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Re: Creating iPad Albums With Lightroom

genemcc — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:58:41 -0000

Thanks Marek! I look forward to reading it.

Re: Creating iPad Albums With Lightroom

Marek Mularczyk — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:18:25 -0000

Great post, Gene!

I will add a link to your post in my blog as I am writing a post about exporting from Lightroom to iPad.

Thanks a lot for an article! Great! :-)

Re: Rename Your Files On The Go

Mike — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:20:06 -0000

This is a terrific tip. Reading Adobe's online help doesn't seem to push this simple one-key solution as an obvious answer, but instead refers you to import and export options. What I wanted was, having imported a shoot, to be able to rename 'in situ'. This does it. Thank you!

Re: Import – Where It All Begins

genemcc — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:56:41 -0000

(Louis and I chatted offline and seemed to discover the problem).

Check to make sure that all of your image files have a proper extension. The sample files Louis sent were renamed and missing .jpeg. Consequently, LR did not recognize them as images and would not import them. By adding the .jpeg back the problem was solved.

Thanks for the interesting detective story, Louis!

Re: iPad Albums Via Publish Services

genemcc — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:46:09 -0000

Thanks Alan! That's a great tip!

Re: iPad Albums Via Publish Services

Alan — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:24:02 -0000

I really like this method of building and updating galleries on the iPad. I use a slight variation, though, with Published Smart Folders to feed the collections based on keywords. I still have to manually publish the folder set itself, but the keywords handle all the actual assigning of photos to sets. My own quick writeup is at http://www.schussman.com/article/lightroom-3-to....

Re: Import – Where It All Begins

Louis — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:44:53 -0000

I'm having trouble importing jpegs in LR3 from a folder. Some of the photos import, some don't. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason. If I open the ones that don't import in Preview and save them again, they are available for import. Of course, I've lost all the capture data. Again, the capture data for the photos that import and the photos that don't is not obviously different, except for specific date and time. I've been working at this for three hours, changing the modified dates to see if that is good enough for Lightroom to import (since it imports a newer creation date), but no luck. I don't want to lose the creation dates. What's the solution?

Re: Import – Where It All Begins

genemcc — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:26:11 -0000

Hi Dagostino_3!

That is expected behavior. If the drive containing the images is removed then the catalog will report them as offline of missing...because they are. Even when images are offline you can still work on them in the Library module. You cannot, however, work on offline images in the Develop module since LR needs access to the file in order to do its adjustments. So keep the external drive attached if you want to edit images in Develop.

Re: Import – Where It All Begins

Dagostino_3 — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:45:31 -0000

question.. my recent laptop crashed, and i am trying to import all the photos from my external onto lightroom for further editing.. but everytime i remove my external hard drive from my computer it says my pictures are offline or missing. help!

Re: Import – Where It All Begins

Keith H — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 02:41:16 -0000

Thanks for posting your discovery of that darn triangle! I had been dealing with this weird little problem for a few days. Especially weird because it was happening on my notebook, but NOT my desktop! Never even noticed the triangle, as it almost blends into the the background.

Re: Catalog Settings

genemcc — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:15:27 -0000

Hey andku!

Your catalog can reside on any drive except a network drive. So you could copy the catalog to another internal drive or to an external drive. By the way, your image files can be on a network drive if you like.

The catalog file is the one ending in .lrcat and that's the file to move. Lightroom will rebuild you previews. If you don't want to do that look for the Previews.lrdata file (on Windows it will be a folder). Move that to the same place as the .lrcat file. Lightroom should have no problem start from the catalog in its new location. You may want to make backups before you move these files.

Re: Selecting Images Not in a Collection

genemcc — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:05:32 -0000

Hi Scott!

An easier way to do this is on the wish list for future versions. Once that happens we should be able to build a smart collection around it. For now this will do.

Re: Creating iPad Albums With Lightroom

genemcc — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:00:38 -0000

Hi John!

Thanks. You're reading my mind. I have an article already in the works about applying Publish Services for this. I thought I'd start here since both version 3 and version 2 users can follow this method.

Re: Selecting Images Not in a Collection

Scott — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:53:52 -0000

This is a great tip. I'd love to be able to create a Smart Collection for images that are not in a collection. Those tend to get lost in my library as I amass events.

Re: Catalog Settings

andku — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:59:15 -0000

a question: my catalog so far has gone to the default location, and now my C drive started not having enough free space left. How to move the already existing catalog to another location, letting Lightroom know where to find it after the move?
thank you for any hint

Re: Creating iPad Albums With Lightroom

twitter-30488201 — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:56:40 -0000

Gene - Publish would handle this well.

Re: The Missing FAQ

genemcc — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:37:39 -0000

LOL Thanks Marek!

Yes, please feel free.

Re: The Missing FAQ

Marek Mularczyk — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:59:57 -0000

Hi Gene,

Fantastic post about the book! I now definitely want to buy it! Is there a way I could get it straight from the "Queen" herself? Maybe a signed copy? ;-)

Can I use the info from your post on my blog?

Marek

Re: Import – Where It All Begins

genemcc — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:57:47 -0000

Hi JJlynx!

There's no such thing as a stupid question. It's all part of the learning process.

If you are shooting RAW+JPEG your camera is producing two separate files for each shot. They typically have the same name and different file extensions. Very often when you import into Lightroom you only see the raw files. Here's the trick. Go to Lightroom Preferences and on the GENERAL tab go to the IMPORT OPTIONS section. There you will see a checkbox called "Treat JPEG files next to raw files as separate photos." Check that box. http://img.skitch.com/20100718-tr97s95e8pq9aq32...

Now when you import Lightroom will show you separate raw and JPEG files. You could either import twice, choosing the raw first and then the JPEG second, placing them in different destination folders. Or you could import them all together and then move them using the Folders panel in the Library module.

Re: Import – Where It All Begins

genemcc — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:41:00 -0000

Hi Lr!

You won't be able to get your images with all their adjustments out of Aperture. You should be able to retain the keywording work you've done by first embedding the keywords before importing into Lightroom. If you are using Aperture via a reference library then you image files should all be on disk where you put them.

If, however, you are having Aperture manage your images in a library file then the process is probably similar to the iPhoto import I covered in http://lightroomsecrets.com/2009/03/moving-your... and http://lightroomsecrets.com/2009/10/getting-to-...

Good luck!

Re: Import – Where It All Begins

Lr — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 04:31:48 -0000

Hi, is there any easy switch for getting all my photos from my Aperture 3 library into lightroom3? Thanks

Re: Import – Where It All Begins

JJlynx — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:24:10 -0000

Hi, Gene
I might have a stupid question, but heck i'm just discovering Lightroom) at the moment...Anyway, if i want to import images from my camera, or even my old hard drive, how can i separate RAW files and their JPEG duplicates ( as my camera, whenever shooting in RAW, produses two images) into different folders and preferrably even different hard drives?
Thanx

Re: Going Against The Grain

genemcc — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:27:00 -0000

Hi Jon!

Yes. It is an interesting feature. But it is a first step so I hope we will see more finesse introduced as time goes on.

Re: Lightroom 3 Will Have Lens Correction

Jon Hillenbrand — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:39:39 -0000

This feature is definitely one of my favorites in LR3. It's also not just for "correcting". It's useful for bringing people in the center of the image more to the foreground, enhancing the effect of some kinds of framing. It's also great for some abstract or architectural photos to distort the image and make it different from what the lens is able to pick up "naturally".

Re: Going Against The Grain

Jon Hillenbrand — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:33:51 -0000

It will be interesting to see how developers use the new "effects" panel to add in their own digital effects. I like the grain feature. An old Photoshop plugin allowed for different grain amounts for both the highlights, midtone and shadows. This is obviously more advanced and might be too many controls for novice users, but the effect was much more realistic to me. It looked closer to Kodak Tri-X 400 to me than the "apply the same grain to everything" setting.