What this means is that all the alterations or edits made to an image are recorded as instructions in the catalog referenced to the relevant image while the original image data remains untouched. Lightroom is described as a parametric image editor. You are describing re-importing by renaming an image - not a good idea.
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In addition, an imported image, cannot be re-imported - although it is possible to fool Lightroom into doing this it is not recommended. This relationship can fail if the original image is deleted or the image file accidentally relocated on the hard drive by the OS or another application. Once an image is imported then it should never need to be reimported since Lightroom has a memory of where that image is located and all the metadata that is relevant to that image. It is the previews that one actually view within Lightroom never the actual image irrespective of whether it is a raw image or something else.
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Usually Lightroom will generate several previews of different sizes that allow one to move from thumbnails to 1:1 previews. Previews are stored separately to the catalog but are referenced by the catalog. Lightroom will also record a lot of metadata from that image and also store it in the catalog referenced to that image address.Īll image files have small previews as part of their data and this is also recorded and stored. Lightroom records the address of that images and stores that information in the catalog (database). The images files obviously exist independently of both the application and the database, however, unless they have been imported then Lightroom cannot work with them. The interactions between these three components will now be described. Thirdly Lightroom needs to access image files that are stored separately from both the application and the catalog. Secondly Lightroom has a catalog which is also known as a database. Lightroom has a few components that one needs to know about and also how they interact with each other.įirstly Lightroom is an application which does things like raw conversions, printing etc. In order to understand how Lightroom works a few fundamentals are required.
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Hi Flathead, welcome to Lightroom Forums.