Category Archives: 1 – Library
A sad tale of hard drive disasters and Lightroom backups
Last night I received a sad email. It was from a young woman whose external backup hard drive had died some time ago, and she hadn’t yet found time to replace it. Unfortunately now her main working drive, which held her only remaining copy of her images, has also died and is not recoverable. She [...]
I accidentally deleted my photos from my hard drive and I don’t have backups! Can I create JPEGs from Lightroom’s previews?
David just posted this very question in one of my blog comments, so I thought it was about time I posted this for reference… If you’ve deleted your original files, you don’t have backups, and they’re not in the Recycle Bin (Windows) / Trash (Mac), the next thing to check is whether the photos are [...]
LR/Transporter marks files from text list
Tim Armes has just released an update to his LR/Transporter Lightroom plug-in. This is hot off the press – it’s not even documented yet. The new feature is for Lightroom 2 only. Many online ordering cart systems will provide a text file with a list of the files that the customer has chosen. Particularly for [...]
Hurry up Lightroom! The best speed tips!
[Warning - this is quite long. I had originally intended to split it over a number of blog posts, but it'll be easier to reference as one post.] Who has never said “hurry up Lightroom”? Speed is one of the most popular feature requests from Lightroom users everywhere, and no doubt the engineers will continue [...]
How do I change the primary External Editor from Photoshop CS4 back to CS3?
Lightroom automatically chooses its own primary External Editor, based on registry entries on Windows and preference files on Mac. It’ll generally default to the newest version of Photoshop, and if it can’t find Photoshop, it’ll use Photoshop Elements instead. There’s an old TechNote which explains further: http://www.adobe.com/go/kb401629 However, what if you want to use an [...]