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Cleaning Up Your Mess in Lightroom Classic CC

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Overview

Get your Lightroom Classic CC catalog in order with this collection of tips and best practices for managing and organizing photos in Lightroom Classic CC.

Adobe Lightroom has a lot of great photo-management features, but that's no guarantee that your catalog will be well organized. That's up to you. In this course, photographer, author, and educator Tim Grey tackles the most common problems that Lightroom Classic CC users encounter (or introduce themselves), including missing photos, photos scattered across multiple catalogs, confusingly named folders, keyword spelling errors, and much more.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
1. Concepts and Preparation
  • Tim's 3 rules for getting started
  • Define your real workflow
  • Our organizational goal
  • Inventory and backup
2. Cleaning Up
  • Reconnect missing folders
  • Locate missing photos
  • Update old catalog versions
  • Consolidate our catalogs
  • Rename your master catalog
  • Consolidate photo storage
  • Merge folders
  • Split photos to subfolders
  • Clean up date-based folders
  • Rename folders
  • Rename photos
3. Correcting Metadata
  • Correct capture time
  • Resolve color label mismatches
  • Update photo attributes
  • Correct keyword spelling errors
4. Wrapping Up
  • Your first import after cleanup
  • Migrate to a new hard drive
  • Create a backup system
  • Be consistent (and organized)

Taught by

Tim Grey

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