Lightroom: From Workflow to WOW, Session 1 Video, July 7, 2016

SO I am still on holidays and thought I would take the time to follow your courses. I have started with Lightroom a while back, but since time got spare and you need time to learn a new program, I returned to Picasa. Especially since I thought there was no facial recognition in LR.
You answered me there was in another thread here and I see it in your tutorial. The things is I don't have that option in my library. Could it be the version I am using? I have Lightroom 5.

 

Just watched the first class and it answered some the questions I have had! Just need to get my photos organized so I can begin - thanks Cheryl!

 

Oh, that's a bummer. But i'll follow the rest of the video and the others, as I restarted working in it, I remember how great it was. I'm sure Picasa will be something I need to leave, these last days, it has been closing and losing data wuthout any reason
Do you think I can get an upgrade to f.e. LR6 or do I have to buy the whole new program? I am not such an expert in these things...

 

Sarah, Picasa has been retired by Google.

 

Hi Cheryl,

I am jumping in REALLY late to the game, but none the less I am here finally. Firstly, thank you for creating this class. I love Lightroom and have used it for years. There is always more to learn, especially when it comes to Adobe products. I have watched the first video and cannot wait to catch up on the others. There were lots of good tips just in the 1st class!

I am curious to know why you upload your phone pictures to dropbox? Does that allow you to better control what you keep on phone and what you important to LR? One of my continual problems is I load my iPhone directly to LR and then if I delete pictures in LR(when I cleaning up or managing my LR library), LR will try to upload those deleted pictures again when try to import new pictures from my phone. This is happening because LR thinks they are "new" pictures. Dropbox might be a good work around for this.Is this why you use it? How much storage do you have on Dropbox? Do you delete the picture folders on dropbox after importing them to LR? I have lots of questions - and so appreciate your class!

Thank you!
Kelly

 

@KellyM I'm obviously not Cheryl (and she may have a totally different reason for using Dropbox), but I have my phone photos uploaded to Dropbox because you can set up Lightroom automatically import them from there!

Here are a couple of articles from Simple Scrapper that explain the process:

http://www.simplescrapper.com/2013/09/automating-camera-phone-uploads/

http://www.simplescrapper.com/2014/01/how-to-automatically-import-phone-photos-to-lightroom/

Since setting this up, I haven't had to hook my phone directly up to Lightroom at all, and it all happens in the background, so I don't even have to think about it! You will also love this- Dropbox will keep track of the photos that have been uploaded from your phone and only upload them once. So, if you import into Lightroom and then delete them? You won't see them again using this method! It's awesome!

 

@scrappyjedi - Thanks for the great info! I am so excited about the prospect of only importing my pictures once! My process right now is insane! I upload duplicates ALL THE TIME and then sort through them and delete them individually or in small groups! Can you say TIME CONSUMING! Ugh! You are a lifesaver!

 

@KellyM I'm not Cheryl either. But I upload from Dropbox because the process is automated for me. My photos are auto uploaded ( I have enough phone data that I let Dropbox do it on data, not just wifi) to a folder on my computer. If my phone gets lost, or thrown in a toilet by a toddler (true story for my mom), the chances of my photos already being on my computer are 99%. I don't have Lightroom watch the folder, because it's mine, my son's Kindle photos, and my husband's photos as well as screenshots that we take. Some of those have no reason to be in Lightroom, or archived, so I prefer to manually add them, and delete as I go.

And like Melissa said, I really love that I don't think about it at all. I don't connect my phone to Lightroom or my computer, it just happens like magic.

 

I knew, that's why I was starting with the LR Class ;-)

@gonewiththewind How long are the LR videos viewable here? I had some bom exploding at work and never got to finishing the first video. And I'd like to take it up again. Will I have time to go through every session?

 

I'll have my father look into that, he is the familytechy!

 

Okay, so I finally proceeded the video and I have 1 question that didn't get discussed.
I'm asking it, sorry if it comes by on one the others session, but I'm scared I would forget to ask otherwise.
It's about the x and marking some photos as rejected. You mention you then can delete all the rejected ones in a single action. But how do you do that? If the answer comes through in another session, just let me know.

 

Super dooper, thank you, you are so friendly to answer each and every question!

 

@gonewiththewind Hi I am very new to scrapbooking, lightroom, photoshop. Lets just say everything. Where do I start? what do I need...Thank you