Comments on: 10 Things I Would Tell New Lightroom Users: #2 https://lightroomkillertips.com/10-things-tell-new-lightroom-users-2/ The Latest Lightroom Tips, Tricks & Techniques Mon, 19 Feb 2024 22:02:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: Rob Sylvan https://lightroomkillertips.com/10-things-tell-new-lightroom-users-2/#comment-324961 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 15:13:19 +0000 http://lightroomktips.wpengine.com/?p=6726#comment-324961 In reply to Marta.

Marta, Check out Lightroom’s catalog backup function. You can set it to run at regular intervals, and each time it runs it creates a complete copy of your catalog file. Direct that backup location to a different drive than the one your real working catalog resides upon.

When/if you upgrade to a new version of Lightroom it will walk you through the process of upgrading a copy of your Lightroom 4 catalog. No worries.

]]> By: Jackie https://lightroomkillertips.com/10-things-tell-new-lightroom-users-2/#comment-316591 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 18:38:13 +0000 http://lightroomktips.wpengine.com/?p=6726#comment-316591 Glad to hear it. I’m at 105K and I do have some culling to do of old photo sets. I still have some JPEG exports in there as well but I’ve since figured out I don’t need to keep the JPEGS around so I need to clean those up. Does size matter? For example I think my catalog is around 3.6GB. Is that a factor?

]]> By: Marta https://lightroomkillertips.com/10-things-tell-new-lightroom-users-2/#comment-314431 Thu, 29 Jan 2015 23:01:04 +0000 http://lightroomktips.wpengine.com/?p=6726#comment-314431 I ‘ve red your LR4 book (some parts several times). It ‘s great and I was satisfied until I ‘ve realised there is LR5.
I have 65.000 photos in one cat. I used to use iPhoto until my database collapsed. I know, LR is a different level, but still I ‘m worried about my database and catalog in case I would like to upgrade to LR5.
What should I do to be safe and can sleep? I don’t wanna loose my work on creating collections and developing pictures, but I ‘m tempted to find out what LR5 is about.
Any suggestions? 🙂

]]> By: Elbert Cutright https://lightroomkillertips.com/10-things-tell-new-lightroom-users-2/#comment-314045 Wed, 28 Jan 2015 17:06:01 +0000 http://lightroomktips.wpengine.com/?p=6726#comment-314045 Purchased your Lightroom5 book and subscribed to Adobe Lightroom4 and Photo Shop mainly for the great Lightroom photo processing and photo shops many features that I had been reading about. I was very satisfied with the current filing systems that I had been using and did not know that I would have to change that part. My wants are fairly simple and do not desire to use many feature covered in your book. I set the Lightroom system up just like you suggested and everything worked fine until I downloaded the first batch from the camera. Some way they made it down as subfolders with date titles, and then I tried to merge them into the correct subfolders. Bad mistake! I am not very computer literate but here’s how my filing system was formerly set up and had been working great for my simple needs: I made separate folders for special occasions and trips,and do not make any changes later. For my normal

hoto shoots around home territory I make separate folders for subjects such as birds. butterflies, pets, people etc. and add to them at each camera download,buy copying and pasting ,ie I may have about 100 photos on the desktop–first 3o are birds, highlight those, copy ,paste in bird folder, check in folder to assure placement, go back to desktop to next selction ,maybe 6 pets, copy, paste, then maybe 7 birds etc. Are there any systens that I can use in Lightroom this simple and foolproof? PS Have used your instruction for processing in the developing section and love it. Thanks!

]]> By: Chuck Gies https://lightroomkillertips.com/10-things-tell-new-lightroom-users-2/#comment-314025 Wed, 28 Jan 2015 15:15:53 +0000 http://lightroomktips.wpengine.com/?p=6726#comment-314025 I agree if all your photos are yours. I perform work for a couple of groups that involves using pictures from other people. So I find it safer to create a catalog for each group, knowing that when I am in that catalog they are not mine to do with as I please. Then when I create galleries for the groups websites I don’t accidentally place my own pictures in it or use one of theirs to compete in a photo competition. I am also considering that to keep timelapse photos out of my general photographic files.

]]> By: Paul C https://lightroomkillertips.com/10-things-tell-new-lightroom-users-2/#comment-313973 Wed, 28 Jan 2015 09:15:49 +0000 http://lightroomktips.wpengine.com/?p=6726#comment-313973 In reply to Eric.

Great tip there at the end. I deleted the History of all my older, rarely-to-be-touched-again, pics and the catalog size dropped by about 60-70%. I rarely use the history and, if I do, it is whilst making the adjustments, I don’t need it for nostalgia.

Thanks again

]]> By: Gordon Gurray https://lightroomkillertips.com/10-things-tell-new-lightroom-users-2/#comment-313813 Tue, 27 Jan 2015 18:18:19 +0000 http://lightroomktips.wpengine.com/?p=6726#comment-313813 Good advice.
In LR below v5 it was a batch to keep one catalog only. But with v5 it was suddenly premium… Okay perhaps a 32 GB RAM PC did something to it.

I too, use one catalog for a whole database, but I often work with a separate catalog for one shooting. The reason is simple, such a catalog I can easier take with me when I am off from home and just working on notebook. After I finish all the pictures I include that catalog than into my main catalog

]]> By: Paul C https://lightroomkillertips.com/10-things-tell-new-lightroom-users-2/#comment-313802 Tue, 27 Jan 2015 17:32:29 +0000 http://lightroomktips.wpengine.com/?p=6726#comment-313802 In reply to yz.

Have you tried fitting an SSD? This made a big difference for me… bit I only have about 85k photos and I regularly clear out the cache & old previews

]]> By: John https://lightroomkillertips.com/10-things-tell-new-lightroom-users-2/#comment-313788 Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:53:00 +0000 http://lightroomktips.wpengine.com/?p=6726#comment-313788 I’m currently using multiple catalogs, and there is one big reason I wish I wasn’t — Lightroom Mobile. If I link a collection to Mobile from one catalog, I can’t do the same thing from another…it is one catalog at a time. So I can only show the photos from my Europe trip last year, and not from Jeff and Vicki’s wedding too. I guess this is why we have bad weather occasionally on the weekends…so that I can take the time to merge catalogs and get my collections straight! Good article, Scott…thanks.

]]> By: Eric https://lightroomkillertips.com/10-things-tell-new-lightroom-users-2/#comment-313784 Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:17:18 +0000 http://lightroomktips.wpengine.com/?p=6726#comment-313784 s own catalog until I was done with the processing and then merge it into the main, but the major issue I had was with keywords. If I needed to re-arrange the hierarchy I could not do that in the small catalogs, I would have to wait until I merged them. If you have several things in flight, you can never do it. One tip I did learn is that if you are fine erasing all the history of the edits for “done” images, you can save a lot of space and probably speed things up. I did this and dropped my catalog size from 600 MB to 300 MB.]]> Thanks for this. A few months ago I took an underwater photography “course” and the guy working with me was adamant that I should split into multiple catalogs (I have 15K images) and export everything to DNG. He was using LR3 and for that, maybe 15K was too many, but I have no problems with LR5. Anyhow, we got into a somewhat heated discussoin and I just insisted we move on (I was paying for help shooting, not Lightroom).

I used to keep every shoot/trip in it’s own catalog until I was done with the processing and then merge it into the main, but the major issue I had was with keywords. If I needed to re-arrange the hierarchy I could not do that in the small catalogs, I would have to wait until I merged them. If you have several things in flight, you can never do it.

One tip I did learn is that if you are fine erasing all the history of the edits for “done” images, you can save a lot of space and probably speed things up. I did this and dropped my catalog size from 600 MB to 300 MB.

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