I import photos from my card and export them to a pre-existing specific folder, I have used this process for a long time, however, I now find that the photos show up in the relevant folder in explorer but not in the same folder when viewed in LR
can you recommend any articles on a well-regarded workflow
I can see your point of view but i also feel that unless photography is your lively hood then i think many of us who want quality images take time to edit them but then move on to taking more pictures and once we have done our best with the edit then its finished.
I convert from RAW to jpeg so it takes less room and i can email my images to whoever not needing to care if they have an adobe aware program on their computer.
sometimes i think LR is more complex than many people need, lets face we all have other aspects of life to deal with aside from photos
I always thought Picasa was a wonderfully simple piece of software to use and navigate but of course, it needed to have the great editing features of LR and RAW capability which then would have made it been an excellent solution in my opinion
DarrellB wrote
can you recommend any articles on a well-regarded workflow
This pretty much covers it all for novice through professional photographers. It's titled Lightroom 5, but is fully applicable to LR 6 and CC 2015:
Organizing Your Photos with Lightroom 5 - The DAM Book
DarrellB wrote
I can see your point of view but i also feel that unless photography is your lively hood then i think many of us who want quality images take time to edit them but then move on to taking more pictures and once we have done our best with the edit then its finished.
I've been using LR since version 1.0 and often go back to re-edit images using the latest Process Version (PV 2003> PV 2010> PV2012> PV 20??) and feature updates. Unlike some commenting here I keep all my raw and exported image files inside LR. Most of the exported images are used for projects in applications external to LR, such as InDesign, Premiere Pro, ProShow, and Web media. This allows me to catalog and keep track of them using LR Keywording, Collections, Ratings, etc. during production and for making changes later. I'm even re-editing and cataloging images in LR that were created before digital cameras existed....because I saved the B&W and Color negatives (i.e. original raw media).
DarrellB wrote
I convert from RAW to jpeg so it takes less room and i can email my images to whoever not needing to care if they have an adobe aware program on their computer.
As time goes by both the intrinsic and personal "value" of old images increases substantially. Hard Drive storage is dirt cheap when compared to what most of us spend on camera and computer equipment. Why throw the baby out with the bath water! I cull out and delete only raw files that are very over or under exposed, out of focus, or poorly composed. What you can do to "save room" is create Smart Previews and "move" the raw files (from inside LR) to external hard drive storage for future use. More here:
How to use Smart Previews to view and edit photos in Photoshop Lightroom
...and if still unclear this is the option you need to check in the Export module to have output files appear automatically inside LR:
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