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I’ve been surprised to find that a good number of Lightroom users are unaware of some of the functionality built into the Lightroom interface that is designed to help you get the most from your screen real estate and enhance your ability to work with your photos. I even get …

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Lightroom is often referred to as a “metadata editor,” meaning that the work you do in Lightroom isn’t applied to the pixels in the source photo, but rather is saved as a set of metadata instructions (inside the catalog file) that are only applied to copies of the source photo during any type of output. Everything you do inside Lightroom, from adding keywords to making tonal adjustments, is recorded into Lightroom’s catalog file.

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External drives and Lightroom go hand-in-hand.  I have a USB powered (so no extra power cord of its own) 250 GB drive (that is just a little larger than a deck of cards) and it travels with me everywhere. Back home I have several larger capacity external drives that are …

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Before you run that install you might consider a few precautionary measures to help smooth the transition.

Read the ReadMe.
Run a backup onyour version 1.0 database with an integrity check.
Burn that backup to disk or some other drive for safe keeping.
Make sure you know the location of your working database.
Make …

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Lightroom has several screen modes. You can cycle through them by pressing the F key. Two of the modes (Full Screen and Full Screen with Menu) hide the minimize, maximize and close buttons at the top of the application window. You’d be surprised how many people “lose” them and have …

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There are some things you should know about how Lightroom handles certain file types before you start importing:

PSD – Lightroom can only handle layered PSD files that have been saved with “Maximize Compatibility” set. This is because Lightroom can’t handle layers, only the composite image created when maximize compatibility is …

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As excited as you may be to just jump right in and start importing the tens of thousands of images sitting on your hard drive I recommend you do a couple of things fist:

Make sure your operating system is up to date.
Clean house, you’ll need the free space. The …