Thank you so much Marina! I've already noticed a huge difference in the speed of my lightroom catalog with opening a new catalog for a separate shoot than in my old catalog thats has a few thousand photos.... i seriously thought it was my computer! (she's old haha) I'm so excited to continue this method going forward!
so lightroom actually has the option to select the target directory when using "copy" or "copy as dng" so I always import to lightroom directly into my external drive (not the default Photos folder). once i discovered this, I was no longer manually copying the files into folders in finder. the nice thing about using lightroom import is that it sorts the files by date (which i had to manually do in finder), and then if i rename the folders within lightroom, then it will rename the folder within finder as well, and if I move the files in lightroom it gives the option to move on disk as well. So I actually find doing all that organization within lightroom to be the fastest way.
Interesting approach. But personaly, I didn't noticed lightroom to get any slower from having one large catalog instead of multiple... and I have cca 100k photos in my catalog. Having multiple catalogs means that you have to give up all the advanced organizational features - tagging, smart collections, etc. Also, Lightroom import feature doesn't have to copy files. At the top of diagogue box you have an option to copy, move or just add to catalog from its current location.
Working on the hard drive directly slow down your process than directly on the SSD of your Mac due to speed transfer the only solution is using thunderbolt but that's crazy expensive. One catalog is smart didn't think about that 😁
I have 40k pictures in one catalog, no noticable slowing down. Lightroom let's you choose if you want to copy the files while importing or leave them where they are. You basically do the work with the folders manually that lightroom can do automatically without any benefit. But you do you.
Thank you for sharing! well explained! I'm using this tool called Eagle to manage and organize my files tho, its tag, rating and annotation feature is really helpful in finding the files without making a mess, I basically use it for ideas gathering, reference collections, and work file organizations. I think you will like it too! Plus it supports video, audio, image files preview without opening the other application(like psd, ai, png, jpg..etc)!! en.eagle.cool
I have been needing this video for the last year. Now I just need to figure out how to organize my Lightroom. Thank you!
i cant stress enough how frustrated i was til i found this video. super helpful! owe you 🙏
THIS!!
Thank you so much Marina!
I've already noticed a huge difference in the speed of my lightroom catalog with opening a new catalog for a separate shoot than in my old catalog thats has a few thousand photos.... i seriously thought it was my computer! (she's old haha) I'm so excited to continue this method going forward!
Loved the idea of not importing from Lightroom! That is how the mess begin. Thank you!
so lightroom actually has the option to select the target directory when using "copy" or "copy as dng" so I always import to lightroom directly into my external drive (not the default Photos folder). once i discovered this, I was no longer manually copying the files into folders in finder. the nice thing about using lightroom import is that it sorts the files by date (which i had to manually do in finder), and then if i rename the folders within lightroom, then it will rename the folder within finder as well, and if I move the files in lightroom it gives the option to move on disk as well. So I actually find doing all that organization within lightroom to be the fastest way.
This was soooo helpful for a novice photographer! Thank you so much!
Girl, you saved my life 😭❤️
Last question. Don’t you save the the edits on a Cloud Service?
Interesting approach. But personaly, I didn't noticed lightroom to get any slower from having one large catalog instead of multiple... and I have cca 100k photos in my catalog. Having multiple catalogs means that you have to give up all the advanced organizational features - tagging, smart collections, etc. Also, Lightroom import feature doesn't have to copy files. At the top of diagogue box you have an option to copy, move or just add to catalog from its current location.
How do you do with multiple cameras? Sometimes I also have Gopro and Iphone.
SO helpful! Thank you so much!
we have the same computer wallpaper and it was eerie like this video was speaking to me
Thank you for this video! very helpful!
This was super helpful!!! I don’t have to delete photos anymore 🙏🏼🙏🏼
this was SO helpful!!
Working on the hard drive directly slow down your process than directly on the SSD of your Mac due to speed transfer the only solution is using thunderbolt but that's crazy expensive.
One catalog is smart didn't think about that 😁
I have 40k pictures in one catalog, no noticable slowing down.
Lightroom let's you choose if you want to copy the files while importing or leave them where they are. You basically do the work with the folders manually that lightroom can do automatically without any benefit. But you do you.
Well explained!
Hi, are you still working with the same method?
Awesome video! So you export them as JPEG’s?
very helpful
Do you ever have the same fear of your hard drive ever crashing and losing everything on that drive?
No because they back up
Separate disks and US date format. What a mess!
Uhmm, Uhmm, Uhmm, Uhmm,
Thank you for sharing! well explained!
I'm using this tool called Eagle to manage and organize my files tho, its tag, rating and annotation feature is really helpful in finding the files without making a mess, I basically use it for ideas gathering, reference collections, and work file organizations. I think you will like it too! Plus it supports video, audio, image files preview without opening the other application(like psd, ai, png, jpg..etc)!!
en.eagle.cool