Organizing with Lightroom

Explore the tools you can use to organize your photo library in Lightroom. Learn how to import, rate, catalog and share your photos for a perfect workflow.

Introduction

• Want to organize your photos with Lightroom?
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files

1. Where Are Your Files Stored?

• Understanding your storage options
• Controlling local storage
• Logging into cloud storage with your Adobe ID

2. Adding Photos to Your Library

• Importing photos from a folder into Lightroom
• Importing photos from a camera or media card reader into Lightroom
• Importing images from Lightroom Mobile
• Directly import photos from a camera or SD to a mobile device
• Cleaning up imported files in Adobe Lightroom

3. Browsing and Rating Images in the Library

• The role of flags
• Advice when using ratings
• Sorting and filtering images by criteria
• Using My View shortcuts to browse images
• Viewing images full screen
• Searching by auto-tagging
• Understanding photo metadata and Sync status

4. Get Organized

• The role of albums
• The role of folders
• Using stacks to organize similar photos or sets
• Using search to find images
• Create a group album and invite others to contribute
• Storage settings for albums

5. Organizing with People View

• Adding names to people
• Merging people into one record
• Hiding people from view
• Changing a cover photo for a person
• Removing a bad image from identification

6. Migrate Photos to Lightroom

• Migrate photos and videos from Lightroom Classic to Lightroom
• Migrate photos from Photoshop Elements to Lightroom
• Migrate Apple Photos library to Lightroom
• Removing images from the library

Conclusion

• Next steps