Lightroom comes with three tools to help you mark photos as you sort through them — pick and reject flags, rating stars (1-5) and color labels. If you talk with 10 different photographers, they may have 10 different ways to use these tools. I use pick and reject flags for a [...]
I recommend adding copyright and contact information to your photos as you import them into Lightroom, so that when you share photos with the outside world, this data automatically tags along with them and people can get in touch with you if they come across your photos and want to use them. [...]
Sometimes it's handy to be able to see two or more folders of photos together in Lightroom when you are in Grid View (G) in the Library Module. This is simply a matter of using the Folders panel to select more than one folder. If the folders are all next to each other, click on the [...]
Do you spend a lot of time searching through your folders in Lightroom, looking for particular photos? If so, it's time to add keywords to them -- words or phrases that you can then find your photos based on. In this short video tutorial I discuss three easy ways to add keywords: in the Import dialog [...]
Have you ever wondered how to turn off (or on) the information that displays over your photos when you are in Loupe view (single-photo view) in Lightroom's Library and Develop modules? The secret is to type the keyboard shortcut "I", for "Information". If no information is showing, typing "I" once displays one set of information about [...]
Note: this article and video were created when Lightroom 5 came out, but they are applicable to Lightroom 6, CC 2015 and Classic CC. Lightroom smart previews allow you to develop your photos, even when the masters are offline. Imagine traveling with your laptop, and leaving your big heavy external hard drive with all your [...]
In the past I have used iCloud to transfer photos taken on my iPhone and iPad over to my main computer, and then I have imported them into Lightroom. However, there is an even easier way to copy them to your computer and import them into Lightroom -- simply plug your iPhone or iPad into your [...]
Recently I wrote about using stacks in Lightroom: Reduce Visual Clutter and Organize Your Photos by Using Stacks in Lightroom. As I mentioned, I use stacks to collapse photos that are pieces of a panorama, bracketed exposures for HDR, and other very similar shots. Sometimes these have been captured very closely in time. In fact, you [...]
My last post was on how to make a new copyright preset, to use as you are importing your 2013 photos. But what if you had already imported 2013 photos without this information, or you want to do the same for earlier years? Victoria Bampton, aka the Lightroom Queen, has written a post explaining how to [...]
Whether you had one for 2012 or not, now is the perfect time to create a 2013 copyright preset, that will add your copyright information to your photos’ metadata automatically when you import them. Here’s a re-post of my article from last year — anywhere you see 2012 below, substitute with 2013! In the Import dialog, [...]
My goal in this post is to give you a couple suggestions for managing your files if you choose to shoot in raw+JPEG mode, capturing both file types for every photo you take, and if you wish to include and manage them both in Lightroom. As I discussed in my previous post, Shooting in Raw + [...]
My goal today was to write a post on suggestions for managing your raw and JPEG photos if you shoot in raw+JPEG mode, including the option to automatically stack them together, but I realized that I haven’t written yet about the fundamentals of stacking photos — first things first! Lightroom Photo Stacking Basics Stacking two [...]