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

Eric — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 06:07:28 +0000

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 [...]

Lightroom 3 Public Beta: Favorite Articles So Far

Eric — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:37:43 +0000

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 [...]

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

Eric — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:23:25 +0000

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 [...]

How Thomas Hawk Might Influence My Lightroom Workflow

Eric — Tue, 12 May 2009 06:20:38 +0000

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 [...]

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

Eric — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 05:32:43 +0000

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 [...]

Lightroom 2 Technique: Staying Organized with Controlled Vocabulary

Eric — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:41:14 +0000

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 [...]

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

Eric — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:25:53 +0000

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 [...]

Lightroom 2.2 Is Out!

Eric — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:15:00 +0000

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

Lightroom Technique: How I Organize My Catalog and Why

Eric — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:50:25 +0000

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 [...]

Lightroom 2 Technique: Smart Collections and Worklists

Eric — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:56:32 +0000

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 [...]