Sunday, March 15, 2009
Oh NO!
Yesterday, I was cleaning up some of the redundancy in my workflow and trying to streamline it. Unfortunately, I deleted the catalogue for Lightroom! Because JPEGs are compressed image files, they lose quality every time they are rewritten. In order to avoid degrading the files with edits, Lightroom stores all of the changes to files in the catalogue. In other words, I have the JPEG or CR2 (Canon RAW) files that come out of my camera and get copied to my computer. Then Lightroom indexes those files, and stores any changes to those files in the catalogue. Those changes aren't in a single image file until I choose to export the file from Lightroom and make a brand new file, usually JPEG. When I deleted the catalogue, I lost every adjustment I have made within Lightroom. Fortunately I was able to retrieve an older catalogue. I still lost all of the changes to the photoshoot with Sarah.
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That really sucks! It only takes one time to change the way you think of backing up information. I'm angry that we still have problems like data loss. Especially when companies like Google must have developed systems for eliminating this problem. It shouldn't cost an arm and a leg either!
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