tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17534827.post7637025285819343562..comments2024-03-27T22:02:52.479-04:00Comments on Digital ProTalk: Lightroom 2.0 Running On A Network, Well Almost - Really Good News and Almost Good NewsDavid Ziserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02674227631785266632noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17534827.post-72800633119586205632010-09-03T11:27:25.642-04:002010-09-03T11:27:25.642-04:00Be VERY careful if you "trick" lightroom...Be VERY careful if you "trick" lightroom into letting you store and run your Lrcat over a network device through mapping. The main reason adobe restricted this is because LR uses SQLite as it's database, which is single thread only (only 1 user). This mapping work around is known to corrupt Lrcat, just by virtue of being placed in a multi-thread environment like a NAS.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17534827.post-72662804710128362942010-04-06T18:38:49.568-04:002010-04-06T18:38:49.568-04:00Here's my solution for sharing a Lightroom cat...Here's my solution for sharing a Lightroom catalog on a network. I purchased an iOmega (now EMC) StorCenter iX2-200 network storage device (two one-GB drives in a RAID 1 configuration, $279 from Amazon) and used iSCSI to configure it as a lettered drive. I copied all my digital images plus the Lightroom catalog to this drive. Now I can connect with any of our computers (all running Windows 7, though this will work with earlier Windows versions, but why would you do that?) and Lightroom thinks it is running from a local drive. I suppose there is a way to do this with a Mac, though I can't help you there. Performance is not noticeably degraded from a local disk (we are running a 1GB network - had to upgrade a few computers to support that). The only caution is that you can only use one client at a time against any given catalog. This avoids all the syncing of catalogs that some other schemes require. I'm sure that many other NAS devices also support iSCSI, so there are options.Bill Bagnellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17534827.post-54147218138529685442009-04-30T14:21:00.000-04:002009-04-30T14:21:00.000-04:00I can appreciate that Adobe doesn't want multiple ...I can appreciate that Adobe doesn't want multiple concurrent access to this LRCAT file - it will screw the pooch if you give it conflicting updates - and so they stop you accessing it over a network.<br /><br />The version control idea of check-in and out is a great one and probably the only way to allow multiple concurrent users, but for single user remote access syncing seems overly complex and portable drives are prone to loss.<br /><br />If you have a Mac you can create a disk image on your network drive, mount the image as a local drive and store the LRCAT and LRDATA files on this "Local" drive that is accessible by mounting the image that is stored on the network.<br /><br />Make sure you don't leave a copy of Lightroom open and then go somewhere else and open the same catalog file tho.Tom Harveyhttp://www.alush.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17534827.post-68014770053351231472008-08-19T00:58:00.000-04:002008-08-19T00:58:00.000-04:00I think more control in the "Auto" feature has bee...I think more control in the "Auto" feature has been, and definitely is, a needed addition in Lightroom. I know there used to be flexibility in Camera Raw for selecting which things would auto adjust and with wouldn't. I'd love to see that, as well as being able to put limits (maybe high and low) for each (at least in 1.4 I'd run into the brightness problem as well as times where the blacks would get pushed way too high, I'd love to be able to define a range).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17534827.post-18043119702513552008-08-18T17:16:00.000-04:002008-08-18T17:16:00.000-04:00I just tried John's suggestion about using the Lib...I just tried John's suggestion about using the Library tool to reduce all images brightness by a certain degree and then increasing their exposure by the same amount to compensate. It seems to work great. I changes all the settings by the same amount but not to the same number. I was really annoyed by the over use of brightness as well but this may be a nice fix. Now if we could only get Adobe to give us tool to do that automatically. If only Adobe would give us exposure comp in Lightroom.<BR/><BR/>Great idea and catch John, thanks.Rosemary and Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11814239570112385954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17534827.post-65697139679915082042008-08-18T16:54:00.000-04:002008-08-18T16:54:00.000-04:00I wonder if mapping a drive letter to the location...I wonder if mapping a drive letter to the location on the network and saving the LRCAT file to that "drive" would work. Go to all the computers on the network and map the same drive letter to the same location. Then all computers could share the same LRCAT file. Anything wrong with this logic?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17534827.post-78527021904146933322008-08-18T13:06:00.000-04:002008-08-18T13:06:00.000-04:00You might want to try and change the brightness fr...You might want to try and change the brightness from the Library module. <BR/><BR/>I remember reading that the Library module makes changes from each photo's current settings, where Develop module makes the settings all the same. <BR/><BR/>So an exposure change of +.33 in the Develop module will set the exposure to +.33 on all the synched images. But in Library it would increase the exposure by .33 compared to what each picture is currently at... So if one image is -.33 and another is +.33 they would be 0 and .66.<BR/><BR/>I haven't tried this with Brightness, but it's worth a shot.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989070151806351430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17534827.post-85375618512546457122008-08-18T11:13:00.000-04:002008-08-18T11:13:00.000-04:00For the customizable auto tone: how about creating...For the customizable auto tone: how about creating a preset that uses auto tone and also apply a curve that reduces the highlights. You apply the preset on import.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06589267287345712725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17534827.post-29294418653743619252008-08-18T09:01:00.000-04:002008-08-18T09:01:00.000-04:00Hi David,I would like to add to your networking Li...Hi David,<BR/><BR/>I would like to add to your networking Lightroom post with something that you will probably love. To share your LCAT files with multiple employees you can use a version tracking program like what we software engineers use for our source code. Basically, everyone runs client software that talks to the server software that you set up. Then you can "check-in" and "check-out" the LCAT files. So any changes made by you to the LCAT file can be submitted and then retrieved by all your employees without having to navigate through the network drives, send files via email, and so forth. The best thing about all this is that you can add comments to your submissions so that everyone knows what changed with the new version of the file.<BR/><BR/>I highly recommend using Perforce (http://www.perforce.com/) as it has a great user interface and is very easy to use. It also has client software for Windows, Mac, and Linux and they all play nice together (I use my Mac at work to interface with our Windows based P4 server). However, this one does cost a few bucks if you have more than a few users. <BR/><BR/>A real popular free version control system is Subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org/). Many ISP's will provide you with a Subversion server as part of your hosting package. Of course you can download the server software itself and run it on one of your local machines. The only draw back to this is it doesn't have a GUI itself. You access all its features by right-click menu's on the folders themselves. Not too big a deal but a bit annoying in the age of GUI applications.<BR/><BR/>Adobe does have the Version Cue software with its CS2/CS3 suites but I have never used it and not sure if it will let you share LCAT files. Doubtful.<BR/><BR/>So with a little bit of research and configuration you can make sharing your LCAT files very simple. I hadn't thought about this as a solution until reading your post.<BR/><BR/>Hope this helps...<BR/><BR/>TerryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com