Are you running out of space on the hard drive where your photos are stored? In this video tutorial I'll show you how to safely move large quantities of photos to another hard drive without leaving Lightroom confused. This video is one of 107 in 24+ hours of content in my Lightroom 5, 6 and Classic CC: [...]
Have you been using more than one Lightroom catalog, maybe starting a new one with each new year, or keeping your family images in separate catalog from your travel images? If so, you know that this puts a brick wall between images in each catalog, making it very cumbersome to pull together groups of photos [...]
Do you have a mess in Lightroom? If so, you're not alone. Watch my 80-minute recorded webinar to learn how to clean up your keywords, collections, files and folders, catalogs and duplicate photos. Topics covered Keywords Correct misspellings, consolidate duplicates ("dog", "dogs") into one, organize keywords into hierarchies Collections Rename or delete collections, find a [...]
UPDATE: This event has ended. Enter your email address below sign up for my newsletter - I'll communicate after the event about how to access the recording. Whether it’s spring or fall in your part of the world, it’s time to do some seasonal cleanup in Lightroom! In this webinar I’ll show you how [...]
Below are two video tutorials from my Lightroom CC/6 and 5: The Fundamentals & Beyond video series that will teach you how to clean up your files and folders - learn to reorganize them and to resolve "missing file / file cannot be found" issues. The first video, File and Folder Management: Reorganizing, explains how to [...]
In this video, I show you how I use Jim Keier's great Lightroom Duplicate Finder plugin to find and eliminate duplicate photos. I show you my workflow, give you tips and tricks along the way, and I show you the Lightroom skills you need to get the most from the tool. [...]
[UPDATE - ENDED!] In case you missed it, now through November 30, you can watch the recording of my October webinar, on getting and staying organized in Lightroom. Getting and staying organized in Lightroom is critical to being able to enjoy and work efficiently with your photo library. In this webinar I discuss what role folder [...]
I get this question frequently, or more specifically, how to move photos from Previous Import or All Photographs, which are entries in the Catalog panel. Your photos actually never reside in the Catalog panel - they reside instead in folders, which are displayed in the Folders panel. Therefore it is not meaningful to "move photos from [...]
Whether it is the beginning of fall for you, or the beginning of spring, a change of seasons is a perfect time to get your photos and Lightroom catalog organized. Here are some tutorials from the past year that will help you get your Lightroom "closet" cleaned up: It's Time for Some Fall Cleaning - 9 [...]
As you may know at this point, having the understanding and skills to be able to manage your photos and folders in Lightroom is absolutely critical -- the absence of these skills and the consequences that result lead many users to consider giving up on Lightroom. I recommend watching this video instead! In this video I [...]
I am running out of space on my internal hard drive, so I need to move some or all of my photographs to an external hard drive. I know I am not the only one facing this issue, as I get questions from readers at least once a week on how to do this. In [...]
Newer users often don’t realize that the Folders panel in the Lightroom Library module can be used to rearrange your photos and folders. Below are some tips for using it. Note that whatever you do with this panel is in fact affecting your hard drive — you are just doing the work from within Lightroom. If [...]
