By default, Lightroom has Grid, Loupe and Survey views. One thing that it doesn’t have, which is available in most other photo management app is a List view. Fortunately John Beardsworth has solved that issue rather neatly with a very customisable Plugin, simply called Listview. Listview is a column based view of the files in […]
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 ReadingAs a matter of course I brought my laptop with me on my recent family trip. It gives me an opportunity to play with imagery as I travel and occasionally check stuff online. WiFi access was sparse at best, but it was good to still be able to get a little editing done while on […]
Continue ReadingOver the bank holiday weekend I was in Kerry. The weather was quite variable and made for interesting shots, so I shot loads! Because I was traveling reasonably light and need to buy larger memory cards (2 Gb is really too small for a 40D), I had my laptop with me. So now I’m at […]
Continue ReadingIn the midst of all the Beta 2 excitement, I’ve a post on a version 1 issue. Beta 2 is not ready as a production tool so I’ve still doing my work in V1.0.I’ve finally gotten a mix of time and motivation to finish a new site for my main website, that is until Lightroom […]
Continue ReadingAs you may remember, I opted to go with a date based Import structure, to ease the import process. I’d been slowly but surely moving files into dated folders, but eventually I got to the point where it was too time consuming. I made the decision to save out XMP, remove from Library and then […]
Continue ReadingI have spoken about ideas for easier backup in the past, but I’m just going to give some detail on the automatic backup feature within Lightroom. To set up Backup in Lightroom, we need to open the Catalog Settings. This is located in the File Menu and can be accessed by using the shortcut Command-Option-, […]
Continue ReadingWhy would anyone want to use a tool that provides only a limited way to handle photos? Well, the answer is in the name. It’s because they want to work quickly. Quick Develop is a great tool for balancing the look of images in a hurry. The key difference between the buttons in Quick Develop […]
Continue ReadingA recent near miss with serious data loss has me rethinking my current import by genre strategy. In a fairly recent post on Lightroom Forums.net, John Beardsworth argues for always importing by date and using metadata to create any other required structure. The background to this post by him is that I was touting a […]
Continue ReadingI’ve known about the presence of audio files in Lightroom 1.1 for a little bit now, but as I don’t own a camera that can import them, I not investigated it much. Ian Lyons on the other hand, does and has. Due to his practice of converting files to DNG and deleting the audio, he […]
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