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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Lightroom does not have a function for saving contact sheets directly to PDF (or any other format), only to print them. So, instead of sending the contact sheet to a printer, it is possible generate a PDF from the print job. Macs have this functionality… Read More »Saving a Contact Sheet as a PDF from Lightroom
The Windows version of the Adobe Photo Downloader (installed with Lightroom) is the culprit. If the preference setting in Lightroom (Edit > Preferences > Import, uncheck “Show import dialog when a memory card is detected”) does not prevent the APD from loading during startup the… Read More »Plugging in any USB device launching Lightroom?
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