How to Create Copyright Preset for Lightroom Classic
It’s 2019 – Time to update your Lightroom copyright preset. The method to create a Lightroom copyright preset hasn’t changed over the years. But like many things we only need ...
Preview Unavailable For This File
What’s going on when Lightroom’s import preview window says, “Preview Unavailable For This File?” You shoot camera raw and, you probably have a new camera. The Adobe DNG Converter (Mac + PC) may be the solution. ...
The Lightroom Legacy Catalog Series-Part 2, Back Up Your Photos and Catalogs!
Back Up Your Photos Before Creating Your Legacy Catalog! Recently, David Mark Erickson and I were doing an Intro to Lightroom and Bookmaking workshop and we asked our class two ...
Creating a Lightroom Copyright Preset for 2017
It's another year and time once again for updating or creating your Lightroom copyright preset for 2017. Here's our simplified, step-by-step breakdown: Part 1 1. Start in the Library ...
The Lightroom Legacy Catalog Series-Part 1
The Lightroom Legacy Catalog Part 1 Many of us remember finding shoeboxes at home, full of photos, tagged with a label and a lid that didn’t quite close, revealing the ...
Create a Lightroom Copyright Preset for 2015
At last week's NYC Lightroom Meetup I did a short presentation on how to create a Lightroom copyright preset. Once this metadata (metadata is quite literally, information about other information) is ...
Creating A Target Collection in Lightroom
Here’s a little known feature of Lightroom: The Target Collection. As explained in my earlier post, making a Quick Collection and saving it as a Collection is an effective way to ...
Clearing Up The Confusion Of The Lightroom Quick Collection (Or Not)
The Lightroom Quick Collection is a smart way to gather together a group images from any of your folders in a Catalog without changing the location of the original images. It is essential to the ...
Finding Missing Lightroom Photos and Relink Them
Lightroom is not fun when you can't find your photos. And one of the most difficult and frustrating challenges is finding missing Lightroom photos and relinking them. There are a fair ...
Adding Folder Names To Dated Folders After Importing Into Lightroom
Lightroom - Dated Folders vs. Titled Folders - I'll take both, please... If you’ve watched my previous post on importing into the Lightroom Library, you know that I recommend importing your photos ...