Lightroom file import?

[alexphotos]

In lightroom can we make it the work with or normal file and not to import every thing?

[djwixx]

I've been trialling Lightroom and it's up to Adobe usual standard of NOT being very intuitive. From everything I can tell you can only import then export - no normal options like open and save. It looks like it has great potential, but also looks like it will be more work than is required for a casual snapper like me!

[martinphotography]

Stick with it and don't be discouraged by those who don't know anything about the program. Here is a great site to learn about the options for importing photos or folders - it's all up to you.

http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/light ... mport.html

[djwixx]

Stick with it and don't be discouraged by those who don't know anything about the program. Here is a great site to learn about the options for importing photos or folders - it's all up to you.

http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/light ... mport.html

I'm not sure if the comment was directed at me. I wasn't qualifying myself as knowing about the program, merely stating my experience. As I said it looks like it has great potential. Like all Adobe products it needs tools (books etc) to get the most from the program.

[marxz]

not bragging or anything but I found Lightroom to be very intuitive, I think I picked up the basics in minutes and most of the advanced stuff (except the web part which doesn't interest me) in a couple of days.

I guess the first thing is you have to realise ... Lightroom is not really a raw converter (though it does that well enough), nor is it an image editor (though it is capable of 90% of your image editing needs)....

no - rather Light room is a image catalogue manager (database/library/collection/{any other word for amalgamation of files} Manager)...
As such the idea of opening/editing/saving/forgetting-about an individual image is pretty much contrary to it's whole "raison d etre"

In fact it's little more than a Database Administration program with imaging plugins

Ironically this is where I find the current version of Lightroom fails me the most - not being able to handle multiple libraries stored in multiple (physical) locations.. can be done with "under the hood" work each time you want to jump to a different physical library - ah well as an amateur I can live with that for now.


HOWEVER if I just want to manipulate a single (a few) image in Lightroom (which I want to do some times) I put it (them) in a folder (so it's the only image (images) there)

Open Lightroom then import the image(s), manipulate them export them and then, if I don't want to keep the original, delete them out of the Lightroom database. Not elegant but does the trick and as I only do it occasionally it doesn't get on my nerves much