Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is one of several professional level photo editing and management tools. It is commonly compared to Apple Aperture.
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Just upgraded to a newer version of Photoshop, how do I get Lightroom to recognize it?
I had PS5.1 when I installed LR4 and now I have CS6, but LR4 still opens everything in CS5.1. How do I make it open everything in CS6?
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What metadata editor is capable of overwriting originals?
Photography workflows seem to be oblivious to version control systems like git. Instead iPhoto and Lightroom seem to expect you to keep multiple copies of edited/catalogued images.
I simply want to ...
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How should I optimize photos for a web portfolio?
Can you give me tips on work flow in post processing? I am fresh on the web and am trying to put my best work out there but when it appears on my website, it looks like crap. How do I export the files ...
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Does reducing Lightroom export file size reduce image quality?
Sometimes I reduced the file sizes of my jpeg images for faster uploading to the web.
Does this reduce the image quality?
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How to globally fix missing files in Adobe Lightroom?
I had to reinstall my OS, backing up and moving folders around, and now my library has thousands of missing items.
How can I automate the location process for all of them? The software will locate ...
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Is Lightroom Auto Tone very dodgy?
I don't know if it is just my taste, or is lightroom's auto levels like rolling a dice? Sometimes is makes subtle adjustments that do improve the visibility of highs and lows, but 50% of the time is ...
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Reorganizing After Import In Lightroom
When I import into LR I get a lot of options about how I want the imported photos to be put into folders in the destination. Is there someway I can access that flexibility when moving photos that ...
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How to prevent Lightroom's preview folder from growing large?
I'm currently transferring my Lightroom catalog from my laptop to my new desktop PC. I decided to copy both the catalog file itself and the preview files (folder Lightroom 3 Catalog Previews.lrdata). ...
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How were these portrait photos edited to get this look?
3 photos, and I realize perhaps 3 different techniques, but all of them are producing some sort of "unreal" look I don't know how to describe and a skin texture in the 3rd photo (how3.jpg) that I ...
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Is GPU or CPU more important for Photoshop and Lightroom?
I'm looking to buy a laptop (for a spare) and I'm not ready to spend the amount I did on my first one. The machine will only be used for photo editing. Should I go for the dedicated graphics card or ...
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Best way to move photos to another drive (Lightroom)?
My wife uses Lightroom for her Photography business. Her main drive is filling up and I installed another drive into our Mac Pro to be used as an archive. She has groups of files (Weddings, since ...
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What's the difference between using RAW or JPG with After Effects?
I am making some timelapse videos. And I have around 1500 photos in RAW format. I did some adjustoments in Lightroom and then imported these RAW files to After Effects. But After Effects processed ...
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How best to manage multiple virtual copies of an image in Lightroom?
in the process of improving a photo, I often end up with lots of virtual copies (eg. I apply some basic adjustments, then create 3 copies to experiment with, then choose one of these and create a few ...
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Lightroom Tethering and EOS Utility: How to get LR to accept sub-folders in auto-import?
I use EOS Utility when tethering, but all photos end up in Lightroom, and I like auto-importing into LR as I shoot. So I use auto-import in LR, combined with a Monitor Folder provided by EOS Utility. ...
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How do you make Lightroom 4 create virtual copies in same collection as master?
I tend to organize my photos in LR in collections, and organize them on disk based on a hierarchical date structure. When I'm browsing in the collections and make a virtual copy of a file, it does not ...
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SmugMug pixelation in dark parts of jpg from lightroom
I'm new to Lightroom and new to SmugMug, so I'm hoping someone can help me out.
I have this set of photos I took of a sunset, shot in jpg, edited in Lightroom to my liking and then published via the ...
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How does Darktable compare to Adobe Lightroom for editing JPEGs?
I mostly modify JPG images taken from my Nikon camera. How does Darktable compare to Adobe Lightroom for this purpose?
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Emulating Film Black and White in Digital: From Pictures to Print
I want to have that "feel" of black and white film with my digital photos. Would the Lightroom filters be enough?
I mean, if this is done with digital, can I make it so that somehow Adobe Lightroom ...
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How do I update a Lightroom Catalog? (not just the meta data)
How can I refresh a LightRoom catalogue (i.e. re-read all files) to reflect changes I made to existing photographs?
Synchronizing folders works for meta-data but it does NOT pick up changes made to ...
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Imported photos have much better saturation before Lightroom completes “loading” [duplicate]
I have just imported photos from my Canon EOS 650D (Rebel T4i) into Lightroom 4.3 with Camera Raw 7.3. When I open any newly imported photo in Loupe View (Fit mode), Lightroom starts loading ...
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Change all Image folders in Lightroom 4.3 at once
In my last catalog my photos directory was //192.0.2.77/Photos
After re-installing Lightroom 4.3 some time later that has changed to //SERVER/Photos
How can I change all sub-folder directories at ...
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Why are there some colours missing in Lightroom Split Toning selection tool?
The Split Toning selection tool in Lightroom does not have some colours like gray, brown, black etc... for both highlights and shadows.
Is there a specific reason for this?
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Lightroom: print or export for online printing of specific aspect ratios
Which is better?
Use the Develop module to crop an image to a specific ratio and then export it to a JPEG
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use the Print Module and print them to a JPG with a specific page size (aspect ratio)?
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Do I need Photoshop installed to use Lightroom?
Do I need to have Photoshop installed to work with Lightroom? Or is Lightroom totally independent of Photoshop? Thank you.
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How to export to a pre-named folder in Lightroom
I would like to configure an export setting in Lightroom so that it writes to a folder of the same name as the original folder, but in a different location (without re-typing the name of the folder ...
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How can I import Pentax lens information into Lightroom?
I'm trying to get up to speed with Lightroom, and noticed that there are no Pentax lenses listed under the Lens Corrections menus.
Is it possible to import the pentax lens information, even if I'm ...
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Lightroom to export list of path-filenames of selected images for external processing
In Lightroom 3.6 I am trying to produce (export) a list of selected files to be processed externally in another application. I do NOT want to export the images.
I am seeking a list that produces the ...
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Resources for Lighroom 4 Presets [duplicate]
Is there anything worth online about LR4 presets (for RAW images), other than the ones provided by LR itself? I would appreciate if someone could provide good references/websites.
I normally do it ...
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How to bulk convert Lossless DNGs to Lossy DNG outside Lightroom?
I like the new option of "Lossy DNG" to save some disk space on some of my files. Now I want to convert a part of my existing Lossless DNGs to Lossy DNGs. Lightroom can do that for a couple, but It ...
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Organizing and moving photos from one device to another [Lightroom 4 and Apple devices]
I am using Time Capsule to store my photos. The catalogs folder is on my laptop because LR4 cannot store catalogs on remote drives.
Suppose I transfer the photos to another drive, or I change laptop, ...
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Can Lightroom 4 user export presets automatically increment sequence number?
I would like to be able to set up a preset that will export a file to a given directory with a specific name, and append a sequence number that increments on each export, so for example the first ...
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How do I sort digital photos and scans together in Lightroom 4?
I have many images captured with a digital camera and many that I've scanned from negatives and stills. I use the Edit Capture Date... option to set the capture time of the scan. However, when I sort ...
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Is there a people/face recognition filter for Lightroom? [duplicate]
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Is there any plugin for Lightroom that enables face recognition?
Is there a filter that recognises people for Lightroom? It would be useful for a first level filtering ...
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Does JPEG-to-JPEG export Lightroom reapply compression?
I want to crop a JPEG file in Lightroom and export that cropped file to another JPEG so that I can e-mail it. The exported JPEG should have the same quality as the original.
I don't have the RAW file ...
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Lightroom 4 import customization - filename and path
I want my photos to be stored like this
YYYY/YYYY-MM-DD_Name_of_shooting/YYYY-MM-DD_Name_of_shooting_001.nef
(The date is the date of shooting)
Is it possible to setup LR 4 in the way that ...
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Tethered shooting with Sony a57 - impossible?
I have a Sony a57 and today I tried to set it up with a tethered capture in Lightroom. Lightroom couldn't even see the camera. Is there any way to get this working, or are they just not compatible?
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Printing photos to a specific size
I have a Mac and Lightroom 4 and a full frame camera Nikon D700
Wishing to upload a photo to my lab for a photo to be printed at 10 x 8
Using Lightroom what should the aspect ratio be.
Do I choose ...
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In Lightroom, how do I search for photos which match only a certain keyword?
How do I get Lightroom to return photos that contain a single word I search for?
Example:
I have pictures that I have keyworded with two names, Max and Maddie. I have pictures of Max on his own ...
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How should I categorise my photos in Lightroom?
I am using Eric Scouten's method here: http://ericscouten.com/2012/03/05/lightroom-technique-how-i-organize-my-catalog-and-why-2012-edition/
but I am finding that although his color label presets are ...
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I'm a Designer and Programmer who wants to create some software for photographers [closed]
I've been wanting to use my skills to do some sort of service for Photographers for a while now and thought I'd finally ask.
My initial idea was to create a service that would let you create a ...
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How can I manage a Lightroom catalogue across 2 systems without networking?
I have just purchased Lightroom 4, and taking advantage of Adobe's enlightened two system licensing policy, I have it installed on a laptop and desktop PC. I take the laptop with me on trips and often ...
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How to properly deal with lens distortion in Sony NEX RAW files?
I have a Sony NEX6 camera and when using the 16-50 kit lens the photos shot in RAW has a lot of distortions. You either have to let the camera correct it using jpeg or you are expected to use Sony's ...
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Does Lightroom automatically save the date of printing events, or just the date a print is saved?
I am trying to discover best way to keep track of printing from Lightroom rather than from printer data.
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How to add keywords to lightroom from a textfile (after import)?
I have a fairly large (20,000 photos) catalog. I'm trying to add keywords from the exif data that lightroom doesn't read, for instance any effects (like "pop color") applied to the photo.
Using ...
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Can Lightroom detect corrupted images?
Can Lightroom detect all sorts of corrupted images? I.e. make a smart collection where these are collected. I know that some corrupted images often are displayed as missing, and can be found ...
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Why does Lightroom import into the wrong days folder when sorting by date?
I am importing photos into lightroom (4.3) into date-organized images. I live in +8 timezone. My computer and my cameras are setup correctly (AFAIK).
However, Lightroom consistently imports my images ...
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Is there any SDK to build tethering plugins to import files into Lightroom?
Lightroom by default comes up with Canon Tether plugin. Does it provide any SDK, using which we can build our own tether plugin that selectively takes files from an external source (server/folder)?
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Rename files in Lightroom during export
When exporting my images from Lightroom, I want to rename them, based upon the image name and its mapping in a CSV file. Ideally, I would want something like this:
When the user after editing goes ...
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What is the behavior of thumbnails in Lightroom?
In order to update all my thumbnails I rendered standard sized previews for all my pictures overnight, having read somewhere that this was the asiest way.
But to my surprise, there are still ...
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Converting / re-compressing select photos in Lightroom
As my Lightroom catalog grows ther eare some photographs I would like to preserve, but where I don't need all the editing latitude offered by RAW.
I know I can convert them to DNG, but are there ...
