Importing and Backing Up Images in Lightroom – Part 4 of 4
Welcome to Part 4 of Importing and Backing Up Images in Lightroom! So far in this series we have looked at the process required to organize your images (Part 1), captioning and filtering your images (Part 2), and using the Develop Module in Lightroom (Part 3) to create a simple and easy to navigate Lightroom catalog. […]
Importing and Backing Up Images in Lightroom – Part 3 of 4
Welcome to Part 3 of Importing and Backing Up Images in Lightroom! So far in this series we have looked at the process required to organize (Part 1) and captioning and filtering your images (Part 2) to create a simple and easy to navigate Lightroom catalog. In this tutorial, Part 3 of the series, we […]
Importing and Backing Up Images in Lightroom – Part 1 of 4
In this first part of the series we will be looking at how to use the Import Controls in Lightroom 4 to organize your images and create back-ups. The most important thing to remember when reading this series of blog posts is that the way in which I take my images through Lightroom. Tailoring the […]
Setting Your Settings – Tuning Lightroom – Part 3 of 3
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, we have covered most of the options presented to us in the Lightroom Preferences Dialog. Today, we will look at the Interface tab of Lightroom Preferences and take a look at Catalog Settings as well. So let us jump right in. Open up the Lightroom Preferences […]
Cleaning up the mess – culling images in Lightroom
I came to the realization that I had too many images, more than I would ever realistically edit. It was time to really dig into my image collections and see what I really needed. I fired up Adobe Bridge, as it was a quick way to view folder contents and I did not want to […]
Lightroom Collections – Bringing Your Images Together
Much has been mentioned lately about using Collections in Lightroom for organizing your images as opposed to using your system folders you store your images in. Even if you maintain a meticulous folder structure, organizing your photos on your hard drive, it can sometimes become cumbersome finding particular images, or working with images that are in […]
The Name Game – Keywording and Tagging in Lightroom
It’s not hard to get a lot of photos in Lightroom … and I do mean a LOT of photos. Ten-thousand, twenty-thousand, one hundred-thousand. I’ve seen some pretty big catalogs. What do you do when you need to find one of those images? … when photographers starting migrating to digital storage, most of them stick […]