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Where can I find Lightroom database documentation?
I am sure there is no official documentation - Adobe does not really want us poking around in there. Having said that there are a few blog posts with information around the contents of the catalogue ...
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Workflow for third party to tag my Lightroom photos
One possible solution is to export the images to be tagged as a new catalog, send the catalog and images to your VA (or share via some cloud option), have the VA tag them, and then re-import them into ...
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How to make Lightroom accept metadata added to photos externally?
If you change the LR settings to save your edits into sidecar files (which is a good idea anyway), they will not get lost.
You remove the file from LR catalog, then
add it back; LR will read the new ...
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How to make Lightroom accept metadata added to photos externally?
The Save Metadata to Files / Read Metadata from File functions will do what you require.
Lightroom provides a facility for writing library metadata out to XMP files alongside the original images, so ...
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How to best keep Lightroom catalog backups?
Hence what is the best way to organise catalogs and the relative photos in order to easily being able to work on them when needed?
For the Lightroom catalog, set a backup to a Network Storage ...
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is there a catalogue in lightroom of all photos that can be used for migration?
one method could be -
Create a new catalog pointing to all your photos, if you have one main parent folder, just import it. This will be the catalog of all your photos.
You can then copy the catalog ...
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Folder-Organising Photos already Imported and Edited in Lightroom
There are a few things you can do to sort out your photos. To preserve as much work as possible, do everything inside of Lightroom, so you won't waste time exporting and then reimporting again your ...
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Folder-Organising Photos already Imported and Edited in Lightroom
Create a folder in Lightroom, then simply drag them in Lightroom to the new folder. Lightroom will move them on disk and keep the edits.
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Folder-Organising Photos already Imported and Edited in Lightroom
For a few photos, it's certainly viable to do this manually in LR, but if you have to organize some hundred picture, it's easier and faster to let the computer do what it's best for, ie. automate ...
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What is a good alternative to Adobe Lightroom on macOS?
May I suggest RawTherapee?
Darktable in my opinion has very poor noise reduction algorithms. The best of them makes the picture very painting-like if taken using a high ISO level.
RawTherapee ...
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How can I share and edit images in my library across multiple devices with Lightroom Classic CC 2019?
Lightroom Classic CC uses a SQLite database called ‘the catalogue’ to store references to all images, metadata and edits. This database is meant to be used on one computer at a time.
To overcome ...
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Where are Adobe Lightroom (not Classic) edits stored?
In Lightroom edits can be stored on two different places:
In specific LR database, named Catalog. Here you will find all the changes, history of edits, created duplicated, etc. on images.
Another ...
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Sync Smart Preview of Master Catalog
Lightroom Classic CC is already behaving that way. A few important things to note:
You can only ever set up one catalogue to sync with Lightroom CC
It won't sync the full catalogue, you need to ...
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How ignore video when import media to Lightroom (not uncheck every time, full ignored)
I believe that's the only way right now, until Adobe adds an option in the future to auto ignore video files.
It takes a second using the option/alt key, can understand why it was never really ...
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What is a good alternative to Adobe Lightroom on macOS?
I prefer to use Capture One. I find the catalog feature is better than Lightroom. It is also a bit faster, and you can work with layers in Capture One, which Lightroom.
The focus mask tool and loupe ...
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How to handle RAW file storage across devices in Lightroom?
One YouTube video suggested storing the Lightroom catalog itself on Dropbox (or Creative Cloud), but this doesn't work for me, because the RAW files are not located in the same folder between my PC ...
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Where can I find Lightroom database documentation?
Looking for such information recently myself I found a few websites providing Lightroom database information:
Lightroom Unofficial Database Table Reference
Dive into Lightroom catalogues
LRcat format
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Where can I find Lightroom database documentation?
Here are some Python bindings to the database published by a user:
https://github.com/bzimmer/openroom
Tables are modeled in the openroom/model.py file, including some foreign keys. For example, the ...
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Recovery of LightRoom library following file system corruption
Ok. I managed to sort my way out.
Following some reverse engineering and trial and error I managed to use Python (which I had absolutely no knowledge of before I started) and data mine the LightRoom ...
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problem while importing a lightroom 5 catalog in lightroom CC(6)
Generally speaking you do not want to "import" your catalog when moving to a new computer with also having a new version of lightroom, but follow a series of steps to ensure everything is preserved ...
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How can I make Lightroom always backup on exit without the dialog asking everytime?
Short answer: You can't.
Setting an option like this is also not a very good idea for the following reason: Catalog Backup in Lightroom also means "Optimizing" the catalog for faster access on future ...
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Lightroom to show images of particular resolution
I think you can find your answer in aftermarket plugins. Jeffrey Friedl has been writing plugins for a long time, and has one called a Data Explorer which may be worth a try. It lets you filter based ...
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Lightroom to show images of particular resolution
There is presently no metadata filter in Lightroom that looks at image dimensions. Below is what is currently available. Aspect Ratio only considers the relation ...
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Lightroom adjustment/cleanup of settings for historically imported pictures
If you have identified the 2000 images that you want to keep intact among your 80 000, the following steps will do the trick:
Create a new catalog (if you want/need to);
Import the 78 000 images in ...
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How did Lightroom automatically find location of files after moving to a different partition?
It sounds like Lightroom uses a relative path to the files in order to retrieve them. The path will be relative to the catalogue location. Eg, if the catalogue is ...
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How to make Lightroom accept metadata added to photos externally?
For Geotagging specifically, if you first add the geotags, then import into LR, LR will retain the data and incorporate it. If you attempt to change the data after importing, LR tends to complain.
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How to make Lightroom accept metadata added to photos externally?
Can't you do this via LR-5's Map module?
Click "Map" , then in the footer bar of the map module: click the icon with the zig-zag line, then click "Load Tracklog", Load your GPX file, correct any time-...
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How to make Lightroom accept metadata added to photos externally?
I don't know a direct way to do so.
You can look at Jeffrey Friedl's tools, maybe some might help you : http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies.
If you like your code, take a look at the SDK guide ...
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What is the recommended workflow for syncing a large Lightroom catalog with Dropbox?
It sounds like what you want is to be able to use lightroom and your images on different machines and have them sync by having all of your image files on an external drive and your Lightroom catalog ...
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