About once a week I get an email from a Lightroom user who has lost a panel ... most panels can go missing, but in my experience people seem to lose their Catalog panel in the Library module more than any other. To recover your missing panel, right-click (Ctl-click on a Mac) on the name [...]
Victoria Bampton, the Lightroom Queen, author of Adobe Lightroom 4 - The Missing FAQ, and one of the most knowledgeable people on Lightroom I know, has introduced a great new Help Desk and Members area. Anyone can be a member. Members get access to a public section of the knowledgebase, containing the most frequently asked questions [...]
This is one of the most common, and certainly the most stress-filled request I get for help. You open up Lightroom, and there is nothing there — all the photos you have imported and worked on are gone. Fortunately, this usually isn’t the disaster that it at first seems to be. When you are in Lightroom, [...]
If you have upgraded to Lightroom 4, when you look at photos in the Develop module that you had in a previous version of Lightroom, you will see an exclamation point in the bottom right: This is a signal to you that the photo is continuing to use your settings from the old (pre-Lightroom 4) processing [...]
Some users -- but not all users -- have been having issues with Lightroom 4. Victoria Bampton, a.k.a. The Lightroom Queen, has written an excellent post on known Lightroom 4 issues, so I will refer you to it. Should you upgrade despite these issues, or wait? I would suggest that it depends. Read through the list [...]
Some users have experienced issues when upgrading from Lightroom 3 to Lightroom 4. In certain situations, Lightroom 4 is automatically flattening out users' Lightroom 3 Tone Curve point curve work, even if the photos are left in the old (2010) process version. If you are a point curve user and haven't upgraded yet, I would suggest [...]
Something in Lightroom isn’t working, or you can’t figure out how to do something and your deadline is approaching. You have googled the issue, to no avail. Who can you turn to for free troubleshooting help? I highly recommend lightroomforums.net — when Lightroom has me stumped, this is where I go. The moderators are excellent and [...]
I got this question from readers twice in one day last week, so I thought a blog post was in order. It’s the ultimate in Fall/Spring cleaning — essentially you will build a new closet, put copies of everything in it ( nicely organized), and then throw everything away from the old one. This may not [...]
As hard as Adobe works to keep up, when you buy a newly released camera, it may be quite a while before there is a new Lightroom release to support it. In the meantime, Lightroom will not recognize your camera raw files. And if you haven't upgraded from Lightroom 1 or 2, you will never [...]
Have you experienced crashes in LR 2.2 that you didn't experience before? Many have complained about memory leaks and other issues. Adobe has announced that LR 2.3 will address the following: In the Windows 64-bit version of Lightroom an sFTP upload process could cause Lightroom to crash. Slideshows could return to the first image randomly [...]
I thought I would address this commonly encountered issue as I am learning to do videos. Sorry it is a little repetitive, they will get better. Bottom line if you don't have time to watch the video: make sure you are in a bottom-level folder, and also that you are not in a smart collection. watch [...]
