sessions and catalogues
I wonder is there any big advantage to use sessions or catalogues. I use to go direct to my harddrive from PO pro11, open last taken pictures, see them in CO viewer, mark those pics that I want to process with stars and after save them in sub folders. Am I loosing something, all pics still have all I have done in memory. This must be question in class newbie, jouni
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You'll miss all the organizational features (user collections, keywords, filters, …)
Plus if you ever want to apply further adjustments to an old picture, with your method you'd have to reimport the RAW file, re-apply ALL the previous adjustments you made (I doubt you would ever remember everything), perform the additional adjustments you want, re-export your picture to TIFF or JPEG. And do all that over again next time you want to change anything.0 -
You have to be using either a session or a catalogue.
Sounds like you are working on your image through a Session without making any use of the session's organisational capability.
That's fine. I have general testing and hacking sessions where I do the same but normally I use a session to keep a shoot as a complete "work" or to group rather more random shots under a common theme.
There are things that a session can to automatically for you on import - such as take the files at a storage location and send them to where you wish to store them and re-name using tokens to give a structured naming convention as it does so (or leave them at the existing location).
Import can also apply presets and styles should you wish.
You can use the links created to "known locations" of the imported files which is useful when you first start to work on them.
You can navigate to existing images somewhere on your system and edit directly, as you know. But you can also make that folder a "Favourite" so it is easier to get back to it when you want to. If you have finished with it (and assuming you still wish to stay with just an "open" session for everything, just remove that "Favourite" link.
That scratches the surface if what is possible but probably represents the main user functionality most people work with.
That said, what is you want to do that makes you wonder what you are missing?
Describing a whole set of features only makes sense if you have something in mind.
The alternative is to read through the help section on sessions to see if anything looks interesting to you (after all this is a personal thing) and to watch the C1 videos on related subjects. As I recall there is one about Catalogues and Sessions that people find very useful.
HTH.
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[quote="John Doe" wrote:
You'll miss all the organizational features (user collections, keywords, filters, …)
Plus if you ever want to apply further adjustments to an old picture, with your method you'd have to reimport the RAW file, re-apply ALL the previous adjustments you made (I doubt you would ever remember everything), perform the additional adjustments you want, re-export your picture to TIFF or JPEG. And do all that over again next time you want to change anything.
As long as the op keeps his raw files where he edited them then all his edits will be stored in that directory for future use in a small subdirectory.0 -
OK I misunderstood his question then, my bad. 0 -
I got good information of sessions and catlogues. I have not had need for those features what they offer, they sure are much help for many others.
What concern PP and elder pictures, if I look at pictures I have processed 4 and more years ago, I see easily, I had to do them again. Have come several uppdates of programs and my skills also better today, hope so. Same time I must state I coudn't remember from picture to another what I have done for it long time ago, I still have trouble to get picture look like I want.
Many thanks to all and Happy New Year, jouni0
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