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[jaapv]

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Given a library of 100,000 keyworded images how do you find all images with keywords "rain" and "tree" in Photoshop?   Are you pictures geotagged?  If so how do you find all the images taken in or around Yosemite in Photoshop?

 

Edit: On 1 couldn't import all my images last time I tried (about 6 months ago).  Does Affinity have DAM functions?

Very simple. Keywords are used in Bridge - the same way they are in LR.  Bridge is the Library analog  of LR, ACR --> PS the Develop etc.

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[250swb]

Given a library of 100,000 keyworded images how do you find all images with keywords "rain" and "tree" in Photoshop?

 

'Rain' as a keyword, now you jest? You will be saying next that a Leica user doesn't remember precisely the date of their cardiac arrest caused by getting their camera wet. 

 

Jaap has pointed out the obvious, you use Bridge. But there are a lot of photographers who have kept the naming of their files in line with that used for their negatives, so a folder for each day (a negative envelope for each film), a descriptive name and date, and then subfolders for edited photographs (negatives marked for printing on the envelope). This is a second aide-memoire beside the keywords, and many film photographers will know that with a simple system they develop a laser like memory for where a negative (or file) is.

 

If you then take the realistic hit rate of film as maybe 3 images from a roll of 36 (or per 36 if digital), that leaves you less than 1000 good images from 100,000 exposures (and you could argue there is more wastage or lower hit rate with digital). So finding the 3 good photographs from the day it rained in a Yosemite forest isn't going to kill you given all the additional qualifiers such as the date. And that is without using keywords. So '100,000' is a statistical deception, unless they are all indeed great images you only need to search for the good ones. It's called editing.

Edited September 30, 2018 by 250swb

[LocalHero1953]

It is certainly true that Lightroom Classic CC does not organise photos into its own folders by default unless you allow it to - you can keep your own folder structure.

Lightroom CC, though, imports images and uploads them to the cloud in folders by year, month, date. Your only options for breaking away from this are either to create a parallel 'album' structure, or to assign keywords to everything. Unfortunately, the most important search functions that should go with this ('Find all photos not in an album', or 'Find all photos without keywords') are missing.

So don't use Lightroom CC (which does bring its own benefits, not available in Lightroom Classic CC) unless you are happy with the default structure or particularly rigorous in managing your album or keyword structure.

[gfweir]

I have been a Canon EOS digital user for 15 years and have an easy workflow for images using Photomechanic and Canon Raw Image processing through Photoshop.

Of course none of that works with my new Leica M-D images. I have been trying LIghtroom, but I find it not intuitive and not at all easy to use. 

 

Here is how I typically worked before:

Import and rename all RAW images into a folder on my hard drive.

Then use an editing program to preview and select which images to process into Tiff or Jpeg.

Then I would move on to Photoshop for final work.

 

 

 

Anyone who is familiar with Photomechanic will know what a wonderful editing program and

front end for managing the first step of digital image processing...unfortunately it

does not work will with DNG from Leica...the image previews are too low res to interpret at all.

 

Thank you,

Harleybob

 

 

I've used Photomechanic for so many years now and yes it's a great editing tool.

 

It works well with my DNG's and the previews are fine, have you been through all your PM preferences?

 

Best

George

[ru2far2c]

Another one here for photomechanic to sort and keyword files then import them into C1 session. Not a big fan of catalogs even though catalogs are easier to search. Haven’t used LR for a long, long time.

[harleybob]

On 10/3/2018 at 1:53 AM, gfweir said:

 

 

I've used Photomechanic for so many years now and yes it's a great editing tool.

 

It works well with my DNG's and the previews are fine, have you been through all your PM preferences?

 

Best

George

What in PM would assist me with DNG? Are there settings in "preview" or other that would help get a higher res? 

[harleybob]

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What about ACDsee? Anyone familiar with how it works with DNG from Leica MD?

[gfweir]

On 10/19/2018 at 11:10 AM, harleybob said:

What in PM would assist me with DNG? Are there settings in "preview" or other that would help get a higher res? 

I made no changes to my PM set up or prefs when I switched to using the CL and DNG files, previously was using CR2 from Canon files.    I installed PM on two new laptops this fall, one PC and one MacBook - I made no adjustments to any of the installed Preferences in either of these machines in order to allow PM to read my DNG files.

PM reads all my files with no problems: my prefs:

 RAW.   Check box Enable RAW Rendering (using Apple's Imagelo)

  RAW Rendering for Previews 

                For RAW+JPEG:    Select            Use JPEG Preview for speed

                For RAW only:        Select            Use JPEG Preview for speed

Note: Pressing the "Q" key will dynamically toggle these settings for the photo being previewed.   

In Contact Sheet  Preferences Select "Best" for High DPI Display Quality

 

Hope that is of some help

Also CameraBits staff have always been extremely helpful whenever I have contacted them

 

 

 

 

[epand56]

On 9/29/2018 at 2:29 PM, jaapv said:

Amen to that!  If you want a good LR-like programs there are ON1, Luminar and Affinity.

Hello Jaap, do you know if Affinity Photo has a color correction tool for Italian flag such like Flat Field in Lightroom?

Thank you.

[harleybob]

I have purchased ACDSee and it works great. Much easier than Lightroom and Photoshop and I am a professional Photoshop user since the beginning. 

Faster workflow and much more intuitive. I really like it and it is working out great for me.