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Reset Your Preferences File In Lightroom 6

Reset Your #Lightroom Preferences File in Lightroom 6 #tutorial #troubleshooting #photography

Upgrades can be tricky. While Adobe has probably tested the upgrade process literally a million times, it’s impossible to account for every different configuration and setup that exist in the wild. So, occasionally, there is a hiccup…a glitch in the Matrix…and a rouge bit gets flipped on a disk and the result is a corrupted file. If that file happens to be your Lightroom preferences file, you may…

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How To Automatically Launch Lightroom By Inserting A Media Card

How To Automatically Launch #Lightroom On A #Mac By Inserting A Media Card #photography #tutorial

The act of getting my images from camera in to Lightroom can be a laborious process, especially after a long day of taking pictures. It starts by opening the side door on my camera to eject the memory card. Then I need to carry the card over to my computer, reach over my desk and feel around the back of my computer and use my fingers to find the card slot and hope that I’m inserting the card with…

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Using Lightroom Smart Collections to Organize HDRs

Follow Up - Using #Lightroom Smart Collections to Organize HDRs - #Photomatix Edition #photography

Nicole Young (@nicolesy) wrote a great post over at Photofocus last week that showed how to leverage Smart Collections to organize your HDR-merge and Pano-merge images. This week, I wanted to follow-up on that post with a slight variation for those of us that use Photomatix for our HDR work instead of the Lightroom HDR merge.

Not using Photomatix for HDR? You can download a free trail of…

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Lightroom Stores Facial Recognition Data In XMP Files

Lightroom Stores Facial Recognition Data In #XMP Files #lightroom #photography

As I mentioned in my previous post, I’m dedicating some time to dive in to Lightroom’s facial recognition feature. Initially, I wasn’t having a lot of luck actually using the feature itself, so I branched out a bit to do some tangential exploration.

This week, I wanted to pass along the note that Lightroom stores the facial recognition regions and names in the XMP sidecar files. If you are…

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My First Failed Attempt At Exploring Lightroom's Facial Recognition

My First Failed Attempt At Exploring Lightroom's Facial Recognition #photography #lightroom #rant

If you follow me on Twitter (which you totally should), you already know that I was…underwhelmed…by the new features released in Lightroom 6. I was already happy with my Photomatixworkflow for HDR, and the features and control available with Photomatix dwarf what is included with the HDR-merge feature of Lightroom. Then there is facial recognition…something I dabbled with in iPhoto and Aperture…

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Multiple Computer Lightroom Workflow Using Catalog Export

Starting my #Lightroom workflow from another computer / Multiple Computer Lightroom Workflow #photography

Spring is here! Unless you live in Colorado or North Dakota where it’s still snowing, it’s time to be outside!

After breaking my hibernation, I noticed a flaw with my Lightroom mobile and Smart Previewworkflows, and that is that the starting point for both is still on my desktop computer. But my desktop computer is inside our apartment, and I want to be outside in the park, doing artsy stuff next…

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New Camera? Update The Camera Profiles In Your Lightroom Presets

New Camera? Update The Camera Profiles In Your #Lightroom Presets #photography

If you follow me on twitter, you know that I recently picked up another camera, the [easyazon_link identifier=”B00NF6ZGY6″ locale=”US” tag=”lightfanat-20″]Fujifilm X100T[/easyazon_link].  The X100T is my first new camera in years. It’s been so long since I’ve used a different camera in Lightroom, in fact, that I had forgotten that my standard develop preset included a camera profile for my other…

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Big Lightroom Catalog? Make Sure Backblaze Is Backing It Up!

Big #Lightroom Catalog? Make Sure @Backblaze Is Backing It Up! #photography #workflow

As Lightroom has continued to mature, it’s now possible to have very large catalogs without sacrificing stability. As you add more images, though, the file size of the catalog grows exponentially since Lightroom stores not only the edits made to each image but the history and metadata, as well. I’ve talked to some photographers that are using catalogs that are more than 4 GB big.

As your catalog…

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Excluding Lightroom Previews and Smart Previews From Your Backblaze Backup

Excluding #Lightroom Previews and Smart Previews From Your @Backblaze Backup #photography #workflow

I was asked an question by Matt on Twitter about backing up my Lightroom Smart Previews with Backblaze. Matt tweeted:

Nice mobile wkflw. How do you exclude Smart Previews from backing up to Backblaze? Aren’t’ SP baked into respective catalogs?

Where I think Matt was going with his question was that the Smart Previewfile can get pretty big and, especially with the initial backup, can slow down the…

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How To Find Your TIFF (or PSD) Files In Your Lightroom Catalog

How To Find Your TIFF (or PSD) Files In Your Lightroom Catalog

Sometimes when I’m sending files to Photomatix or to Photoshop from Lightroom, I create an intermediary TIFF file. That was especially true running an older version of Photoshop where I couldn’t send a raw or Photoshop file.

Normally, I’m very tidy and I clean up after myself, but occasionally files get stranded or are missed in the cleanup process, so I wanted to come up with a way to find those…

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The Difference Between Flow And Density In Lightroom

The Difference Between Flow And Density In #Lightroom #photography #workflow

Previously, I posted an explanation of the different sliders available with the adjustment brush. I’ve had a few questions come in asking for more clarification about the difference between the flow and density sliders in Lightroom so, in this post, I’ll talk about each more in depth.

Flow

Flow, as it sounds, controls the speed at which the adjustment is applied to your image when painting with…

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Expanding On The One Catalog Idea In A Mobile Workflow

Expanding on @ScottKelby "One Catalog" post last week #Lightroom #workflow #photography

Last week, Scott Kelby wrote a post in his “10 Things I Would Tell New Lightroom Users” series in which he recommends to new Lightroom users that they stick to using one catalog.

I remember, not that long ago, when the Adobe forums were full of people suggesting that your Lightroom catalog should not have more than a few tens of thousands of images or risk the ire of the angry Lightroom gods.…

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