Learn How to Clean Up Lightroom
It’s time to get organized in Lightroom! In this “Lightroom Spring Cleaning” recorded webinar, learn how to clean up your keywords, collections, folders and files, catalogs, and duplicate photos.
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01:58 CLEANING UP KEYWORDS
02:35 Delete keywords
04:10 Misspellings – renam
04:48 Duplicates (flower, flowers) – combine
06:50 Organize keywords into hierarchies
11:20 COLLECTIONS
12:35 Delete
13:23 Rename
13:36 Organize collections into collection sets
14:16 Filter / search for collections
15:00 Collection sets
18:10 REORGANIZE FILES AND FOLDERS
19:18 Reveal your folder structure – Show Parent Folder
22:45 Move folders
26:15 Delete photos and folders
28:25 Check to see if a folder is empty – Show in Finder/Explorer
29:32 Remove folder bug – all folders disappear
30:35 Create a subfolder
31:24 Rename folders to include a description of your shoot
32:10 Move photos from one folder to another
33:35 Why date folders get nested within date folders or you have different formats for your date folders – import Destination panel errors
37:15 Missing files and folders – question marks, exclamation points, “file cannot be found” message – why they occur, how to resolve them.
44:32 If your photos are truly gone – recover JPEG previews
45:00 CATALOG CLEANUP
45:19 Delete catalog backups
45:02 Understand where your main catalog is / what catalog you’re working in
47:07 Delete catalog backups
47:01 Where your backups folder is
49:20 Why you may be using a backup catalog and what to do
50:41 Delete backups
51:38 Delete other catalogs – old versions
52:34 How to opening a catalog to see what is in it and then get back to your main catalog
54:06 Merge catalogs
59:10 FIND AND ELIMINATE PHOTO DUPLICATES
59:37 Two available plugins
59:50 Install Teekesselchen
1:00:48 Enable the plugin
1:01:06 Run the plugin
1:01:06 Select folder or catalog
1:01:38 Plugin settings
1:01:57 Marks – decides keeper vs. rejects
1:04:58 Rules – which files are duplicates
1:05:50 Sort through found duplicates
1:06:45 Display photo information
1:09:49 Work with the white color labels
1:11:09 Add a keyword to those you plan to delete
1:14:15 Delete rejects (reject flag or photos with Delete keyword)
1:16:50 Delete the keywords an collections that the process created
1:18:00 LEARN ABOUT MY COMPREHENSIVE LIGHTROOM TRAINING
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