Rocketman1978
No longer a newbie, moving up!
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Okay so I've been at this for a year and a half now and I'm getting to the point where my 500GB HDD on my MacBook is near full; I know my workflow could use some serious help. I just picked up a LaCie 8TB NAS and I'm running RAID 1 so 4TB is redundant to the other 4TB. Now that I have essentially 8 times the storage of my MacBook I'm planning on doing some archiving to the NAS and some serious tweaking to my workflow.
As for PP I use a combination of LR5 and PS CC. First and foremost I copy from my SD to my HDD at the file level, then import from my HDD into LR5's catalog. Once I'm done with initial PP I "Open in Photoshop" from LR5 and save my final product back to the drive from whence it came.
So, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe if I'm copying from my SD to my HDD and THEN importing into LR5, I already essentially have 2 copies on my HDD- the LR5 catalog copy and the file-level copy? If this is the case I could easily dump all of my photos from the file-level to the NAS and simply leave my LR5 catalog local. Would you recommend this?
What are your thoughts, experiences, etc.? Sorry I'm so all over the place, I suppose that's just like my current workflow, all over the place. Just trying to nail down a rock solid process here.
-TIA
As for PP I use a combination of LR5 and PS CC. First and foremost I copy from my SD to my HDD at the file level, then import from my HDD into LR5's catalog. Once I'm done with initial PP I "Open in Photoshop" from LR5 and save my final product back to the drive from whence it came.
So, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe if I'm copying from my SD to my HDD and THEN importing into LR5, I already essentially have 2 copies on my HDD- the LR5 catalog copy and the file-level copy? If this is the case I could easily dump all of my photos from the file-level to the NAS and simply leave my LR5 catalog local. Would you recommend this?
What are your thoughts, experiences, etc.? Sorry I'm so all over the place, I suppose that's just like my current workflow, all over the place. Just trying to nail down a rock solid process here.
-TIA