Hi Bill,
Good luck whatever you decide to do. I am using the opportunity to cull
through and edit the tens of thousands of files I have and will never
print. Really saving a lot of space. If you've been as lazy a I over the
past 10-15 years, do consider strong editing!
Best of luck,
Bob
Bob Adler
www.robertadlerphotography.com
*"Capturing Light One Frame At A Time"*
On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 12:55 PM Bill Abbott 3 <captbilly3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear Aram, Philippe, William, Frank and Bob,
Thank you for your frank and helpful comments about contemplating moving
from LR to Capture One.
Reading the Capture One internet text, I understand that Capture One uses
a LR Catalog that is exported from LR by LR without any change to LR so I
am free to try it without bothering my LR in any way, which is my initial
provisional step.
Their text implies that moving takes all LR editing with the move so we
will see if that is a “true fact,” as my brother used to laughingly say.
More important is why would I ever think of doing this? The answer comes
in several flavors.
First is this article which caught my interest:
https://luminous-landscape.com/adobe-why-have-you-forsaken-us/
It is one man's opinion and his guess as to what Adobe is planning to do
with LR in the future, more near than far, ending with no desktop app but
an all cloud future. He could be completely off base, partially correct
or turn out to be accurate.
Only time will tell. But it made me think, “Would I want that? All my
photo files in Adobe’s cloud?
Of course I’d retain the original digital files here on terra firma, or as
firm as any desk top hard drive can be.
To be frank, my Mac Mini and and Master Lightroom hard drives are backed
up by two sets of duplicate hard drives here on earth as well as by both
Crashplan and Backblaze in their clouds. It is called “belt and suspenders."
What tipped my thinking? I have had a year long battle with the Digital
Asset Management (DAM) portion of LR such as when importing by "Adding
files at their current location” LR does not do that and creates
duplicate files as well.
It is true that I have never been a fan of LR’s Keyword scheme interface
although I have tried several times to create a useful keyword structure
but have never made it work for me.
I have never been able to make the Keyword indention feature work as I
think it should, IMHO, and not show the Master Category along with the
Subordinate Category and not just the latter. But that’s the way it is, as
Walter Cronkite would say.
And as you know, LR does not move source files, i.e., the LR virtual file
structure cannot match the source file structure on my Master
Lightroom hard drive. Is that important?
I am not sure because that has been a “feature" of data bases since I met
my first one in the early 1970s.
So one thought is to separate the DAM function from the
image manipulation function for the benefit of both. It’s too long a story
for this discussion but I learned to distrust dual purpose devices and that
goes for software as well. Maybe I could learn to use another approach with
other DAM software.
Back when I was first scanning old family photos in the early 1990s I used
Canto DAM software until they ditched their personal software and went to
an all business orientation, where they exist this day. From that
experience I concluded there must be some DAM software out there for me.
As for image editing, I use very little of LR’s magic and probably could
get any with Adobe Elements as my two sons do with their voluminous output
to Flickr.
So that’s where I am at this juncture, perhaps chasing a fantasy of a
solid digital asset management system and usable
image manipulation software that meets my basic "tidy up” image editing
needs.
Thanks again for your thoughts and for sharing them and for listening.
You’ve helped me clarify my thinking which I deeply appreciate.
With best regards,
Bill
