Lightroom questions...
1) I know this is heretical :) but suppose a person were using some other program for digital-asset-management purposes, rather than Lightroom. All DAM programs have a way of sending individual image to sundry raw converters (or to Photoshop). I don't know if there's something obvious in the Lightroom 1.x user interface staring me in the face, and I'm just missing it, but is there a way to open a single image in Lightroom and process it there -- without having to go through the entire Import process? "Open..." in Lightroom seems to pertain only to catalogues and there doesn't seem to be a way of "sending to..." from another program, with Lightroom being the destination.
2) The import process has improved since version 1.0 but it still strikes me as inefficient, requiring more commands should be necessary. Is there a way to create a new Collection, and then import _directly_ into that collection -- as opposed to importing and then having to drag the just-imported photos into the newly created collection? It just seems so inefficient. (Since I never import and then drag photos into multiple collections, I can't imagine what benefit there is from the two-step operation.)
3) I have one shot that remains "stuck" in the PreviousImport collection. My experience has been that once just-imported shots are moved into a collection, they are no longer in PreviousImport at the time of the _next_ import. But the one photo just will not move from there.
Whoa, wait. I just opened Lightroom again and now there are *13* images in PreviousImport -- images that have _already_ been moved into another collection. I have no idea why they are now showing up in PreviousImport. How do I get these things _out_ of that folder and keep them out of it when they've already been moved?
Thanks in advance for advice about these things...