If you have a folder in Lightroom such as your Pictures folder, but you are not sure that all of the photos in that folder and its subfolders have been imported in Lightroom, you can have Lightroom check for you! Right-click on the folder, and choose Synchronize Folder. The dialog below will show you how many [...]
Whether you had one for 2011 or not, now is the perfect time to create a 2012 copyright preset, that will add your copyright information to your photos’ metadata automatically when you import them. In the Import dialog, in the Apply During Import panel on the right, click on the drop down next to Metadata, and [...]
Are your folders in Lightroom a mess because you don’t know how to take charge of where Lightroom puts them? Are you not sure where they are going? Do you have date folders that are meaningless to you because you don’t remember what you shot on any given date? If you answered yes to any of these, you [...]
I do free two-hour Lightroom demonstrations here in Seattle, and towards the end of these, a question I often get is: how do I get my iPhoto images into Lightroom? I take this as as a good sign -- I figure that what they have seen of Lightroom from my demo has convinced them to move [...]
As you may have guessed, I love Lightroom. Its design is efficient and elegant, and the library/catalog model really works. However, in my humble opinion as an instructor who sees students struggle time after time, what doesn’t work is the language around this model. Specifically, what doesn’t work is the idea that you “Import” images into Lightroom, [...]
Sometimes I use Bridge to look at images, and from there I decide which ones to import into Lightroom. It is then easy to simply drag the images over into Lightroom. Size your Bridge and Lightroom windows so that you can see both. In Lightroom, go to Library Grid view (shortcut G). It does not matter [...]
