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- Sep 28, 2008
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- Tacoma, WA
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I have read (and reread!) the various threads on travel catalogs (and participated in some of them), but my sense is that the "best way" depends on what one wants to do while away.
What I wish to do while away is:
So this is what I did:
After I get back, my plan is to:
So, my questions are:
What I wish to do while away is:
- Be able to keyword, add other metadata, and develop with a subset of my main catalog (I thus need all my keywords)
- Import new images into the travel catalog and develop some of those shots (as well as keyword)
So this is what I did:
- On my desktop, I discarded all existing smart previews and built smart previews for the subset I wanted to have on the laptop
- Created collections for the subsets of images I wanted to work on while away
- Exported the entire main catalog without any previews, originals, or any other option checked (this ensures that the exported catalog has all my keywords in it)
- Manually copied the exported catalog and the smart previews file from the desktop to the laptop and ensured that the exported catalog and the smart previews file have the same name
After I get back, my plan is to:
- export the entire laptop catalog, checking "include originals" so that any images I import while away are included in the export, but not checking any other boxes in the export dialog
- Import the exported laptop catalog into the desktop catalog
So, my questions are:
- Will this workflow as I intended it to?
- Am I correct about what I can and cannot do with the keyword tree on the laptop and have what I want on my desktop after getting home?