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    As a long time Photoshop user, I now do 95% of my image editing in Lightroom 2.0. If I can't mess up an image in two minutes...what's the use?
    I prefer the metadata assets management capability of Lightroom over Bridge by far!

    Keywords

    I have set up Lightroom keywords to include all Aminus3 Categories and several common user Tags! When I dump my card into Lightroom, I assign keywords for Year, Category, and Tag where possible - or simply Year when there are multiple subjects and locations. Notions of universal tagging seem far fetched...people are people and resist wherever individual choice comes into question. I use what I find on Aminus3 for my base strings, then sometimes add something with a personal significance. This workflow is fast, saves time by keywording only the best images, and conserves disk space.

    Library - The Power of X

    First Look - On Import to Library > Grid View, Click on the first photo, then hit the spacebar to zoom to full screen, then L twice to view in Lights out mode. Then hit the keyboard right arrow key [nudge key in Photoshop parlance] to view each image in turn for critical focus, exposure etc. As I scroll through the photos I hit keyboard keyboard letter X [Reject] for any that do not make muster, photos of my foot etc..

    First Cut - Hit [G] for grid > L lights back on. Once back in Grid view note the Rejects are grayed out. Click on the first grayed out photo then Photo > Delete Rejected Photos > then Delete from Disk. All the Rejected photos will be deleted from disk at this point. Be ruthless!

    Second Look and Cut - Repeat the process above. Be ruthless again!

    Final Candidate - The remaining photos can now receive the necessary keywording and are ready for editing .

    Tip

    1. In Smart Collections I make a new Smart Collection with the Keyword attribute -"Without Keywords". If I inadvertently forget to keyword a photo it will appear here for the appropriate action : ]
    2. Before Exporting an image for posting to Aminus3, I select the photo then hit keyboard numeral 3, to assign a Three Star rating. Again, I have made a Smart Collection titled say "Aminus3 2009" with the attribute - Rating "is" Three Star [+] Keywords "contains" 2009. Now all my 2009 post to Am3 are easily retrievable as a Smart Collection. Create as many Smart Collections as necessary.

    If you are totally anal [organized] you could edit the MetaData "Caption" to include the post title and date i.e. Title 00/00/00. Might be handy for the occasional and particularly important post...and it's searchable.

    My Ratings

    * working
    ** working
    *** Aminus3 Post Images
    **** Color Selects
    ***** B-W Selects
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    Great tutorial, Jerry, thanks !
    I've been using LR 2 for some time now and love it too.
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    I've been on the fence on getting lightroom (mostly tired of how long bridge takes to create thumbs) - I think this tutorial has put me over the edge, and I'll buy it. Thanks Jerry for sharing your notes.
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    Neither Lightroom or Bridge takes full advantage multiple CPU's, but Lightroom handles thumbnail generation better. Adobe needs to get hot on this issue...more discussion on diglloyd I trashed Bridge from my CS3 install, for some unknown reason Adobe also slips Opera into the package contents, where it is invisible to most users.

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