You talked about GPS. This is very powerful and I use it a lot. Phone images are tagged unless you turn it off. Some cameras have the ability for GPS but usually by some external means. As a tip, Google Maps will take either Degrees/minutes/seconds or Decimal Degrees. Lightroom will also take either format and convert. So use Google Maps, click on a location to get the coordinates and past in either format into LR Maps. If you drag an image in LR to LR Maps, it will be tagged with that GPS coordinate. If you have a group of images with coordinates, it gets messy trying to 'unstack' the coordinates, but it can be done. Would love to see a full video on the subject.
overwhelmed with a few thousand photos scanned from my late mom's albums that span a few decades, i came across this video while researcing how to make sense of them all and organize them in a way to share with the rest of my family - thanking the heavens that this video now gives me great hope i'll actually get this task completed efficiently.. cheers for the inspirational content!
Finally understood the the difference between "folders" and "collections". Just getting started with Lightroom. This was a very comprehensive overview!
Thank you for this excellent video! Your teaching is easy to understand...even for this 68-year-old! I will incorporate what I've learned going forward, and over time, redo the thousands of pictures that were store improperly! Thanks again!
There are a lot of folks out there trying to tell people how to organize files in LRC who don't understand database construction. This guy gets it! Well done. The only thing I might add is that keywords could be standardized and organized in an excel sheet and imported for use in LRC. I previously made the mistake of making up KW's on the fly in LRC and things quickly spiraled out of control. Best to be deliberate and carefully think through KW structure in advance IMHO. Fantastic job and thanks for this video!
This was a fantastic video! I recently downloaded Lightroom and was looking for a concise explanation of organizing my photos. This was exactly what I needed.
I recently indexed thousands of photos into Lightroom Classic and was seeking some guidance of where to start in organizing them. This was very helpful and I took notes! Thank you for taking the time to explain the five points so effectively.
You brought my organisation level to over 9000. Never really cared about lightroom organisation. Made a new folder for every single project and so on. switched to a year-folder for everything 2022 is happening and thats nice. but now i really know how to organize the pictures in LR and of course also on my external ssd. Great video and thank you very much
Amazing video on lightroom organizing...I have been using lightroom for years, but had a real mental block when it comes to organizing...I found this unbelievably helpful! Thank you much!!! Look forward to other videos and am very interested in the mapping functionality you briefly touched on.
Forest, You have a wonderful talent for instruction. I appreciate your thoughtful and organized approach. My Lightroom catalogs are now indispensable. Lisa
A very clear explanation of folders and what you can and can’t do. Thank you. Very clear - I have been struggling with this as to what folders can do and what catalogues will do.
I just subscribed to Lightroom Classic and was at first overwhelmed with organization. I am very happy I found your video. You made something that was potentially very confusing into a simple explanation of how to go about organizing. Thanks very much!!
I've watched a bunch of videos on photo organization. This is the way I would like to do it! Lightroom Classic seems to be the best balance between professional product and accessibility
Once again, an excellent tutorial video! The best bit for me? "Collections are like Spotify playlists" - that makes things so much clearer for me. Now I need to find some videos on the interchange between LR and Photoshop. Cheers!
Thanks. Just adding that keyword search is not case sensitive. They are great and you can use dynamic smart collections that use them plus other attributes with Boolean logic. you can also rename or delete keywords if needed.
Great video! You are good methodician! I've learnt in one video, what I'm strugling with, started using Lightroom...I thought it was going to take several videos to understand organizing..thanks
Wow! I'm relatively new to Lightroom and this was by far the best all around organizational description I have found, and I've been looking for months. Liked and subscribed. Really helpful content. Thank You.
By far the best and easiest to understand video on this subject. Thank you for making something that was very daunting to me look easy to understand and do! Best wishes from a sunny Scotland, UK.
Thnx! That’s very helpful. I just installed Lightroom, so I have to figure everything out from scratch. I really like the keyword function. Now I have to take my time to reorganize my whole harddrive first 😃
I key word and rate with stars. You really helped my brain make sense of this. Now I need to import my pre 2016 Aperture files. (; Liked and subscribed. The map module would be cool. Thank you
I've subscribed! Your delivery is great, I'm hearing impaired and didn't have to go back, what did he say!? people ask me, does that mean I'm a big mouth, yes, in the best possible way. I look forward to learning from you.
Thank you! Super clear to understand, especially as I'm new to Lightroom. ow I know why I couldn't find some of my photos. Move within Lightroom, NOT windows, simple
Wow this is so helpful. I have been using Collections as folders…desperate to get organised but I have some on external HD and some internal..grrr..Thanks!
Personally, I think keywords or collections (these are pretty much equivalent from the point of view of organizing your stuff) are best for organization. They are more flexible than folders. You can attach multiple keywords to images or put images in multiple collections. And they can both be organized into hierarchies. I would advise using one or the other. (I am using both and its just confusing.) Right now, I think collections have an edge as lightroom mobile syncs collections but not keywords. And while it's easier to add new keywords than new collections, this has a downside. Just add keywords at random and you will never be able to search on them. I think of folders as just defining where things reside on your computer. Its good to have different folders merely to divide up your images into chunks of storage. That allows you to move stuff around if necessary, put some stuff on a NAS, some on the main drive, or whatever. (But if you need to move stuff around, its best to do that from within lightroom. Otherwise lightroom loses track of where things are. You can recover from that, but its extra work.) BTW you can also search on metadata. Date, time, cameras or camera lenses. Lightroom is really great for organization.
Really useful. Havent started using lightroom yet for my thousands of now adult kids’ photos but your video has simplified the concept for me and makes sense and ill ask hubby to add lightroom to my laptop. I also need help with my thousands of hours of kids’ videos to make compilations, nothing fancy. No idea which is the best and easiest video editing program for me to use.
Thank you! Glad to enjoyed it. As for video editing, I would look into Adobe Premiere Pro. It's fairly simple to use once you get the basics down and super affordable at only $10/month.
@@forestchaput Thanks for the advice, but i think here in spain it's much more expensive (and taking into account that we make less than half of what an american makes in salary...). I wonder if my husbannd's creative cloud account includes premiere pro....ill ask him.
Excellent tutorial. Love the organization into chapters with summary of each and the quick links. I like your practical workflow and organization better than Scott Kelby's.
Well done video! This is an extremely helpful video on how to organize your photos in Lightroom. I struggled with organizing my photos. This video has giving me tips to make things work in my favor going forward.
I have never understood Lightroom's organization tools and was afraid to try them for fear of screwing up my file structure. Now thanks to this super clear explanation I see that this is really the only way to do this. Now I feel more confident about "living" inside Lightroom. Awesome video! Thank you.
