Organising in Lightroom

[boristhemoggy]

I have a few folders in a catalogue in lightroom. After working on a few photos, I export them to a sub-folder. In the film strip at the bottom and in grid view Lightroom shows the original file, then an almost identical picture which represents the file I've worked on.
What I'd like to do is use the Library function without seeing the sub-folder. Maybe turn the sub-folders visibility off?
The simple reason for this is so I don't have a strip of what appear to be duplicated files and work on the wrong one!
I've tried to find a way to do it but I can't seem to find anything.
Can anyone help with this?

[craftysnapper]

Just make sure that "add to catalogue" and "stack with original" are unticked when you export then LR will not register it.

[felix.reichardt]

IMHO it is much easier to have both images main and subfolder in the catalog. Just use the filter function and choose file type as column. then just choose the filetype you want to see. You can even save that as a filter preset andjust toggle between file types. Thats basically how I work in LR (without the subfolders though).

[ALexD]

On the Library menu uncheck, "Include Photos from Subfolders" that should do it.

[boristhemoggy]

Crafty, good idea but I want the option to see it later.
Felix I have no idea what you mean and have spent far too long clicking buttons trying to work it out. Thanks for your thoughts anyway.
Alexd I wanted a better method but it seems that's the only one. Thanks for your help everyone.

[felix.reichardt]

Originally Posted by boristhemoggy

Crafty, good idea but I want the option to see it later.
Felix I have no idea what you mean and have spent far too long clicking buttons trying to work it out. Thanks for your thoughts anyway.
Alexd I wanted a better method but it seems that's the only one. Thanks for your help everyone.

There are filters in Lightroom and you can filter for the file type. I was assuming you are shooting in RAW and save your processed files in another file format such as PSD or TIFF or JPEG. LR allows you to filter for that. So you don't really need different subfolders. Maybe we work differently or I just cannot explain it properly ... LOL

[boristhemoggy]

I kind of get what you're saying, so I had a play around. In Library you can enable filters, and there's several ways of filtering. You can add a column which gives you a brand new filter column, but from that the only file type allowed is jpg. Rather useless when the only file type I want to filter by is the raw files.
Yes I shoot raw, and I want to only see the raw. Exported jpg's, gif's whatever saved in a sub folder can be viewed at a later time by themselves without the raw files.
I always find it disappointing when a program with so much promise ends up either without the function you want, or it's so difficult to get it that you resent having to put that much effort in. I'm sure that's not just me hehe

[felix.reichardt]

when you are on the parent folder andyou include the subfolder to be displayed you should see RAW files and JPEGS for the filter column "file type". Then just click on the one you want to display.

Just try it out. Create one folder on the file system with one raw and one jepg file.
The import that folder into the library and try the filter out again. You should see raw and jpeg for the file type filter.
The same works with subfolders but try it out with one folder first.

I use this even on a whole drive with subfolders for year and date to search for RAW files which I did not convert to DNG yet.

[felix.reichardt]

so you should get something that looks like this:

[boristhemoggy]

Felix I got it. Great it's exactly what I want many thanks. I really appreciate your help and some KP's are comin your way
I found out some other very interesting things too though.
When I open a raw file in photoshop I have options of how I wish to open it. 8 bit or 16 bit. Will the raw file natively have 16 bit information in it? If so I have always opened in 8 bit so far so have been losing quality.
Also, you can specify the size of the image to open from the raw file. For the 5D mine is native at 12.7 mp so I've always opened at that. However out of curiosity, I opened one in 16 bit at 25.2 mp, just to see what happens.
Well what happens is a significantly larger physical image, but with no apparent loss of quality that I can see. I can't have a jpg at 25.2 and 16 bit, but if I drop back down to 8bit at 25.2 I can.
Can this be explained in any way?

[felix.reichardt]

Glad it works now and I could help. Thx for the K!