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- Apr 4, 2008
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- Windhoek, Namibia
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- Android
Hi everyone
I am not really a fan of using apps such as LR on my phone but LR mobile might be the best choice for what I need to do.
I have been using LR since v1, so my desktop workflow is pretty finetuned for my needs. I have about 60k images in my main catalog, organised in folders (trip or assignment), and with location, title & keywords metadata. From there I export the best ones to my website portfolios which on top of the similar travel and assignment sections, also as themes (paulgodsard.com). I also export the same best ones as min 2000 px jpg (and with all metadata) and copy them to my phone (organised in the same folders as LR or the collections on my website for consistency). All these jpg images take about 17 Gb of storage. The purpose is to have them off-line when I travel so I can show people. The 2 above work quite well.
Being old school, I am very bad at posting on social media but my wife wants to rescue me!
1/ She says that she can not post pictures taken directly from my website although this is by far the best option to search for images and also get the whole metadata to write a proper post. If you click on an image on my website, you will see that below the large image there are many option to share the image on social media... but she says that does not work for her. Is that correct or she or I are missing something?
2/ She says that she wants all the photos she want to post on her computer or phone. The problem is that in that case she will have no search option apart the organisation in folders and she will not have the metadata information to write the post. If I take all the jpg images into LR and create a catalog, I can see all metadata. I presume that I could share that catalog to be used in LR mobile but where do I put all the jpg images? I have 6 Tb of cloud storage on MS OneDrive and I do not want to pay for other cloud storage. Also will it be easy for her to post a photo from LR mobile?
3/ Maybe there is another way to achieve the same result, so I am listening...
Thank you, Paul
I am not really a fan of using apps such as LR on my phone but LR mobile might be the best choice for what I need to do.
I have been using LR since v1, so my desktop workflow is pretty finetuned for my needs. I have about 60k images in my main catalog, organised in folders (trip or assignment), and with location, title & keywords metadata. From there I export the best ones to my website portfolios which on top of the similar travel and assignment sections, also as themes (paulgodsard.com). I also export the same best ones as min 2000 px jpg (and with all metadata) and copy them to my phone (organised in the same folders as LR or the collections on my website for consistency). All these jpg images take about 17 Gb of storage. The purpose is to have them off-line when I travel so I can show people. The 2 above work quite well.
Being old school, I am very bad at posting on social media but my wife wants to rescue me!
1/ She says that she can not post pictures taken directly from my website although this is by far the best option to search for images and also get the whole metadata to write a proper post. If you click on an image on my website, you will see that below the large image there are many option to share the image on social media... but she says that does not work for her. Is that correct or she or I are missing something?
2/ She says that she wants all the photos she want to post on her computer or phone. The problem is that in that case she will have no search option apart the organisation in folders and she will not have the metadata information to write the post. If I take all the jpg images into LR and create a catalog, I can see all metadata. I presume that I could share that catalog to be used in LR mobile but where do I put all the jpg images? I have 6 Tb of cloud storage on MS OneDrive and I do not want to pay for other cloud storage. Also will it be easy for her to post a photo from LR mobile?
3/ Maybe there is another way to achieve the same result, so I am listening...
Thank you, Paul