Thank you for a quick reply. I have a few questions.
Is there a reason to be using Smart Previews for the first solution ?
The Smart Previews are workable images that are smaller and can be used as a proxy for the real image file. It allows you to work on your image without the actual image present on another disk.
Lightroom Classic (LrC) on your second computer should be transparent to what you left on the master computer.
What does it mean to be transparent to what I left on the master computer in the above instruction?
At the beginning you have two copies of the same catalog. One on each machine. As soon as you make a change in one of the catalog copies, you will no longer have duplicate copies. By transparent, I mean, at the beginning you won’t be able to tell the catalogs apart as they will contain the same information.
When you are finished then you need to collect the additions and changes that to made in the second copy of the catalog.
After I make changes to photos on the 2nd computer, is that what you mean when you say I have made changes to the second copy of the catalog?
All of the changes that you make to images on the second computer will be held in the second computer catalog file. If you import new images to that second computer, these files will be included in the catalog but the path will reside else where. So, you will need to use the Export as a Catalog function in the second computer to collect both the catalog file and any images that you have imported.
...creating a package of everything inside one folder using the Export as a Catalog function.
By everything do you mean the photos I've worked on? How do one use Export as a Catalog function ?
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Export as a Catalog is a submenu item of the {file} menu. If you have not imported any new image into the second computer catalog, the this second catalog file is all that you nee to merge back into the master catalog file.
Import from another catalog” to merge the two catalogs together.
So each time I do work on one of the computer and move back to the other, I will merge the two catalogs?
Sounds like a lot of routine that may result in trouble for me, for instance, if after working, I'm tired.
You are correct in that I will be working on both Catalogs, not just on one of them.
You only need to do the Export as a Catalog/Import from another catalog when you want to merge the second catalog into the master. That could be once a week or once a month.
For the second method, I've looked at the incompatibilities.
What does this mean?
• Album/Collection hierarchy doesn't sync between Classic and the Lightroom cloud. I suspect I won't be affected by this.
Two other things that may affect my work. True?
I will lose Keywords assigned while in the Cloud.
Keywords assigned on Computer will sync to the Cloud once.
I would ignore Albums in Lightroom (Lr) Your emphasis should be on basic edits in the develop process. I will add Captions and Titles in Lightroom (Lr) but not keywords because of the incompatibilities with keywords between the two apps.Any Collections that I want in Classic , I wait until i am working in Classic (LrC) to assign images or make other Collection changes
I think once I get accustomed to the workflow, it may be better to use the Cloud to work at both locations.
Thanks again.
Roberta
There are features in Classic (LrC) that are not available in Lr. Keyword incompatibilities that you have mentioned and Printing is another. Due to the nature of the mobile platform OS, there is not as much interoperability between Lr and other apps. I would not abandon LrC because there are too many processes in there that I need. Adobe has not recommended using the two very different Lightroom Apps in tandem as I do, but once you recognize the shortcomings that happen when you try to use the two apps together as I have, It is simple to work around and have the two apps live together in peace.
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