New Year's is always a good time for resolutions. Sometimes, the best resolutions are the small approachable ones that solve big problems in your life. For example, one of my big problems right now is storage for my photo library....

About a week ago, my Apple G5 tower suffered a fatal crash. Initially it just froze up - upon restarting, it froze again in several minutes. Sadly, earlier that day, the hard drive I backup all of my business files...

Suppose you could do an entirely different processing interpretation of the same photo for different end uses, keep them all in you Library where you could reference them easily, and even create a slide show, printed portfolio, contact sheet, or...

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...

Since January, I've been spending most of my time away from home. This means that while I've got all the hard drive space I need at home, I've been getting a bit creative to keep my images near to me...

Quite a few people I know are using external drives to hold their Lightroom databases and images on. I'm one of them. With many of my shoots pushing the 50GB of data mark, and with over half a TB of...

This is probably the biggest question I get from Lightroom users. How do I create multiple Libraries on different external hard disk drives? And how do I move from one library to another on different hard disk drives, while using...