BUT… with Luminar, to be honest, when I’m all finished, I no longer even have a “photograph”. Since I’m shooting in ‘raw’ whenever possible, there is a lot of work I can do on an image before I start to think I’ve gone “too far”. That definition no longer is adequate, as PhotoLab especially is great at bringing out things in a photo that I did NOT see in the original. With Lightroom and PhotoLab, I try to create the image that I was thinking I saw when I took the photo. It comes down to "how much editing am I allowed to do, before my “photograph” becomes a “photo illustration”. I am having second thoughts about all of this. Peter, I think that will allow me to more easily do what you described, using tiff files, and only when everything is finished, export as JPG images to my folder for completed images ready to email or post online. I need to learn how to do that.īecause I also want to work with photos in Luminar, I decided to create a main folder -Luminar- and put photos there which will be primarily edited in Luminar. This also has me thinking that instead of relying on the Lightroom catalog, I should use the process that creates sidecar files in the Lightroom folders, with all the editing changes I have made. That way things are organized, and I can find my image a year from now, after I’ve long forgotten what I stored where. For use with PhotoLab, I copy the images into a new folder someplace under -PhotoLab-, using a file structure similar to what I’ve done for Lightroom. I use PhotoMechanic to sort out images from my memory cards, and I used to import them into Lightroom. I was going to share the folder between Lightroom and PhotoLab, but that got way too confusing, so I created another main folder -PhotoLab- for many of my new images. I used to keep all the Lightroom image gallery under one main heading on my computer -Lightroom- and I have always been careful to only work in that folder with Lightroom. I used to develop with Lightroom, but I am consistently getting better results doing so in PhotoLab.
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