About This Course

Is your Lightroom Classic catalog a mess?
Could your workflow use to be streamlined?
This course can help!

In his Master Course for Cleaning Up Your Mess in Lightroom, Tim Grey shows you how to restore order, reduce clutter, and streamline your worklfow in Adobe Lightroom Classic. With this course you'll learn how to:

  • Locate (and reconnect) missing folders and photos
  • Consolidate and reorganize your folders
  • Merge multiple catalogs into a single "master" catalog
  • Locate and remove duplicate photos
  • Resolve metadata mismatches
  • Streamline your organizational workflow
  • And much, much more!

In short, Tim will help you resolve the challenges that many photographers face within Lightroom Classic. Along the way he'll guide you through the process of defining your approach to cleaning up your mess in Lightroom Classic, and help you make some of the decisions about an improved organizational workflow moving forward.

Chapter Summary

Here is a summary of what you can expect to learn from each of the chapters in this course:

Chapter 1: Concepts and First Steps - Learn to better understand what the Lightroom Classic catalog is, how Lightroom Classic works, and what steps you should take to prepare to clean up your catalog and workflow.

Chapter 2: Finding Missing Folders and Photos - This chapter will focus on what is arguably the greatest frustration photographers experience with their Lightroom Classic catalog. You'll learn how to locate and reconnect folders and photos that are shown as missing within your catalog, and how to avoid these issues in the future.

Chapter 3: Consolidating and Managing Storage - This chapter will go beyond making sure you don't have any missing folders or photos in your catalog, showing you how to consolidate overall storage, clean up your folder structure, and more.

Chapter 4: Workflow Cleanup - In this chapter you'll get tips for refining your workflow for keeping your photos organized, such as methods for identifying favorites versus outtakes, strategies for keywording, making the most of the import feature, and more.

Chapter 5: Metadata Cleanup - After getting a better sense of how you define your workflow for organizing photos, this chapter will help you clean up metadata and improve the consistency of how your photos are organized. You'll learn how to update metadata attributes based on your new workflow, resolve metadata mismatches, manage keywords, and much more.

Chapter 6: Lightroom Classic Configuration - This chapter will guide you through some of the various configuration options in Lightroom Classic, including Preferences and Catalog Settings. You'll also learn how to manage your Lightroom Classic catalog, remove clutter from your workflow, and more.

Chapter 7: Wrapping Up - In this final chapter you'll get tips on keeping your workflow streamlined and organized, including options for importing photos based on your folder strategy, a look at the many ways you can locate photos within the catalog, and more.

Course Duration: 7 Hours 40 and Minutes

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Course Curriculum

    1. 01-01 Watch Me First! (24:54)

    2. 01-02 Defining Your Cleanup Goals (24:17)

    3. 01-03 Preparing for Cleanup (11:44)

    1. 02-01 What Missing Means (08:13)

    2. 02-02 Reconnecting Missing Folders (16:52)

    3. 02-03 Locating Missing Photos (40:14)

    1. 03-01 Cleaning up the Folder Structure (36:25)

    2. 03-02 Deleting Outtakes and Duplicates (26:03)

    3. 03-03 Renaming Photos (17:38)

    4. 03-04 Tidying Up Collections (08:35)

    5. 03-05 Cleaning Up Cloud Storage (19:19)

    6. 03-06 Managing Storage Needs (07:52)

    7. 03-07 Merging Catalogs (14:15)

    1. 04-01 Configuring for Import (13:29)

    2. 04-02 Fully Leveraging Import (26:47)

    3. 04-03 Image Review Workflow (17:23)

    4. 04-04 Keywording Tips (20:00)

    5. 04-05 Batch Metadata Updates (08:41)

    1. 05-01 Correcting Capture Time (06:48)

    2. 05-02 Managing Color Labels (08:31)

    3. 05-03 Replacing Pick and Reject Flags (05:32)

    4. 05-04 Star Ratings Update (06:38)

    5. 05-05 Managing Keywords (11:44)

    6. 05-06 Resolving Metadata Mismatches (06:58)

    7. 05-07 Managing Metadata Presets (04:04)

    8. 05-08 Updating Location Metadata (05:47)

    9. 05-09 Saving Metadata to Photos (05:45)

    1. 06-01 Key Preferences Settings (08:57)

    2. 06-02 Catalog Settings (13:36)

    3. 06-03 Catalog Management (15:07)

About this course

  • $79.00
  • 41 lessons
  • 7.5 hours of video content

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