Clean Up Your Catalog and Workflow

January 11-22, 2027
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays (6 Live Online Sessions)
12pm to 2pm Eastern Time


Make a New Year's Resolution to Streamline Your Workflow and Restore Order to Lightroom Classic, and Tim Grey Will Help You Succeed!


In this online workshop taught by Tim Grey during the month of January 2027, you'll learn how to restore order to your workflow and cleanup your mess in Adobe Lightroom Classic. Along the way you'll have direct access to Tim so you can get answers to your specific questions.


Clean Up Your Lightroom Classic Catalog and Workflow

Adobe Lightroom Classic is a powerful application that enables photographers to organize, optimize, and share their photos. However, many photographers have gotten into a bit of a mess (to say the least!) with their workflow in Lightroom Classic, leading to confusion and frustration.

Fortunately, Tim Grey understands Lightroom Classic inside and out, and can help you restore order to your workflow.

In this six-part live online workshop experience, you'll gain the knowledge and confidence you need to be able to resolve a wide variety of organizational challenges in Lightroom Classic. You'll learn to locate missing folders and photos, correct chaotic metadata, and much more. You'll also gain insights into how to avoid creating problems in Lightroom Classic moving forward.

Along the way, you'll be able to get your questions answered by Tim Grey during the live sessions or via follow-up email.

The six live online sessions will take place during the month of January 2027. Each session will be approximately two hours in duration. All sessions will be recorded, so that photographers who register for this workshop can view (and download) the session recordings anytime at their convenience.


Virtual Classroom Sessions

The live online sessions will be as follows:

  • Understanding and Planning
    Monday, January 11, 2027
    12:00pm to 2:00pm Eastern Time


  • Importing for Success
    Wednesday, January 13, 2027
    12:00pm to 2:00pm Eastern Time


  • Finding Missing Photos and Folders
    Friday, January 15, 2027
    12:00pm to 2:00pm Eastern Time


  • Metadata Cleanup
    Monday, January 18, 2027
    12:00pm to 2:00pm Eastern Time


  • Streamlining Your Workflow
    Wednesday, January 20, 2027
    12:00pm to 2:00pm Eastern Time


  • Housekeeping in Lightroom Classic
    Friday, January 22, 2027
    12:00pm to 2:00pm Eastern Time


What's Included

This online workshop experience includes:

  • Six 2-hour live online interactive workshop sessions
  • Access to recordings of all sessions you can watch (or download) anytime, indefinitely
  • Ability to submit questions during the live online sessions
  • Option to submit follow-up questions via email


Session Details

During the four live online sessions included in this online workshop, you'll learn to better understand Adobe Lightroom Classic, and how to clean up your catalog and workflow. Here are details of the topics covered in each session:


Understanding and Planning

This session will provide you with a much better understanding of how Lightroom Classic works, and provide you with tips for planning the process of cleaning up your catalog and workflow. Topics will include:

  • Tips for planning your Lightroom Classic cleanup
  • Understanding what leads to a mess in your catalog, and how to avoid a mess
  • Deciding whether you should just start fresh with a new catalog
  • Setting goals for your workflow
  • And more


Importing for Success

During this session you'll learn how to stay organized right from the very first step of your workflow when importing photos into your Lightroom Classic catalog. Topics will include:

  • Preparing your workflow before you import
  • Fully leveraging the import process
  • Tips for making sure all photos get reviewed after import
  • Defining your folder structure during import
  • And more


Finding Missing Photos and Folders

During this session you'll learn how to recover missing folders and photos in your Lightroom Classic catalog. Topics will include:

  • What "missing" actually means in Lightroom Classic.
  • How to best reconnect missing folders
  • Tips for locating missing photos
  • Confirming when no more photos are missing
  • And more


Metadata Cleanup

This session will help you resolve issues with the metadata that can be so important for keeping your photos organized. Topics will include:

  • How to resolve mismatches in metadata  for the catalog and photos
  • Techniques for correcting erroneous metadata values
  • Resolving problems caused by an inconsistent workflow for metadata updates
  • Cleaning up metadata including color labels, pick and reject flags, and keywords
  • And more


Streamlining Your Workflow

This session will help you streamline your overall workflow, while still cleaning up the information in your Lightroom Classic catalog. Topics will include:

  • Tidying up your folder structure
  • Consolidating storage
  • Organizing collections
  • And more


Housekeeping in Lightroom Classic

This session will help you further improve your workflow and catalog. Topics will include:

  • Updating an older catalog
  • Merging multiple catalogs into one
  • Renaming your catalog
  • Removing old catalog backups
  • Saving metadata to photos
  • And more


Have Questions?

If you have questions about this live online workshop experience, please email Tim at [email protected].