Using Stacks in Lightroom - Auto Stack by Capture Time. Finding Your Best Photo with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom’s View Modes. The “View Modes” in the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom’s Library Module are crucial tools for serious digital photographers.
Each of the View Modes can be a huge help when you are sorting through your images seeking out your very best compositions. Carefully reviewing your captures, and identifying your best photographs, is a critical skill in today’s all digital world. Serious photographers used tools like contact sheets, light tables, and loupes to hunt out their best captures back in the film day’s. Carefully reviewing your slides and negatives, and sorting out the winners, was a fundamental skill. The joke used to be “that you could tell a professional photographer from an amateur by the size of their trash can.”
Professional photographers take more time to hunt, sort, compare, and evaluate every frame until they find the very best one. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom View Modes with Labels Grid View Secrets Jumping Into The Survey View Getting In Close With The Loupe View Related tutorials: Where Should I Keep My Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Catalog? Author’s Note: You will find a more recent, and more detailed, version of this article within our extended Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Catalog Creation and Image Storage Fundamentals tutorial.
I strongly suggest that you follow the link and read the new and improved post instead! Both your digital images and your Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Catalog files can be moved from one drive to another drive. Think of these files as if they were separate “puzzle pieces” that you can store almost anywhere.* Moving your photos, or your Photoshop Lightroom Catalog, from one disk to another is not a hard process. The big question though is what arrangement of these puzzle pieces best suits your needs? Adobe Photoshop Lightroom users should ask themselves “where should I store my images” and “where should I store my Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Catalog” because data storage is not a “one-size fits all” problem.
Option 1: Internal Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Catalog Storage + Internal Image Storage. Workflow smart collections - John Beardsworth. When you have a library of many thousands of pictures, querying or searching is clearly a very important feature. And you’ve got to be able to save those search criteria – after all, there’s a fair chance that you may want to find the same pictures again before too long. The more efficiently you find them, the more time you’ll have for perfecting them. So two of the biggest and most welcome changes in Lightroom 2′s Library are the iTunes-style Filter panel (below), which replaces the old disc-thrashing Metadata Browser, and the introduction of Smart Collections.
Both the Filter panel and Smart Collections let you filter down the catalogue to find a selection of pictures, and each lets you save and recall the criteria you used to find them. What’s less clear is which you should use and when. While the Filter panel menu does let you save a preset including your criteria, after you’ve added a few presets you soon have a long and unhelpful list. The Workflow Smart Collection. Backing up the catalog.