Keywords are an extremely beneficial aspect of Adobe Lightroom and the larger the library, the larger the keyword list will be. Managing this list and keeping it efficient to use can be a challenge. Luckily, there are ways to organize and re-organize your hierarchy of keywords. This article will not…
Lightroom 1.x has long had synonyms that can be entered as part of the keyword structure. However, synonyms, while they can be exported with images and libraries, cannot be used in searches. This holds true in Lightroom 2.0 beta. Synonyms help keep the keyword list smaller. In fact, synonyms are…
When viewing images in the Grid View of the Library module in Adobe Lightroom, there is a shortcut to view the image in Loupe view and return to the Grid view when done. Sean McCormick wrote a blog on this shortcut and how to use it. When you are in…
Cropping is a very important part of image development and while Lightroom (both the 1.4.1 and beta 2.0 versions) allows for many variations in cropping, only five items can be saved as custom cropping sizes. For many photographers, this is not enough. Think of the simple home photographer that wants…
I keep running across posts where someone wants to crop an image in Adobe Lightroom to a certain pixel size but doesn’t know how to do it or believes it cannot be done within Lightroom. It can be done and you can crop an image to a certain pixel size….