If you are managing your photographs within a single Lightroom catalog, the fine guys are SLR Lounge have a sweet tip for file management from their new Lightroom 4 Workshop Collection DVD Series.
For a wedding photography studio like Lin and Jirsa, we like to keep multiple Catalogs in Lightroom because of the large volume of photos that we process every time we shoot.
Each wedding that we shoot can have thousands of images, so multiple Catalogs are a must for our workflow to remain at peak efficiency since Lightroom 4 will slow down with large catalog sizes. But for many photographers who shoot far less than we do, one Catalog or one Catalog per year, may just be enough to hold all your photos.
Now if you do use a single Lightroom Catalog workflow system and you have a folder with a lot of photos, we can show you how to break out those images into smaller shoots within their own respective folders inside of the same Lightroom Catalog.
This will keep your Catalog more organized making it quicker and simpler to sort through a large number of images. The best part is that unlike using Lightroom Collections (which do have their benefits) this organizational system will be usable from both Lightroom and the Operating System file browser. It is easy to set this up and we will do it all within Lightroom as shown in the video above.
If you enjoyed this video, it is actually just a small part of the Lightroom 4 Workshop Collection by SLR Lounge. The Workshop Collection is quickly becoming the standard in Lightroom 4 education and tools as it includes 27 hours (over 200 1080p videos) of step by step tutorials and the most powerful and intuitive Lightroom 4 preset system available. The Workshop Collection consists of 3 DVDs, the Lightroom 4 A to Z Tutorials DVD, Lightroom 4 Preset System and DVD, and the Lightroom 4 Workflow System DVD (which is where this video is sampled from).
The 3 DVDs can be purchased together in the Lightroom 4 Workshop Collection, or individually. I’ve been consuming the The Workflow DVD over the last few days and am very (very) happy. (I am using Lightroom back from the LR2.1 days and I’ve still picked up a nice round of new tricks).
If you want more details, check out the links above. The kind folks at SLR Lounge gave DIYP readers a coupon code for 10% off of any purchase. Use the code SLR10 at checkout.
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