I’m using Lightroom to manage files for product photography, but there are few essential features missing—file versioning and file renaming. I’d appreciate work-around suggestions to improve my LR workflow.
After culling for keepers of a Client’s product photos it’s necessary to rename them before post-work begins as the names must be meaningful (descriptive) when they’re viewed on an image server. Post work is mostly outsourced and files containing edits overwrite the renamed originals.
The concept of check out/in, filename changes and file edits doesn’t exist in LR and I doubt if such a feature will ever exist. I understand that LR isn’t the right App to use as a DAM and perhaps others have experienced a similar issue and what did they do to work around it or did they abandon LR altogether.
Thanks for helping.
After culling for keepers of a Client’s product photos it’s necessary to rename them before post-work begins as the names must be meaningful (descriptive) when they’re viewed on an image server. Post work is mostly outsourced and files containing edits overwrite the renamed originals.
The concept of check out/in, filename changes and file edits doesn’t exist in LR and I doubt if such a feature will ever exist. I understand that LR isn’t the right App to use as a DAM and perhaps others have experienced a similar issue and what did they do to work around it or did they abandon LR altogether.
Thanks for helping.