133 Answered Questions for the topic Adobe Lightroom
How can I turn off Lightroom's backup notice?
I only use Lightroom for photo manipulation — I don't want or need the catalog feature. Nonetheless, Lightroom repeatedly pesters me with messages asking me to back the catalog up.How do I disable...
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Adobe Lightroom
05/14/19
Can I set Lightroom's white balance picker tool to choose a supposedly white/black spot instead of neutral grey?
I'm correcting white balance issues in **Adobe Lightroom 3**. The `white balance picker tool` in the Develop module lets me to pick a light neutral grey spot in the picture from which Lightroom...
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Adobe Lightroom Lightroom
05/13/19
Where does Lightroom keep changes?
I've imported some raw images from camera and made changes. When I close and reopen LR I can still see the changes, but my original important RAW file is intact. So I'm curious, where/how LR keeps...
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What is the function of the tint slider in Lightroom?
In Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (c) there's a Temp slider **which controls the color temperature of the photo**. To the left it creates a blue, cold looking image. To the right, an orange, warm image....
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Adobe Lightroom Lightroom
05/12/19
Transfer photos from one Lightroom installation to another?
I've recently started using Lightroom 3 on my desktop computer, where I have all my photos on a large RAID disk (with regular backups!). Now, if I go on holiday I'll only have my laptop with me,...
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05/10/19
Speeding up Lightroom?
I'm a photographer and work a lot with Lightroom. Which is obnoxious on a HDD. Given that I have an iMac, I really don't want to have to take it apart. My current HDD is a Seagate 7200 RPM drive...
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05/09/19
Why high contrast increases color saturation?
Thing is simple: when I increase contrast (both with contrast slider, or with S-curve) in Lightroom/Photoshop, a saturation of the color is also increases on the photo. And vice versa: when I...
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What is the best way to synchronize Adobe Lightroom databases between two computers?
What is the best way to synchronize Adobe Lightroom databases between two computers (a desktop and a laptop)?I'd like to be able to edit photos on either machine, and preferably not copy the whole...
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How do I start with in-camera JPEG settings in Lightroom?
I'm a novice shooting in RAW and find that half the time my camera JPEG images come out better than my Lightroom tweaks to RAW files.So to give myself a better start I'd like to apply the JPEG...
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Adobe Lightroom Windows 7
05/03/19
Adobe Lightroom starts automaticaly?
Every time I insert a SD card into my computer, Adobe Lightroom starts and tries to import images from the card. How do I stop this?I use Windows 7.
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Lua / Lightroom SDK: how to access field text value?
I'm looking at plugins for Adobe Lightroom using their SDK, which is Lua. I'm just trying to understand one of their hello world examples. local LrFunctionContext = import 'LrFunctionContext' ...
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How can I force Lightroom to render previews for my collection?
When you import, you have the option (I just discovered 5 minutes ago) to have Lightroom render 1:1 previews. That makes it much easier to just quickly flip through a bunch of images, because it...
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04/28/19
How do I move Picks from a Collection to a Folder in Lightroom 3?
On one of the rare occasions I've used Lightroom Collections, I found myself wanting to transfer the Pick/Reject info from the Collection back to the main Folder the photos are in. Picks are...
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Adobe Lightroom Windows 7
04/27/19
How do I recover hard disk space used by Lightroom?
I had Lightroom installed and it was taking up around 25 GB of space on my C drive as backup of some sort. So I simply went and removed all the catalog files-which was only 2 MB- from the default...
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04/27/19
Lightroom to Photoshop to Pixiset?
There must be a more efficient process than what I am doing. I import all my RAW images to Lightroom. I then open them in Photoshop to make some additional tweaks. From here I save them as JPEGS....
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04/27/19
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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04/27/19
What exactly does Tone Curve do in Lightroom?
In simple terms, what does Tone Curve in LR actually do?. I can see the results of changing Tone Curve by playing around with it, but I don't really understand scientifically what it actually does....
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Adobe Lightroom
04/26/19
dynamiclinkmediaserver folder in ~/Documents from Lightroom?
Every time I view a video in Lightroom 4, it creates an empty folder in ~/Documents called "Adobe" with the folder "dynamiclinkmediaserver" inside. This is very annoying because I would like to...
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04/26/19
Why is the range for manual white balance so limited at the bottom and top?
I am learning about white balance and everything related to it.
Minimal setting for white balance in Lightroom is limited to 2000K (for example the candle light can be around 1600K). I remember...
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04/26/19
Why is the range for manual white balance so limited at the bottom and top?
I am learning about white balance and everything related to it.Minimal setting for white balance in Lightroom is limited to 2000K (for example the candle light can be around 1600K). I remember one...
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Adobe Lightroom Adobe Bridge
04/24/19
CS5 Bridge labels & rejects in Lightroom?
I have been working on a huge amount of pictures on my desktop PC from work, using Adobe Bridge to label them.I now want to process them on my private laptop. Unfortunately, Photoshop CS5 is out of...
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04/24/19
Do Lightroom and Aperture force you into using a specific folder structure?
I'm getting busy, which is a good thing. I need to be able to batch process raws, or rather make global edits, to increase efficiency. I've heard that Aperature and Lightroom are both good at this...
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Why would one want to include the original RAW inside of a DNG?
I'm interested in starting to convert my photos to DNG instead of NEF, because it allows Lightroom to embed it's metadata into the actual files, and because the "fast indexing" feature makes...
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Adobe Lightroom
04/19/19
Are lrprev files in Lightroom just previews that I do not need to back up?
In Adobe Lightroom, it is my understanding that the .lrprev files it creates, are only previews of pictures, but that these can be regenerated from the real pictures in case of disaster.Is that...
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04/19/19
Is it a bad idea to activate lens-corrections in camera, when also use lens-correction in Lightroom?
My EOS has the option to correct known lens-aberration which is activated at the moment.I use Lightroom (5.2) for post-processing, which can also correct lens-aberration.Is it a problem to activate...
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