All Entries in the "(04) Organizing Your Photography" Category
Getting Started with Lightroom: Where Should I Store My Photos?
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a wonderful image management tool but this software does not automatically devise a well-reasoned mass data storage plan for you. The complexity of digital image storage doesn’t emerge until we have hundreds, or thousands, of images scattered around our hard drive. As the volume of images increases the need for organization and logical divisions between groups of photos climbs….
Finding Your Best Photo with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom’s View Modes
In these four video tutorials, I explain how each of the View Modes–the Grid, the Loupe, the Survey, and the Compare view–can help you identify your best photographs. Each of the View Modes can be a huge help when you are sorting through your images seeking out your very best compositions. Carefully reviewing your captures, and identifying your best photographs, is a critical skill in today’s all digital world.
Using the PhotoSafe Plugin to Protect Important Photos in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3
Jeffery Freidl’s PhotoSafe plugin prevents knuckleheads like me from accidentally deleting really important files. The new PhotoSafe plugin leverages the power of Collections and the new Publish Services feature in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom version 3 to create an extra layer of protection for your most important photos!
Slideshow Collections in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3
Grouping images together for a slideshow is a simple project once you understand the awesome new Slideshow Collections feature in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom version 3! Today’s tutorial demonstrates how you can use this new type of Collection to make the gathering, and arranging, phases of slideshow building into easy work.
Getting Started: Where Should I Keep My Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Catalog?
Both your digital images and your Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Catalog files can be moved from one drive to another drive. Moving your photos, or your Lightroom Catalog, from one disk to another is not a hard process. The big question though is what arrangement of these puzzle pieces best suits your needs?
Using Search By Filename to Find Duplicate Images in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Searching for duplicate images in an Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Catalog can be a real pain. Scrolling through folder after folder of images looking for duplicate photographs is time consuming and inefficient. In this video tutorial, I am going to use a little bit of knowledge about how Adobe Photoshop Lightroom works to find and eliminate unwanted duplicates in no time!
Selection Secrets in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
You must know how to select multiple files using your mouse and keyboard to get the most out of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. In today’s video tutorial for beginners, I am going to demonstrate all of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom’s selection secrets! There are even some advanced tricks in here that can really boost your productivity as your Lightroom catalog grows larger and larger.
Tracking Sales and Submissions using Collection Sets in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Tracking sales and editorial submissions are part of the business of professional photography. As a working artist, I need to keep accurate records about where my images have been published but how to track sales and submissions without putting undesirable information into each file’s metadata? My solution to this problem is to use Collections and Collection Sets inside of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.
Introduction to Collections in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
The Collections feature in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom really shines when you need to pull together a group of images for a specific project. What most Lightroom users usually miss though is that clicking and dragging is not the most efficient way to add images into your current project. In this video tutorial, I demonstrate how to use Collections, and the Set as Target Collection option, to quickly gather up my favorite images for my portfolio.
Using the Find Missing Folders Command in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom gets upset when the path that it has recorded to a specific photograph is suddenly broken. Moving files, and folders, that have been added into your Catalog using your computer’s operating system breaks the path and thus upsets the index! If you have broken the path to one of your folders then the Find Missing Folders command can be quite useful. You can use this command to teach Lightroom the new path to your images. This command is also quite useful when we want to move a folder full of images from one place to another.
Searching with Metadata in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
There have been lots of reader questions lately about how to search and organize a large image library using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Working with metadata tools like keywords, colored labels, and star ratings is the only way to really harness the full potential of Lightroom as an organizational tool!
Building Better File Names with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3
My digital camera takes great pictures but it gives them really lousy filenames. This is a big problem because the file’s name is a really important detail for a professional photographer. Using a custom Filenaming Template during the Import process in Photoshop Lightroom makes generating unique filenames easy!
Keyword Sets Make Repetitive Keywording Push Button Easy
Everybody loves what keywords do, but most folks dread the data-entry time required to add them into each and every image. I think that most Lightroom users dread the data-entry time required to keyword their images for two reasons; a, because they lack an efficient keywording strategy and b, because they are unaware of the huge speed boost that is hidden inside of the keyword sets feature. Ready to see what keyword sets do?
Adding Metadata Adds Value to Your Photographs
Metadata is the new term for the descriptive information that accompanies any digital file. For photographers, metadata makes it easy to search through a huge library of images using tools like Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Searching for a picture based on its metadata terms is far more efficient than scrolling along and looking at each and every picture in your computer until you find the right one.
Moving Folders with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Months ago, I posted an article on how to move your Adobe Photoshop Lightroom catalog files over to an external hard drive. So for today’s video tutorial, I am going to show you how to move your photos from one hard drive to another without upsetting Lightroom. As a bonus, I’m also going to show you a little trick on how to create new folders from within Lightroom, and how to rename your folders.
