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LightRoom Help …Again - or is that still?
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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 365863" data-attributes="member: 9240"><p>As HoroscopeFish and others have said, Lightroom requires photos to be imported into the LR catalog before you can use it. You cannot "Open In Lightroom" the way you do in PS or PSE.</p><p></p><p>I heartily recommend abandoning other tools and import directly into Lightroom and get used to using it as the anchor of your workflow. You can set it up to recognize a card inserted and automatically pop-up the Import dialog. If you <em>must</em> continue with your present Import system then go into Lightroom, open the Import dialog and choose <strong>Add</strong> instead of <strong>Copy</strong>at the top to avoid a second copy of your folder. Just realize that Lightroom is <em>very </em>sensitive to folder organization within the catalog, so once you import something into LR you <u>cannot</u> move it to other folders using anything other the Lightroom or the catalog will lose the image, which means disconnecting the associated LR edits. </p><p></p><p>I highly recommend getting and reading the Kelby/Kloszowski book "Lightroom 5 for Digital Photographers" as it does a great job of explaining the software from a workflow management point of view. Haven't watched it, but I suspect the Kost video will also get you started in a proper manner.</p><p></p><p>The thing you need to get you head wrapped around is that <strong><em>Lightroom isn't a piece of editing software</em></strong>. It's not like Photoshop. It's an integrated package with editing (and other) capabilities, but it is catalog driven - that's the only way it knows about a photo.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 365863, member: 9240"] As HoroscopeFish and others have said, Lightroom requires photos to be imported into the LR catalog before you can use it. You cannot "Open In Lightroom" the way you do in PS or PSE. I heartily recommend abandoning other tools and import directly into Lightroom and get used to using it as the anchor of your workflow. You can set it up to recognize a card inserted and automatically pop-up the Import dialog. If you [I]must[/I] continue with your present Import system then go into Lightroom, open the Import dialog and choose [B]Add[/B] instead of [B]Copy[/B]at the top to avoid a second copy of your folder. Just realize that Lightroom is [I]very [/I]sensitive to folder organization within the catalog, so once you import something into LR you [U]cannot[/U] move it to other folders using anything other the Lightroom or the catalog will lose the image, which means disconnecting the associated LR edits. I highly recommend getting and reading the Kelby/Kloszowski book "Lightroom 5 for Digital Photographers" as it does a great job of explaining the software from a workflow management point of view. Haven't watched it, but I suspect the Kost video will also get you started in a proper manner. The thing you need to get you head wrapped around is that [B][I]Lightroom isn't a piece of editing software[/I][/B]. It's not like Photoshop. It's an integrated package with editing (and other) capabilities, but it is catalog driven - that's the only way it knows about a photo. [/QUOTE]
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