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 [...]
In my first Lightroom Fall Cleaning Post, one of my 9 suggested tasks was deleting unused keywords. In this post I will explain how to clean up duplicate and misspelled keywords. We will use the Keyword List panel, which is below the Keywording panel on the left in Lightroom’s Library module. If you have a [...]
Since I am sure that you’ll be busy cleaning your closets in the Spring(!), I thought that the beginning of Fall would be a good time for you to get rid of your Lightroom clutter. Here are some essential Lightroom clean-up tasks: 1. Delete most of your Lightroom catalog backups. If you back up [...]
You may be using a lot more hard drive space with Lightroom than you need to be. There are three major opportunity areas: catalog backups, 1:1 previews, and deleting rejects. Catalog Backups My Lightroom catalog is about 500 MB. (To see how large yours is, go to Edit>Catalog Settings on the PC, or Lightroom>Catalog Settings on [...]