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p.3 #2 · p.3 #2 · Are Lightroom Classic users now 2nd class citizens to Adobe | |
Alan321 wrote:
In what follows "Lr6" is my abbreviation for version 6 of the venerable Lightroom desktop computer program from long ago. "LrC" is the current Lightroom Classic desktop computer program (as used in the Adobe icons for that program). In case anyone is confused, the LrC catalog is not the image library. Library = the image files wherever they are. Catalog = what LrC knows about the image files and what I want done with the content of the image files.
Switching from Lr6 to LrC will be painful; very much worthwhile, for sure, but still painful. The longer you wait the more painful will eventually be. You should consider running both versions for a little while, but make sure you never let both (or perhaps either) write directly to your picture files. The pain comes from there being too many new features in LrC compared with Lr6, and from even the most basic edit commands working somewhat differently from what you are used to in Lr6. There have been several LrC versions over the years that have needed the Catalog to be rebuilt, making it incompatible with Lr 6 and also previous versions of LrC. There will be no easy way to go back. Things will be harder for you if picture files are directly altered or relocated in one without the other knowing about it.
Eventually, probably within a few months of actually using LrC, you will realize that keeping both programs and their own catalogs is no longer worth the mental effort and you will happily drop Lr6.
Meanwhile, one option is to duplicate your entire library and use LrC on the new one while leaving the old one for Lr 6. You could delete image files from the old library as they progressively become irrelevant - i.e. as the LrC version is then being used.
Or, you might do this with just a select few relatively important images that have been heavily edited in Lr6 with complex edits -- mainly because it will take you some time to figure how to edit them in LrC at all, and even longer to figure out how to edit them well. Some of the new LrC features and steps will even make some of your Lr6 experience redundant.
Or, you might keep Lr6 for old pictures that are rarely accessed and use LrC for all new pictures. I advise against this option because by the time you need to access those pictures you will hardly recall how to use Lr6 optimally - you will be fully set in the ways of LrC.
Personally, I keep all of my metadata within my LrC catalog and I have LrC compress and backup the catalog at the end of every session. My backup system manages those compressed backup catalogs pretty much daily. Meanwhile, any other software (Lr6, ACDSee, Ps, anything else) that writes only metadata to my image files will not upset my LrC view of those files because my LrC only reads its metadata (edit history, etc.) from its own catalog. There is still plenty of scope for external software to alter image files if I'm not careful. That external s/w could even be Canon or Nikon s/w getting the best out of images using secret sauce that LrC does not yet know about.
I always use other s/w such as Total Commander or Downloader Pro to put my picture files where I want them in my computer before using LrC import/add, rather than import/move or import/copy, to import them into my LrC catalog.
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A jump from LR6 to the current LrC version will be an adjustment. Something else that changed with the LrC version. Process version 5 which solved the problem of high ISO blacks looking purple.
After getting LrC version 7, I held onto LR6 for a year but never opened it once. The catalogue upgrades keep all the old adjustment information. After a year I got rid of it and the old catalogue. Now I could never go back. I’d go with a competitor before I’d ever do that.
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