Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Lightroom Love

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Bless those Lightroom developers and product managers!!! Just discovered a behavior in Lightroom that surprised and delighted me. I use a collection for all of the images we put on my wife's art site. We've decided to create a "current work" page and an "archived work" page since the number of images had gotten to be so high. I made a copy of the collection of images which will represent current work and the original set for archived work.

We went through the current work and removed all of the images that should be archived. The next task was to go find and remove from the archive collection all of the images that are in the current collection. One would think you would flip back and forth between the sets until the deed was done and it would be a visual activity. Here's where the fun begins.

I'm in the current set. I click on an image. When I move to the archive set, the image I had selected in the current set is already highlighted in the archive set!!! All I have to do is delete the highlighted item from the archived list. Brilliant, what a time saver.

Lightroom's behavior is designed so that any image selected in a collection will be automatically selected in another collection if present. I did not expect this but it was most helpful for this particular task.

2 comments:

Unknown said...
3:34 AM  

Interesting post. I liked it. Thank you for sharing. I use Lightroom for a long time. I love this software. Recently, I began to get involved in HDR. Who are interested there are tips http://hdrprograms.com/ for HDR in Lightroom. Good luck.

Unknown said...
10:57 AM  

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