How to do basic corrections to large numbers of images

I have to do basic corrections to large numbers of images that will be coming in separate
batches and which need to be kept in their separate batches. I cant mix them together.
Do I create a new catalog for each batch? What should I do, if anything with collections and
what is the fastest way to make basic corrections to hundreds of images? Some of the images
are similar but many are not.
Oh, I was also wondering if Lightroom can import through FTP or if I need to download the
images and then import them.
Thank you!

Hi Jim,
you need to understand what is happening or you can become very frustrated
That's for sure. I have found countless tutorials on how to do specific things and procedures in Lightroom but I wasnt able to find a macro or aerial view of what it does and how it works. Things like what is a catalog and if it mimics the file structure on the disk, if and when to have more than one catalog, where the catalog and collections files are stored and how to back them up, how to re-synchronize the catalog if you move things around with finder/explorer, etc.
I'm slowly piecing those things together by thinking and working backwards from all the more lower level tutorials. I keep thinking I want a "Missing manual" for moving from Finder and Bridge to Lightroom.
For instance, are you aware that in its default state Lightroom does not write any changes to the files?
And are you aware of how to change that? Are you aware that if you make that change there will be XMP files for every raw file that you worked on?
I knew that Lightroom doesn't normally save changes to the image files, it basically stores a history of the adjustments in a separate file and applies them to the original, kind of like adjustment layers in photoshop dont change the background layer. I think I read that if working with a dng file the history of adjustments is saved within the dng image file but I'm not sure about that. The xmp files are the same or similar to the ones that are created in ACR, I believe.
you really need to have a good working knowledge of the program in order to use it efficiently.
I dont expect to be very efficient at first. I'm thinking of this experience as on the job training and thanks to all of the internet resources available and people like you I think I'll be able to adapt to Lightroom fairly quickly.
I looked at the videos that you linked me to. Some of them I had found previously but it was good to view them again. I do that a lot, after I do some work I look back at books or videos I had previously studied and I normally get more out of it the second time.
Is there a way that you know of to improve a few hundred images more efficiently that selecting the most similar ones for a group adjustment and doing the rest individually? I have images that are under and over exposed, tilted and with various color casts :-(
I'm thinking about going to PDN Photo Expo over the next few days and taking retouching courses with Carrie Beene. Would you happen to be going?
Thanks,
Bob

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