133 Answered Questions for the topic Adobe Lightroom

Adobe Lightroom Photography

11/22/24

How do I relocate my images in Lightroom once a folder is greyed out - because I moved that folder in my file system to a Hard Drive?
Hello! You may have experienced your Lightroom folders that you once had photos in greying out, and a little exclamation mark appearing that says something along the lines of "files not found".... more
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Adobe Lightroom Photography

09/22/24

Help Managing Data in Lightroom Classic Please!
Hi. I am a passionate amateur photographer focused on sports, wildlife and landscape photography. With thousands of images on my laptop, I have run out of capacity (2 TB drive) and can't import and... more
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Adobe Lightroom

09/06/24

How do I find my missing images after moving them to an external disk?
The images were all moved to a new USB external disk to gain more storage space. Now all the folders have question marks and all the images have exclamation marks and it won't allow them to be edited. more
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Adobe Lightroom Adobe Photoshop Macintosh

07/16/24

Are there any useful tips in using AI to quickly replace a background with your own files? AI does not seem to generate the same exact building as a replacement.
I am looking for a quick way to remove the background from a panoramic photo and replace it with another. The dilemma I have is that often replacing the background can be difficult to do because I... more
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Adobe Lightroom

03/09/24

I would like to learn Lightroom. I understand it's similar to Photoshop but more user friendly. I'm an 82 year old guy who is digitally and technologically slow. Can you help?
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Adobe Lightroom

10/08/22

Lightroom Migrate PC 2 Mac:Lost Folders/Photos
I can’t locate all my photos after trying to migrate catalog from Windows to new Mac. No standard Lightroom recovery procedures have worked to find missing photos/folders. Adobe Support could not... more
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Adobe Lightroom

07/08/22

focus stacking with Lightroom CC
I'm doing jewelry product photography using a Canon RP camera. I'd like to continue using Lightroom CC for processing and then store the images online. I can't find a technique that will enable me... more
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Adobe Lightroom Adobe Photoshop

03/13/22

Why does Lightroom keep losing my images?
If you have ever been frustrated opening up Lightroom and finding Question marks next to your folders or an exclamation point in your thumbnails with the message Folder or Image missing there is... more
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Adobe Lightroom Adobe Photoshop

03/10/22

Do I still need Photoshop if I have Lightroom?
Well, the short answer is Yes, but the longer answer is "It Depends". The recent updates to Lightroom have made it much more powerful for editing your images Photoshop is still needed for those... more
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Adobe Lightroom

01/09/22

Can an Online Tutor Help Me with Lightroom Catalog Problems?
I accidentally deleted my photos from LR (long story), so now I have an exclamation point on all of my photos (56,000 photos). Also, most photos are now blank (gray) whenever I open LR.I hired a... more
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Adobe Lightroom

08/25/20

How do I import metadata on photographs in a FilmMaker Pro catalogue to Adobe Lightroom?
I'm on a Mac, and want to import the information I have entered into a FileMaker Pro catalogue into the appropriate fils in Adobe Lightroom Classic.
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Adobe Lightroom Saving A Tif

07/06/19

How can I save a 'tif' and later access it in LR ?
I am an iMac person using LR Classic and have accumulated over 4,000 photos over the past 3+ years, and have ‘developed’ a substantial number of them. I know about exporting as a'tif' to preserve... more
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Adobe Lightroom Lightroom Macbook Import

06/30/19

How do you import the new OS X Photos app to Adobe Lightroom?
I recently purchased a new camera to start my photography hobby. I have an SD card that I put into my Macbook Pro, and was able to easily import pictures from it into Lightroom. This didn't work,... more
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Adobe Lightroom Lightroom Metadata Exiftool

06/30/19

Can I programatically manipulate Lightroom's "rejected" flag in images?
Can I use a tool like `exif2` or `exiftool` to programatically inspect and manipulate the flag used for "Rejected" in Lightroom? I can't find a field that seems to correspond to it. If not, is... more
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Adobe Lightroom Keywords Lightroom Metadata

06/29/19

How do I clean up keyword hierarchies in Lightroom?
I've been using Lightroom for a few years. At one point I kept keywords in a hierarchy, so I'd have something like:Animals > Birds > EaglesThis worked well, I could include the option to... more
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Adobe Lightroom Software Lightroom Bibble

06/28/19

How can I migrate my photos from Lightroom 3 to Bibble 5?
I used Lightroom for a while and edited some of my raw photos with it. Since Lightroom is non destructive the changes are not done to the raw images directly.While using Windows and Linux I looked... more
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06/27/19

How to copy all editing steps (not just settings) In Lightroom?
Is there a way to copy the editing steps from one image and paste them to another image in Lightroom, rather than simply copy/pasting the settings?I use a number of presets in Lightroom. When... more
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Adobe Lightroom Lightroom Lightroom 6

06/25/19

How do I downgrade a RAW photo to a JPEG in Lightroom?
Sometimes, I have photos which, instead of being kept in DNG format, could be converted to JPEG: - In museums, when I make a photo of artwork, I also take a photo of a label with the name of the... more
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Adobe Lightroom Lightroom Picasa Photo Editing

06/24/19

How to do the same crop on a batch of photos?
I've got a batch of photos (an owl coughing up a pellet in case you're curious). I want to make an animated GIF out of them, but the result would be improved if they were all given an identical... more
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Adobe Lightroom Software Lightroom Raw

06/22/19

How can I export reduced resolution RAW files from Lightroom?
I read that in Lightroom 4 is possible to export reduced resolution raw files.Does anybody know how to do it?
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Adobe Lightroom Lightroom Smart Collections

06/22/19

How do I create Lightroom smart collection containing all virtual copies?
I want to create a smart collection that contains all virtual copies that I've created. Is there any way to do this in Lightroom.
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Adobe Lightroom Lightroom

06/22/19

Lightroom mass undo last develop step?
Is there a way to do a mass undo in Lightroom's develop module? I'd prefer not to push arrow key and click on the last step for this many photos.The story, for those interested in face-palming: so... more
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Adobe Lightroom Lightroom Metadata Exiftool

06/22/19

How do I update Lightroom metadata after using ExifTool without wiping my edits?
I had to change the date/time of my photos to + 3.5 hours with ExifTool because Lightroom didn't allow me to input half an hour…I was using "exiftool -AllDates+=3.5" which is working nicely but... more
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Adobe Lightroom Network Software Lightroom

06/22/19

How can I speed up Lightroom when working with files on a NAS?
Are there any settings in Lightroom that help make the experience working with files stored on a NAS (and accessed over WiFi) any better?----------I know that the bottleneck is the speed of WiFi... more
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Adobe Lightroom Lightroom

06/21/19

Prevent Lightroom from creating duplicates if the edit in photoshop is not saved?
Quite often I choose to 'Edit in photoshop' from Lightroom but then end up not saving the result. (for example, because I just wanted to experiment with the photo, or I'm not satisfied with the... more
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