LR Identity Plate

Folks, anyone know where the Identity Plate is saved/kept? I have a suspicion it is in the lrcat file itself.

At the moment I have 2 Catalogs. One is my main, with an Identity Plate for my outward face, the other is a test area where I make & break things, also with it's own Identity Plate (different colour & theme to visually separate them). I noticed that some elements of LR are shared between Catalogs, like Keyword Sets, but others are not, like Identity Plates.

So far this is OK, as I want a different Identity Plate in each of these Catalogs. BUT I can't select them from a dropdown menu, for example.

I'm thinking of creating a new Catalog for each year, or each half-year of shooting [type of thing]. This would keep load times & searching pretty fast as I'm not loading the one Catalog with thousands of images as I go on. And I want each Catalog to have the same Identity Plate, as this is what I use for slideshows & web etc.

Rather than create the same Identity Plate anew each time, I want to grab/select/use the one I created initially.

Any takers? Thanks in advance.

It is saved in the lrcat itself.

Easiest option is to create yourself a 'template' catalog. Set up your catalog preferences, ID plates, etc, but with no pictures, and just duplicate it every time you want to start a new catalog.

And if you'd like ID plates saved separately, send it to Adobe as a feature request. http://www.adobe.com …m/index.cfm?nam​e=wishform

Thanks Victoria, good tip (and feature request in it's way ).

As for renaming Catalogs (I don't want them all to be called 'template' ) the only way I can see is to rename them in Finder. There doesn't seem to be a way within LR to do that. Didn't want to try in case I screw things up. But then again there's no harm, I guess, in creating another Catalog for making & breaking...

Yep, I'd do it in Finder. If you've previews, just change the previews file name as well. In case the case of a template, there won't be any previews anyway.

sensationelle.

will give it a lash so

The easiest way is to just create a new catalog itself. you can set up lightroom to ask you which catalog you wish to open upon launching the program.

When you launch Lightroom a dialog box will come up and you have the option of selecting a catalog from a drop down menu or creating a new catalog.

Once you create a new catalog, you can easily change the nameplate.

It is all explained rather simply in Kelby's "lightroom" book

Steve

Redfish wrote in post #4107258
Once you create a new catalog, you can easily change the nameplate.

Steve - thanks, but the problem is that whilst you can change it, it seems that ID Plates created in one cataog aren't available in another. When you create a new catalog, as far as the ID Plate is concerned, it's a blank canvas, and you can either choose Custom (the licencee's name) or 'off' to display the default LR logo. You can 'save as' but no indication as to what the location is, or you can 'remove'. All - implicitly - within that lrcat file.

Scott's 1.1 Update Kit doesn't mention anything about ID Plates. His LR Book (1.0 version) says "Identity Plates are unique to each library, so any Identity Plates you create while this library is open will be saved only with this library" (Page 106). My question was regarding any way of accessing the ID Plate to make it present in another catalog, as I want to have an ongoing range of catalogs all using the same ID Plate. Exporting/importing keywords etc is simple enough. But seems we're stuck on the ID Plate.


Try it, see what happens. If you find a way of getting an ID Plate from one catalog into another, I'm all ears