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). I highly recommend using Perforce () as it has a great user interface and is very easy to use. 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.
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. Then you can "check-in" and "check-out" the LCAT files. Basically, everyone runs client software that talks to the server software that you set up. 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. I would like to add to your networking Lightroom post with something that you will probably love. Frankly, I didn't think it worked at all in the first version. There were many recent posts claiming that the "Auto Tone" feature works much better that in LR 1.0. Give it a try, it's a piece of cake.Īlmost Good News - I been hanging with Lightroom 2.0 pretty heavily these last couple of weeks and learning many of it's "ins and outs." There is one feature that is particularly intriguing to me and that's the Auto Tone feature. You could even set up you LRCAT file on say a small 4 gig thumb-drive and shuttle it around to each workstation as needed. Our LRCAT file is about 1 gig big meaning it's not a monstrous file transfer to make the workflow scenario work out. As I said, we work with about 3000-4000 images on a job. I actually think this works like a charm and takes the sting out of Lightroom 2.0's "Not Network Ready" flaw. Just be sure all the local copies of the LRCAT files are all synced up with the most recent save of the LRCAT file. Actually it's no problem, just park a copy of your local LRCAT file on his/her local computer and they will be good to go to continue working on the order. Big Problem, the LRCAT file is on your local computer. Now you want one of your studio employees to work on the order too. Guess what, You can even hit Cntrl-E and Lightroom will find the source image anywhere on the network and pop it right into Photoshop for you, saving the source image right back on your network drive and updating the preview image in your local LRCAT file on the local computer. Lightroom bogs down at about 20-30,000 images so it only makes sense for me to create a new LRCAT file for each big event right away - life is just simpler that way. Park your images on your server or wherever you want on your network now create your LRCAT file on your local computer - remember, I create a new LRCAT file for each job because of the number of images we shoot on a typical job. Ahhh, but do source images need to be on a local drive? Well, the answer is a big fat NO!!! What's the main problem? It's that Lightroom needs to see it's LRCAT file on a local drive. Hit the "Read More." link below to see the utterly SUPER COOL solution for Lightroom's network dilemma. Here is a simple, almost elegant work around - which works for LR 2.0 and LR 1.41 as well. Really Good News - You know, I was pretty bummed when Lightroom 2.0 came out and was not "network ready" - I've already gripped about it here as have so many others. Man, "tons" of good stuff today, so let me get right to it.
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