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[Dannielle_1]

We leave in 8 days and I just received mine today. It said "Your Disney Vacation Is Almost Here Dean Family!" from Disney Destinations. It has Disney's PhotoPass CD Save $50!. I had also received the other emails that did not have the pre-purchase information. When we went in December I received the email with the pre-purchase information 30 days before our trip.

I just called Photopass to ask. Since I booked through Disney, they said approximately 10 days before my trip I would receive an email from Disney Destinations entitled something to the effect of "Magical Musts". In that email will be lots of links, one of which will be for Photopass. Using that link it will lead me to the discount for pre-purchasing the Disney CD.

Thanks for this info.

I just received the 45-day out "Must See" e-mail, which in the fall had the link to the photopass discount. This link was just taking me to a general photopass info page this time. But it seems according to your info I need to wait until about a week before hand. And look for an additional email.

 

[Belleandtinker]

We pre-purchased for our January 2009 trip and didn't need a code. I'm a planner and list person, so I just want to get it done! I guess I'll have to wait.

 

[Belleandtinker]

I emailed the photopass email last night and they responded. I'll receive an email 10 days before we leave with an email "Magical Must."

I did receive one that says "Must Sees" this week, but when I followed the photopass link - just informational.

Does anyone know the current special?

 

[JoeDif]

Does anyone use the catalog feature in Lightroom? What are the advantages of using it?

Thanks

 

[MarkBarbieri]

I do. I have one for my personal photos, one for my studio shoots, and my wife has one for her yearbook photography. It makes everything more manageable. Backups are easier. Searching is easier. I recommend them if you have very distinct groups of pictures with little or no overlapping elements. Examples might include personal vs work for hire, his vs hers for spouses that like to keep things separate, a collaboration collection when working someone on a project, or (for John Edwards types) one for photos with the wife and a different one for photos with the mistress. It's one of those two Americas things.

 

[JoeDif]

LOL...such practical applications.

Since I'm the only one using it I'll have to come up with some creative categories.

 

[mrodgers]

Keywords!

I keyword everything when I import them. If I have a photo from 3 years ago of my daughter at the beach in Presque Isle, Erie with a boat in the background while she builds a sandcastle with sea gulls flying all over then I can find that photo with any of the following keywords....

Lauren
Presque Isle
Erie
beach
boat
sandcastle
sea gulls
water
birds

Oh, and if you use lightroom, don't you kind of have to use the catalog? You don't have an option of just opening up a photo in lightroom without importing it into the catalog, unless newer versions than I have you can...

 

[JoeDif]

Keywords!

Oh, and if you use lightroom, don't you kind of have to use the catalog? You don't have an option of just opening up a photo in lightroom without importing it into the catalog, unless newer versions than I have you can...

Good advise about keywords.

You are correct. Usually when I'm done processing images in a catalog (say Disney Aug 2009) I'll save to my drive then delete the catalog. I was wondering about the advantage of keeping them.

 

[Groucho]

Good advise about keywords.

You are correct. Usually when I'm done processing images in a catalog (say Disney Aug 2009) I'll save to my drive then delete the catalog. I was wondering about the advantage of keeping them.

Hmm. I think the idea with Lightroom is to keep all your photos in there. It can handle huge volumes without too much problem. I've got about 40,000 shots in my LR catalog and I'm sure that I'm just a piker compared to many people. If you want to keep the shots separate, use the "Collection" feature to organize them into one grouping.

 

[photo_chick]

I've got 100,000+ images in my Lightroom library and I keyword everything, otherwise I'd never find anything. I also use the flags for more general sorting. It was a pain tagging old images when I first got Lightroom to set it up but well worth the time spent in the end. For me at least.

 

[JoeDif]

I've got 100,000+ images in my Lightroom library and I keyword everything, otherwise I'd never find anything. I also use the flags for more general sorting. It was a pain tagging old images when I first got Lightroom to set it up but well worth the time spent in the end. For me at least.

Well I know what my next project will be

 

[JimbobJimbo]

All of my photos are in my Catalog(about 12,000), and then put into Collections by each event so the are easy to find.

 

[JoeDif]

All of my photos are in my Catalog(about 12,000), and then put into Collections by each event so the are easy to find.

I'm going to need to do some studying so I can figure out Catalogs and Collections.

I've seen Scott Kelby has a Lightroom book. Is this a recommended information source? I've got the development module down pretty good but I'd like to be able to use all the features.

 

[JimbobJimbo]

I'm going to need to do some studying so I can figure out Catalogs and Collections.

I've seen Scott Kelby has a Lightroom book. Is this a recommended information source? I've got the development module down pretty good but I'd like to be able to use all the features.

Yes, I would recommend Scott Kelby's book. I used it myself and found it very helpful.

 

[disneyboy2003]

I'm going to need to do some studying so I can figure out Catalogs and Collections.

I've seen Scott Kelby has a Lightroom book. Is this a recommended information source? I've got the development module down pretty good but I'd like to be able to use all the features.

Yes, Scott Kelby's Lightroom book is very easy to follow along, and I'd also highly recommend his book.

Another very good and very detailed book is by Martin Evening: The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers (link to Amazon). It's nicely written, has a lot of color pictures.

Yes, you really should be keeping your catalog, rather than deleting it. The Lightroom catalog keeps all the information about all your photos in one central catalog. That way, if you're ever looking for a particular photo, it makes it MUCH faster!

As an analogy, you can compare it to a library catalog, and compare your photos to the library's books. Let's say you're looking for a particular book in the library with the word "photography" in the title. You can certainly walk through the aisles and aisles and aisles of books to look for every book with the word "photography", but you'd be spending *way* too much time at the library.

However, that's what the library catalog is for. You type in the word that you're looking for, and wha-la: you've got a list of books with the word "photography" and tells you where to look for each of those books.

So the Lightroom catalog does the same thing. It's a quick way to organize and look for all your photos. If you want to look for a photo of Mickey Mouse, you can do that using Lightroom's catalog, and Lightroom will pull up all your photos that you've previously tagged with the word "Mickey Mouse".

That's just a quick example of things you can do with a Lightroom catalog. There's still tons more that the Lightroom catalog can do.

Hope that helps.

 

[JoeDif]

Thanks for the explanation!!

I''ll need to check out both of those books

 

[Khokhonutt]

I'm running Lightroom 2.x at home and I have a Sony A700. I honestly can't remember if I noticed this behavior with the update to Lightroom 2.x from 1.x or when I moved from my A100 to my A700, but here's what I'm seeing...

My normal workflow is to copy raw files from my card to a 'raw' folder on my computer. From there, I open Lightroom and import the pictures from the harddrive. When I initially see the pictures being imported, the lighting of the pictures appear to be normal to me, but sometime after they import I see them automatically changing to darken the picture. It's as though there's an automatic profile that decides all of the pictures need to be darker.

I've searched about A700 profiles and have loaded them for Lightroom, but have not found where to set a default that makes a difference. Anyone out there run into this?

Thanks,
Jeff

 

[JoeDif]

Did you check to see if you have some sort of preset that is being applied at import?

 

[Khokhonutt]

I thought about that, but so far have not been able to find a setting that would control that.

 

[GrillMouster]

When the camera saves a RAW file it also embeds a thumbnail preview into the RAW file of what the image would look like if you had shot it in jpg mode using the in-camera settings. Lightroom shows the preview embedded into the RAW file for a second until Lightroom replaces it with its own baseline preview of the RAW file.