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Lightroom Technique: How I Organize My Catalog and Why (2012 Edition)

March 5, 2012

Many of you have asked if my Lightroom organizational technique has evolved since my 2009 article. It has. In this article, I describe some of my latest thinking on Lightroom organization.

As with past versions of this article, I share my current practices here not because I want to preach that this is [...]

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Lightroom 3 Public Beta: Favorite Articles So Far

October 21, 2009

Earlier tonight, Adobe released a new version of Lightroom: a public beta of Lightroom 3.0. You can download it from http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom3/.

We’re releasing this a bit earlier in the cycle than we did with the Lr2 public beta, which means it’ll be a bit rougher around some edges. (As teammate Troy Gaul says, it’s [...]

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Lightroom 2 Technique: How I Organize My Catalog and Why (2009 Edition)

September 13, 2009

Update (March 5, 2012): Lots of people have asked if my workflow has changed since 2009. It has.

I’ve changed my Lightroom workflow fairly radically this summer. In this article, I talk about some of the motivations for making this change, how I made the new choices I’ve made, some of the [...]

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How Thomas Hawk Might Influence My Lightroom Workflow

May 11, 2009

Update (September 2009): After much consideration and much writing, I’ve developed a new workflow that I’m quite happy with. Thomas’ workflow and some of the thoughts below were very influential. Please see my new article, “How I Organize My Catalog and Why (2009 Edition).”

A few days ago, a friend sent me a [...]

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Worth Reading: Jeffrey Freidl – Overexposure, Underexposure, and the Compensation Thereof

February 27, 2009

If you’ve ever wondered how your camera will respond to extreme light conditions (or, more importantly, extreme contrast in a scene), this article is a must read:

Overexposure, Underexposure, and the Compensation Thereof (from Jeffrey Friedl’s blog)

Be sure to take the time to click through the “normalized to the base exposure” and “jpeg [...]

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Lightroom 2 Technique: Staying Organized with Controlled Vocabulary

February 4, 2009

Do too many keywords in your Lightroom catalog have you spinning round and round?

Here are a couple of simple tricks I use to keep me organized with over 10,000 keywords in my catalog.

Organize Your Keywords with Category Headers

I’m a big fan of David Rieck’s Controlled Vocabulary Keyword Catalog. It’s a [...]

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Lightroom 2 Quick Tip: Put Your Favorite Photos on Your iPhone

January 12, 2009

Got an iPhone (or iPod Touch)? Looking for a quick way to take your favorite photos with you? Follow along with this demo:

Step 1: Choose the photos you want to export. Ideally, put them in a collection so you can update this later. A keyword or folder will work too.

Here, I’ve chosen [...]

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Lightroom 2.2 Is Out!

December 15, 2008

Lightroom 2.2 was released a couple of hours ago. Tom’s announcement covers all the gory details, but a couple of highlights are worth mentioning:

Canon 5D Mark II support (ooh, ahh … I want one! ) Canon PowerShot G10 support Camera Raw profiles added Bunch o’ bugs fixed
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Lightroom Technique: How I Organize My Catalog and Why

October 20, 2008

Update (September 2009): I’ve changed my workflow fairly significantly from what is described here. Please see my new article, “How I Organize My Catalog and Why (2009 Edition).”

In this article, I talk about the way I use Lightroom’s folders panel to organize my photos on disk. I talk about how I made [...]

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Lightroom 2 Technique: Smart Collections and Worklists

August 4, 2008

Note: Last year, on the Lightroom Journal, I wrote about using worklist keywords to keep track of your keywording efforts. In this article, I look at some new and improved ways to accomplish the same thing with Lightroom 2.0.

I use worklists to keep track of work I want to do on [...]

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About Eric

Hi, I’m Eric. I’m a photographer, software developer, and sometimes blogger based near Seattle, Washington. I’ve been creating great software for desktop computers since 1983 and great photography since 1993.

Since 2003 I’ve combined those interests as a member of the Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Revel development teams.

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