Comments on: Lightroom Tip: How to Successfully Import your Photoshop Elements Catalog http://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2007/03/lightroom_tip_h.html Best practices for your goals Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:32:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Pat Little http://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2007/03/lightroom_tip_h.html/comment-page-1#comment-333 Pat Little Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://agilepainrelief.com/2007/03/lightroom_tip_h/#comment-333 Very useful. I followed this, with a few extra steps, and had total success. Here are the things I did: 1, 2, and 3 as above. Next I removed all the pesky keywords that had been written out from PSE to the files (they are the ones that show up as non-hierarchical duplicates when importing into LR from PSE). Here's how: - Open LR and open a new LR catalog (name it temp or some such) - import the contents of the folder structure _not_ "import from pse." - run a search for Text in Keywords is not blank, select all images - click in the "enter keywords" box in the right panel and press backspace, then click somewhere else to complete this action. LR now removes the keywords from all the images in the catalog (remember, these keywords came from the IPTC data in the files, not from PSE's catalog) - select all images again - press Ctrl-S to save the changed metadata to the files - open a new catalog in LR (the catalog you will use for managing these photos in the future, so give it a real name to suit) The proceed as 4 and 5 above. The result - LR imported the keyword structure from PSE correctly with no duplicates. It also, I am pleased to say, imported all my stacks from PSE, although that has nothing to do with my extra steps, they only affect keywords. Very useful. I followed this, with a few extra steps, and had total success. Here are the things I did:
1, 2, and 3 as above.
Next I removed all the pesky keywords that had been written out from PSE to the files (they are the ones that show up as non-hierarchical duplicates when importing into LR from PSE). Here’s how:
- Open LR and open a new LR catalog (name it temp or some such)
- import the contents of the folder structure _not_ “import from pse.”
- run a search for Text in Keywords is not blank, select all images
- click in the “enter keywords” box in the right panel and press backspace, then click somewhere else to complete this action. LR now removes the keywords from all the images in the catalog (remember, these keywords came from the IPTC data in the files, not from PSE’s catalog)
- select all images again
- press Ctrl-S to save the changed metadata to the files
- open a new catalog in LR (the catalog you will use for managing these photos in the future, so give it a real name to suit)
The proceed as 4 and 5 above.

The result – LR imported the keyword structure from PSE correctly with no duplicates. It also, I am pleased to say, imported all my stacks from PSE, although that has nothing to do with my extra steps, they only affect keywords.

]]> By: Bill Ferreira http://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2007/03/lightroom_tip_h.html/comment-page-1#comment-334 Bill Ferreira Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://agilepainrelief.com/2007/03/lightroom_tip_h/#comment-334 Does this work for migrating from Elements on Windows to Lightroom on a Mac? Thanks, Bill Does this work for migrating from Elements on Windows to Lightroom on a Mac?

Thanks,
Bill

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