Reader Q&A: It's Your Turn - Ask Away!

It's another round - have any burning questions you'd love to know the answers to?  Email me and ask away - look for your answers in upcoming posts.

Comments

[Christina]

where can I find your Lightroom tutorials. Do you run them as a paid class? I am unsure if I should change from bridge to lightroom.

[Kayla Lamoreaux]

You can find them here -http://bit.ly/fA3KKI
As far as changing from Bridge to Lightroom - here is a post I wrote awhile back called Why Lightroom instead of Bridge? http://bit.ly/oH4XIP

Hope you find them helpful. :)

[Sandi M]

Back when you began the Lightroom tutorials I used the 30 day free CS5 version to get started and loved how easy it was to use that to pull items into LR. Now, that CS5 was offered for $300 I could afford to buy it. I did some of the tutorials and will now be pulling in all my other digi stuff to LR. This is probably discussed within the tutorials somewhere, but how do I quickly tell what I have already keyworded and what I have not?

[Kayla Lamoreaux]

This is a great question - and I have a few answers. :)

The way I did it was to bring everything into my library under a main folder - then as I keyworded items, I moved the digital scrapbooking supplies to designer folders - so basically if it wasnt keyworded, it wouldnt be in my master digital scrapbooking supplies folder and designer folder.

Even now I import new kits under a Downloads folder and do the same thing. :)

However, realizing that not everyone does things this way, I have another way to help you sort it out:
*Select the folder in Lightroom you want to see if items are keyworded in.
* In Library mode (press G on your keyboard to get there), choose View Show Filter Bar or just press \ on your keyboard.
* Choose Library on the metadata filter bar
* At the top of the far left column select Keyword from the drop down menu.
* Click on None under Keyword - these will bring up all the items in your folder without keywords. Now Ill show you a quick way to identify items you have keyworded. With none still selected under Keyword, choose CMD/CTRL + A to select all your non-keyworded items in the grid.
* Next click on ALL under the Keyword column.
* Choose Edit Invert Selection
* RIght click on one of the selected photos and choose Add Color Label and then choose a color to help you quickly see photos that have been keyworded. My Color is green.

The next time you need to work on keywording, you can select the filter bar by pressing \ on your keyboard and then choose Metadata from the Library Filter bar, Keyword and then None to know exactly where to start.

hope that helps!