In addition to storing your raw image adjustments in the Lightroom catalog, you can also save the information to an XMP sidecar file. In this article we examine what information is not kept in XMP.

One of the confusing topics I get a lot of questions about is metadata - what is really needed and where do I put what? The answer to that question is it depends. It depends on if you are a...

I find that what photographers really need aside from specific direction (ie. How do i do XYZ in Lightroom?) is a sense of the big picture, a sense of why we make one decision over another, and how it all...

One of the biggest problems with keywords is that there are so many synonyms in the English language. So how do you know that one specific keyword for one specific thing will always be the case? After all, if it's...

James Duncan Davidson’s last post, Copyright and Metadata, expounded on Lightroom’s ability to painlessly embed the creator (& copyright) information in your photos (both within the master—or sidecar—files and exported copies). I just want to touch upon one other beneficial...

In my previous post: Plugins to Piglets, we explored some unique ways to extend Lightroom’s plugin architecture to automate the online delivery and post-processing of any select number of images. This week we’re going to dig deeper into the flickr...

Using standard keywords helps you and potential buyers find your images faster. Lightroom makes it easy to add structured keywords such as the Controlled Vocabulary list.

While hanging out with my good friend Nevada Wier last week, we talked about Lightroom and some tricks she learned while teaching her last photo workshop in India with George Jardine, the Adobe Lightroom evangelist. One of the options she...

Entering in metadata about your photographs is one of the more tedious jobs in the digital darkroom. Most of the time, I consider it to be a necessary, but unexciting step. Sometimes, when I'm feeling less charitable, I find it...

After picking up my bags (and other things) and moving to Southern California this past week, I did what I always do when arriving in a new location: I picked up my camera and headed out to take some...

I’m developing a real respect for the people who make their living in tech support. They are the ones on the front lines who constantly have to figure out if a problem is a bug, a user-error, or simply an...

Last week, I was Wiesbaden, Deutschland, hanging out with fellow photo geek Patrick Lenz. We ran about, took lots of pictures, and traded notes about both photography and Lightroom. Wiesbaden was a lot of fun, especially since it's off the...

After playing around with Lightroom you’ll grow familiar with its two faces: the first is that of a management & cataloging application (the Library module), the other is akin to an image editor (the Develop module). While I—and I’m...

A few weeks ago, a photographer called me who was severely frustrated. Somehow her Lightroom catalog had gotten corrupted during an editing session - after she had done many hours of work. Her images were fine as they were backed...

Recently, I acquired a new addition to my photographic tool chest in the form of a new Canon 1D Mark III. This is the first 1-series camera I've owned and I've been spending a lot of time going through all...

It's easy to get excited about Lightroom 1.1's obvious new features such as Clarity, catalogs, and its powerful new sharpening controls. But there are many less sexy yet helpful improvements that all add up to make 1.1 a fantastic upgrade....

It is so easy to add keywords to whole groups of images that I'd be willing to bet that a lot of images have inherited keywords that you never meant them to have. For instance, you can highlight a whole...

My Lightroom Adventure book tech editor, Doug Nelson, and I got in an argument the other day about the value of placing certain camera EXIF data under the Library module Histogram....

The metadata browser in Lightroom offers an informative hierarchical tree of information based on the various bits and bobs of metadata that are associated with your images. From the moment I saw this, I became fascinated with the way that...

Without a doubt, the most tedious activity for me in processing a shoot is applying keywords and writing captions. There's magic in the develop module when you make a photo the best it can be. And the process of ranking...