Posts tagged with Q&A

Questions I’ve answered in user forums or by email (I ask permission first)

Opinions on Microsoft One Drive?

Adobe have recently said that they’re discontinuing the Creative Cloud Synced files service by February 2024. As the Microsoft 365 account for Office includes 1 TB of free storage, what do you think about it as an alternative?

Linked Photoshop smart objects

Is there an option to create a linked smart object instead of an embedded one when exporting a photo to PS? No, sadly LR cannot directly create a linked smart object, so you have to do something like this: First in LR select the image and do a Save Metadata to File (CmdS on Mac, …read more

Lightroom to Instagram

How do you post to Instagram from Lightroom on your Mac or PC?

Search and Replace’s “Workflow filters”

My plugin Search and Replace’s menu command Plugin Extras > Refresh Workflow Filters analyses the selected photos and copies the results to custom fields. These can be used in Smart Collections or added as Library Filter columns, letting you monitor your metadata as you work:         The Date column is standard Lightroom, …read more

“Best photos”

What are the criteria for “best photos” in Lightroom web’s technology preview?

Re-editable Silver Efex files

Although my starting point is LR, I always launch Silver Efex this way, via Photoshop as Smart Object. The flexibility is a big advantage.

How to remove photos from “All Synced Photographs”

After removing pictures from a synced collection or after stopping a collection from syncing, the images remain on Lightroom Mobile and in “All Synced Photographs”. How do I find these photos so I can remove them from Adobe’s server?

How can I customise a built-in web gallery?

How can I customise a built-in web gallery?

If you know your way around your computer’s user folders, and if you can hack a Lua file in a text editor like Notepad or TextEdit, you can certainly change details to suit your needs.

It’s techy, but not difficult….

Import raw files into LR Mobile?

You can’t really do this. Mobile is not designed as a laptop replacement for travelling. But did you know dragging and dropping into a browser window uploads photos to Adobe’s cloud?

LR Web – clients don’t have an Adobe account?

How can a friend or client review and comment on a shared LrWeb collection if they don’t have an Adobe account? It’s possible, by setting up a dummy account.

Running a Photoshop action

Is it possible to run a Photoshop action from LR? Yes, by running a droplet. I’ll assume you know how to make a droplet – if not, see this example – and then you can approach it a couple of ways. One way is to save the droplet anywhere on your computer. You then set …read more

“Make a second copy to”

Why does the second copy upon import go into a folder called “Imported on November-11-13” and not into a folder named to match the folder on the hard disk that was set as the Destination for the import?

Can you stop Lightroom re-sorting keywords alphabetically?

Is it possible to stop Lightroom from re-sorting keywords alphabetically?

Check the box “store presets with catalog” box?

Is it better to uncheck the box that says “store presets with catalog”

Should I save as PSD or TIF?

Should I save as PSD or TIF? TIF. There are no quality differences, and there’s almost nothing that a PSD can do that a TIF can’t do just as well, just obscure things like saving Duotone mode images (hat tip Victoria Bampton). In the long run it’s important to save your Photoshop work in a …read more

Share your catalogues

Can you share Lightroom catalogues over Adobe’s Creative Cloud?

Photoshop smart objects

How do I update a Photoshop smart object with changes Lightroom has made to the raw file? In Lightroom, go to the original raw file and make the adjustments. Then either: Edit as Smart Object, sending a new file to PS with the raw edits. Open your existing TIF file  in PS, and drag this …read more

FTP directly from Lightroom

Can you upload files by FTP directly from within Lightroom?

Moving from LR3 to LR4

Q Best practice for moving images from LR3 to 4?

How can I copy a folder’s stacks to a collection

QIs there a way to move stacks of images into a collection and have those stacks retain their original stacking “formation”/order? ADrag a folder and drop it in the Collections panel. LR4 creates a new collection with stacking which matches the folder.