The 'Everything Adobe Lightroom' Thread

Yes I try to as per my comment above - just noticed I said catalogues when I actually meant collections!!!

Within each collection I have a sub collection called picks which are my best/fav shots from the shoot then I give my best 1 or 2 pics in each pick collection 5* that way I can go to the smart collection that just shows 5* pics to quickly get to the best of the best. Suggested by Scott Kelby in his book on LR - works for me.
 
Any tips on printing in LR?
I keep looking at this feature and it doesn't seem that intuitive. Like how do you select three different pictures to be printing? I would have thought if you have say 3 pictures selected and have 3 pictures on the sheet it would automatically assign a different picture to each. It doesn't and uses the first picture for all three. Sily things like this.

I currently export the photos from LR and print from another package which seems a bit silly.
 
use the custom template.

you can then choose the size of the images you want (by adding a blank 8x10 box say), add as many as you like in whatever sizes, then drag your images to the boxes.

I believe that on the 1st there is some link to some tuts that look at this.

Have a look :)
 
How can you control slideshows with the mouse. I set one up but I only want it to go to the next photo when the left mouse button is clicked. I also want to be able to use the mouse to go back to the previous photo.

Thanks
 
Not sure you can do what you want to with a slideshow in LR.

Here's an alternative method:

•Select the pictures you want to look at (ctrl click) easier in a grid view and in Library mode

•Double click on first pic

•Shift-tab to switch of the side panels and the press L to go to lights off mode

•Then on the keyboard right arrow to advance and left arrow to go back one pic at a time
 
I have a question for you knowledgeable folks.

Basically I use lightroom just for organising my photos. I'm not bothered about editing them. I just hated using Windows explorer to sort photos and in Lightroom the filtering feature is amazing, it just works perfectly.

Right, My question.

I brought back a ton of photos from my holiday in August to America and imported them all to lightroom when I returned. I set the owner to myself and shifted the capture time on a batch lot when we crossed timezones and forgot to change the cameras settings.

Basically, I found a picture from a another person who was also on this holiday and saved the picture from the website and imported it to the same folder and set the owners name to the person who took the picture. However the time and date are incorrect on this one photograph and does not line up correctly in lightroom. It appears before all the others as it should appear about a quarter of the way through as it was about lunchtime when taken.

I therefore went to check what time and date the photo has but where it normally shows that info for my other photos, those settings are not even shown for this one.

Any ideas?

It shows me the dimensions but below that, the normal boxes showing the type of camera, camera details, date and time are not shown.

How can I get them to be shown?

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Psychouk said:
Not sure you can do what you want to with a slideshow in LR.

Here's an alternative method:

•Select the pictures you want to look at (ctrl click) easier in a grid view and in Library mode

•Double click on first pic

•Shift-tab to switch of the side panels and the press L to go to lights off mode

•Then on the keyboard right arrow to advance and left arrow to go back one pic at a time
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I would do that but I NEED to control the slideshow with a mouse as the laptop is connected to a pc and i'm sat on the sofa with a wireless mouse with no control over the slideshow.

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Next, Is there a way to set a default sort order. I want to set it to Capture Time regardless of what folder is selected

Thanks

Neil
 
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drunken fool said:
quick (and stupid) question.

Once imported, how can i select a number of photo's and add keywords in bulk? Tried selectig all and adding but only tags the first one
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I have found two ways of doing this:

1.) Select all the photos you want keywords adding to in the main middle window section and add the keywords in the right hand side bar. That will add those keywords to all photos selected.

2.) Click the "Painter" icon in the bottom toolbar of the middle window section, choose "Keywords" from the dropdown list, type the keywords into the textbox to the right and click on each photo above that you want those keywords assigned to.

Both of those methods seem to work for me.
 
Don't think there's any way to do this as a default. Possible work around:

- select folder in Library
- Under Library Filter select Metadata and then click on the date

this seems to show them in time captured order
 
Question: When I've imported my photos and start filtering the good and the bad - why does it take so long to load from one photo to another? I know raw is quite big (20-25mb) each but is it down hard drive speed or available RAM?
 
Depending on the rendering settings on the original import as you look at each pic LR is producing a 100% image - this happens the first time you look at it subsequent times it will have it stored in the cache (these are cleared periodically if you haven't looked at the the length of time theyre kept on the cache is set in preferences I think default is 30 days).

The time it takes should only be a couple of seconds but I have found that it seems to sometimes take longer - not sure why but I've noticed the following:

- faster rendering in Library module as opposed to Develop

- slower after a 'big' import

- slower if you have had LR open for some time

- faster after closing LR and then reopening

- faster after reboot

I don't notice it all the time but when it happens it can be a real pain. Would be interested if any one else has this issue and any solutions they may have found :)
 
How do people store there LR catalog? At present I have mine on the seperate drive I use for all my images as I thought that having it on the same drive would reduce latency etc when it creates thumbnails. I'm now in the process of moving the 16gb folder to a different drive to see if this will make a difference, mainly because I think that when importing a lot of images and LR creating the initial database/thumbs it's being bottlenecked by the read/writes. I'll update if I notice any improvement.

On a similar note, who here has a SSD? I'm wondering if:

a: if I got one and left things as they are (catalog on seperate HD) would I see much improvement in LR?
b: If I migrated the LR catalog to the SSD would that make a big improvement?

My main PC is mainly for photo editing these days so I'm trying to optimise it for that.

I've also got 4gb RAM, I've noticed when using several adjustment brushes etc on an image LR really chugs along, RAM usage seems to be high but not full, any improvement by going to 8GB? Rest of the PC is a quad core i5 CPU so can't see that as a bottleneck yet.
 
I can't get into LR3 at the moment.

When I start the program, it automatically imports every single image and video file on my PC. Can't find a setting to stop it.

There just seems a lot of stuff in there that I wouldn't use. I might just browse through my RAW files and then open the individual ones that need editing in LR3.

Everything just seems so overwhelming at the moment! :(
 
Sure it's been asked but can you store the catalogue on a network drive / WHS server ?

As plan to install it on my laptop and desktop pc's and be a pain to have 2 catalogue files.

Thanks,
 
Schizophonic said:
Question: When I've imported my photos and start filtering the good and the bad - why does it take so long to load from one photo to another? I know raw is quite big (20-25mb) each but is it down hard drive speed or available RAM?
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I had a very similar problem however recently resolved it by ensuring I generated 1:1 previews of each picture during the import process. Speeds browsing up no end when in library mode
 
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