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Lightroom keyword manager archive#
Lightroom keyword manager full#

When I say toss, I’m not actually deleting the files. I’m somewhat liberal with my keepers because I don’t want to toss something unnecessarily.

Lightroom keyword manager full#

I pick my keepers in full screen mode (click F) using the flag option (click P). I have to move my photos off to my main hard drive pretty quickly, which is a problem you may or may not have. Part of the reason is because I do my editing on a Solid State Drive which gives me a lot of speed, but not a lot of hard drive room. I generally want to go through my photos and mark my keepers and junkers pretty quickly. Now that I have everything on my computer and in my LR catalog. I have also set up a copyright preset so that my information gets attached if it isn’t already. I always try to enter at least one, and usually several. I’ve found it is much easier to find files using a good folder name than trying to use a keyword search (I almost exclusively take selfies anyway, so keywords aren’t that helpful). It was impossible to remember when I took a shot I wanted to find. Before I used to do this, I would get all my files imported by date. I use the same name for my files and subfolder.

I give a specific name to my files and my subfolder to help me to identify when/where I took the picture. Further down the import screen, I import into a Subfolder. I click the option to rename my files and using the Custom Name>Sequence option. I don’t because I handle it a different way (I probably should though). A lot of people import a second copy to another hard drive. I also click on Don’t Import Suspected Duplicates so that I don’t end up with multiples of photos because I grabbed a card that wasn’t formatted.

Lightroom keyword manager archive#

I haven’t needed this option so far, but I might due to how I archive my work (more on that later). I have Build Smart Previews checked, which allows me to edit files that aren’t on my computer’s hard drive. I have all my photos organized by year in my Photo folder. My file management starts during the import. You want to skip over this step, but in a few months you’ll be sitting in a chair, ashamed of yourself, while a lady in a white mask fusses at you (OK, maybe the metaphor breaks down at this point).

You need to start managing the files as you import them. If you want to move files on disk, delete them, or change them, you should do so from LR.Įverything starts with the import.

One important thing to note if you are new to Lightroom, once you decide to use LR, you need to manage your files through LR.

Keep another backup on an external hard drive.

Save all of your picture files as well as your LR catalog backup onto a folder that automatically backs up to the cloud.

Export files Into a subfolder, name the folder web or print.

Use the export to> Photoshop function to move files in and out of Lightroom. This included moving files, or editing them in Photoshop.

Whatever work you do to your photos, do it through Lightroom.

Make sure to put in a couple of keywords as well. Organize these folders under the year it was taken.

Name folders and files with an easy to understand name on import.

I’m going to share my current photo management workflow, including the backup process I have decided to use. During the several intervening years, I’ve tried many different ways to manage my photos from start to finish. A few months ago, I had a back-up hard drive failure and finally completed a multi-year process of getting all of my photos organized. I started it, and never truly finished until recently. I liked the catalog process, but the whole idea of bringing all of my photos into LR and organizing them seemed like a huge task. (Isn’t that what bridge is for?) I slowly started to embrace LR, and over time, I found I was doing the bulk of my editing there. At the time, I thought it was just Photoshop Light with this catalog management thing thrown in. I’ll admit, I was a little disappointed at first.

It’s been several years since I appeased my curiosity about what this whole Lightroom (LR) thing is.