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    How to Rename to Get Rid of (-1) and (-2) Numbers LR Adds to Some Filenames

    I run into this problem basically every day. Currently, I scan old slides from boxes -- the boxes are fairly complete, but sometimes an odd slide is missing. After I have scanned a box I run a plain rename command that includes a sequence number, this initial rename is done on all slides...
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    How to Rename to Get Rid of (-1) and (-2) Numbers LR Adds to Some Filenames

    I typically run the rename command twice. What happens that that you, for example, have files named "F1", "F2", and "F3", and you would like to renumber them starting with "F2". In this case, when Lightroom renames "F1" to "F2", the name is already occupied, so it will be named "F2-1". Likewise...
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    Enhanced history panel suggestions

    After a few years with Lightroom, I have realized that there are some things that, well, is not as good as I would like. One such thing is the History panel, below is a list of suggestions: 1) Make it possible to delete individual history entries, especially the topmost one. Today, you can...
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    LR3 was supposed to be faster, but it feels much slower

    Thanks -- I was running LR3.2, when upgrading to LR3.3 things are a magnitude faster, literately! However, when we're on the subject -- I actually though I was running the latest version, as I had been prompted to it and downloaded it earlier. I simply missed the fact that I had to install it...
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    LR3 was supposed to be faster, but it feels much slower

    I'm a big user of smart collections -- I have a bunch of them to represent things like "missing Person tag in family photo". In LR2, setting a keyword or updating a color label was really fast. However, it takes four, five seconds for LR3 to react to the change and update the smart collection...
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    Tethered G9 (EOS Utility)/ Need help setting up to Lr

    Try download the latest version from Canon:s website. To install it, you'll need an original CD, any version will do.
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    1:1 Loupe on secondary display does not show full resolution

    Sorry for reopening this issue again -- but the original thread doesn't seem to come to a conclusion regarding what is going on. I'm running Lightroom 2.7 on a Mac Pro using 1'.5.8. From my perspective it looks like the image in the secondary display consists of 2x2 pixel squares rather than...
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    I need help to organize my images

    The basic design of Lightroom is very different from most other programs. When you "edit" a picture in Lightroom -- e.g. crop it or change the exposure value, set keywords, or whatever -- Lightroom will remember the changes you made in it's own database. The next time you look at the picture it...
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    I need help to organize my images

    My first advice would be to drop the idea of using DVD:s for storing and/or backup. It's hard work, they are fragile, and soon you will have too many photos anyway. I would recommend using one (internal or external) drive where you store and work with all your photos. Remember that Lightroom...
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    adding keywords to multiple images at same time

    One way to get around this is to drag the thumbnail size slider all the way to one end, that way you will only see one full-sized image even though, technically, you're still in grid mode. Of course, it makes things a lot harder to switch back and forth between a real grid and the zoomed grid...
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    Keyword Sets vs Nested KeyWords

    If you have the same word in two different places in the keyword hierarchy, Lightroom will present them as "Foo > Bar" and "Frotz > Bar", so that you can tell them apart.
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    Tagging multiple persons using a bit of red paint

    Nope, it taught me a few neat tricks (like how to create a smart collection that is the inverse of another collection, and how to change which collection the B key operates on). However, I think that the method described in the article is much more clumsy than mine, for example: * Most of my...
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    Tagging multiple persons using a bit of red paint

    I thought that I should share a technique that I have been using for the past couple of weeks, I don't know anything similar has been published before, or if there are other ways to accomplish something similar. I'm in the process of tagging my 4'''' pictures, and I'm using smart collections...
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    Smart collections and "Doesn't contain" should have been "Isn't"

    Well, it looks like I should go back and read the manual -- it worked perfectly! Thanks!
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    Smart collections and "Doesn't contain" should have been "Isn't"

    Done!
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