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This is also exactly what happens in a traditional "destructive" editing process, but if you want to make the changes permanent, You then need to save the version in short term memory to the Hard drive with the same name as the photo you originally read.īut with NDE, the changes you make are not only made to the displayed image in Short term memory, but descriptions of those changes are stored the database as well. Then, when you make changes to a photo, what happens is that the changes you make occur to the short term memory version and not to the image stored on your hard drive. But basically how NDE works is that when you display an image in a Non Destructive Editor (Like Lightroom or ACDSee Pro and Ultimate), what you see isn't the photo file itself, but an image read from your hard drive and then stored in your computer's short term memory. I won't go into great detail, so the following description is very broad in its scope. It is most commonly used in raw development, but can also be used for typical jpgs, tifs, and other image types as well.
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Non Destructive Editing (NDE) is different from conventional photo editing. Non Destructive Editing The advent of the concept of non destructive editing requires a place to store those editing changes. A database is that container for those search criteria. By typing in a few search criteria, it is much easier to find those specific photos. This is where a database that links a specific photo to information describing that photo comes in handy. Whatever the logic the photographer used, this folder structure is very useful in finding those photos taken at the the last Family reunion or of photos of Aunt Sally before she passed away.īut what if you are looking for that photo of cousin Fred drinking from the gravy bowl at Christmas some time in the 1990s? or that photo of Grandma with Aunt Sally together after not speaking for 20 years? What if you wanted to know which photos were taken with electronic flash, or which photos were submitted to a photo contest? Or which photos actually won a contest? Sometimes it is by year or date the photos were taken, sometimes it is by event or a person's name or relationship to the photographer.
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Many people tend to place their photos in folders that are organized into some sort of structure. The exact details might differ from job to job, but the broad strokes remain the same.īut before I get into the conversion process, I'd like to explain some important background information some of you might want or need to know about.
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In a fit of full disclosure, I am a retired Teradata DBA, This is pretty much how I would handle any database migration not just a photographic database. However you DON'T really NEED to convert your existing photos to ACDSee, You could just keep Lr around for the old photos and use ACDSee for the new. So the conversion isn't EASY, but if it is planned out and done systematically, it is do-able and worth the effort in my mind. No one just has the right to make a commercial product to go in and use that information. You need to remember that the Lightroom settings are proprietary to Lightroom. There are no utilities to export the Lightroom database to ACDSee Database that I know of. I converted from Lightroom to ACDSee Pro in. I thought this might be useful to a wider audience, not only because there is a growing awareness of ACDSee products as a serious alternative to Lightroom, but because there is a lot of confusion as to what a photographic database is, and what it does. While I have added some changes and clarifications to the original post, the heart of this post essentially is my reply to him. I responded to him how I went about changing over from Lr to ACDSee. As a result, this article may be a bit dated! Progress and technology marches on!Ī person posted in the ACDSee User's forum asking about converting from Lightroom to ACDSee Pro or ACDSee Ultimate. Note: Now that ACDSee has added a Lightroom conversion utility, conversions to ACDSee from Lr are much easier to deal with.