My Personal Photo Workflow

Part of slowing down these past two months has been all about immersing myself in Lightroom as I moved my photo library.   After all this downtime I thought it would be good for me to share a little bit of my workflow and a few tips - I will share more in the coming weeks.  Please feel free to share comments and questions.

Downloading photos, deleting and processing in Lightroom 3 for scrapbookers.

Comments

[Lynda Farabee]

Learn something new every day. THanks for a great explanation.

[karen mcgowan]

good stuff! i am new to lightroom and am looking forward to learning lr3 along with you.

[molly]

Great info Kayla! Is there an easy way to find & destroy duplicates in lightroom?

[Kayla]

Thanks! Molly I did quite a bit of research on that as I had so many duplicates from so many backups. There is a Lightroom duplicate finder out there but when I tried to use it, it found duplicates that weren't duplicates. (bummer was I paid money for it!).

I also tried with Bridge but I found that many of the photos it was bringing up with the naming of the date and time and numbers in parenthesis showing duplicates were not always duplicates.

So the week after the kids got out of school we had a movie marathon and I just started going through them one by one. With the rejection X it was pretty easy to process them through and I actually got a very GOOD idea of everything in my library. I still have folders of recovered photos to process from and expect to find duplicates there but right now I am feeling pretty good about it.

So long story short, no short cuts and the longer story is that I trust "duplicate finders" less and less. It is a pain to sort through them but so much better to really know what is in your library. imho. :) Thanks for the question!

[Valerie Goettsch]

Thanks for the clear explanation. I'm new to lightroom so this will be very helpful. I look forward to more tutorials.

[Linda Davis]

I'm really impressed what you can do to your photos in Lightroom. I know you have used iPhoto in the past and want to know how you exported your photos out of iPhoto and imported them into Lightroom? Because they're jpeg, did you loose a lot? I'm really considering moving mine so that I have a more stable environment and more flexibility for working with my photos before scrapbooking with them in PSE8. Thanks:)

[Chris A.]

Found you via the paperclipping podcast "that's so digi". Great site. I love LR. Currently I have LR2 but when I increase my RAM, I'll definitely get LR3! Great information and tips!

[Laser]

I am really happy to see this tutorial. I want to use Lightroom but just have been hesitating to get started. I hope you will continue with tutorials so people like me can learn! :)

Thanks so much

[Ladynred]

Great tuts you have here in your site. Thanks for sharing! I just started to get my hands in Lightroom lately but haven't decided it I want to buy it. I have a question regarding photo workflow.
I actually import all my photos to my External hard drive. Now my question is if I import all my photos from EHD to Lightroom. Is that going to my pc hard drive? My only concern is that I don't want my hard drive to get slow because of all the photos.

[Kayla Lamoreaux]

Great question - if you import your photos to Lightroom you can choose where you want them - on your external drive, main PC drive, etc. It is completely up to you.