The 'Everything Adobe Lightroom' Thread

A[L]C · 4 Aug 2014 at 12:41

alexthecheese said:
Guys, I've just bought some additional (1TB) Google Drive space, so I can back up all my photos to it.

Thing is, Google Drive is a goit. It won't let me point to a folder that already has stuff in it. How do I move all my photos, which I've just plonked in the library as folders (no smart collections etc.), and not lose all my processing? Is it easy? I don't dare do it without knowing before hand what is going to happen.

Strangely I was just talking to a friend about cloud backup, and google drive. I *think* spanning (www.spanning.com) is a solution to backup existing folders to drive and allow them to stay where they are.

alexthecheese · 4 Aug 2014 at 12:45

Cheers - I've actually just sorted it.

I created a new Google Drive folder, then just moved the files. If you right click on the folders that Lightroom thinks are now missing files, you can just point it to the new folder. You can right click and show the parents folder too, if need be.

It's now got 23k files to sync.

A[L]C · 4 Aug 2014 at 12:50

Doesn't that mean that the files don't actually exist on your pc anymore?

A[L]C · 4 Aug 2014 at 13:09

On further investigation it looks like spanning actually backs up your google drive account to amazon rather than allowing you to sync an existing folder

alexthecheese · 4 Aug 2014 at 14:08

No, they're all still there. I just moved the files to where I wanted them to be (within my Google Drive folder) and then in Lightroom told them where they now lived. Seemed to be no bother at all! Plus, $12 a month for 1 TB seems pretty good to me.

A[L]C · 4 Aug 2014 at 14:34

Are you sure? Check out the delete screenshot on http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2013/09/23/driven-to-despair-by-google-drive/

jonneymendoza · 4 Aug 2014 at 15:53

Janesy B said:
I think my catalog is too big, is there any way of splitting it down? It's got over 50k pics in it at least...

should already split it based on a whole shoot series from the get go

i started making seperate catalgues for specific shoot series i do.

alexthecheese · 4 Aug 2014 at 16:21

The files are still on my HDD - it appears that guy did something a bit unexpected and not quite understandable when he first set it up. I can't see that it can go wrong in the way I've done it - it appears to be uploading and it's using up the space I've purchased. Well, hopefully, anyway.

Phal · 4 Aug 2014 at 16:27

This isn't strictly Lightroom related but does anyone have a link for a good guide on techniques to clone out parts of photos that you don't want using Photoshop? So far I've made do with using the cloning tool in Lightroom but it's a bit cumbersome for larger things.

steveo · 17 Aug 2014 at 12:45

Just made the full switch to LR from Aperture, i have been using LR for a few month but i left all my Aperture photos there well i moved them all over and everything is fine and dandy. Am just sorting out my Backing up and could use some thoughts and theories from the people in the know.

Am working on a 2009 iMac and my total photo Gb is about 100Gb (i keep it clean an delete useless photos). I have a 1Tb Time capsule that backs up everything on the iMac using Time Machine, a 2Tb Firewire drive thats backs up every photo Imported when in imported in to LR and a 1TB Passport USB that backs up the Catalog on closing the App.......... Am i missing anything ??

Amp34 · 2 Nov 2014 at 16:08

What do everyone else's adjustment brush options look like? I've been annoyed at the lack of options in it for months but didn't realise until today that mine appears to be different to most others...

Mine looks like this:

And lacks white balance adjustment, highlights and shadows and a few other bits compared to the others I've seen like in the link - http://blogs.adobe.com/jkost/2013/0...lective-adjustments-effects-in-lightroom.html

Is there a setting I'm missing? Using the standalone Lightroom 5.6. My GF runs 5.6 CC and has all the options...

mrk · 2 Nov 2014 at 16:14

Are you trying to work on RAW images or jpegs?

Mine looks like this:

Columbo · 2 Nov 2014 at 19:44

Mine looks the same as Robbie's

Amp34 · 2 Nov 2014 at 19:52

Doh.... Was working on a virtual copy of an image... All sorted now...

DBT85 · 3 Nov 2014 at 07:18

A virtual copy has different stuff available? Never noticed that.

mrk · 3 Nov 2014 at 07:48

Same!

Hunders · 3 Nov 2014 at 08:18

My brush has all the options whether I'm on a virtual copy or not?

Columbo · 17 Jun 2015 at 08:55

Thought I'd bump this as I've just come across something really useful and it may help someone else. A map of all the keyboard shortcuts and is PDF dowbnloadable.

http://www.setupablogtoday.com/adobe-lightroom-keyboard-shortcuts-cheat-sheet/

Genoma · 18 Jun 2015 at 10:11

what does everyone think of the new dehaze option?

crinkleshoes · 20 Jun 2015 at 23:00

Been having some weird issues with lightroom lately... when trying to import images, it will simply not load the files properly & just sitting eating RAM and 10-20% CPU without doing anything at all...

Click on import and all that happens is the CPU & RAM figures spike... but the import bar stops moving and nothing is actually imported.

Quit lightroom, and all that happens is the process moves from foreground process to a background process:

It will sit like this for days if left for its own devices... have to force close the process. In these screenshots, the RAM usage is quite low compared to normal... it usually sits nearer 1GB

It started happening when I was running 6.0.1... updated to 6.1... downgraded to 5.7... new/existing LR catalogues etc... all doing the same thing.

For a while it was OK importing 100 images at a time instead of the full load... then it wouldn't load that... but it was OK importing 10 images at a time... now it won't even load 7 :S

Latest updated version of W8.1 etc... 3 different versions of LR... 3 different hard drives... quite annoying.