Lightroom has two primary functions – organizing your photos and editing them. Although its organizational tools are powerful, they’re also the most misunderstood, so over the forthcoming weeks, we’ll discuss the best practices for using catalogs, folders, collections and keywords, and then we’ll discuss how to tidy up your existing catalog, if you wish to… Click to continue
0kb Lightroom exports? Dropbox are on to it
There’s been a sudden flurry of reports about Lightroom Export creating 0kb files when exporting to a Dropbox folder. The cause is very simple – Lightroom creates a placeholder while exporting, and Dropbox is now grabbing those 0kb placeholders to sync them. Dropbox are aware of the issue and I’ve heard they’re working on a… Click to continue
Plug-ins Galore!
There seems to have been a recent flurry of plug-in releases, with many being real time-savers, and adding great new functionality to Lightroom. Here’s a few of the latest additions for you to explore: SLR’s with video have quickly become popular, but until now, Lightroom hasn’t had the facility to import or manage those video… Click to continue
Watermarking with Lightroom and LR2/Mogrify
It’s true, the watermarking facilities currently in Lightroom 2 are a bit limited. Ok, very limited! But all is not lost… Lightroom plug-in programmer Timothy Armes came to the rescue with the well known LR2/Mogrify plug-in, and LR/Mogrify before that, adding fully configurable presentation options. LR2/Mogrify is donationware, and the trial allows you to process… Click to continue
2.2 – Disc burning disabled
Some people are reporting problems burning CD’s or DVD’s from Lightroom since the 2.2 update. The 64-bit version not burning is a known issue – that’s in the release notes, however some have been having trouble with the 32-bit version. The solution – uninstalling and reinstalling seems to fix it in most cases, so it’s… Click to continue