I have been working on a comparison of Adobe ’s Photoshop Lightroom and Apple ’s Aperture forMacworld , and I run into an issue with both programs when I tried to spell naked as a jaybird image files that had been previously edit out with Adobe Bridge CS2 and Camera Raw . I wanted to spell them with my edits intact — mostly crop and exposure adjustments — but ab initio both Lightroom and Aperture only imported the original Raw file , without any of the piece of work I had done .
This is because the edits — and this include adding or editing such metadata as keywords , captions and other tags — are not made to the Raw file directly , but are salt away , either in Camera Raw ’s intimate database , or in a companion file call a “ sidecar . ” This Indian file repose in the same folder as your prototype , with the same name and a .XMP extension instead of the Raw formatting extension ( .CR2 , in my fount ) . After a bit of tweaking , however , I found solutions for both Lightroom and Aperture that might save you some time if you ’re in the same gravy holder .
Making Lightroom happy
you may create the sidecar files , however ; the first thing you need to do is change Camera Raw ’s preferences to “ Save image options in sidecar .xmp files ” ( see screen guess , below ) .
Then , use Bridge ’s Batch Rename feature ( Tools – > Batch Rename ) on any file cabinet you want to import into Lightroom ( see below ) . You do n’t even need to actually change the name of the Indian file . you may tell Bridge to rename the file cabinet to the same name it previously had , but this summons will force Camera Raw to write a sidecar filing cabinet for every image renamed . The side benefit is that it will also carry any edits you perform on the original new file cabinet .
Importing into Aperture
you could then choose all of your imported images in Aperture and apply the AutoStack feature film to keep the two versions together , which is potential because both the Raw and the Photoshop / TIFF edition will have the same seizure time . you may also utilise the Lift & Stamp tool to copy any keywords or other metadata to your original sore files , since that data is saved with the exported file . It ’s not the best solution , but it at least preserves both versions of your range in your library , and get you get back to the original in the raw figure of speech if you want to make a dissimilar lot of edits .
It ’s worth noting that both Aperture and Lightroom import most bare-ass Indian file without any issues at all ; you really only need these resolution for those photos you redact with Camera Raw and need to keep a version of your emended single file . Both applications will preserve the original file intact and untouched .
[ update April 6 , 1:20 p.m. , to clarify natural conversion differences between Apple and Adobe , and to note that redaction also refers to metadata . ]
