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Would love the ability to mark my directories in Lightroom as completed somehow after I’m done processing them.
Mark directory completed processing feature
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dmeephd
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2 years ago
I do...all the time.
I download my images from my cards to a 20TB G-Tech Thunderbolt drive which is categorized according to type of photography (e.g., Landscape, Nature, Glamour, Motorsports, etc.) These directories are further subdivided based on geography, type, or year.
For example, I was out photographing the transient Mexican Orca pod yesterday and today; the first time they've been spotted in the Los Angeles area in over 30 years.
The directory is like so:
Nature\North America\United States\California\2018-29-09 California Whale Watching
under this directory I have two subfolders:
\processed
\unprocessed
The directory structure is created automatically by a photography program called Light Blue, and their logic is simple. Download ALL images into the 'unprocessed' folder. Cull obvious goofups like no flash fired or an image of your foot or the clear blue sky when the boat was rocked by a wave. Go into Lightroom and perform the import with your import presets.
After keywording all of the images with high-level keywords, my next pass is to apply specific keywords; in this case female, male, calf, feeding, breeching, spy-glassing, etc. It is during this second round that I 'flag' the images I really hate and really like for either disposal or post-processing.
After post-processing in LR, DxO, PS, what have you, I move them into the 'processed' folder. Almost never will all of the images in the 'unprocessed' folder make it into the 'processed' folder, but I do find that from time to time I go back and revist some of the ones left in the 'unprocessed' folder.
This makes the 'processed' folder sort of a living folder, as its ranks may grow, and they might even shrink as I reflect upon a post-processed image and think it might not be so hot. Since photography is art, and artists usually believe that no work of art is ever truly finished, I'm not sure that marking a directory as complete would work for me. However, to each his or her own.
Besides, what would 'complete' mean? Does it mean that you have finished post-processing on all of your images? Or just on the ones you liked? And does that mean the images you thought were not worthy of post-processing were culled out? Or are they still co-mingled with the ones you processed?
For me, having the two separate directories leaves no doubt, or at least less doubt, as to whats what, and where what is. LOL.
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Johan_Elzenga
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Johan W. Elzenga,
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dmeephd
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carlos_cardona_4982447
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means Complete.
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dmeephd
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lshoe
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carlos_cardona_4982447
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For me LR Mobile is the killer feature, editing anywhere and everywhere is better than sitting at your desk for hours on end! Until other editors can provide this feature, I’m sticking with Lightroom! Hope that helps!
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This is why Adobe created collections and smart collections in Lightroom!
Johan W. Elzenga,
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