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I have decided to trail Lightroom again for it Noise Reduction and Clarity which I believe are great to use... I am on Aperture at the moment but it lacking some things..

The main question I like to ask when I edit a picture in Lightroom how do I set it to auto duplicate the image as in aperture when I edit a picture i have stack for several different edits but when I edit a image it auto duplicate...

Now another in I cant work out the brush tool on Lightroom in aperture it great I can set what I want the brush to do and I start brushing the image ie sharpen or what ever..

Also I have a feeling moving over to Lightroom is going to be a nightmare am I correct as I have all my photos in aperture all organise so I guess I am going to have to do it all over again in lightroom?

I will have to pay full price for it but I need to see if I am happy before I do as I am thinking of getting lightroom instead of upgrading my 40D to a 7D as I am only wanting to upgrade to 7D for the ISO handling for taking pictures of my daughter indoor but if the noise correction in lightroom is that good I might stick with the 40D for a while
 
You can download a 30 day trial version from the Adobe website.
 
I have already downloaded it am trailing it that why I asked if anyone know how to make the image auto duplicate when I come to edit the image so I like ti auto duplicate and stack like i can do in aperture
 
Andrew

I don't know that you can auto create what LightRoom calls a virtual copy.

In terms of your catalogue, all you should need to do is point LR to your main folder containing your photos and ask it to "add". This will import the details into the LR catalogue but not move them.

Hope this helps
 
Edit: I think there will be a way of doing this as a preset on import.

Do you want to create a virtual copy of every photo?
 
Buck said:
Edit: I think there will be a way of doing this as a preset on import.

Do you want to create a virtual copy of every photo?
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I would like it to happen on photo I do some work on shame there not a way of it doing automatically..

I wont be able to move my aperture library over thou I guess I need to do it myself
 
rookies said:
I would like it to happen on photo I do some work on shame there not a way of it doing automatically..

I wont be able to move my aperture library over thou I guess I need to do it myself
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As you say you can't import your Aperture library but you can just let LR catalogue your photos for you. I did this when I first got it and it was suprisingly quick - I've never been so organised with my workflow.

I'm just going back now and adding keywords and creating a few smart collections

Now I've got into how it works I am really impressed with it
 
Buck said:
As you say you can't import your Aperture library but you can just let LR catalogue your photos for you. I did this when I first got it and it was suprisingly quick - I've never been so organised with my workflow.

I'm just going back now and adding keywords and creating a few smart collections

Now I've got into how it works I am really impressed with it
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I am finding it hard how LR does this Catalog... cant we have different folders in the Catalog?
 
rookies said:
I am finding it hard how LR does this Catalog... cant we have different folders in the Catalog?
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Yes, you can. When I set up Lightroom I just used Import from Disk and brought in all the images from my hard drive and it kept the folder structure. You can then manipulate the folder within Lightroom (in fact it's recommended that you do so)
 
rookies said:
I am finding it hard how LR does this Catalog... cant we have different folders in the Catalog?
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Yes of course you can. Have you read the help files? It's all there. Just takes a little work.
 
When you guys import to Lightroom do you copy move or add?

What I have always done I have all my photos on a HD all dated year and month
 
If you aleady have the pics on HD - then import and add - this doesn't move them or copy them but ADDS them at the current location.

LR does take a bit of work at the beginning but it's well worth the effort.
 
awp said:
If you aleady have the pics on HD - then import and add - this doesn't move them or copy them but ADDS them at the current location.

LR does take a bit of work at the beginning but it's well worth the effort.
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Have you had aperture before? I love the way aperture do the Library but I love lightroom processing features
 
Seen it - never used it - always been on a PC. I think they are very similar though - and both have a learning curve. I use LR3.4 for 98% of my pics now.
 
Could any of you show us a screen shot how you got your Catalog to give me an idea :)
 
cant you resize images in lightroom

IGNORE
 
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Yes

You can do almost anything in LR - almost.
 
rookies said:
Could any of you show us a screen shot how you got your Catalog to give me an idea :)
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within each month jobs are broken down by day.
 
^^mine's similar to Andrews except in each year my files are currently the date of capture in the YYYY-MM-DD format i.e. 2011-05-25

I may change this but my way of working [filing] is to have them in a chronological order then to use smart/collections and key words to help me find the photos I need as oftern you wont know the date but will know some of the key data i.e. location; contents etc.
 
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