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Want to take your Lightroom experience to the next level? Sign up for my online Lightroomers Guide to Lightroom class. Thanks for visiting!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 …

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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 absolute white balance value. It was …

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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 default location:
Mac:
[username]/Pictures/Lightroom
Win:
Documents and Settings/[username]/My …

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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 the photo has been adjusted in …

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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 from the Keyword Tag pane) then …

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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 single collection, then sort.
Lightroom refers …

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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 and click the right-facing folder arrow.