Comments on: A look back at Lightroom in 2007

By: Clyde Hill

Clyde Hill — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:24:47 +0000

best article i have read in a while.

By: bush

bush — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:38:44 +0000

By: Doug B

Doug B — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:34:35 +0000

Matt…On a recent Monday Preset exchange, I noticed after installing your preset (Nostalgia) that it mixes with other presets once chosen. Where-as the standard presets, once chosen will change with each preset. Is there a function associated with this to allow the preset, once chosen, to mix with others without a virtual copy being made? I hope this is explained well enough.
Thanks

By: Richard H

Richard H — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:47:29 +0000

Matt, I have a question like Kevin B above:

I just started going through all of my images over the past years. They won’t all fit on my Macbook Pro so I decided I should link to the images on my server instead. Then I was planning on exporting any keepers to a folder on my MBP so I could have them with me all the time and track them in a separate Library.

So, I created a new Library and re-linked all of my images. But now I’ve lost all of my LR edits to the file.

Is there any way that I can transfer the processing transactions for any images with edits from one Library to another? If I export an image and have another LR Library auto-import the images, is there a way I can keep the Developer settings in those files too??

Great blog, glad I found it. THANKS.

Rich

By: Ralph Tomaccio

Ralph Tomaccio — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:37:45 +0000

Kevin,

I believe all you have to do is move all your folders of images to the new drive. Lightroom will then display a “?” in each thumbnail for the images moved. Just click on that “?” and direct Lightroom to the new location.

Ralph

By: Kevin B

Kevin B — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:50:10 +0000

Killer TIps Topic???
I want to store my large collection of photos on another hard drive. I have done lots of Lightroom “developing” on those photos. How do I transfer the photos with their “developer” settings in Lightroom?

By: Rick B

Rick B — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:33:49 +0000

Matt,

Great Lightroom Videos! I’ve managed to watch them all over the last few days and I’m becoming a big fan of LR. I have a couple of questions:

1. When importing photos into LR how can you break up the photos if you want to separate them into different folders? If you have two different shoots on the memory card at that time, for example.

2. What’s the difference, as far as LR is concerned, between organizing photos into folders, shoots, and collections? To me, they all seem to be essentially the same thing without any real advantage to using one over the others.

By: Ralph Tomaccio

Ralph Tomaccio — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:13:09 +0000

Hi Matt,

I have developed an article that details a technique on how to use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom effectively as basic Archiving software. It is illustrated with screen shots for all the important steps.

Could you email me as to whom it should be sent to for consideration as an article for the Photoshop User magazine.

Thank you!

By: Amit

Amit — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:02:34 +0000

Good post Matt and a Happy New Year. Lightroom has made photography fun. Aperture isn’t all that and I relied heavily on Capture 1 for many years and DxO but Lightroom truly saves me miles of time and is fun too work with. Now if only Apple Laptops came with Terrabytes of HD Wishful thinking but maybe in the future.

I was one of those early adopters of Lightroom alpha and then beta but went away from it back to Capture 1 as I was too comfortable with it(Capture 1). But since the time I have been using non-beta Lightroom(March 2007) there has been no turning back!! Happy New Year!

By: mattk

mattk — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:30:32 +0000

Hi Rogier,
The best place for questions and tips is right here. That way, if I don’t get to answer a question at least you have a bunch of other folks that may be able to jump in and help.

Thanks,
Matt