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 [...]
More and more photographers are aware these days that raw files provide higher quality information and more flexibility in processing than JPEGs do. For those of you convinced to shoot raw files, your camera most likely gives you a choice to save just a raw file, or to save both a raw file and a JPEG [...]
Many of you know that I am a fan of adding keywords to photos in Lightroom, so that you can find them quickly later. In this post I will go over some shortcuts to help you add keywords more quickly. With a photo selected (or group of photos selected in Grid view): Ctl/Cmd-K will open up [...]
Hopefully most of you will never need this post, because you have an effective backup strategy, that backs up both your Lightroom catalog and your image files. I have written about this in the following posts: Avoiding Lightroom-Generated Headaches and Heart Attacks I Would Cry If I Lost the Work I Did Today: How to Back [...]
I wrote a post several months ago on how to organize your Lightroom keywords into keyword hierarchies. This allows you to more easily manage your keywords, and also to efficiently assign the full hierarchy by simply assigning the lowest level keyword. Will D. wrote in to ask how you could assign a hierarchy when importing photos, [...]
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 [...]
As much as I like to come across to you as perfectly organized, I have to admit that I am not always as disciplined as I should be about immediately completing my keywording of photos after I import them into Lightroom. During those organizational spurts that I go through to clean this up, it would be [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Here's a question I got this week: "I have many duplicates of photos on my hard drive and in Lightroom. If I click on All Photographs (or some subset) and sort by capture date, I can see the duplicates side by side, but I can't figure out how to easily see which folder each of the [...]
Lightroom can perform amazingly fast searches for your photos. When I search for my winter tree photos in my catalog of over 30,000 photos, Lightroom will display the results before I can even snap my fingers. Of course I have to have taken the time to keyword my photos first! Lightroom can search on more [...]
Lightroom is a fabulous program, but it can be daunting. Here are a few resources to get you started with getting your photos and videos into Lightroom. (This is applicable to Lightroom Classic and earlier versions of it - Lightroom 3, 4, 5, 6, and CC 2015. It is not applicable to the new cloud-based [...]