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Before you had Lightroom or any other digital asset management tool, the only reasonable way to find your photos was to have a folder structure that allowed you to find things.
Now that you have Lightroom, I urge you to challenge the assumption that you need to have any particular folder...
This is the key point. You can find your photos easily. If you want to find them by year or year/month or year/month/day, you can do that in Lightroom as well. Moving the folders from here to there adds nothing to your ability to find your photos. So, why are you contemplating a task that adds...
Keywords are metadata.
You use whatever combination works for you, to help you in your future searches. To answer your specific question, I geotag my photos using a freeware application called GeoSetter, so this fills in the state, city and sublocation field. You can keyword any way that is...
Well there's the problem. You probably don't want to have the Image Sizing box checked, just let Lightroom export the entire image, un-resized. This gives your exported photo all the pixels that are available in your image.
In the future, you probably don't want to export at 72 ppi for printing...
Actually, the Export dialog has an image sizing section, which you don't show. You need to scroll down in the Export dialog box. I'm guessing the problem is in there.
I didn't want to see the original photos, I wanted to know their size, in pixels, before export, and after export.
Follow-up ... a week later, I discover that all of my Publish Service collections (using Jeffrey Friedl's Flickr plug-in) now show every single photo as needing to be re-published. While I don't know exactly if this is a result of recovering from my computer crash, I suspect it is. Nevertheless...
Give us an example. Give us the size in pixels of one of these photos after cropping, the size in pixels of your exported photo, and your export dialog box settings. The most likely problem is that you have (accidentally) told Lightroom to make your exported photo very small; there are several...
Lightroom never changes your images, so the answer is: NO
By the way, I disagree with your statement "when JPEGs are rotated in software, there will be image degradation". Rotating a JPG does not, by itself, cause image degradation. It is the saving of a JPG file, whether rotated or not, that...
XMP will never contain all Lightroom work done on this photo. If, by "settings" you mean the final position of the sliders in the develop module, then xmp will contain this information. If you mean the sequence of steps you performed in the Develop module, that will never be written to xmp.
If...
"Set"?? Does this mean publish collection or smart publish collection?
Where exactly are you looking that you call your Lr "photostream"? Is this the grid? Is this with a collection selected? Or do you have "All Photographs" selected? Do you have filters turned on?
No, the synchronization is between the Flickr filename and folder location, and your original filename/file path.
If you use Jeffrey Friedl's Flickr plug-in, you can assign titles, captions and keywords in Lightroom, and have them show up in the expected place in Flickr (plus any GPS location...
Three times in recent months, my entire computer has crashed (blue screen) while I was working in Lightroom.
My question is about how to recover my preferences in Lightroom after I re-boot the computer? I know that to make the catalog work you need to delete the lrcat.lock file. Each time I do...
I'm sure people do that, but its not something I would recommend. In addition to it being redundant, if your brain works like mine, as the years go by, you will not be able to remember the year your photos were taken. I can remember the photos I took in 2011, and some (most) of the photos I took...
If you need to have the people identified, left to right (or right to left), then caption is a good choice. There is no way that keywords can indicate position in a photo. I add that people that are in a small number of photos probably don't deserve a keyword. I only use keywords for people that...
The mental and physical effort of adding keywords does not change given the two different file structures you mention. Someone could very easily take a jumbled file structure and add a coherent and well-thought out set of keywords to those photos, and then never have to look at the file...
At the risk of belaboring the obvious point here, I spoke of strategy and tactics and benefits of keywords. You left that word benefits out. If there weren't benefits, then we wouldn't be having this discussion, and there would be no need for strategy and tactics. Sadly, I have had discussions...
I'm sure I would enjoy (and agree with) this book.
Observation: many times people ask for a good Lightroom book, and the usual names are mentioned and debated. Yet, The DAM Book is almost never mentioned in this context. I guess that's because it isn't really a book about Lightroom (although...
Jeff, I haven't read that part of Victoria's book, but in another thread you defended Kelby's book's coverage of keywords, after I criticized Kelby's book. Yes, everyone covers the MECHANICS of adding keywords. That wasn't my criticism of Kelby at all. Of course he shows you how to assign...
Either using the Filter Bar, or a smart collection, you can search for only photos that have BOTH keywords "John" and "Birthday", and you won't get photos of Megan's birthday, because those photos would not meet the search criteria.
You can create a keyword "California Trip 2011" — and also...
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