About This Course

Got a mess in your Lightroom catalog? This course can help!

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In his Master Course for Cleaning Up Your Mess in Lightroom, Tim Grey shows you how to bring order to the chaos that many photographers have created with their workflow in Adobe Lightroom. With this course you'll learn how to:

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

Course Duration: 5 Hours 14 Minutes

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



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Course Curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

    • Course Introduction
  • 2

    Chapter 1 - Concepts and Preparation

    • Chapter Intro - Concepts and Preparation (0:34)

    • Lesson 1 - Finding Someone to Help You (1:25)

    • Lesson 2 - Three Rules for Getting Started (2:07)

    • Lesson 3 - What Got Us Into This Mess? (3:06)

    • Lesson 4 - Should You Give Up on Lightroom? (3:07)

    • Lesson 5 - Should You Just Start Over? (2:45)

    • Lesson 6 - Define Your Real Workflow (2:35)

    • Lesson 7 - Our Organizational Goal (2:37)

    • Lesson 8 - How Should Folders be Named? (3:44)

    • Lesson 9 - Preparing an Inventory (3:15)

    • Lesson 10 - Label Your Drives (1:46)

    • Lesson 11 - Backup Everything (3:40)

    • Lesson 12 - Fix your Catalog Backup Settings (5:02)

    • Lesson 13 - How Long Will This Take? (2:09)
  • 3

    Chapter 2 - Finding Missing Folders and Photos

    • Chapter Intro - Finding Missing Folders and Photos (0:41)

    • Lesson 1 - Avoiding Subfolder Confusion (4:34)

    • Lesson 2 - Avoiding Storage Location Confusion (3:44)

    • Lesson 3 - What is a Missing Photo? (3:26)

    • Lesson 4 - Reconnect Missing Folders (5:53)

    • Lesson 5 - Checking for Missing Photos (5:04)

    • Lesson 6 - Locate Missing Photos (6:43)

    • Lesson 7 - A Missing Photo Challenge (6:39)

    • Lesson 8 - Scavenger Hunt for Missing Photos (9:43)

    • Lesson 9 - Synchronizing to Recover Photos (6:02)

    • Lesson 10 - Removing Unrecoverable Photos (2:57)

    • Lesson 11 - Confirming No Photos Are Missing (2:26)
  • 4

    Chapter 3 - Consolidating and Organizing

    • Chapter Intro - Consolidating and Organizing (0:33)

    • Lesson 1 - Updating an Older Catalog (3:46)

    • Lesson 2 - Transferring Photos with a Catalog (6:28)

    • Lesson 3 - Consolidate Your Catalogs (9:03)

    • Lesson 4 - Consolidate Photo Storage (6:47)

    • Lesson 5 - Renaming Your Master Catalog (6:18)

    • Lesson 6 - Merging Folders (5:10)

    • Lesson 7 - Cleaning Up Date-Based Folders (8:00)

    • Lesson 8 - Finding and Removing Duplicates (8:32)
  • 5

    Chapter 4 - Organizational Cleanup

    • Chapter Intro - Organizational Cleanup (0:29)

    • Lesson 1 - Renaming Folders (3:53)

    • Lesson 2 - Splitting Photos to Multiple Folders (5:05)

    • Lesson 3 - Grouping Similar Folders (3:48)

    • Lesson 4 - Deleting Outtakes (or Not) (9:12)

    • Lesson 5 - Renaming Photos (9:46)

    • Lesson 6 - Removing Unnecessary Collections (2:55)

    • Lesson 7 - Tidying Up Collections (2:37)

    • Lesson 8 - Managing Storage on Multiple Drives (6:32)
  • 6

    Chapter 5 - Lightroom Housekeeping

    • Chapter Intro - Lightroom Housekeeping (0:34)

    • Lesson 1 - Getting Rid of Old Catalogs (4:24)

    • Lesson 2 - Deleting Old Catalog Backups (4:00)

    • Lesson 3 - Cleaning Up Export Presets (3:23)

    • Lesson 4 - Removing Develop Presets (3:06)

    • Lesson 5 - Removing "Extra" Virtual Copies (4:37)

    • Lesson 6 - Deleting Unused Keywords (3:43)

    • Lesson 7 - Removing Saved Projects (2:39)
  • 7

    Chapter 6 - Correcting Metadata

    • Chapter Intro - Correcting Metadata (0:41)

    • Lesson 1 - Updating and Replacing a Metadata Preset (6:39)

    • Lesson 2 - Correcting Capture Time (5:41)

    • Lesson 3 - Configuring Color Labels (4:37)

    • Lesson 4 - Resolving Color Label Mismatches (7:06)

    • Lesson 5 - Replacing Pick and Reject Flags (5:57)

    • Lesson 6 - Updating Star Rating Strategy (3:43)

    • Lesson 7 - Correcting Keyword Spelling Errors (5:39)

    • Lesson 8 - Reviewing Keywording Strategy (3:45)

    • Lesson 9 - Resolving Metadata Mismatches (6:32)

    • Lesson 10 - Adding or Correcting GPS Metadata (3:30)

    • Lesson 11 - Saving Metadata to Photos (6:08)
  • 8

    Chapter 7 - Wrapping Up

    • Chapter Intro - Wrapping Up (0:28)

    • Lesson 1 - Your First Import After Cleanup (6:31)

    • Lesson 2 - Importing to Date-Based Folders (5:42)

    • Lesson 3 - Migrating to a New Hard Drive (8:50)

    • Lesson 4 - Finding your Photos (7:41)

    • Lesson 5 - Be Consistent (and Organized) (2:01)
  • 9

    Downloads

    • Video Download 1 (1.45GB ZIP File)

    • Video Download 2 (1.94GB ZIP File)

    • Video Download 4 (1.46GB ZIP File)

    • Video Download 3 (1.80GB ZIP File)

    • Video Download 5 (882.4MB ZIP File)

    • Video Download 6 (2.01GB ZIP File)

    • Video Download 7 (1.10GB ZIP File)

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