- Lightroom Version Number
- Lightroom Classic version 8.4.1
- Operating System
- Windows 10
I'll try and be brief. Every time I think I have LR sorted and I begin to trust it, I find something else to worry about. Only four days ago I made the decision to import everything into LR and abandon efforts to correct all the corrupt keywords in Bridge. (I've been using CS5 and Bridge for the past ten years or so). I only check a handful of parent keywords, but on every file save it wrote the entire flattened hierachy back to Bridge and I was getting nonsense with all the parent keywords checked. It isn't important now. I had a lot of things to correct in LR and almost all my files were changed. The back up I did the following day took about two hours.
So I thought I would pick up and start using LR as part of my normal work flow today. I've been scanning some old film recently, tweaked a bit in LR, but removed all the dust and scratches using smart objects in Photoshop. The file tweaked in LR remained as imagename.tif and my finished file saved as imagename.psd. I mark newly created images as "revisit" with a blue label, a reminder to go back, do one final check a bit later before rasterising and making jpg files for web site, photography forum etc. These scans were way smaller than my normal digital files, so I had already decided to leave the smart objects intact. I just needed that final check and to make jpg files. Imagine my shock today to find several edited last week had been flattened. I haven't opened them since I last worked on them, but my massive tidy up of keywords since has saved the files again. I have never opened a psd file from within LR - I was already scared it might flatten my layers if I brought it back again. I never thought it would flatten any other way.
So I thought I would pick up and start using LR as part of my normal work flow today. I've been scanning some old film recently, tweaked a bit in LR, but removed all the dust and scratches using smart objects in Photoshop. The file tweaked in LR remained as imagename.tif and my finished file saved as imagename.psd. I mark newly created images as "revisit" with a blue label, a reminder to go back, do one final check a bit later before rasterising and making jpg files for web site, photography forum etc. These scans were way smaller than my normal digital files, so I had already decided to leave the smart objects intact. I just needed that final check and to make jpg files. Imagine my shock today to find several edited last week had been flattened. I haven't opened them since I last worked on them, but my massive tidy up of keywords since has saved the files again. I have never opened a psd file from within LR - I was already scared it might flatten my layers if I brought it back again. I never thought it would flatten any other way.