Lightroom Best Practices | Tim Grey 

Tim Grey over the years has been one of the best if not the best of all Lightroom educator I have ever seen. Thank you tim!

Every time I watch this video (and I do from time to time) it gives me a really strong urgency to put my hands on the Lightroom catalog and make some order on it 😅😅 great Tim!! 🎉🎉

Once again, Tim Grey brings his approachable self-deprocation to gently nudge us in the right direction while using live demos to demystify Lightroom

Thank you B&H. Thank you Tim Grey. You are so right. Always new stuff to learn in Lightroom.

Tim, thank you very much. You have been extremely helpful to the tech-challenged like me. You are very clear.

What a terrifically helpful introduction to Lightroom! I learned a great deal here, all of which was information that prompted my search of the web in the first place. Very well done and incredibly helpful. Your filing tip using the 5-stars, however, left me thinking of other considerations for those of us who DO need to delete LOTS of files as part of our review process. For example, I do a lot of birds and birds-in-flight photography. I therefore shoot a lot of frames to get (hopefully!) a singular "good shot." As a result, it is almost always necessary to delete LOTS of photos. I use one star to designate for deletion when i do my initial review. I will then come back to the file and delete later - or not! Ultimately, using the one star for discards is my way of marking them as having been reviewed and designated for deletion. It thus separates them from those files with no stars that I might not have even had a chance to review yet. Ultimately, I can then filter for 1 Star and batch delete all the "junk" files in the folder, confident that they have all been reviewed (at least once!) and have been targeted for deletion. I subscribed to your Channel and look forward to accessing the archives and seeing anything new you publish. I sense there is no real need to look elsewhere for instruction as I learn to use Lightroom to its fullest capabilities. Thank you, and keep it coming!

Tim Grey, love your method of presentation and humour. Great tutorial.

Hi Tim i am one of your loyal fans and followers for past three years, based in Lagos nigeria. your tutorial has always been very educative, and easy to follow. This particular one on Lightroom workflow is exceptionally great as expected. However one area i want clarification or proper tutoring on is sychronising the catalogues on my home desktop, with both my office desktop and my travelling laptop. Each of these computers have different named catalogue.

This is such an important presentation. Thank you so much for doing it. LightRoom does what it does in so many ways, it's both an advantage, but also a disadvantage as well. So it's always great for users to see how others use it, to give them ideas.

Another great video Tim. Really enjoy your sessions. Learn something new every time and the humour helps :-)

This was incredible! Thank you so much, I've learnt a lot and adapted how I use Lightroom which is helping in so many ways now and in the future. I appreciate this being available for everyone!

I'm using date folders and I can't think any reason why I shouldn't. With collections and keywords I'll always find photos I need.

I moved to using more than one catalog after it corrupted. Also helps me when editing, using the smart previews and images stored on an external disk, so I can edit remotely, then sync up the changes when I hook up the drive.

I finally got fed up with ON1, deleted it, and I'm learning Lr. I've been using Photoshop some for years, but I didn't like Lr 3 yrs. ago, but with upgrades I'm favorably impressed; My D800 doesn't have GPS, but I'm planning on upgrading as soon as I have the $

Loving the video so far. Paused to say, I disagree. I LOVE date based folder system imports in Lightroom. Eight years of photojournalism and the story/blog/headline will tell me exactly where I need to go look for the remaining pictures. Also, keywords. (However, for special shoots, I do append the folder name by renaming it at the end with a description of the location/event.)

Excellent presentation.

Great presentation. Should have seen this 10 years ago. It will help me to know how to setup my photos going forward. Thanks to you for doing this. And thanks to B & H for having you do this.

Good and very informative.

Enjoyed your presentation. I laughed at every one of your jokes. Oh, there weren't any?

Great presentation... I learned so much ;-)

Thnx for the nice comment about Croatia... and the adriatic sea :)

Great job presenting a rather boring topic in such a diverting manner. I am new to Lightroom, but already used pretty much exactly your way of cataloguing from the getgo since i dont like messy folder structures. ;)

Tim, right now I have both catalog and photos on my external. As my drive fills up, I have the dilemma of moving the catalog which makes me nervous. I think I want to move the catalog to the computer hard drive permanently so I don't have the issue again but I am worried that moving it to the computer will make LR break. Any tips or advice?

Can I start over with a new catalog and import all my photos into this one catalog and just use this one going forward?

Super Video! :)

One problem with the ONE CATALOGUE rule ... I have a 3.8tb photos + catalogue on a 4tb External HDD ... when LR recently upgraded it insisted that there wasn’t enough free space to upgrade the catalogue to the new version - So I have to work out how three different full 4tb drives are gonna get upgraded so I can use them in LR classic

At 41 min, the one thing he neglects (at least at this point of my viewing) to mention about Pick​/Reject Flagging is that's there's A THIRD option....UNPICK! When I sort, I quickly go through and REJECT (not permanently delete) then "Pick" the remaining. After emotional cool-down, I "Unpick" leaving the best. No emotional Rollercoaster about 'meh" or "mmmm, maybe".

Nice one

Kinda wish he'd mentioned Catalogs in this presentation....

Just na idea for B&H: as a camera/photo store, perhaps it would be better to use a better camera to record these (excellent) events. The image quality is frankly low.

Legendary????

I hope he is not using software like f.lux, because the screen capture (when lightroom is on the screen), the white color looks really strange, something like f.lux can make it that way.

Why not captioned?

Folders are overrated. Keywords are more flexible and do the same job. The only thing that folders bring is hierarchy. Oh, wait, Lightroom keywords are hierarchical too!

Still watching this .... wow, do you have mute selected on your audience or they just don't get your humour? Hey ho :)

He completely misunderstands the pick/reject flags! These are used for culling images and getting rid of the dross without deleting. Using pick/reject in conjunction with the attribute setting is a very fast way of culling images. Pick and reject are NOT used for grading images as he implies.

Ha! I developed the same non-standard rating system as his!

This guy gets tiresome. He spends way too much time repeating the reasons for his approach. Just get on with it! He's self indulgent - likes to hear himself talking...