One great addition to Lightroom CC/6 is how the resetting of Preferences is handled. Back in the back old days of Lightroom 5 and previous versions, you had to manually delete the preferences, which included the name of the current catalog, so if you didn’t restart from your last catalog by double-clicking on it, Lightroom […]
Continue ReadingBy default Lightroom will have the GPU on, unless it encounters an error with the GPU. The GPU really needs to be good, or Lightroom will actually be slower to use. Sometimes you can have crashes on startup, even with the 6.01 update so here’s a way to turn off the GPU without opening Lightroom. […]
Continue ReadingOften people will take blogs and do a rough edit then post.. but this post is so good, you need to go over there and read it yourself. Jeffrey Friedl (the King of Lightroom plugins), talks about a way of potentially making large catalogs much smaller. Handy for shorter back-ups and generally just tidier all […]
Continue ReadingThere’s been a change in method for entering a keyword hierarchy in Lightroom 5. The > now indicates a parent to child relationship, the exact opposite of older versions. It makes sense in that the parent is greater than the child. Here’s a random example where we start at the top and work our way […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a tip for something that I need to do from time to time. I don’t see this in shortcuts, but that may just be me being blind (or a man!). The quickest way to start searching in Lightroom is a text search, so rather than opening the Filter Bar and clicking text, then the […]
Continue ReadingWith all the Lightroom firesales on, there’s a host of new users fresh to Lightroom. Here’s a few tips to help you get started. 1. Workflow. Lightroom is a modular program. This means it designed to work best in a particular way. Library is the first module, so it’s best to manage your files first. […]
Continue ReadingPrior to having the ability to shoot tethered directly in Lightroom, the only option was to use the Auto Import function. It was also useful before we got the Add to Catalog option in Export. The feature has seen no changes since it was implemented, even though the Import Dialog completely changed with Lightroom 3.0. […]
Continue ReadingWhen you’re working away in Lightroom, sometimes you’ll need to get from the collection, or folder you’re in, to where the files resides, either in Lightroom itself, or on the disk. Alternatively, you may want to go to a collection that the file is in. Well, here’s how. We’ll start with a photo that’s in […]
Continue ReadingWhether people like to admit it or not, one thing that can help Lightroom performance when it slows down is a restart. It can also help when Lightroom does something unexpected or unusual. I’m not implying that Lightroom is an unstable mess, but when it’s be actively running for days, through sleep cycles, it might […]
Continue ReadingAs a help moderator, I get to see a lot of problems and questions come in. One thing I’ve just answered is in relation to something that I’ve actually done myself. Usually in Lightroom, if you’re in a single image mode like Loupe View, or Develop, your action will apply only to that image (bar […]
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