Managing Your Photo Library
- Getting started
- Organizing folders
- Using collections to organize images
- Taking your collections on the road
- Using flags and ratings
- Adding metadata
- Tagging faces in the People view
- Organizing photos by location
- Finding and filtering files
- Reconnecting missing files and folders
- Review questions
- Review answers
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Lesson overview
As your photo library grows larger, it will become increasingly important to organize your files so that they can be easily found. Lightroom Classic CC offers options for organizing your images before you even click the Import button—and even more once they’re in your catalog. Manage folders and files without leaving the Library module; then apply keywords, flags, ratings, and labels, and group photos in convenient collections, regardless of where they’re stored.
This lesson will familiarize you with the tools and techniques you’ll use to organize, manage, and search your photo library:
Working with a folder structure
Understanding Collections
Working with keywords, flags, ratings, and labels
Tagging faces in the People view
Organizing images by location in the Map module
Editing Metadata and using the Painter tool
Finding and filtering files
You’ll probably need between one and two hours to complete this lesson. If you haven’t already done so, log in to your peachpit.com account to download the lesson files for this chapter, or follow the instructions under “Accessing the Lesson Files and Web Edition” in the Getting Started section at the beginning of this book.
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Lightroom Classic CC delivers powerful, versatile tools to help you organize your image library. Use people tags, keywords, flags, labels, ratings, and even GPS location data to sort your images, and group them into virtual collections by any association you choose. Make fast, sophisticated searches, based on practically limitless combinations of criteria, that will put the photos you want at your fingertips.
Getting started
Before you begin, make sure you’ve set up the LRClassicCIB folder for your lesson files and created the LRClassicCIB Catalog file to manage them, as described in “Accessing the Lesson Files and Web Edition” and “Creating a catalog file for working with this book” in the Getting Started chapter at the start of this book.
Note
This lesson assumes that you already have a basic working familiarity with the Lightroom Classic CC workspace. If you need more background information, refer to Lightroom Classic CC Help, or review the previous lessons.
If you haven’t already done so, download the Lesson 4, and Lesson 4 GPS folders from your Account page at www.peachpit.com to the LRClassicCIB \ Lessons folder, (see “Accessing the Lesson Files and Web Edition” in the chapter “Getting Started.”)
Start Lightroom Classic CC.
In the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic CC - Select Catalog dialog box, make sure the file LRClassicCIB Catalog.lrcat is selected under Select A Recent Catalog To Open, and then click Open.
Lightroom Classic CC will open in the screen mode and workspace module that were active when you last quit. If necessary, switch to the Library module by clicking Library in the Module Picker at the top of the workspace.
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Tip
The first time you enter any of the Lightroom Classic CC modules, you’ll see module tips that will help you get started by identifying the components of the workspace and stepping you through the workflow. Dismiss the tips by clicking the Close button. To reactivate the tips for any module, choose [Module name] Tips from the Help menu.
Importing images into the library
The first step is to import the images for this lesson into the Lightroom library.
In the Library module, click the Import button below the left panel group.
If the Import dialog box appears in compact mode, click the Show More Options button at the lower left of the dialog box to see all the options in the expanded Import dialog box.
Under Source at the left of the expanded Import dialog box, locate and select your LRClassicCIB \ Lessons \ Lesson 4 folder. Ensure that all twelve images from the Lesson 4 folder are checked for import.
In the import options picker above the thumbnail previews, select Add so that the imported photos will be added to your catalog without being moved or copied. Under File Handling at the right of the Import dialog box, choose Minimal from the Build Previews menu and ensure that the Don’t Import Suspected Duplicates option is activated. Under Apply During Import, choose None from both the Develop Settings menu and the Metadata menu, and type Lesson 4, Europe in the Keywords text box. Make sure that your import is set up as shown in the illustration below, and then click Import.
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The twelve images are imported from the Lesson 4 folder and now appear in both the Grid view of the Library module and in the Filmstrip across the bottom of the Lightroom Classic CC workspace.
