Getting photos to the primary photographer

I use Lightroom and so do the photographers I second for.

Sometimes I'll do little things like colour or exposure correct, crop and maybe some creative edits before I pass my images along to the primary photographer for their edit.

I usually export the RAW file along with the XMP (choosing Original) to give them but I just played with an export and when I imported the file onto my other computer the changes I made weren't there. Is there a setting I missed?

Is there another way to do this and give the primary both my edit and the RAW file?

I'd export your "full" edits as .tif files and leave the RAW alone entirely...

(Unless you're being paid to specifically edit and the primary expects .CR2 + XMP)

FlyingPhotog wrote in post #10988798
I'd export your "full" edits as .tif files and leave the RAW alone entirely...

(Unless you're being paid to specifically edit and the primary expects .CR2 + XMP)

I was thinking about doing two exports but am trying to avoid that.

I guess part of the question is how do you import the XMP with the changes?

Well, you save the xmp file, using "Save Metadata to File", correct? Then are you exectuting the "Read Metadata from File" in the other computer after you copy the CR2 and the xmp files over?

^^^ I do belive Tony is (as always) correct ^^^

tonylong wrote in post #10988924
Well, you save the xmp file, using "Save Metadata to File", correct? Then are you exectuting the "Read Metadata from File" in the other computer after you copy the CR2 and the xmp files over?

If I export "as Original", the XMP file is exported along with the RAW. I just played around a bit more and did the "Read Metadate from File" thing (which I missed before) but it's not really what I was hoping for.

geno.ca wrote in post #10989106
If I export "as Original", the XMP file is exported along with the RAW. I just played around a bit more and did the "Read Metadate from File" thing (which I missed before) but it's not really what I was hoping for.

Well, OK, are you saying that when you do the "Read" it doesn't Read? Maybe we need to have another meetup to solve this and we should make Jay come!

tonylong wrote in post #10991021
Well, OK, are you saying that when you do the "Read" it doesn't Read? Maybe we need to have another meetup to solve this and we should make Jay come!

No, it reads. I was just looking for a way that you could import both the RAW and the XMP files together without having to manually copy all the XMP's over. That and having the history come over as well.

geno.ca wrote in post #10991756
No, it reads. I was just looking for a way that you could import both the RAW and the XMP files together without having to manually copy all the XMP's over. That and having the history come over as well.

It occurs to me that when I cull images for my monthly photo club meetings, I export them as "ORIGINAL" and send that copy to a folder where I keep all the shots I've printed over the last few years.

Those files go over as CR2 + XMP all by themselves and I don't Write/Read anything. I just send them, synchronize that folder and the edits are there. Just takes a second for them to pop in and take effect.

Why is this any different (assuming your images are going to someone who's using LR...)

FlyingPhotog wrote in post #10991781
It occurs to me that when I cull images for my monthly photo club meetings, I export them as "ORIGINAL" and send that copy to a folder where I keep all the shots I've printed over the last few years.

Those files go over as CR2 + XMP all by themselves and I don't Write/Read anything. I just send them, synchronize that folder and the edits are there. Just takes a second for them to pop in and take effect.

Why is this any different (assuming your images are going to someone who's using LR...)

That's what I'm doing but if you import the photos into another copy of Lightroom you have to manually copy the XMP's over. At least it was that way for me...

geno.ca wrote in post #10991811
That's what I'm doing but if you import the photos into another copy of Lightroom you have to manually copy the XMP's over. At least it was that way for me...

Hmmm.... Is A Puzzlement!

($1 To Yul Brenner)

geno.ca wrote in post #10991811
That's what I'm doing but if you import the photos into another copy of Lightroom you have to manually copy the XMP's over. At least it was that way for me...

If xmp files are present alongside the raw, LR should read them on import assuming you are not applying a preset on import.

René Damkot wrote in post #10992800
If xmp files are present alongside the raw, LR should read them on import assuming you are not applying a preset on import.

I wasn't and it didn't look like it did. I'll give it another try to make sure though. I do know that when it did read them it didn't show any history, only the import and the fully changed version.

Sure, that sounds okay: There will be no history, since the "import" state is how it was imported into LR. Edits (done on another machine) and all.

Easiest way to check: Crop an image significantly on one machine and check wether the crop carries over to the other machine.

Ah, so the edits do show, just not the history. I guess that's like what you get when you do a Virtual Copy -- you copy has all the edits but no history shows up. Hmm, I guess we could call that a glitch, or maybe a feature we'd like to be different, but oh well.