Nice to see a Lightroom tutorial. I think it would be beneficial to have tutorials on the whole processing cycle using both Lightroom and Photoshop together. As always, great video. Thanks Aaron and team.
Just starting with Lightroom for the first time. Opened it up and had NO idea where to start! Thanks so much for this! Now, gotta find a video about what to do after I’m finished editing my pics.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS! So well explained, nice and slow, and helped immensely as I found this whole lightroom folder/collection/catalog thing very confusing (until this tutorial)!
Great video! There is one function I do miss in the programme; auto-backup. Let's say you import photos and videos from your camera onto your computer and into the folder LR is set to check for files, it should automatically save those or updated/changed files to a local and/or online backup location.
A good video. Laconic. Well Structured. Delivered with humor. Provided me with the information I needed about using Lightroom to import pictures and then store them in a structure that made access easy. Recommended
One side point. I followed this approach after working with Lightroom without using catalogues. Of course, as soon as I created a new Catalogue, it used this and - HORROR - 'lost' the old one. If this happens to you, open file explorer, go to pictures, find *.lrcat click on each file until you get your old settings back. What I then did was to copy this file and rename it according to the various themes it contained and then deleted collections within these until I had something that represented the themes I wanted. Make sense?
Then of course, this opens the "can of worms" as you realise that you have a skit tonne of pictures in your catalogue (Oh THAT is why Lightroom has been so slow recently!) and end up using smart catalogue to select (colour) and delete (from lightroom only, not from disk). And yes, did check, when it says Lightroom it only means the current catalogue. The other one remains the same size.
Brilliant tutorial. Just when I needed it. Setting up a new Mac and was just thinking of how I could better organise my files. (Last 5 years worth are a nightmare 😄)
Oh, Aaron. I got into a terrible mess with this easy tutorial as a beginner. I had to delete LR and reinstall and start again. Thanks for the tutorial as I have started again I can now get some order to find my images instead of going on a hunting expedition each time.
Started with a new installation of Lightroom and wanted to organize it the right way. This helped out a lot! On a side note - is that the artwork from the board game Parks in the background? I love that game!
Thank you A-Aron! Love all your tutorials. They've helped me tremendously! I don't bother watching any other channels for this content anymore. Just search "Phlearn lightroom/photoshop _____" now and poof, I get phlearnt! Thanks!
I am sooo thankful for this video! I have a better understanding on what i was doing wrong. My only questions is, am I better off clearing out my current Lightroom (on my brand new computer) and start from scratch? I already started syncing and its taking forever, and i know it's not properly organized.
Thanks for another great video Aaron, I use a single catalog with smart collections for year then month then camera and it works pretty good for searching for 'old' work I'm only at 10k images so far so all is fast and fine.
Hi there. Thank you for this great tutorial. Regarding making collections for 'favourite/best photos' how can these files be copied into a separate folder on my computer? Thank you
The libaries is what really pisses me off about Lightroom. Can't open a file, cause I did it before, and then have to work around it. Make it like PS, where you just throw a file in and it opens it.
Good post. LR has a powerful relational database under the hood that makes it all possible. I wish there was a way to convert a collection to a collection set - any ideas? P for pick should have been P for PHLEARN, Ha. Tip - don’t check “eject after import” when importing from SD card - had PC lockups when option was selected. Also, be sure to do file naming, and management from inside LR, not PC OS file handler.
wow thank you... honestly i've been just going through my photos one "previous import" at a time and it was getting to be too unorganized when you do multiple shoots lol
Hi Aaron. Love your clips but just one suggestion. Cut down your 10 sec opener to a 5 sec opener. It gets tired pretty quickly specially if I'm doing a lot of your tutorials in a row. Cheers. David
Even though nobody was around I definitely put my head down when you said indianapolis since I live there🤦♂️😂 Great tutorial though, just came across this content and it’s a game changer for me!
Awesome tutorial and precise and fun and smooth and simple, great work all around and l actually finally worked out how to do it, cheers have subscribed and be learning a lot more, thank you :)
My two photo sources are 1. Canon EOS 7D. 2. iPhone pictures in iCloud. My goal is to import into LR from iCloud as easily and as often as from a camera card. Is there a LR version with a process for this?
Newbie question. When do YOU decide to delete "unwanted" images after shooting? Like the image of your foot that was accidently taken or if you took 10 shots of the same thing and you uploaded all 10 to lightroom and then decided the best one to develop and edit. What, how and when do YOU decide to delete the extraneous, unneeded, unwanted yet uploaded images?
LR Classic and LR CC are two very different animals. CC is totally cloud based, focused on speed and efficiency, while Classic is a fully comprehensive program with many more tools. They don't plan on getting rid of Classic though, so whichever fits your workflow should be pretty future proof.
@phlearn I remember that you organized photos in lightroom with the date and filename as (2021-07-18 Greece) and then you created 4 folders inside this folder as Capture, select, master, output. Does the specific collection technique you suggest do the same?
a question on organizing: so if you have a few cities, countries, would it be ok to have multiple folders in collections with "people", "architecture" etc? or let's say you have a few folders from 10 trips to Greece :), what is an efficient way to organize it with Lightroom? to be able to find something fast in the library. are you giving also tags and categories to each picture? Re storing pictures in the folder "pictures". once on a PC laptop I lost all folder content from "pictures", which was a shock (still not sure how it happened), fortunately I did not store a lot of my own images there, mainly various pictures from the web, so it was bearable, yet still some research & inspirational material for different work was lost. so I personally would recommend rather creating a different folder.
One "gotcha" with Smart Collections is that if you do NOT specify some other criteria (such as Collection Name, Folder name (physical file folder on the drive), Smart Collections actaully apply to the entire catalog, regardless of where you actually place the Smart Collection within your collections. To me, this is not exactly intuitive, and CaptureOne does a batter job of "limiting the scope" of their Smart Collections (which are called Smart Albums in CaptureOne) to the Project level (a Project can be thought of as a Collection Set in Lightroom). This is a "flaw" in Lightroom Classic that I think Adobe needs to address as it makes using Smart Collections more difficult because if you want to find all of your pics in a particular folder on your computer, you have to specify the folder's name so that LRC can narrow down the smart collection's parameters.
Arron, I'm so bad at this organization. I often go click on photos in a collection and then go to develop and get the message that the file cannot be found. ? Is that because I moved them from the original storage space be it hard drive, ssd drive or whatever?
Thanks for this video! I'm running into an issue when I move the HD folder to an external HD to back it up and remove from the computer HD. Once I go back into LR, I can't access any of the collection photos bc the directory path has changed. Should I just be storing on the image files on the external from the start every time I import? Thanks!
I have a question. I am getting ready to buy a new external hard drive to store all of my images on. Once bought, I will be transferring all of my images from their current drive over to that drive. Once I change their location to the new drive, will that affect Lightroom’s catalogs as far as when I reopen the image in LR, will LR put the previous edit on the image or will I have to re edit the image?
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This might have been the best tutorial EVER on ANYTHING. No bs, no unnecessary stuff - brief and precise - exactly how I like it. Good job sir
Simplicity is the key. You kept it simple and consise. Thank you for you efforts.
Nice to see a Lightroom tutorial. I think it would be beneficial to have tutorials on the whole processing cycle using both Lightroom and Photoshop together. As always, great video. Thanks Aaron and team.
Works right up to when you need to search for images in different catalogs. I'm a single catalog guy. 100's of thousands of images, no problem.
Bob Koss that will slow down LR alot
M K only if you have wooden PC
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@@MK-hz2bn That used to be an issue many years ago. No longer.
@@Gmon750 What is the fix? I use an external harddrive and it tense to be real slow If I put it all in one catalog.
Just starting with Lightroom for the first time. Opened it up and had NO idea where to start! Thanks so much for this! Now, gotta find a video about what to do after I’m finished editing my pics.
I should have looked at this 3 months ago! Awesome tutorial!
the man, the myth, the legend himself...aaron nace!!! if our brains were computer hard drives id download your lightroom and photoshop folders
I love this tutorial. It's clearly explained and very easy to follow. Great job, Aaron!
Aaron, you are such a good instructor!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!
That was just fantastic, thanks a lot. Well articulated and clear.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS! So well explained, nice and slow, and helped immensely as I found this whole lightroom folder/collection/catalog thing very confusing (until this tutorial)!
Great simple tutorial. My catalog is a mess and this video will really help get it under control.
I know the feeling, My "catalog" is a disaster!
Where was this video 3 years ago when I needed it lol :(
Easiest to follow, informative and simple but very effective. Thank you :)
Your videos always give a pretty good & thorough explanation. Thank you!
Great video! There is one function I do miss in the programme; auto-backup. Let's say you import photos and videos from your camera onto your computer and into the folder LR is set to check for files, it should automatically save those or updated/changed files to a local and/or online backup location.
Excelent tutorial! that's what i was searching! thanks
Super Thank you !! my English its not the best but its so easy the way you explain everything
Point and shoot tutorial, thanks Aaron.
Thank you so much. It is great to watch this video just before I m beginning with my new LR Classic Cc installation
So clear, best explanations found over ...a lot of them here ! Thank you Aaron :))
A good video. Laconic. Well Structured. Delivered with humor. Provided me with the information I needed about using Lightroom to import pictures and then store them in a structure that made access easy. Recommended
One side point. I followed this approach after working with Lightroom without using catalogues. Of course, as soon as I created a new Catalogue, it used this and - HORROR - 'lost' the old one. If this happens to you, open file explorer, go to pictures, find *.lrcat click on each file until you get your old settings back. What I then did was to copy this file and rename it according to the various themes it contained and then deleted collections within these until I had something that represented the themes I wanted. Make sense?
Then of course, this opens the "can of worms" as you realise that you have a skit tonne of pictures in your catalogue (Oh THAT is why Lightroom has been so slow recently!) and end up using smart catalogue to select (colour) and delete (from lightroom only, not from disk). And yes, did check, when it says Lightroom it only means the current catalogue. The other one remains the same size.
Another enjoyable video from PHLEARN, thank you Nace.
Brilliant tutorial. Just when I needed it. Setting up a new Mac and was just thinking of how I could better organise my files. (Last 5 years worth are a nightmare 😄)
I going to subscribe, you had me at PHLEARN! new to Lightroom, how will I organize all my photos. I think I've got IT, thank you.
Awesome! Thank you
Thank you for explaining things so clearly, Great tutorial!
Oh, Aaron. I got into a terrible mess with this easy tutorial as a beginner. I had to delete LR and reinstall and start again. Thanks for the tutorial as I have started again I can now get some order to find my images instead of going on a hunting expedition each time.
A very nice tutorial to organise my photo's!!! Thank you a lot
Clear, concise and easy to follow. Thank you.
Amazing video. Very clearly explained. Thanks!
Started with a new installation of Lightroom and wanted to organize it the right way. This helped out a lot! On a side note - is that the artwork from the board game Parks in the background? I love that game!
Amazing video, you're great at explaining things clearly!
Thank you A-Aron! Love all your tutorials. They've helped me tremendously! I don't bother watching any other channels for this content anymore. Just search "Phlearn lightroom/photoshop _____" now and poof, I get phlearnt! Thanks!
key and peele reference. *chefs kiss*
thanks man! i wanted to apreciate your quality of work, and video quality.
More Lightroom tutorials please 😀
I am sooo thankful for this video! I have a better understanding on what i was doing wrong. My only questions is, am I better off clearing out my current Lightroom (on my brand new computer) and start from scratch? I already started syncing and its taking forever, and i know it's not properly organized.
Gotta tell you : you are my "go-to guy" for whenever I get stuck!!! Thanks so much for your tutorials and explanations!!!
Thanks for another great video Aaron, I use a single catalog with smart collections for year then month then camera and it works pretty good for searching for 'old' work I'm only at 10k images so far so all is fast and fine.
As always, a pleasure to see and learn something new. Many thanks
GREAT video!!! You have helped with an ongoing problem.
great video!! thank you!!
Great job Aaron! Great tutorial with a nice explanation in a reasonable amount of time. Thanks so much!
At last I get it ! Thanks, very useful.
such a great detailed video. thank you so much!
Hi there. Thank you for this great tutorial. Regarding making collections for 'favourite/best photos' how can these files be copied into a separate folder on my computer? Thank you
this is great! if i import images from two years ago, how do i organize them by date? and, if i have images from greece from three different trips?
Thanks Aaron, awesome tutorial.
Love Phlearn. I show your videos to my students but for some reason now there is no sound when I share to my class TV. Can you help?
This tutorial is amazing. Thanks a tonne! :)
Very well done
My Lightroom classic and Lightroom CC are a mess. How do I clean them up to start fresh.
This helped me a lot, so really thank you! :)
Just incredibly helpful! Thank you!
Really like your video!
The libaries is what really pisses me off about Lightroom. Can't open a file, cause I did it before, and then have to work around it.
Make it like PS, where you just throw a file in and it opens it.
Thank you this video was very helpful. I am new to lightroom.
Good post. LR has a powerful relational database under the hood that makes it all possible. I wish there was a way to convert a collection to a collection set - any ideas? P for pick should have been P for PHLEARN, Ha. Tip - don’t check “eject after import” when importing from SD card - had PC lockups when option was selected. Also, be sure to do file naming, and management from inside LR, not PC OS file handler.
excellent content mate!! cheers!!
wow thank you... honestly i've been just going through my photos one "previous import" at a time and it was getting to be too unorganized when you do multiple shoots lol
Hi Aaron. Love your clips but just one suggestion. Cut down your 10 sec opener to a 5 sec opener. It gets tired pretty quickly specially if I'm doing a lot of your tutorials in a row. Cheers. David
Excellent, thank you !
Thx But I did not do this at first can I go back and redo this with the pic I stored on pc. The section you did on finding them was a bit fast for me.
Aaron is my best friend.
Nice one! 👌🏻 Greetings from Greece! 😁
Good job!
Even though nobody was around I definitely put my head down when you said indianapolis since I live there🤦♂️😂
Great tutorial though, just came across this content and it’s a game changer for me!
Awesome tutorial and precise and fun and smooth and simple, great work all around and l actually finally worked out how to do it, cheers have subscribed and be learning a lot more, thank you :)
My two photo sources are 1. Canon EOS 7D. 2. iPhone pictures in iCloud. My goal is to import into LR from iCloud as easily and as often as from a camera card. Is there a LR version with a process for this?
Very informative. Thanks and a thumb!
Great video, thank you Aaron.
Thank you so much . If I've already imported and named photos collection by name of model , how do I go back and copyright them?
Newbie question. When do YOU decide to delete "unwanted" images after shooting? Like the image of your foot that was accidently taken or if you took 10 shots of the same thing and you uploaded all 10 to lightroom and then decided the best one to develop and edit. What, how and when do YOU decide to delete the extraneous, unneeded, unwanted yet uploaded images?
which ones save more space for ur computer? move or add?
Hey guys, this might be a silly question but where are the edited photos stored? I'm just deciding if I want to purchase this software
It's funny cuz almost everywhere I know still uses Lightroom classic over the new lightroom : ) Myself included
Yes, me too. And I'm worried about future updates to Mac that might not support LR6. Will I still be able to use it?
LR Classic and LR CC are two very different animals. CC is totally cloud based, focused on speed and efficiency, while Classic is a fully comprehensive program with many more tools. They don't plan on getting rid of Classic though, so whichever fits your workflow should be pretty future proof.
Hi aron, can you teach me, how to create lightroom mobile presets like pro? Thanks
sooo....damn...helpful...thanks alot!
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Great stuff Aaron.
If you don't have a website, should you just put your email address under copywrite info in metadata?
That helped a lot! Thanks!
Thank you Aaron, just what I needed!
@phlearn I remember that you organized photos in lightroom with the date and filename as (2021-07-18 Greece) and then you created 4 folders inside this folder as Capture, select, master, output. Does the specific collection technique you suggest do the same?
Super helpful!
Thank you!! it was great!!
Any chance to get a new Lightroom tutorial? No the Lightroom Classic :)
a question on organizing: so if you have a few cities, countries, would it be ok to have multiple folders in collections with "people", "architecture" etc? or let's say you have a few folders from 10 trips to Greece :), what is an efficient way to organize it with Lightroom? to be able to find something fast in the library. are you giving also tags and categories to each picture?
Re storing pictures in the folder "pictures". once on a PC laptop I lost all folder content from "pictures", which was a shock (still not sure how it happened), fortunately I did not store a lot of my own images there, mainly various pictures from the web, so it was bearable, yet still some research & inspirational material for different work was lost. so I personally would recommend rather creating a different folder.
One "gotcha" with Smart Collections is that if you do NOT specify some other criteria (such as Collection Name, Folder name (physical file folder on the drive), Smart Collections actaully apply to the entire catalog, regardless of where you actually place the Smart Collection within your collections. To me, this is not exactly intuitive, and CaptureOne does a batter job of "limiting the scope" of their Smart Collections (which are called Smart Albums in CaptureOne) to the Project level (a Project can be thought of as a Collection Set in Lightroom). This is a "flaw" in Lightroom Classic that I think Adobe needs to address as it makes using Smart Collections more difficult because if you want to find all of your pics in a particular folder on your computer, you have to specify the folder's name so that LRC can narrow down the smart collection's parameters.
Arron, I'm so bad at this organization. I often go click on photos in a collection and then go to develop and get the message that the file cannot be found. ? Is that because I moved them from the original storage space be it hard drive, ssd drive or whatever?
So, Import option doesn't physically import the images, right?
Deleting an image from catalog, also removes the file from my storage?
So collections are part of folders? Or are they the same?
Thanks heaps
I noticed you mentioned the meta data is to be placed at time of import. Can this be done after the fact? NEWBY
When I click on New Catalog I do not get a box to name the new catalog...???
Thanks for this video! I'm running into an issue when I move the HD folder to an external HD to back it up and remove from the computer HD. Once I go back into LR, I can't access any of the collection photos bc the directory path has changed. Should I just be storing on the image files on the external from the start every time I import? Thanks!
5th yay and it’s 5am wth and i doing with my life
Great tutorial. But hey now, Indianapolis is actually a very nice city. :-)
I have a question. I am getting ready to buy a new external hard drive to store all of my images on. Once bought, I will be transferring all of my images from their current drive over to that drive. Once I change their location to the new drive, will that affect Lightroom’s catalogs as far as when I reopen the image in LR, will LR put the previous edit on the image or will I have to re edit the image?
I have my photos saved on my LaCie SSD drive. When I choose a destination folder, do I simply choose the same folder I imported then from?