As time goes by, your LR processing skills will improve and you will be able to generate better than Picasa using the LR tools. As long as you have those two versions of the image, you have the Picasa effort and the Original in LR. Any adjustments made in Picasa need to be preserved as a derivative JPEG or other importable format. If you can, you want to preserve the master originals since these will always lete you get back to the image that came out of the camera and readjust if necessary. Adjusted images with all of the adjustments "baked-in". There are Master originals - copies of the same file just like they came out of the camera. Like Jim, I'm not tuned into Picasa either. Yes indeed it is a tough topic, made more so if you want to share a catalog between the two different operating systems. But worth a try if you want that "quick and dirty" image for sharing.Ĥ. This can even be set to be applied automatically as files are imported (in the Lightroom Preferences>Presets Tab), but be aware that some folks don't like it as it is prone to get it wrong sometimes.but generally I find it'll only be the Exposure that is off, adjusting that one slider usually fixes the issue. If your camera has such a feature, suggest try turning it off if you are shooting Raw.Ī) Yes, there is "Auto Tone", which will attempt to "auto" Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Whites and Blacks. Although the majority of the settings which affect shooting style/quality are ignored when importing Raw files, there are some (such as ALO in Canon cameras, Nikon has something similar) which actually affect exposure and can often result in the Raw file appearing under-exposed. Album associations? Doubt it very much, but Lightroom will import from your existing folder structure (using the Add import option) and preserve that structure as is.Ģ.
Face recognition: Lightroom doesn't yet support that, though IIRC Jeffrey Friedl wrote a plug-in some years back which attempted to convert Picasa face names to standard keywords. Similarly with keywords (tags), Lightroom should be able to extract those if they are in the right place in the right format. Even if the Picasa edits are not baked in, I'm pretty sure Lightroom will not be able to interpret the appropriate edit instructions, wherever they be located.Ĭ) Captions? Don't know, if they are written to the XMP block of the file header in the agreed standardised way by Picasa, then maybe. But if you mean can Picasa edits be undone in Lightroom, I think the answer will be no.
Lightroom is a "non-destructive" editor, all your edits are in fact simply parameter changes which are stored in the database (aka the catalog), so can easily be undone. If you mean undo any edits that you subsequently apply in Lightroom, the answer is yes of course. baked in, then of course you will see them when you import the files into Lightroom.ī) Not sure what you are referring to here. So my knowledge of what's possible is pretty sketchy, but here goes:Ī) Does Picasa apply its edits to the file, or are they only retained in a database (like Lightroom)? If the edits have been "saved" to the file, i.e. I know this is a tough topic.Īlthough I used Picasa a long time ago, it was mainly for viewing purposes, not editing. She will want to be able to get in and edit like me.
#Move picasa photos to sd card windows
Also want the wife to have access to LR via windows but that is a project for the future. any tips to be extra safe with backups during the transition from Picasa to LR?Ĥ. Initially the RAW files are dark and not nearly as attractiveĪ) so is there an 'auto' equivalent in LR so when you get home you can make the pics look instantly better than RAW, quickly publish and then go back later and spend more time on the good shots and perfect them manually starting again at RAW.ģ. I am very concerned about losing this convenience. Quick and dirty mode: In the blissfully ignorant days of Picsasa and jpg, was so easy to pop in SD card to laptop, copy pictures, they looked fine with auto levels, contrast etc.
#Move picasa photos to sd card how to
How to prepare Picasa photos and data so that the following is preserved on import to LR?ī) edits (crop etc) - can these be undone like in Picasa?Ĭ) captions, facial recognition, album associations, (most of my stuff is organized in folders actually) - is the best way to add tags in Picasa first for all this stuff and then LR will see the tags?ĭ) is there a good article on this somewhere?Ģ. I am new at LR but good with PC's and networks and NAS etc - coming up to speed on OSX.ġ. Also migrating to LR from Picasa (actually from Windows to OSX as well).
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