To avoid such undesired cases, ensure that you work with the same catalog every single time. There could be times where your professional workflow requires you to create multiple catalogs.
To understand what works for you, read the full article. Lightroom Classic catalog speed has been optimized for working with hundreds of thousands of images and using a single catalog is no longer a hindrance to smooth work. In fact, in most cases, it is advisable to opt for a single catalog to work. In case you mistakenly renamed your catalog or the folder your catalog was in and are not able to locate it, avoid creating a new one in haste.
Legal Notices Online Privacy Policy. Benefits of using a single catalog Search. Drag photos from the Grid view to a collection in the Collections panel. Identify photos in a collection. Note : Smart collections are not listed. Remove photos from a collection. Select a collection in the Collections panel.
Copy or move photos between collections. In the Library module, select a collection in the Collections panel. In the Grid view, select photos. To copy the selected photos, drag them to the collection in the Collections panel that you want to add them to. To move the selected photos, delete the photos from the original collection after dragging them to the new collection.
Sort collections. Choose Sort By Kind to sort collections by type. Rename a collection or collection set. Overwrite the name of the collection. Set a target collection. In the Collections panel, select the collection that you want to target. A collection set cannot be a target. A white plus icon next to the collection name indicates that it is targeted.
Work with the Quick Collection. Add photos to the Quick Collection. Select one or more photos in the Filmstrip or the Grid view. View photos in the Quick Collection. In the Library module, select Quick Collection in the Catalog panel. Remove photos from or clear the Quick Collection. Display the Quick Collection in the Filmstrip or Grid view. Select one or more photos in the collection.
Convert the Quick Collection to a collection. Specify one of the following actions:. Click Save. Work with Smart Collections. Create a smart collection. In the Create Smart Collection dialog box, type a name for your smart collection. Specify the rules for the smart collection by choosing options from the pop-up menus. Choose to match all or any of the criteria from the Match menu. Edit smart collections. You can change the criteria and rules for a smart collection at any time.
Choose new rules and options in the Edit Smart Collection dialog box. You cannot sort by User Order or drag photos to rearrange them in a smart collection. Share smart collection settings. Specify the name and location of the exported smart collection settings file and then click Save. Navigate to and select a smart collection. Add a color label to collections, smart collections, and collection sets Introduced in the August release of Lightroom Classic version 8.
Remove color labels from collections. Filter color labeled collections. To filter all the collections that have been assigned to a color label:. Choose Color Labels from the drop-down list and select a color. Work with All Synced Photographs collection. Add photos to All Synced Photographs collection. Lightroom Classic also has advanced options for letting you compare photos and group them into permanently saved selections these are called Collections.
The closest rival to Lightroom Classic at the moment when it comes to image browsing and organization is Capture One Pro from Phase One.
Another benefit of building Lightroom Classic around a database is that it contains all the important metadata from your photos. Lightroom Classic uses this information to search your photos. That makes it easy for you to search your photos using criteria like camera settings.
For instance, would you like to see all photos taken with a specific lens in the year ? Or how about searching images by location? You can also add metadata in Lightroom Classic, such as star ratings, color labels and keywords, and use this additional metadata for searching photos.
This includes tasks like merging to HDR, creating panoramas, retouching portraits and converting to black and white. Instead, it takes a different and rather clever approach. Lightroom Classic keeps a record of any developing work you have done in the Catalog, saved as lines of text which take up very little hard drive space. As you can probably see, these text commands indicate the settings of parameters like saturation, sharpness and vibrance — all sliders used in Lightroom Classic to develop photos.
Your original photo files are never overwritten. It saves a lot of hard drive space. For example, if you convert a 21 megapixel Raw file to a 16 bit TIFF file for developing in a conventional image editing application then you end up with a MB file.
Lightroom Classic, on the other hand, only requires a few kilobytes of hard drive space to save its text commands. The space savings are exponential for large photo collections and helps keep the size manageable.
Start your Lightroom Classic journey today. Get five free lessons and monthly tips and tricks when you join our free Mastering Lightroom newsletter. Another benefit of Lightroom Classic is that it works well with other image editing applications and plugins. For example, you might like to use a plugin like Silver Efex Pro for converting photos to black and white, or Luminar for adding an orton effect to your landscape photos. In either case, you can use Lightroom Classic to organize and partially develop your photos, then send them to the plugin to finish them off.
In other words, Lightroom Classic is a complete workflow application , not just an image editing application.
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