In Lightroom 2 Adobe combined the Find and Metadata Browser panels from Lightroom 1, added some new functionality, moved them to center stage in Grid view and named it the Library Filter bar. The result is a tremendous boost in usefulness when you want to… Read More »Tutorial: Finding Photos with the Library Filter Bar
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… Read More »Folder Structure Tip
Are you working on JPG images by chance? Since JPG files (as well as TIF and PSD) had a white balance value applied when the original file was rendered into that format (whether by your camera or via post-processing) you can no longer set an… Read More »White Balance Presets Missing in Quick Develop?
If you’ve just installed the 1.1 upgrade and launch it for the first time only to find it devoid of all your images or a collection of just a few or older images you most likely did not have your prior working database in the… Read More »Lightroom 1.1 Empty Catalog
There are 3 badges that can appear on a thumbnail in the Grid view of the Library module or on the thumbs in the Filmstrip: – the tag shaped badge tells you that a keyword has been applied – the +/– badge tells you that… Read More »Lightroom Badges
How it works depends on where you are viewing the images from. If you are in a collection then the Delete key only removes them from the collection, not delete from the hard drive. If you are in a keyword grouping (selecting a given keyword… Read More »Lightroom and the Delete Key
You can only do a manual sort when you are working within either a single folder or a single collection. So, if you want to sort images manually that are across a range of folders (or collections) you first need to put them into a… Read More »Manually sorting images
Stacking is a folder specific function. If you are within a collection, a metadata grouping, keyword grouping, etc., then the stacking options will be grayed out. A quick way to jump to the folder of an already selected image is to expand the Metadata panel… Read More »Stacking