Lightroom 1.1 Blank Slideshow
If you attempt to run a slideshow and get nothing but a blank screen you should update your video card driver and give it another go. Yes, even if it had been working just fine in version 1.0.
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Lightroom 1.1 Empty Catalog
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
Lightroom 1.1 Upgrade Tips
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… Read More »Lightroom 1.1 Upgrade Tips
Slideshow Controls
If you stop (not pause) a slideshow you can select the next image you wish to start with in the Filmstrip, hold the Shift key and press Play to start on that image instead of the first slide. Otherwise the slideshow will always begin on… Read More »Slideshow Controls
Lightroom Badges
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
Email Photos from Lightroom on Windows
Adobe created a document that walks through the process of emailing images from Lightroom: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=333743 Some quirks have presented themselves on Windows with certain email clients. However, another Lightroom user and programmer (Steve Sutherland) created a little application that can make it work. I’ve installed… Read More »Email Photos from Lightroom on Windows
Missing Minimize / Maximize / Close Buttons
For Lightroom 1-4 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… Read More »Missing Minimize / Maximize / Close Buttons
Auto Sync
Using the Sync button in the Develop module is great for batch processing a group of images using the develop settings of one image. However, that Sync button leads a double life and it is possible to transform it into Auto Sync, which when active,… Read More »Auto Sync
Lightroom and the Delete Key
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
Add Music to a Web Gallery
While it is not possible to add music to a Web Gallery from within Lightroom, Micha Bowers writes about a clever workaround if you are somewhat proficient with Flash: http://www.bluefire.tv/blog/flashgalleries/gallery_tipsandtricks12.html