I wish you could do every tutorial for me for anything ever. Clear, concise, and to the point. Love it! Well done

First time LR user and this is the very first video I've watch. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Amazingly simplified & extremely eloquently described without going on tangents or down rabbit holes a lot of content creators suffer from.

The clarity in you tutorials is excellent. You give space for the information to sink in.

Omg I went through a dozen videos about lightroom and was so frustrated. Then I watched yours. I love how you teach. Very clear and to the point. Thank you so much!!!

@3kohsamui

2 жыл бұрын

Spot on, I also went looking everywhere for this exact information and was frustrated to the point of giving up Lightroom all together ... really helpful, thanks!!

@bottledgroovephoto

2 жыл бұрын

same here! by far the easiest to understand

@williamcollins5417

2 ай бұрын

Did i ever...almost went crazy

Now, this is the most thorough and concise explanation on Lightroom, catalog storage. It also covers the basics of files and folders. After watching countless so called heavy hitters and adobe evangelist, this is by far the very best. I will continue to follow you! Thanks!

This was exactly what I was seeking, clear simple explanation, no super hype or how great are we (we don’t really do that in the UK, so I find it off putting in some tutorials from the Northern Americas). at a reasonable no nonsense pace, one of the better educators on KZread, great work, I appreciate your hard work for others benefit, thanks for this, Marcus

@PhotographyLifeChannel

3 жыл бұрын

That’s great to hear, thanks for the feedback and glad you found the explanation useful.

This is the best explanation I've seen. There are so many that speed thru their own personal setup. Thank you for this.

Really helpful, thank you, I had nearly given up with cataloging in Lightroom, now I understand it far more, I’m looking forward to your other videos now 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Even though I've had LR for about two years, these videos are very enlightening. Thanks, Spencer.

@PhotographyLifeChannel

4 жыл бұрын

Very happy to hear it, Adrian! Hope you enjoy the rest as well.

I really appreciate you publishing great quality contents like this.

Loving this series!

Great video - loved how you succinctly, clearly and comprehensively explained all things catalogues. If not already, could you please do a video to show how can we merge catalogues (if at all), move catalogues, recover back ups, and also what the different types of files associated with the catalogues are (I noticed there are 2-3 different files)? Thanks

Excellent explanation! Concise, complete, and easy to understand. Five stars!!

This was amazing. I've watched Linkedin Learning, Adobe tutorials and You Tube stuff and this is the clearest I have heard it explained.

Clear, concise, and intelligently communicated. I have been "trying" to teach myself Lightroom for about 6 months now. Pick it up, get discouraged, walk away, repeat. Even bought a video course online which I never watched, videos too long and too intricate. I'm so glad I found you, or rather Google found you for me.

@PhotographyLifeChannel

3 жыл бұрын

I’m really glad to hear it! Hope you enjoy Lightroom. After the first learning curve, it’s great and pretty intuitive.

Oh, well... Finally I understand the whole catalogue/organisation part of Lightroom. Thank you so much for this video, looking forward to the next one.

@PhotographyLifeChannel

4 жыл бұрын

Very happy to hear it, thanks, Silvia!

As others have said (they are very familiar with LR), I found your videos to be a very concise review of the features of LR. I deeply appreciate your time in producing them and will subscribe to be able to receive more. Having taught for 32 years, I am impressed with your teaching skills. Thanks

@PhotographyLifeChannel

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the kind feedback! Hearing that from someone who has taught as long as you means a lot.

Well done explaining LR!!

Excellent presentation Spencer. I had difficulty understanding the LR Catalogue in relation to my photos but you have just cleared the fog. Thank you. Have enjoyed previous photography videos you have presented and am very impressed with your presentations. Clear, detailed and to the point. Look forward to more LR videos.

@PhotographyLifeChannel

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for saying so, Dora! Glad you’ve found the videos useful so far, and hopefully now the Lightroom catalog will be a bit more intuitive to use.

Best video on the planet.... Was looking for this for over 3 months I think.

Wow. You're like so good at doing tutorials. I've been using Lr for years yet I feel like I just relearned everything from your video. Very beginner friendly as well.

Really excited to try this feature out! Amazing work !

@PhotographyLifeChannel

Жыл бұрын

I'm sure you'll find it useful!

Absolutely the best tutorial on Lightroom that I have seen. Many thanks.

You are an excellent teacher, natural skills . Bravo!

Great going..hope to see this grow into a full fledged Lightroom tutorial series.. 👍

@PhotographyLifeChannel

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Sanjay! I have many videos on Lightroom planned and a lot of time to film them, so I’m hopeful that this will be a pretty complete guide by the end.

Excellent presentation. I agree with many other commenters; you clearly have a future in the industry. P.S. your video lighting and sound are perfect!

@PhotographyLifeChannel

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks! Glad you found it so useful. It definitely took some setup and practice to get the audio and lighting like this, so I'm happy to hear it works well!

What a fabulous teacher!

This was was so helpful as I try to finally manage my different LR catalogs--thank you! 👍

Very well put together. Very detailed!

Great job. Very clear and articulate. Keep up the good work!

Excellent, clear presentation. Thank you.

You explained all these concepts so well! Thank you, I finally understand some of the things I didn't before!!

@PhotographyLifeChannel

3 жыл бұрын

Oh good! Glad to hear it.

first video i have found that i could follow had lightroom for 8 years and you explain in simple to follow terms thanks will def follow keep up the good work.

Thx for the clear and straightforward explanation!

Nice vid! Well explained and no fluff. Thanks!

Thank you so much for your explanation. The best tutorial so far, concise, clear, and easy to follow.

I find lightroom so frustrating but with the help of your video I understand it better! thank you so much

looking forward to coming presentations!!!

@PhotographyLifeChannel

4 жыл бұрын

Sweet! Should have some new LR videos out shortly.

Your explanation of catalog is superb and simple.

@PhotographyLifeChannel

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Thanks, nice to get a review of this topic every so often....

@PhotographyLifeChannel

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, Carl, never hurts to go over Lightroom catalogs again!

very useful and thorough information. very clear and easy to understand. amazing work.

Nice job, clear, easy to follow. Appreciate it!

Thank you for clearing that up for me. You explained it perfectly.

@PhotographyLifeChannel

3 жыл бұрын

Sure thing! Glad it was helpful.

Thank you for your complete and comprehensive training. Very good!

@PhotographyLifeChannel

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you found it useful, thanks, Rozenn!

Thanks for great video Spencer. You explain so clearly and well .

@PhotographyLifeChannel

4 жыл бұрын

Much appreciated, David!

Great job Spencer. Thanks and keep them coming..

@PhotographyLifeChannel

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! More coming soon!

GREAT VIDEO with easy to understand information..thanks!

wowowowo...thank you, so clear and easy to understand!

Great video, Spencer! Clarified a couple of points I was unclear about. Thanks.

@PhotographyLifeChannel

3 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it!

Very helpful information, thank you 🙏

A clear explanation, thank you

Thank you so much for this video! Super well done and you explained it very clearly!

awesome explanation dear. Wonderful. your way of teaching is professional tutor.

seriously AWESOME explanation!! I've never understood the catalog until this video ... PLEASE make a tutorial regular on LR !!

@PhotographyLifeChannel

4 жыл бұрын

Really appreciate the feedback! And I’m happy to hear that you know understand Lightroom catalogs much better.

@AliZaidi

4 жыл бұрын

@@PhotographyLifeChannel Is there a way, that you can help me with my D.A.M ?? I honestly am begging for help and I can't find anyone who will sit down and help me out with my it

@PhotographyLifeChannel

4 жыл бұрын

@ALI - What issues are you having? If it’s something general with Lightroom, maybe you’ll find Chapter 2.1 and 2.2 of this video series helpful for organizing your photos and general DAM applications. If it’s more specific than that, let me know some more details and I’ll try to help.

You're a great presenter!

Very informative!

Thank you! This was informative

very clear! thanks

Revisiting this video and looking forward to the next video!

@PhotographyLifeChannel

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Silvia! Next chapter will be up Monday, and then I’ll do some on the post-processing side of Lightroom. Might take a break and do non-Lightroom videos in between though.

@silviasanchez648

4 жыл бұрын

@@PhotographyLifeChannel Great! Lightroom is really a big unknown for me. I'm learning a lot from your videos.

Very good! Thanks!

Such a good video

Super informative and useful! Great tutorial!

@PhotographyLifeChannel

3 жыл бұрын

Much appreciated, Michael!

Good video. I got some very useful information. Thanks.

very informative, thank you

Great video. Thanks

great vid

Congratulations, very calm super well explained, great examples. This is a fantastic video for new users,and even old ones. Five stars, a falg and a Red label 😊 and go to a smart collection. Congratulations again,really good

Very concise and informative video! High Quality

@PhotographyLifeChannel

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

It's working thanks my friend

Very clear. Thanks

@PhotographyLifeChannel

2 жыл бұрын

Happy to hear it was clear, thank you!

Excellent tutorial - thank you so much.

@PhotographyLifeChannel

4 жыл бұрын

You’re very welcome! Thanks for the feedback!

Nice & clear thx

Thank you very much , now I will understand the functionality

@PhotographyLifeChannel

Жыл бұрын

That's great, glad to hear you liked it!

Good easy to follow instructions

@PhotographyLifeChannel

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Brilliant at last a video that makes it very clear for a beginner. Thank you so much, please write a book if you haven’t already.

@PhotographyLifeChannel

3 жыл бұрын

Very glad to hear it! I don't have a book on Lightroom, although I wrote a guide so long that it basically qualifies. Here's the link: photographylife.com/how-to-use-lightroom-a-tutorial-for-beginners I *have* written a book about landscape photography, which is going to be released later this year :)

Thank you!

Thanks bro that was really helpful

@PhotographyLifeChannel

Жыл бұрын

Glad it helped, thank you!

Very informative, a big thanks from me!

Thanks Spencer..I had the chance to play with Lightroom 3-4months ago, and didn't really get it. Im about to go purchase it now and jump in, but keen to view as much as I can re file/folder set up so I am better armed when I get it. Ive watched many Tube videos, but a lot of them rush it - yours (and one other) go at a good pace and break it down. Thank you so much for explaining what a Catalogue is as I was very confused on it. Looking forward to your next video about importing etc........

@PhotographyLifeChannel

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Laurie! Glad you found it so useful. I just put up the new video on importing photos and wanted to give you a heads up!

so clean and perfect explain , thanks a lot , new subscriber here , bell notification on , hands down and blessings

@PhotographyLifeChannel

3 жыл бұрын

Let’s gooo! Welcome aboard! Really glad you found this video so useful.

Thanks, very well organized and well presented :-)

@PhotographyLifeChannel

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Karsten, glad it was useful!

Thank you so much!

@PhotographyLifeChannel

3 жыл бұрын

You’re very welcome!

Hi! This was so helpful! I was wondering if you ever made that video about using the same catalog across multiple hardrives?

Thank you very much

@PhotographyLifeChannel

Жыл бұрын

You're very welcome!

thanksssssss

Amazing video thank you so much!!! I have a problem in that I have created several catalogs and I think some are on my one drive and some are not. I want to combine them all, do you have a tutorial on that?

Great video, Thank you!! If we create a folder within LR desktop, transfer images into that folder, is that the same thing as "exporting" the images?

Loved it! When do you do multiple computers?

Great vid. Explained everything clearly and concise. I just moved all my pictures from my hard drive to an external harddrive using windows explorer. When i opened up Lightroom, it said the catalog was missing (it's probably on the external drive), so i created a new one....so now i have to teach LIghtroom where all my pictures are. How will i do that? I guess by making a new folder, within lightroom, called "my pictures" and that will be the top folder on my external harddrive with all my pictures in it......

Tom Clemons Finally, a clear explanation. Btw, love the mustache. Where did you get them?

Thank you. Is there a way to to have LrC, or another software that you know of, add words from the title of images into the keyword list automatically?

i have a weird issue where the edits are being saved in the original folder where the image is in. so if i have 2 pictures in a folder on a ssd that i put all folders in just for light room pictures. i also have a separate ssd for the light room catalog. if i start working on the 2 photos and i edit them with light room and Photoshop and other software it saves every edited photo in the same folder that the original is in. so if i edited a photo 3 times i have the original photo with 3 edited photos of the same original. i thought all this info was saved in the catalog, im so confused .

Hi ... do you create a new catalog for every new set of photos or keep them all under one catalog ?

Hi Spencer, thanks for your video. Pretty useful! I have been looking for this answer for a while but do you know whether we can move the catalogue on a NAS? So From home, I can switch between my fix computer and my laptop. Else I agree I could copy it on an external hard drive, but... I agree it is not a big deal to move my small hdd from one computer to the other one.... but it would be so much more convenient having access to a NAS. Hope you can answer me or give me some tips... Cheers, Alex.

Hi Spencer, do I need to create multiple catalogs? Or 1 catalog will be enough? Thanks 🙏🏻

Great video! Did you end up making one about how to handle catalogs across multiple computers? Would you save out separate catalogs on the particular external hard drive the images are on?

@PhotographyLifeChannel

3 жыл бұрын

I haven’t made one yet. You could try keeping the catalog on the external drive if it’s fast enough (ideally an SSD), or keep separate catalogs and then use “export as catalog” to transfer photos from one computer to another. If you alternate between these two computers frequently, I’d go with the SSD method. Otherwise, the second method is going to give you better performance in Lightroom.

Found this while searching for Lightroom catalog and wow, you are such an amazing teacher. Seriously, so clear and simple to follow. You have a special talent here. May I ask a question? I had to make a new catalog and then "add" my photos to it. But of course, the edits are all gone. New "RAW" images are there without the edits. Can I import the edits? I don't know how. Thank you. I've subscribed.

@PhotographyLifeChannel

7 ай бұрын

Sure thing! You can do what you’re interested in. What you need to do is open the old catalog, and highlight all the photos you want to have the edits for. Go to File > Export As Catalog and do not select “export negative files.” After exporting this, go back to your catalog that is missing all the edits. You should be able to do File > Import From Another Catalog and select the file that you just exported from your old catalog. And that will sync the edits! All that said, I question why you created a new catalog in the first place - it’s usually not worth it and not a good idea. It may be best to stick with your previous catalog and clean it up if there’s something wrong with it, rather than starting a new one from scratch.

@KellyPettit

7 ай бұрын

Thank you for your time! Yeah, I'd prefer to go back to my old catalog after all the edits but I must have done something funky. My iMac updated and then Adobe updated Classic and relaunched without my catalog. When I went back to my old catalog Adobe said it needed to be updated, I clicked "OK" and none of my folders were there. Just a new LR classic. Now it appears the original is no longer usable. Not sure what I did. @@PhotographyLifeChannel

I upgraded to the newer version of Lightroom and it asked me something about catalog and I just said okay but it started brand new catalog and I can't get access to all of my previous photos. Please help thank you

Would like to see this procedure on a Windows machine. I have tried to correlate the your information from Apple information...the fog is slightly lifted but still unclear...presentation is super...will try to figure out what Apple and Windows are alike...I have tried and tried to find a source for Windows version of what you have accomplished...You are the closest yet...thank you...