Exporting virtual copy from LR for loading to Imatch

[Aubrey]

I know there are a number of users using the LR and storing photos in IM. My problem is:
I have created a number of different processing of the same image in Lightroom. I only want to export one of these as a DNG to be stored in the IM database.
When I ask to export from Lightroom all of the different processing gets exported. I only want the last version!

My current workaround is to delete the images I don't want in IM, but is there a more elegant solution ?

I had thought about versioning, and just having the last copy appear as the master, I'm not sure how to get this to work, I have tried, but the images exported from LR are of the form: XXX.DNG XXX-2.DNG XXX-3.DNG, so how would I automatically set XXX-3.DNG as the master, I don't think that this is possible?


Aubrey.

[Ferdinand]

You are making virtual copies in LR, right?  Then I don't have your problem.  I select the variants that I want - originals or copies - and right click and choose export, and then select one of my saved export recipes, and I just get the selected files exported not all the master / virtual copies.  How are you exporting them?

There are times when I have created both Colour and B&W versions of a set of images.  One of these two sets of images is a virtual copy.  I can still export either just the Colour or the B&W versions by filtering and selecting all the filtered images.  But this is only really necessary if you have a lot of images to select.

[Aubrey]

Ferdinand,
Thank you for your response. If you are managing to export selected variants I must be doing something wrong in LR. I'm relatively new to this software, I used to use NX2 for editing images. Now that I know that only the variant can be exported I'll figure out my mistake.

Aubrey

[Erik]

I do the same as Ferdinand.

I actually only work with DNG files.  I'm not sure if you are working with DNG originally or that's just what you are exporting.  I work with Virtual Copies only within LR, usually for black and whites.  If I want a record of that image in something more permanent than the virtual copy (e.g. outside of LR), I actually export as a JPG since the LR database contains the RAW file and its virtual copy.  The resulting JPG is really just there for cataloging, and I'll note where it comes from via file name, caption, or description field in Metadata.  I can recreate the image in LR if I need a lossless copy later.