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PEK

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Sync changes in Lightroom on different computers
« on: August 29, 2009, 12:02:33 am »

Does anyone have suggestions as to how to keep changes when you move an image file from one computer to another and want to work with it more in Lightroom? I work both at my office workstation and at home. Do I save my image as a tiff or psd and then put it into a mobile memory device for download to the other machine? Should I maintain some kind of "in process" folder?
Thanks for ideas.
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Sync changes in Lightroom on different computers
« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2009, 01:03:21 pm »

Quote from: PEK
Does anyone have suggestions as to how to keep changes when you move an image file from one computer to another and want to work with it more in Lightroom? I work both at my office workstation and at home. Do I save my image as a tiff or psd and then put it into a mobile memory device for download to the other machine? Should I maintain some kind of "in process" folder?

If you save your changes to the XMP-sidecar files cmd-s (or ctrl-s on windows) and take bothe the raw and the XMP to your machine at home, you can import and see all the changes at made in your office. after that you could only take the xmp back and forth and synchronize the folder containing the image.

a better way would be to take your lightroom library with you together with all the images and use this library on both machines.

Hope this helps....

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« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2009, 02:42:39 pm »

Harald is right. the easiest thing is to just put your images and your Lightroom catalog on an external HD and move it from computer to computer. That's what I do. Works great. We discussed it in another thread a couple of weeks ago:

http://luminous-landscape.com/forum/index....showtopic=37409
« Last Edit: September 17, 2009, 02:45:43 pm by Misirlou »
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