Beginner question about best way to organize

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October 10, 2019
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Hello Community, we have several hundred photos that we will be publishing into a book with text. The photos are jpegs taken with an iPhone as well as a Nikon DSLR and are all currently sitting in iPhoto. Some have been edited on an iPhone using Ps express. We know some very basic photo editing, and have Photoshop, Lightroom and Lightroom classic and Indesign installed on our mac. We are still learning our way around these programs but we're very very beginning. The question is, before getting to Indesign later in our process, what would be the best approach to consolidate the photos, edit them, probably resize them to all fit the same way when we desgin the book, and just overall organize, so that we're not all over the place with all different programs and folders and duplicates, etc... We appreciate any feedback. Thank you for your time!

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DdeGannes

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The most important place to start is to get a good understanding if how the Lightroom Classic Catalog file works. See the links below. You should also some good links on this topic.

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/lightroom-catalog-basics.html

Regards, Denis: iMac 27” mid-2015, macOS 11.7.10 Big Sur; 2TB SSD, 24 GB Ram, GPU 2 GB; LrC 12.5,; Lr 6.5, PS 24.7,; ACR 15.5,; (also Laptop Win 11, ver 24H2, LrC 15.3; PS 27.0; ) Camera Oly OM-D E-M1.

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Festive_loyalty1674

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Given you are new, I’d try to avoid trying to learn too many new applications at once. You can import all of the images into Lightroom Classic (LrC) and your initial mangement there. I would start by rating and sorting, picking out the images you really like and want to include. Put these into a collection for the book, or even by chapter if you want. Then only do Develop and processing work on those. You can do most of your processing in LrC (eg adjust exposure, contrast, highlights, colour temperature), so you would only need to go into Photoshop for more significant adjustments. You can also set the crop you want in LrC and get this consistent as you process.

When you are happy with the images you can import them into InDesign.