Photo database

[sfeyenoord1]

I got 1 prob though; The editted pictures must be stored somewhere, but without exporting it i can not find it. Maybe the wrong topic ( ? ) but anybody knows how to solve it?

The fun is you don't need to save your edited photos! Lightroom will remember each of your edit settings automatically. When you export the photo (i.e. for printing or publication online) Lightroom will apply all the edits you made, no matter if you edited the photo one minute ago or one year ago.

What i mean is that the picture youve editted needs to be saved somewhere right? Only in lightroom i can find the editted version, and i got to export it to get it out of LR for publication. So my question was where i can find the editted version instead of needing to export every single photo, while its also still in LR, this will take loads of more diskspace.

[Arnold ten Pas]

What i mean is that the picture youve editted needs to be saved somewhere right? Only in lightroom i can find the editted version, and i got to export it to get it out of LR for publication. So my question was where i can find the editted version instead of needing to export every single photo, while its also still in LR, this will take loads of more diskspace.

Again, as DJ wrote: they are nowhere because they don't exist. Lightroom can be considered a "metadata editor". Instead of editing the file (ie the RAW file), Lightroom saves all the adjustments you do in a XMP file linked to the original. That is called "non-destructive editing" because you don't actually edit the original file. Only on export, the adjustments are processed to the exported file. The power of LR is that you don't need to save edited files, but simply export them when you need them.

Adjustments made to your photos (but actually made to the XMP-file) can be reversed at any time.

[sfeyenoord1]

Thanks, everything is more clear now, apreciate the explanation!

[Redskin301]

I think it would be better to make it the "Scramble World Keyword Standard", or SWKS for Lightroom.

By creating the perfect list, it would save people a lot of designing and typing, and support people to start their own database in Lightroom.

Dan moet je alleen wel twee lijsten maken, civiel en militair gescheiden, ik zit niet te wachten op keywords als airline bijvoorbeeld

[Polecat]

Dan moet je alleen wel twee lijsten maken, civiel en militair gescheiden, ik zit niet te wachten op keywords als airline bijvoorbeel

I've always been organising my civil and military collections more or less identically; 'airline' and 'Squadron' will both be mentioned as "operator"..
Thereare just too many types operated civ & mil, and I like to make shows of a single type with all pics included, both civil and mil...