![]() ![]() Also, if you’re working on a laptop, it’s totally fine to store your photos on an external drive, rather than on your laptop. Every time I run into someone who’s Lightroom life is a mess, it’s because they didn’t follow this one simple rule. Plus, this makes backing up your image library a breeze. THEN import them into Lightroom (and if you’re importing from a memory card, have those images copied from the card info a folder within your main folder). Choose one main folder (like your Pictures folder on a Mac, or your My Pictures folder on a Windows PC), and put all your photos inside that folder. You can have as many sub-folders inside that one main folder as you want, but if you want to have peace, calm, and order in your Lightroom, the key is not to import photos from all over your computer. (3) Store all your photos inside one main folder Collections are safe, and will keep most users out of trouble. Matt and I always joke that “Folders are where we go when we want to see the shots that weren’t any good” because we put all our “keepers” in a collection right away. But once we import photos, are most of us really care about are the good ones, and that’s why Collections were invented (well, it’s one of the reasons anyway). Your good photos from that shoot, bad photos-the whole ball of wax. You turn this on by Ctrl-clicking (PC: Right-clicking) on the title of any panel and choose “Solo Mode” from the pop-up menu that appears.įolders are where the actual photos you imported from a particular shoot are stored. This not only saves time, but cuts the clutter big time, and makes it easier to focus on just what you’re working with. New users can get really flustered by scrolling up and down the list of open panels in Lightroom, which is why you should turn on “Solo Mode.” That way, the only panel you’ll see is the one you’re working on (and the rest all automatically collapse). (1) Use Solo Mode To Tame All Those Panels During that ride to the airport, although we didn’t talk about his post, I felt that somehow there was an implicit permission to run with his idea so with apologies (and full credit) to Rob (and Scott Bourne), here’s my own list, called.ġ0 Things I Would Tell New Lightroom Users: I was thinking of using a different name for mine, but then Rob wound up coming to to my Boston “Photoshop for Digital Photographers” seminar, and afterward he even gave me a ride to the airport. I thought his idea was brillliant, and I sat down and started thinking about what I would tell new users, and then I thought I oughta do a similar post (with a different list of ten). ![]() Rob’s article ran on Scott Bourne’s must-visit site, and he had lots of really great tips for new users ( here’s the direct link). I got the idea for this post from an excellent post from Rob Sylvan (Rob is one of our Photoshop Help Desk gurus, as well as a Lightroom author and instructor), called “10 Things I Wish I Could Tell Every New Lightroom User.” ![]()
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