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Workflow with Lightroom and Dropbox
Happy New Year to everyone. After a long debate about storage options, I decided to start using Dropbox as the online option where I can access photos anywhere in the world. However, I am not sure wh...
I use Lightroom Classic, this workflow might be slightly different for Lightroom CC.
I have a folder in my Dropbox for my photography. So after a shoot I:
> Create a new date-stamped folder
> Upload all my RAWs
> Set the folder as "online only"
Then when I come to edit them:
> Set the folder to available offline
> Add the folder into Lightroom
> Edit the photos
> Export the photos into an "Edited" folder within that date-stamped folder
> Set the folder to "online only" again
This helps keep the storage used on my computer to a minimum.
I'm not aware of a way to edit the photos without storing them at least temporarily on your own hard drive, but I'd be very interested if that's not the case!
Dear SalRai,
Thank you for your kind reply. Do you create smart previews and store those files with your edited folder?
Thinking now the best and easiest way to move the folders and edits I have in various external drives to Dropbox. I guess copying the folders to Dropbox and making the Lightroom start reading them from there is the only option. Or would you see another way?
I use Lightroom Classic as well by the way.
Thank you.
I don't use Smart Previews I'm afraid. I'm just an amateur photographer so don't have a team that I need to include in my workflow or anything.
Yeah storing the files in Dropbox and pointing Lightroom at that folder seems to me to be the best way to do it, though that's just my experience.
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