1) What is a Catalog? Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a catalog-based post-processing and image management software. For someone new to such photo managing approach it.
A catalog is a database that tracks the location of your photos and information about them. When you edit photos, rate them, add keywords to them, or do other things to photos in Lightroom, all those changes are stored in the catalog. The photo files themselves are not touched. Note: Catalogs are different from collections. Collections are an organizational tool within a catalog.
When you start Lightroom the first time, it automatically creates an empty catalog file (for example, Lightroom 5 Catalog.lrcat) for you. To start working with this default, empty catalog, click the Import button. For more information on catalogs, including a video tutorial, see. To create a catalog: Start Lightroom and choose File New Catalog. Specify where you want to store the catalog, enter a name, and click Create. To open a different catalog: Choose File Open Catalog, navigate to the location of the catalog you want to open, and click Open.
Combine Lightroom 5 Catalogs
If you have multiple catalogs, tell Lightroom which one to open when you start the program: Choose Edit Preferences (Windows) or Lightroom Preferences (Mac OS) and then specify an option in the General panel. For more information on the choices, see. If you move image files in the Finder (Mac OS) or Explorer (Windows), the Lightroom catalog could lose track of them. When a catalog can't find a photo, a Photo Is Missing icon appears in the photo th umbnail in the Library Grid view and in the Filmstrip. The icon is an exclamation point ( ). The error 'File could not be found' appears over the photo preview in the Develop module.
In the Grid view of the Library module, click the Photo Is Missing icon in a photo thumbnail. Click the Locate button and navigate to the folder that contains the photo. Click Select.
After my 2-day class on creativeLIVE, I had a number of great questions that I wanted to answer. Today we will focus on working with Catalogs. Fortunately, I have videos already recorded that will answer these questions!
1) MQuinn: So you ALWAYS create a new CAT when you are on the road? JK: Yes, I always create a new catalog when I’m on location so that I don’t mess up the files inadvertently when doing demos. And, in fact, I have posted a new video tutorial on this exact subject –. 4) jjack: If you want to put all of your files on a new HD, how do you deal with your LR Catalog and Previews? JK: I think this video , will help explain all of the components of Lightroom and what you might need/want to move to a new machine: Or, if you simply want to move files, this video, will show you how.
Lightroom 5 Catalog Location
5) AlexSanDiego: How do you merge catalogs, ie secondary catalog to Master? JK: This video , will demonstrate how to merge catalogs. 6) Wayne: How do you export a catalog from one computer and import the catalog on another computer? JK: This video , covers 3 topics including how to export a catalog. You might want to skip to 6:20 where I start discussing how to export a catalog. For whatever reason, I thought that if you merged two Lightroom catalogs you would lose the History states from the images that you had made adjustments to in the Develop module.
Lightroom 5 Tutorial
But it turns out that you don’t! So, when I work on location with a location catalog and make change to my images in the Develop module, when I return home to my master catalog and choose to “Import from Another Catalog”, all of the History states from the Develop module are available. I have a feeling that this is not a new feature, just one that I didn’t know about.