One photo, multiple sessions (or catalogues?)

DANIEL STARR

• 2020年02月09日 05:39

I'm still grappling with workflow, but was wondering about how to address the following: Let's say, I have images from a vacation to the Hinterlands which I had edited and was "done" with. Now, I'm restless for more editing, and I decide I need a "Black and White" collection and want to grab images from my Hinterlands trip, my Thursday Walkabout, my trip to the Provinces, and images from my pile of random crap, how do I organize them all in C1? Basically all that is setting up the question: can one image exist in multiple sessions and/or catalogues? Thanks!

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  BeO

  • 2020年02月09日 08:48

  

  Hi DMStarr,
  
  If you have a couple of thousand images (or keepers) only, I would consider to manage the images in just one catalog, use keywording and smart albums, which dynamically filter all images from their keywords, if you use keywords as filter criteria to define these albums. If you use normal, non smart albums they are static, that means you manually have to assign new images to these albums, and secondly, all variants will appear there so you cannot separate then in different albums unless you use filters in addiotion which you apply on the fly. You can of course separate them by image, but not by variabt, e.g. A b&w variant in this album and a color variant of the same image in another.
  
  To your question:
  Whatever image file you make show up in C1, mainly raw files I assume, they will not be modified by C1. With C1 you add additional information which is the edit settings and layer masks, and you create different variants of this proccessing information.
  
  With catalogs, and btw. I would discourage strongly from physically importing your raw files into the catalog, choose to keep them in their location you have put them (e.g. Harddisk or ssd), the edit settings are in the catalog and the masks, previews and thumnails in a folder parallel to the catalog file location.
  You can create another catalog referencing the same raw files, this catalog creates its own Adjustments folder structure.
  
  With sessions though, the edit settings are stored in small files alongside with the raws somwhere parallel in the folder hierarchy, but the point is that you can open any session and see the same edits, i.e. no, different sessions won't be able to do different edits on the same raw file, unless you create a new variant, but would see them all which defeats the purpose as every session would see all variants , but wanted them really separated into sessions as per your request.
  
  You can use one session and smart filters similar to a catalog though.
  Its early in the morning I hope I didn't write something too confusing or even wrong... 😕
  
  Regards
  Regards
  BeO

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  DANIEL STARR

  • 2020年02月09日 22:14

  Thanks BEO, I think i get it! Your explanation is great, and I'm going to experiment with a catalogue pulling from different sessions to see if it does what I think it does.
  
  Best,
  
  Daniel

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