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    Syncomatic won't sync...

    I know it works because I have synced the metadata from a NEF to a JPEG. But I can't get it to work on two TIFFs... The source is AB-12.TIF and the target AB-12.tif. They're in different collections, different folders on my drives. But I know (!) how to set Syncomatic to deal with this, I'm...
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    Smart Collection for no State/Provence

    I'm taking advice and trying to create some Smart Collections. Based on Beardsworth's workflow set, I want to find pictures which haven't had the State/Provence field completed. What's the recipe for that? There's no "is empty" option when selecting "State Provence" as there is with "Caption"...
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    Renamed photos - syncing multiple

    I've renamed some pictures outside of Lightroom. I know how to update the filename in Lightroom, but I can't see how to do more than one at a time. Can I do this? Thanks!
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    Using 'alias' folders on Mac to catalogue from?

    I have pictures stored on a few different hard drives (because they fill up, not because I'm disorganised!) My Lightroom 'Folders' panel shows these in a list and I find myself having to close one to go to another hard drive. So I thought having all my hard drive folders in a single Lightroom...
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    Double click on Develop slider to default no longer working

    If you make an 'auto' or any adjustment in Develop you can double click the slider control to reset to zero. Usually I do an auto exposure and double click the Exposure slide to zero it and leave the others as LR thinks fit. But that's stopped working for me. Is this a new 'feature', did I...
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    Presets for colour temperature

    I've shot some frames on a Nikon at each of the various colour temperature settings, sunny, cloudy, shade, flash etc. Then I've imported the raw files into LR and created a preset in the develop module with only the white balance selected. So that means I can choose between the various Nikon...
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    How to tether a Nikon

    Running macOS 10.12.3 & LR CC 2015.8 I naively assumed I could plug my Nikon D600 into my Mac via USB and Lightroom would let me shoot and import. But nothing happens, "No camera detected". Done all the usual switch it off and back on again tricks. Tried a Nikon Df. Same. My obvious mistake...
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    Hasselblad / Imacon Flextight FFF files

    I don't think Lightroom can handle Hasselblad 3F or dot FFF files. Anyone using this format, how do you manage them within a Lightroom / Photoshop workflow? (FWIW I have managed to install the 3F plugin for PS so can open the files there but haven't tried to DAM them yet.)
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    Deleting LR's default develop presets

    LR comes with a bunch of develop presets I'm never going to use. I want rid of them. Any clues?
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    What to backup? (with ChronoSync)

    I use ChronoSync to run automated backups. One is taking its time about things and I blame some old Lightroom catalogues. I do need My Catalogue.lrcat but I don't actually need to keep the previews I? So any .lrdata I can skip (and delete)? (If I have to use the backup lrcat and wait for the...
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    Changing colour in shadows only

    Can I apply a colour change and target the shadows only. There is a control in Camera Calibration where I can change the shadow tint. Bu say I wanted my shadows a bit more cyan. But without affecting the mid and highlights. Possible in LR?
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    Camera Calibration: Neutral vs Neutral v2

    Using Nikons I see I have "v2" versions of the camera profiles. There's a bit of difference between them, Neutral seems to be a less contrast, less colour version than Neutral v2. Ditto the others. I assumed these were profiles to match the JPEGs the cameras produce. If so, why are there V2...
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    Selecting a reference picture from the filmstrip

    I RTFM (Adobe official) but I can't work out how to get a picture from the filmstrip to the Reference View. I've got and Active image, now I should be able to drag 'n' drop a Reference image into the window from the filmstrip. But as soon as I select an image in the filmstrip it becomes the...
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    Can't update to LR 2016.6.1

    Having trouble updating to CC version 2016.6.1 (on a Mac OS X 10.11.the_latest. Creative Cloud appears to download the update fine but then fails with an error dialog which offers mare details in the log. That says, among other things... 07/26/16 17:06:30:154 | [INFO] | | OOBE | DE | | | |...
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    LR as an off-line catalogue

    I'm away with my MacBook which has my LR catalog and I want to find some pictures to show someone. I don't have my my original files, they are stored on a separate hard drive at home. So it turns out that either Lightroom isn't a very good catalogue if you want to look at an archive of pictures...
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    LR Mobile renames picture - how can I prevent that? (& other Qs...)

    I want to get my iPhone snapz into my Lightroom catalog & archive structure. Aperture used to take care of this really well by somehow automagically creating folders for mobile pictures every month. I'd like to recreate that: I want my iPhone pictures archived on my hard drives one folder per...
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    Do you use different 'Color Label Sets'?

    I was wondering if many people make use of different Colour Label Sets. Other than the default Lightroom and Bridge sets have you created your own and what use do you make of them?
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    Stacking in Collections

    I have a picture and I've created a Virtual Copy and then stacked the two. The picture has a keyword which adds it into a Smart Collection. When I view the Smart Collection I see both the original and the Virtual Copy, unstacked. I can't seem to stack pictures in the Smart Collection, is that...
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    Matching LR colours to those from Capture One

    There's a thread elsewhere - which I can't comment on because the photoshop.com forums aren't letting me log in - moaning about how Lightroom's colour from NEF files aren't as nice as those from Capture One. One reply suggests "Lightroom gives you the tools to calibrate your Nikon camera to...
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    JPEGs not being imported

    I have folders with NEF and JPEGs (I've been shooting raw plus JPEG). I thought you couldn't filter on import so why can't I get the JPEGs to show up in Lightroom? I can see the JPEGs in Finder (on my Mac). If I try to synchronise the folder from within LR I don't see the JPEGs in the import...
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    Before / After view option disappears

    I use the 'before/after' option (just 'before only using the \ key) a lot as I'm processing files. Sometimes when I came back to a file I can see has adjustments in Develop the before / after view doesn't work. How or why does this happen? Thanks
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    Raw and JPEG pairs - importing, working with and archiving

    I've come from Aperture where raw and JPEG pairs were handled better than Lightroom - either that or I haven't worked it out yet... Sometimes I shoot both raw and JPEG together, sometimes I just shoot raw. Sometimes when I shoot both I don't want to import the JPEGs into Lightroom With LR set...
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