I don’t know about your experiences, but in mine I have lost digital images due to hard drive failure. Now to be fair, it has only happened once. I lost a NAS drive in the late 1990’s – of course it had 2 years of pictures of my eldest son….
This article covers the Metadata section of the Smart Collections Workflow and is part of the complete Smart Collection Workflow for Lightroom. While it has been awhile since I have added more content to the workflow, time has helped the cause. Adobe Lightroom has continued to improve the workflow characteristics…
So you have updated to Adobe Lightroom 2.0? Oh, but you don’t have the money to update your computer? Here’s a quick overview of the Lightroom 2.0 Catalog settings, which aren’t remarkably different from Lightroom 1.4.1. However, with a few tweaks, even your older processor can run Lightroom catalogs a…
There are so many details to think about when deciding how to store images, how to label image files, how to backup images and which images should be imported into a library program. This article discusses an overview for the method of getting images from a camera (or scanner) into…
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…
Library & Catalog Management is about maintenance. This workflow involves moving files to permanent storage or on separate hard disk media and maintaining the image and keyword data in the Library. This is part of my Digital Image Workflow. Use the steps below as needed: Moving Image Files Periodic Keyword…
This is part of my Image Conversion Workflow. Printing a contact sheet is important to help identify the link between the negatvive or slide in storage with the digital image usedy by the computer. If disaster ever strikes, or you are looking for a negative or image, using a properly…
After scanning our images, importing the images into lightroom is the next step in our Image Conversion Workflow. Fortunately, Lightroom has a powerful and easy to use interface to accomplish our import. By pressing the Import button at the bottom of the Library view or by using the File, Import…
This is part of my Image Conversion Workflow. Backup is a dreaded word because it doesn’t seem to do anything except take time. However, backup is a most important word because without, your image is like carrying tissue paper beneath an umbrella in the rain – it will most likely…