Photography- Second Workshop

Image File Management, Organisation and Storage using Adobe Lightroom

In this workshop we got taught how to use Lightroom to organise and manage our files in a professional manner. Within Lightroom there are different elements , to help us understand Lightroom easier Beytan taught us a visual metaphor for identifying the relationship bewteen the different Lightroom elements. We visualized Lightroom as the following metaphor:

Lightroom is the library/ the catalog is a room within the library/ the collection set is an aisle within the room/ the collection is the shelf in the aisle/ the image previews are the book covers of the books on the shelf.

The following are the steps to organising and managing your files professionally:

- Open Lightroom and create a NEW CATALOG

- Finder/Explorer will open and ask you to create a folder for saving the location of your new catalog for your photo project.  Once you've created a new catalog you can access previous catalogs by selecting file/open recent to view other catalogs.

- Once you've saved the new catalog, Lightroom will reopen and give you an opportunity to import and organise your images.

- Select the IMPORT option to bring the images into Lightroom catalog

-  To create a collection, a drop down menu will appear, select create collection. Once you have created a new collection, you can drag & drop your image previews into the collection. After this you can orgabise them into collection sets.

-Exporting your collection or collection set as a catalog:

-   Select the collection or collection set , file menu/ export as catalog.

- Choose the destination.

I chose to use images from my Maps and journeys, as we were told to use existing images we had already had on our hard drives for this workshop.

Also we learnt how to develop image previews for clients within Lightroom as well. before exporting you can select a few images the images that have been selected you can export them straight out of Lightroom as jpegs when exporting you get  an option to watermark the images to copyright them.  Then you can show these jpegs to clients. Still keeping the original images in Lightroom.

You can have the option nin making the images black or white or retain the colour, I chose black and white cos it looked better.

 

This 2nd workshop has been extremely helpful  and has taught me a lot with working with images in a professional organised manner, and how easy it can be to keep track of all your work whether  it be videos or images and how this can save a lot of time. Using Lightroom in a professional manner how this will be hugely helpful with future works.