Export,LR2,Tips,Web         11 comments

Want to take your Lightroom experience to the next level? Sign up for my online Lightroomers Guide to Lightroom class. Thanks for visiting!A nice feature of Lightroom 2′s Export dialog is the ability to automatically add exported copies into the Lightroom catalog. Among other uses, I find it to be …

 LR1,LR2,Library,Tips         No comments

I was recently asked if it were possible to assign photos to a collection during import. It would make a good feature request, but it is not currently possible.
Here are the alternatives I came up with that could be used once the import is complete.
You could select all (Ctrl/Cmd+A) the …

 Library,Tips,Tutorials         13 comments

Creating new folders and moving photos from folder to folder is a fundamental aspect of file management. It is also a fundamental task that should only be performed from within Lightroom in order to maintain the connection between the Lightroom catalog and the imported photos.

 Library,Tips,Tutorials         No comments

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 find and filter out all …

 Before You Start,LR1,LR2,LR3,Tips,Tutorials         2 comments

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.

 Export,Tips         No comments

I’ve seen a couple of folks report this problem lately, so I thought I’d put out a general warning against performing this operation in Lightroom 1+. Here’s the scenario … You imported some JPGs. You brought them into Develop and made some adjustments. So far so good. You then think, “I don’t …

 Resources         Comments Off

I don’t know how I’d get by without the Internet. There is such a wealth of information on any subject just waiting to be found. Lightroom is no exception. Like anything on the Internet sometimes it is hard to separate the wheat from the chaff, so I’ve compilied a list …