, another nearly full, definitely do not want that to connect to LR. I want to take organized photos from these two drives and add to the hard drive dedicated to LR. I know I can set up LR to not duplicate photos. Love that. As I add photos to the dedicated hard drive with metadata than connect to LR will it only add new photos or will it also include folders. Will it duplicate folders? Ignore folders? Or, will LR understand to add new photos to the folders in LR that share the same name as the folders that are on the hard drive? Or do I need to make subsequent additions of photos separate from folders? Than put them in related folders after they are added to LR? I am assuming once they are in LR I can add them or place them in the folders I choose. Is that correct?
On metadata, one thing I have read is once you put the photo in LR manage the metadata only in LR. But it does sound like I am okay to work on metadata in Bridge prior to adding to LR. What would be helpful to know about organization, folders and metadata prior to creating my next catalogue?
Thanks
Terri