Thanks, Emily! Your suggestions look to be very helpful. Elliot ____________________ E Berlin MEDIA Elliot Berlin Documentary Films & Media Production 6800 Fleetwood Rd., Suite 100 McLean, VA 22101 703.356.9315 office 703.283.5559 mobile www.eberlinmedia.com (site under construction) -----Original Message----- From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Emily L. Ferguson Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 11:34 PM To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students Subject: RE: Photo archive/index software Well, it's a beta, and it seems the help files are the last thing they're going to implement. So spending a bunch of time at the web site is the best one can do at this point. Also the Fora are very useful and the video tutorials are a good start. Quite a few of us have been playing with it for a year or so now, so we might be able to help. Remember, Lightroom is intended to be a combination image database and image processor. You are supposed to keep everything there and go to Lightroom to export your adjusted files when you need them in different versions for different uses - email, slide show, printing, uploading to web, display as thumbnail page. So you have the opportunity to incorporate as much keywording and captioning at the very beginning of the import as you can work up, and once you have the keywording going along you will find that you can click on a keyword and all the images with that word will appear in the browser page or film strip. And you have no particular need to adjust every single file you download either, since if you do need the file years later it will still be there waiting for adjustment. Just recently I've concluded that the film strip is the most useful beginning display mode for me. Using it allows me to keep a decently full sized image in the big central window. But right now, Lightroom is a terrible RAM and processor hog and I can't run anything else, including RealAudio, when I'm trying to use Lightroom.. This is not the Mac way, so I'm not totally committed to Lightroom, but it's still quite attractive. -- Emily L. Ferguson mailto:elf@xxxxxxxx 508-563-6822 New England landscapes, wooden boats and races http://www.vsu.cape.com/~elf/ http://e-and-s.instaproofs.com/
