chris_werner Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 I've been demoing Lightroom and Aperture and have decided to go with Lightroom. I'm still way early in thelearning curve, but have gotten familiar enough with the interfaces and so forth to be comfortable with thatdecision. I was wondering if anyone might have any words of wisdom - things to watch for, or be careful about, or things todefinitely do in settings or workflow or whatever? Sort of a must do / pitfalls to avoid list. Maybe there's nothing, but I'm trying to get things done right out of the gate. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrissyone Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Come up with a good method of organization and keywording and stick with it. A simple workflow is the key, because if it's a pain in the butt to do you won't do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seland Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Learn Ctrl+S -- saving metadata back to the file or a sidecar XML-file (called .xmp). It will help you in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmahler5th Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 Change the location of Lightroom catalogs and cache files to anything other than your primary drive, E.g. drive C: Your Lightroom cache and catalog files can grow to multiple Gigabytes quickly, and if you are running low on space on Drive C:\ it will make your computer slow as molasses in winter. The cache files are located in the following location by default. C:\Documents and Settings\<your acct name>\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\CameraRaw\Cache For more check this out http://tinyurl.com/6nune6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckystokes Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 Checkout Adobe Lightroom 2-The Missing FAQ.pdf It is an electronic book by Victoria Bampton. It is not a tutorial but is full of things about settings presets and such like, with links to where you can get lots of free develop presets and web galleries. If you go to Lightroom Forums and find one of her posts (not hard to do) you'll find a discount code in her signature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrissyone Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 To expand on what Steve said, it's a good idea to keep your actual photos off the boot dive, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrissyone Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 Sorry, boot DRIVE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patricklavoie Posted September 14, 2008 Share Posted September 14, 2008 www.lynda.com a good and fast start : ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_werner Posted September 15, 2008 Author Share Posted September 15, 2008 Very helpful - thanks to all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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