I have been using Lightroom with Synology photos for sometime. I have my catalogue and smb folder set up and drive … All fixings & condiments setup following the recipes from Wills videos.
The work flow for the most part works well. The one area I had not got a good way to do it and I’m hopeing Will or someone has an easy way to do it.
I have my lightroom SMB files set up in Synology Photo’s photo folder. The two are in sync. But it would be nice to find a way to create a list in Light room (Flaged, Starred some priorites list) and a way to use it to create an Album in photos using a lightroom list. Only way I can think of doing this is to export write starred meta data back to the files. Or the manual going by the file numbers…
Don’t want to export list from light room just to create Albums as that would result in duplicates…
I’m trying to understand what you’re after. I’m stumbling across terminology like ‘smb folder’ and ‘smb files.’ Could you perhaps explain? I know SMB is a file service, but does this refer to a Lightroom feature?
putting the techno bable(smb) aside … i just meant im sharing the folders from the nas and making them avaliable to windows as a drive which lightroom uses as location to store pictures.
lightrooms image storage is synology photo’s folder…
and I’m using synology drive as a way to manage lightroom’s catalog.
so i can use lightroom from two different PC and access the images.
the core questions is … in lightroom i creat lists, collection etc. it would be nice if i could find a way to create a synology album based on lightroom “list”… im being very general as when i say list it can be just a set of images the have the “pick flag” ser or “*” set etc.
Hope this helps. unfortunately i suspect proper integration would be a development exersize between synology and Adobe.
Thank you for the rewrite. I think I get the message (or get the picture).
All collections, like albums and so on, are proprietary or brand-specific and integrated into each system’s catalog, database, or library system. Only the system that creates them can read them.
A potential exception could be star rating, a.k.a. classification. Lightroom can integrate it into the original file or save it as an XMP sidecar file. I don’t know whether Synology Photos can read either.
I use Synology Photos for my JPEG collection, which I export from raw. After export, all metadata is in the file, and Synology Photos reads most of it, which I can use for filtering. However, it is not a dynamic link between library systems that are not compatible with each other.
Here is a suggestion. Not sure on the complete workings of it though this is the overview. Disclaimer: I have just scratched the surface of Synology Photos so please excuse if I am suggesting something that would obviously not work.
If I am understanding what Gsugar is looking for is the following:
For those of you who may not know Lightroom. There are two primary ways to access pictures. The first is by the location of the files. The second is completely dependent on the user’s needs.
Staticly assigned
Dynamic - Example 1
Date range: Images shot between March 23rd 2024 to July 18th 2024
Location: Chicago, IL
Keywords: Party, Family
Example 2
A page created for images updated in the previous 2 weeks
Example 3
There is a way to view metadata in an image so my guess is that something like ranking would also be possible.
I know that there is a lot of back end stuff, just a thought on how a overall plan might be aproached.