Posts tagged with Initial setup

My recommended initial setup

My Lightroom catalogue is in a mess. Should I start from scratch?

No. Leave existing stuff as it is – sort it out later when you find such things easy – and add keywords to these images. New stuff, get it in a simple date based folder structure as described. Do include the date at the start of folder and filenames using a convention like YYYYMMDD. You …read more

Managing panoramas

Here’s a quick tip for managing panorama frames. My own long-term practice has been to assign the green label to originals which are intended to be the component frames of panoramas, HDR, or other multi-frame techniques.I also stack them. I do this as soon as possible after importing the files from the card. The risk …read more

Solo Mode

What: Right click one of the section headers, such as “Publish Services” in Library’s left panel Tick “Solo Mode” You need to do this to each panel in each module What happens When you click on one section’s header, that section opens and the others close Why: It really cuts down on the scrolling up …read more

10 Things I Wish I Could Tell A Slightly Less New Lightroom User

It was interesting to read Scott Kelby’s 10 Things I Would Tell New Lightroom Users and I was surprised to see how many of his points would also be on my list. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7 are good, though 9 and 10 are very questionable. That article was actually inspired by recent Aperture …read more