I am a very late starter to photography & Lightroom. Very Late, in late my 70's. I stumbled on these tutorials while using my new Adobe Photoshop & Lightroom Classic for Photographers (Classroom in a Book) These tutorials are easy to follow, cover everything I need to learn in a fashion I understand and in manner I can follow at my speed. Absolutely invaluable to me and have excited my need to learn & be adventurous in my new found hobby. Spencer is one of the best tutors I personally have ever had. Great videos which I know I will continue to use until I feel competent and even review after. Highly recommend Photography Life! Thank you so very much.
I find you very much easy to understand. I am also a late person into this editing. I was trying to find the video how to save your edited photo in Lightroom Classic to save and back it up onto my external hard drive. Just one suggestion, saving your edited work should be explained in the beginning, so a person will know right away how to save their work once they start editing.
Hello Spencer, thank you so much for your LR tutorials. Only downloaded the LR software today and as a 67 year old total beginner your presentation and content were great.I have watched all four and they were a great help. Thank you again.
Great videos! Can you please do a video from start to finish workflow on how to create smart previews and save the Catalogs onto an external hard drive? My internal hard drive is nearly full and I want to figure out a proper way to save them without wasting space in my computer. I tried researching other videos but most of them are a bit confusing, vague, or outdated. I'm no techy but watching you, I'm finally understanding it!
This was exactly what I was looking for. So glad I came across this playlist. Thanks for explaining these things in your calm and easy to understand way!
Hi Spencer, thank you very much for posting these videos on Lightroom. I recently subscribed Lightroom and was getting frustrated with its structure. You explained it in very simple language. Thanks again!
I've watched several of your Lightroom videos. You are like a young Tim Grey (all-time Lightroom guru). Your videos are very well done and you present excellent. Well done.
Spencer, I finally upgraded from LR 6 to the current subscriber iteration of LR Classic, and am working to dig deeper into understanding LR. Your tutorials here are some of the most easy to understand ones i'm finding. Great job with these! Craig
How often to do create new catalogs? I am seeing a lot of people who create new catalogs for each photo session they do, or in the case of outsourcing for allowing someone else to edit for them. If you create a new catalog you don’t get to keep your smart collections from your previous catalog, correct?
What a great set of videos. Thanks Spencer. I got a new Mac and I’m trying to figure out how to transfer some of my pictures from my old computer to the new one. I wanted to start from scratch with light room so I could start over with my library and organizing. Is there a way to export certain sets of photographs so that I can move them over to the new computer? I am trying to avoid importing the old catalog because it was completely disorganized and I want to follow some of your suggestions. Thanks again.
Yes, you can highlight every photo intended for the new computer within Lightroom, and then go to File > Export As Catalog. Then you open Lightroom on your new computer, import from catalog, and choose the catalog you just exported. Everything from your edits to your star ratings and collections will be there despite the new computer.
Good clear tutorials. I just wish that Adobe would implement their "Smart Collections" like how PhaseOne implements their "Smart Albums" (as in, in CaptureOne, when you place a Smart Album into a Project or Group, it only applies to other files in that Project or Group, but in LR, when you create a Smart Collection anywhere within the catalog, it usually applies to any photos in your catalog, even if they aren't in the same collection or collection set (unless you use some specific criteria for your Smart Collections, like File/Source name, etc). It's a bit counter-intuitive and I think CaptureOne got this feature right from the start.
I just stumbled upon your channel...gorgeous photos and great videos. And, I found your Lightroom videos very helpful - will you be making more in terms of how you edit photos?
Good, clear tutorial, Spencer. Am wondering how your transition to Capture One is going and whether you might consider doing tutorials for that app as there is already a ton of LR material on the web and not so much on C1. Cheers and keep up the great work.
Thanks! I’m really liking Capture One, but I’m not nearly knowledgeable enough about it yet to make videos like these. I’d like to some day, but I doubt it will be any time soon.
how come the yellow indicators in my Collection section to show me which images the client chose, randomly appears. Also the choice to make collection go "public" so I can hurry and get clients their images to view. This is really slowing my process.
Good question! The answer is no; each catalog you create is completely separate and independent. You'll only see a collection (and its photos) in the catalog where you create it.
do you know if there is a way to view only the photos that are mutually in 2 or more collections. For example, I photograph hockey for a team, and I have a set of collections of all the players/numbers, and one for all of the games. If I wanted to see only photos of a specific player at a specific game, shouldn't there be a way of doing that?
It is not an elegant solution, but the one that comes to mind for me right now is to highlight all the images in Collection 1 and give them all the same color label or some keyword. Then open Collection 2 and use the filter bar to show only images with that color label or keyword. I agree that there should be a better way but this will at least get it done.
again fantastic explanation thanks again always clear and explain , one question i change computer 2 times in the last 5 years , now i have 2 different catalogs and im getting a new computer again in 2 more weeks and i dont wanna make another catalog to end up with 3 , is there any way to mix all this catalogs togethers so i dont have to be opening one by one each time i wanna edit a specific one ? or any good advice on when we get a new computer what to do thanks in advance Spencer
Sorry that I missed this until just now, Jonathan! There is indeed. Create a new catalog (I know you said you didn’t want to do that, but this is still probably the easiest way.) This will be your one and only final catalog. Then, in the new catalog, go to File > Import From Another Catalog. Just select one of your existing catalogs to import all its photos, and voila! All your photos now appear in the same catalog. Just do that with both your old catalogs. Note that you can also use this process to import photos from one of your existing catalogs into the other, without needing to make a new catalog. But I was unclear if either of those two catalogs is meant to be your primary. The two methods lead to the same results, though. Lastly, if you only wanted to import *some* of the photos from your old catalogs, you can highlight those photos and do File > Export As Catalog, then follow the same “Import From Another Catalog” process as before.
@@PhotographyLifeChannel no problem , thanks a lot for the replay , receive my mac 4 days ago and still setting all out , havent install yet lightroom gonna be doing that this week , thanks gain for the help , keep the great content coming , blessings
@@collegemtl Good luck, sounds awesome! Last little note - the method I described won’t move around your photos on your hard drive, so you’ll still need to do that (and re-organize them) if you’re starting an organization structure from scratch on your new computer.
@@PhotographyLifeChannel perfect i was thinking about that , i think the best option i have is to have everything on my external hard drive like that all in one place and esay to find , thanks again Boss
@@collegemtl Sure thing! And I agree, that’s the best way to do it. Be sure to keep your Lightroom catalog itself on the internal hard drive though, to speed things up. The catalog file itself never gets too big, so it’s not an issue for space purposes.
I am a very late starter to photography & Lightroom. Very Late, in late my 70's. I stumbled on these tutorials while using my new Adobe Photoshop & Lightroom Classic for Photographers (Classroom in a Book) These tutorials are easy to follow, cover everything I need to learn in a fashion I understand and in manner I can follow at my speed. Absolutely invaluable to me and have excited my need to learn & be adventurous in my new found hobby. Spencer is one of the best tutors I personally have ever had. Great videos which I know I will continue to use until I feel competent and even review after. Highly recommend Photography Life! Thank you so very much.
I find you very much easy to understand. I am also a late person into this editing. I was trying to find the video how to save your edited photo in Lightroom Classic to save and back it up onto my external hard drive. Just one suggestion, saving your edited work should be explained in the beginning, so a person will know right away how to save their work once they start editing.
Hello Spencer, thank you so much for your LR tutorials. Only downloaded the LR software today and as a 67 year old total beginner your presentation and content were great.I have watched all four and they were a great help. Thank you again.
Great videos! Can you please do a video from start to finish workflow on how to create smart previews and save the Catalogs onto an external hard drive? My internal hard drive is nearly full and I want to figure out a proper way to save them without wasting space in my computer. I tried researching other videos but most of them are a bit confusing, vague, or outdated. I'm no techy but watching you, I'm finally understanding it!
This was exactly what I was looking for. So glad I came across this playlist. Thanks for explaining these things in your calm and easy to understand way!
Great videos, I am learning a lot from your detailed step by step instructions. Thank you.
These are good, are you going to shoot anymore?
This is an awesome tutorial. So much valuable information. Thank you!
Sure thing! Glad it was useful.
Hi Spencer, thank you very much for posting these videos on Lightroom. I recently subscribed Lightroom and was getting frustrated with its structure. You explained it in very simple language. Thanks again!
Best explanation of collections. Thanks a lot!
You're very welcome! Happy it could be useful.
Thank you for this video! After only 1,5 minutes you answerd my question, and also explained everything in a simple way :D
I’m glad to hear it, thank you, Mikaal!
I've watched several of your Lightroom videos. You are like a young Tim Grey (all-time Lightroom guru). Your videos are very well done and you present excellent. Well done.
Spencer, I finally upgraded from LR 6 to the current subscriber iteration of LR Classic, and am working to dig deeper into understanding LR. Your tutorials here are some of the most easy to understand ones i'm finding. Great job with these! Craig
That’s awesome! Glad you’ve enjoyed them so much.
very well explained, thank you
Perfect videos. Thank you so much.
Insane tutorials thank you Spencer!
Great presentation, thank you. Question.....why do the images remain open when I close a "Collection"? Thank you. L.
Great series.
Thank you. This was helpful
great explanation-thanks
Very well explained. clear, concise. Sub +1!
How often to do create new catalogs? I am seeing a lot of people who create new catalogs for each photo session they do, or in the case of outsourcing for allowing someone else to edit for them. If you create a new catalog you don’t get to keep your smart collections from your previous catalog, correct?
Thanks a ton for this!
What a great set of videos. Thanks Spencer. I got a new Mac and I’m trying to figure out how to transfer some of my pictures from my old computer to the new one. I wanted to start from scratch with light room so I could start over with my library and organizing. Is there a way to export certain sets of photographs so that I can move them over to the new computer? I am trying to avoid importing the old catalog because it was completely disorganized and I want to follow some of your suggestions. Thanks again.
Yes, you can highlight every photo intended for the new computer within Lightroom, and then go to File > Export As Catalog. Then you open Lightroom on your new computer, import from catalog, and choose the catalog you just exported. Everything from your edits to your star ratings and collections will be there despite the new computer.
@@PhotographyLifeChannel you are such a lifesaver. Thank you so very much. I’ll be following you!
Good clear tutorials. I just wish that Adobe would implement their "Smart Collections" like how PhaseOne implements their "Smart Albums" (as in, in CaptureOne, when you place a Smart Album into a Project or Group, it only applies to other files in that Project or Group, but in LR, when you create a Smart Collection anywhere within the catalog, it usually applies to any photos in your catalog, even if they aren't in the same collection or collection set (unless you use some specific criteria for your Smart Collections, like File/Source name, etc). It's a bit counter-intuitive and I think CaptureOne got this feature right from the start.
I agree! That would be an excellent fix to see from Adobe.
Hi Spencer, I‘d like to start using collections. Can I add images to a collection that live in different catalogues?
I just stumbled upon your channel...gorgeous photos and great videos. And, I found your Lightroom videos very helpful - will you be making more in terms of how you edit photos?
Thank you, Kathleen! Yes, I'll make at least one video about editing in Lightroom later this year.
Good, clear tutorial, Spencer. Am wondering how your transition to Capture One is going and whether you might consider doing tutorials for that app as there is already a ton of LR material on the web and not so much on C1. Cheers and keep up the great work.
Thanks! I’m really liking Capture One, but I’m not nearly knowledgeable enough about it yet to make videos like these. I’d like to some day, but I doubt it will be any time soon.
how come the yellow indicators in my Collection section to show me which images the client chose, randomly appears. Also the choice to make collection go "public" so I can hurry and get clients their images to view. This is really slowing my process.
Hi Spencer, if I've created a collection in catalog A, will I be able to see catalog A's collection photos when I'm in catalog B?
Good question! The answer is no; each catalog you create is completely separate and independent. You'll only see a collection (and its photos) in the catalog where you create it.
do you know if there is a way to view only the photos that are mutually in 2 or more collections. For example, I photograph hockey for a team, and I have a set of collections of all the players/numbers, and one for all of the games. If I wanted to see only photos of a specific player at a specific game, shouldn't there be a way of doing that?
It is not an elegant solution, but the one that comes to mind for me right now is to highlight all the images in Collection 1 and give them all the same color label or some keyword. Then open Collection 2 and use the filter bar to show only images with that color label or keyword. I agree that there should be a better way but this will at least get it done.
@@PhotographyLifeChannel ok thanks I did not think of that. I did put a feature request in, however.
again fantastic explanation thanks again always clear and explain , one question i change computer 2 times in the last 5 years , now i have 2 different catalogs and im getting a new computer again in 2 more weeks and i dont wanna make another catalog to end up with 3 , is there any way to mix all this catalogs togethers so i dont have to be opening one by one each time i wanna edit a specific one ? or any good advice on when we get a new computer what to do thanks in advance Spencer
Sorry that I missed this until just now, Jonathan! There is indeed. Create a new catalog (I know you said you didn’t want to do that, but this is still probably the easiest way.) This will be your one and only final catalog. Then, in the new catalog, go to File > Import From Another Catalog. Just select one of your existing catalogs to import all its photos, and voila! All your photos now appear in the same catalog. Just do that with both your old catalogs.
Note that you can also use this process to import photos from one of your existing catalogs into the other, without needing to make a new catalog. But I was unclear if either of those two catalogs is meant to be your primary. The two methods lead to the same results, though.
Lastly, if you only wanted to import *some* of the photos from your old catalogs, you can highlight those photos and do File > Export As Catalog, then follow the same “Import From Another Catalog” process as before.
@@PhotographyLifeChannel no problem , thanks a lot for the replay , receive my mac 4 days ago and still setting all out , havent install yet lightroom gonna be doing that this week , thanks gain for the help , keep the great content coming , blessings
@@collegemtl Good luck, sounds awesome! Last little note - the method I described won’t move around your photos on your hard drive, so you’ll still need to do that (and re-organize them) if you’re starting an organization structure from scratch on your new computer.
@@PhotographyLifeChannel perfect i was thinking about that , i think the best option i have is to have everything on my external hard drive like that all in one place and esay to find , thanks again Boss
@@collegemtl Sure thing! And I agree, that’s the best way to do it. Be sure to keep your Lightroom catalog itself on the internal hard drive though, to speed things up. The catalog file itself never gets too big, so it’s not an issue for space purposes.