Comments on: The new Lightroom 1.3 Export dialog http://lightroom-news.com/2007/11/19/the-new-lightroom-13-export-dialog/ The latest news about the top pixel wrangling application on the planet. Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:52:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: karatedog http://lightroom-news.com/2007/11/19/the-new-lightroom-13-export-dialog/comment-page-1/#comment-13278 karatedog Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:51:17 +0000 http://lightroom-news.com/2007/11/19/the-new-lightroom-13-export-dialog/#comment-13278 Uhh-ohh. I meant “end of the day” :-)

]]> By: karatedog http://lightroom-news.com/2007/11/19/the-new-lightroom-13-export-dialog/comment-page-1/#comment-13277 karatedog Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:04:04 +0000 http://lightroom-news.com/2007/11/19/the-new-lightroom-13-export-dialog/#comment-13277 Maybe it is a bad behavior of the Windows users (in contrary to Mac users) but we use directories heavily to organize data. It works like a kind of tagging. Family photos go into one folder, weekend activities to another, etc.
When exporting photos, I have two options in Lightroom. I export all of my photos into a big, giant folder, regardless of where the originals are in – that is the easy work – or I can hassle 10 minutes of my life to place the photos into their proper place -> by recreating the directory structure on the export folder side one-by-one. I have a few thousand photos and it sucks. There are professionals with more the 50.000 photos…
So selecting folders each time is not a feature, it is an annoyance (not to mention that even LR 1.4 forgets the previous settings).

Somehow the folder-structure and tagging is a bit mixed up in LR, because LR encourages the user to create subdirectories, but when it comes to export, it looks like LR completely forgot about it. I hope it is not a marketing trick to keep people inside LR all the time. I prefer to scroll through my pictures in ACDSee.
A very simple, basic solution would be either allowing the user to recreate the same folder structure of the source folders, or – as with a lot of other parameter – let every picture has a base export folder (initially its original folder). So the user would have the ability to change it when editing the picture, and on the end of the they he/she could select All Photographs and click export all without selecting-clicking-setting any parameter.

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