Adobe Lightroom Tips, Tutorials & Techniques

In Adobe Lightroom, collection sets stem from virtually the same idea as folders and sub-folders in your computer operating system do. For example, let’s say that you store all of your photo collections in different folders on your desktop. You’ve got 30 folders, all with different names for different shoots. I think we can all […]

To begin this post, I think it would be helpful to define what both “Targeted” and “Smart” collections are. I’ll be discussing how these types of collections can greatly assist you, organization-wise, while working in Adobe Lightroom, so let’s get some of this housekeeping out of the way. Targeted Collection: When marking a collection as […]

If you’ve ever written on a WordPress blog and have taken advantage of “Tags,” you sort of already know how collections work in Adobe Lightroom. The same is true if you’ve used “Hashtags” in social media. Both of these examples use pretty much the same concept. Both of these ideas transcend categories and random posts […]

Let’s face it, importing, navigating through and rating photographs isn’t all that much fun if we can’t really do anything with them. We can organize our content until the cows come home, but if we don’t filter (search) and act upon previous decisions, Lightroom is fairly useless. Luckily for us, Lightroom has got some great […]

Rating photographs is one of Lightroom’s core features. It gives photographers control over how they feel about each photo they’ve taken during a shoot and it allows for more freedom while filtering and narrowing down collections. Overall, rating and filtering is a huge time saver and, when given the opportunity, should be taken advantage of. […]

While this post will primarily cover how to go about moving and renaming folders and files inside of Adobe Lightroom, I’ll sprinkle some warnings and advice throughout as well. File structures are funny things and when you start changing your mind about where items are located on hard drives, Lightroom can have a tough time […]

If you take tons of photos like I do, you’ve surely dabbled with a few methods for choosing between your best shots. Sometimes it’s a challenge – flipping back and forth among photos that have few distinguishable attributes. In my case, after a while, I oftentimes just pick one, not knowing the real reason why […]

While working in Lightroom, we’ve got a lot of image viewing modes at our disposal. While I’ve already discussed a few of them in my previous Lightroom posts, I thought a deeper, more thorough, look would be helpful. Especially if you’re a power-user. If you use this program on a daily basis, these view modes […]

As soon as you open Lightroom and begin importing photos, you instantly start storing information in what’s called a “catalog.” A catalog is, in the most simple terms, a database that consists of records. These records hold a few key bits of data. In this post, I’ll describe what these bits of data are and […]

I’m going to begin this post with an example of a situation that’s not ideal. Let’s say that you’re a photographer who primarily works on a laptop and who stores your photographs on an external hard drive. If you recall, I recommended you store everything on a backed up external hard drive in a previous […]