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Josh Kim: Adobe Lightroom 2: List Of Stuff »

It doesn’t to png. “No photos were found to import.” I need to store my screenshots. There goes that.

You can’t drag and drop jpgs anywhere else but the Library “tab”. Makes sense if you think about it, but instinctively, why can’t I just bunch images and throw it at the app? I guess you can…

No PNG might seem annoying, but that’s because Lightroom is designed for photography. PNG makes little to no sense for photography as compression will be limited and quality will be practically no better than high quality JPEG for non-edit images. TIFF is a much more versatile format that is preferred over PNG.

Drag-and-drop is again not a likely workflow for photography. Import-from-device and auto-import/sync is more efficient and what Lightroom does do well.

It does auto-sync and import folders depending on your settings when you added folders to your catalog.

You can set it so that you manage files at the file system level and for me it has always done a good job of keeping track of the metadata in its catalog files even with me moving photos around the fs.

Adobe sucks balls at making apps feel like they are true Mac apps. I’m actually hard-pressed to think of any that are successful in that regard with the exception of Apple’s own apps and the many many smaller dev apps.

This mysterious “unopenable” file I assume is the catalog file? (.lrcat in the Windows version). You can move it around and just re-import the catalog as well as create multiple purpose-oriented catalogs if you like.

But yeah, like you say, it’s probably not for you since you don’t really do the photography thing. There are a few apps out there that do some basic image cataloging that I really like. The library/catalog aspect of Camtasia (/Studio) and the lite version of said that is included in SnagIt is secondary to the main purpose of those apps as screen capture apps, but I really really liked them and found they were really good for quickly organizing, cropping, tagging, renaming, screenshots and pics, regardless of whether or not they were taken with said apps. TechSmith is overall pretty awesome of course.