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    Backing up MBP

    That’s correct…the saying in IT is “RAID is not a backup” because any mistakes (and deletions) are copied as soon as possible to the redundant volumes, because that’s the point of a RAID: Redundant copies of the very latest changes, but even the wrong changes. If you were looking at a 16TB RAID...
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    Export Exporting to Send off for Printing

    Just so we know what it’s starting from, when EXIF information is visible in the Metadata panel in Lightroom Classic, what values does it show in the Dimensions and Cropped fields?
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    System Requirements for Lightroom Classic

    If you are budget constrained, two things might be negotiable. The level of GPU you get currently depends in large part on how much you want to get into AI features, especially AI Denoise. A lot of affordable discrete GPUs are fine for general Lightroom Classic photo processing, but for example...
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    Library module Quick key for sorting in Custom Order

    The reason for the wrong sort order is that the metadata for file creation date (a computer OS thing) is different than the metadata for Capture Time (which I think is Date Time Original in EXIF metadata, written by digital cameras). Scans typically don’t have Date Time Original metadata because...
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    Develop module Masking ?

    Could it be that the non-mask curve (Tone Curve panel) was edited by mistake? When a mask is active, the Tone Curve panel (dark gray background) and the Curve panel in the mask controls (lighter gray background closer to the top) are both available in the same panel stack.
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    Map module Saved map location to travel with external drive

    Just to make sure we’re not missing something…when you say you store the photos on an external drive and you travel with the drive and the laptop, does that mean… A) The Lightroom Classic catalog on the desktop is copied to the external hard drive and that is what you look at when you travel...
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    understanding differences in image MP shooting Lightroom mobile camera vs native iPhone camera

    This is not easy to understand. There are a lot of subtle factors that affect exactly what resolution you get from the camera in a current iPhone. I still don’t have a complete handle on it myself, I have to keep referring to articles on the web like this one: iPhone 15 Pro vs iPhone 15: Tested...
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    Export originals to an external

    In Lightroom, select one or more images. Tap the Share icon, and in the menu that appears, tap Export As. (The other commands do not offer raw as a choice, only rendered with edits.) In the Export As dialog box, for File Type tap Original if you want the original raw with no edits, or tap DNG if...
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    Import iPhone to Lightroom cc on computer

    If you don't want to use the Lightroom cloud sync option, use a USB cable to connect the iPhone to the Mac where you have your Lightroom Classic catalog. When you open Lightroom Classic and import, the iPhone should appear as one of the local import sources, as if you had connected a camera or...
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    Metadata Profile

    Maybe you were thinking of the ability to import Lightroom Classic Develop presets into cloud Lightroom, and select one to be the default import preset in cloud Lightroom apps? That’s been available for a while. But definitely different than a metadata preset.
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    Metadata Profile

    I don’t think that’s possible. The Lightroom Classic Import options apply only to the local sources that you can select in that dialog box, not any cloud sources. For images synced in from any of the cloud Lightroom clients, I think the only copyright metadata option provided for import is the...
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    SmugMug plugin no longer working

    (Oops…edited because I originally wrote this from looking at the Publish settings, not the Publishing Manager!) The plug-in automatically exports a copy of every image in that collection (which can be raw, TIFF, PSD…) into the file format set in the Publishing Manager (you should typically use...
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    Import from catalog vs export from catalog and then import

    Both are correct, and for (b) it just saves a step to not have to export the catalog. But, sometimes it’s easier to export a selection from the source catalog rather than trying to precisely select from the Import From Another Catalog dialog box.
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    Turn off Cloud

    If you have Photoshop 6.0, it’s 24 years old. If you have Photoshop CS6 (Photoshop 13), it’s 12 years old. Photoshop 22 is about 3 years old, with a long list of changes from the versions above. If you want to get a sense of what’s changed, you can review the Photoshop version history at...
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    Export as CMYK

    It’s weirder than that: Lightroom Classic cannot list CMYK profiles for soft-proofing, or export in CMYK…but Adobe Camera Raw can. And that leads to a potential workaround: In Lightroom Classic, switch to the Library module. Select all of the images you want to convert. Choose Metadata > Save...
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    On-demand Zine printing and delivery?

    You do want to choose the print-on-demand service carefully to match your requirements and budget. For example, I might be wrong but I think Kindle Direct Publishing is more for books that are mostly text, like novels. For photo books, there is a range starting from the consumer budget end...
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    Apple Photos on new M3

    If what you want is for Photos to work a little more like Lightroom Classic, there are still some things that can move you in that direction. Mostly about using Photos in Referenced Files mode, not its native mode of copying photos into the Photos library. The reason you might want to do this...
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    Key word entry triggers hot keys

    You are not dreaming. I have seen it myself. You are not doing anything wrong. It isn’t your fault. This is a known issue, which has been discussed on this forum and on the Lightroom Classic forum run by Adobe. What is happening is that for some reason, after typing one character into the...
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    iPhone 15 pro HDR photos in lightroom

    If editing in Lightroom on the iPhone/iPad, in the Light section, scroll all the way to the bottom. It’s a two-part thing: Enable Preview for SDR Display, then if you don’t like the SDR preview, tap SDR settings and adjust. The SDR settings don’t replace or affect the HDR edit settings but are...
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    MacBook Pro required for Lightroom Classic and Photoshop question...

    For Lightroom Classic and Photoshop, any M2/M3 Pro or Max is a great choice, given enough unified memory (aim for 24GB or more) and storage. M1 is just starting to fall behind, but still quite competent and so an M1 Max or Ultra is also OK. I am on M1 Pro, with no plans to upgrade because it...
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    Calibrate External Monitor

    Yes, that should be true for practically all computers today. I say it that way because years ago, if a computer had an older graphics card, it might only support one display profile for all displays connected to the card, and that would be a problem. But I am under the impression that today...
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    Calibrate External Monitor

    Yes, if your external display panel covers Adobe RGB and you calibrate it to that (or at least generate a profile for it), then any properly color-managed application including Lightroom Classic will be able to use the display’s full color space. I do this myself…my main display is a 27" Adobe...
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    Lightroom interface too small on high resolution display

    If the Mac Studio is running a current version of macOS, the Displays settings should offer multiple scaled resolutions. If you do not see the resolution you want, enable Show All Resolutions. Pick one that is somewhat higher than your current setting. (My example is not a 4K display, so the...
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    iPhone 15 Pro and editing in Lightroom

    A lot of options have been covered in this thread, and from your responses I can see where you are coming from and what your question actually is, and the answer is, yes. You can do exactly what you described. You can avoid the cloud. It sounds like maybe you haven’t used an iPhone before, but...
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    Print module page setup paper sizes missing

    Hmmm…somebody just posted a very similar report in the Adobe community for Lightroom Classic: https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/print-module-list-of-page-sizes-doesn-t-update/td-p/14484940 Wonder if something is going on with the printer driver, macOS 14, or Lightroom...
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