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 p.19 #1 · Lightroom Classic AI Denoise (12.3) | |
Erictator wrote:
Part of it may be my own fault and initial expectations that got off on the wrong foot years ago... I cut my teeth on Photoshop early days at work. It was expensive back then, and at the time when I first was aware of LR years ago, it was pitched to me as an inexpensive alternative to PS, like "PS Lite" as photo editing software. When I loaded it for home use, it became readily apparent that it was definitely NOT "PS Lite" and that it was primarily an organizer with some editing capabilities.
Fast forward to modern times, I received a free license for LRC with my new Adobe subscription that I bought mainly for PS. So, on a lark, I re-installed LRC to see what's changed.
To be honest, I never bothered to fully flesh it out to see "why" or "what" was happening that triggered a re-scan of my picture drive after I moved some files around via the OS, because I stopped it before it finished, and I yanked it off the system...
...But what I do know, is that after initially installing LR Classic this time around, it took a full day to catalog everything, or whatever it does, and when it did, there was an additional several gigabytes! of index files? and previews? or something? it had created, I dunno, and the work flow just still seemed so foreign to the way I think. It was slow and clunky to me so it was already on probation as far as I was concerned, heh heh. I prefer to rely on the OS logical folder naming conventions and a sort by date function and finding my newest or outstanding unfinished work that way. The tree view and thumbnails just doesn't do it for me.
So, in the end, it sounds like you have way more experience with LR and LRC than I do, and probably can make it sing and dance and it sounds like you really like it. Awesome! Happy for you! It's probably not fair of me to discount it on forums, so I'll watch my rhetoric in the future, but I never wanted an organizer in the first place, so I wasn't inclined to put forth much effort into making it work for me.
Eric
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NP. It took me while to figure out LrC and the catalogue system. I posted in case others are reading. Nothing wrong someone who does not like a catalogue or LrC's catalogue system. I would hate to see someone not try it out, etc because they think it takes over control. It doesn't. The user has full control. I've opened Canon DPP, DOX, etc edited files and it never affected my LrC edits.
There is not much to it. A few simple rules. Make sure the catalogue knows where all your files are located and when you exit check the Optimization and Check Integrity boxes. When I move or create a new folder/s I use LrC. It isn't any faster using the OS and you can just forget about it.
Yeah the previews can get pretty big. It will build them when you import but not when you move files. So if you import 100,000 files it will take a while. In the catalogue settings you can set up when to discard them. One day, one week, one month or never. I keep them around in case I open old files. Mines about 30GB but I've got the space. My 500GB drive isn't even half full even with the previews.
Lr which has been the cloudy version since 2018 had a big update last fall. I think now it is version 7 and you can store files in the cloud or locally now. It was only cloud storage before that version. It is not as robust as LrC but there is no catalogue either. I can see one day LrC and Lr merging which is fine with me and it seems a natural progression if whatever they call it is as robust as LrC. Then I may try cloud storage. Currently I have no interest and have never installed Lr. If Adobe ever ticks me off the cancel plan button is only 10 seconds away 
For others that are reading you can sync LrC to the cloud but it does not send your actual files, only Smart Previews that are so small they do not count towards cloud storage space. You can edit them on other devices including mobile and those edits will sync back to LrC.
Any thanks for replying and good luck in your endeavours.
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