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It takes a little bit of setup (maybe a future post? Hit me up on Twitter or e-mail if you’re interested), but is totally worth it for speed and convenience.Īnd you can even publish your best pictures to a folder and have them picked up by Everpix DNG Not RAWĪ final space-saving tip for RAW files in general. I can even edit metadata and other aspects while the master drive is offline. The Dropbox part means that I can access the exact same library from either computer. Thus, I have the photos themselves on an external drive which is fast enough to serve them up, and I have all the other stuff on my speedy SSD. This amounts to a couple of GB, which I can live with at the moment, seeing as the actual catalog contains almost 20,000 photos.įinally, all my presets and other preferences are also kept on my Dropbox, in a folder which is sym-linked (symbolic links are like the Unix version of Mac Aliases, and they work inside Dropbox) to the Application Support folder on both computers. The catalog file (the metadata for the photos, essentially) and the folder of previews is kept in my dropbox. The library itself, which contains the photos, is kept on an external 2GB FireWire 800 drive (one with a power plug and a fast 7,200RPM platter).

I have Lightroom installed on both my iMac and my MBA. Let me explain my setup to illustrate: A gig! Jeez. But Lightroom will let you process your pictures when you’re out on the road, and browse them when you’re home, thanks to excellent support for external drives. This is a weird choice, as just the app weighs in at 1GB when installed, which directly contradicts my points about Photoshop below. Dropbox’s own site will also let you create and share virtual albums, which pull in pictures from anywhere in your Dropbox – a neat trick indeed, especially as you can make slideshows right there in the browser. Now, to view your pictures, you can either use Everpix or another app, or Dropbox’s own website. The folder will remains everywhere else, but won’t be copied to your current computer. Head to the Dropbox preferences, open the Advanced tab and choose Selective Sync. One essential Dropbox trick you need to know: Turn off the Camera Uploads folder in the Selective Sync preferences.īut there’s one essential trick you need to know when you’re doing this, because otherwise that huge, ever-growing Camera Uploads folder will be mirrored on your space-deficient Mac.