Photography Masterclass - 10 Mistakes New Lightroom Classic Users Make

Welcome to Terry White's Photography Masterclass! In this session, Terry will show you how to avoid the 10 most common mistakes that new users to Lightroom Classic make.
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[@arjr216]

Thank you!! Wow, I knew I was doing something's wrong and now I have a better understanding on a few items starting with number 1on your list. Lets see if I can apply what I learned today. Thank you again Mr. White

[@howardhack655]

Wow great information. I’m embarrassed, I have been using Lightroom for 5 years and really learned a lot . I will use this information.

[@annvanepps8011]

Hi Terry from Michigan

[@FrameandFamePro]

I still really like @lightroom classic! I have not gotten adjusted to @Lightroom CC just yet. Thanks for always being an amazing resource for our industry!

[@Just_because998]

Excellent Terry. I just started to use LrC, but a long time user of PS. Love the crash course. You have close to 1/2 million images in the catalogue, and yet the preview folder only take up 50 GB. I have approximately 77 thousand images the catalogue but my preview folder is over 258 GB - what do you think I did wrong? Any help is appreciated. Ramu

[@GrahamGphotoParker]

Organising images by folder or date is a contentious one Clifford Picket who teaches LR has a good argument for "by date" using keywords on all images. If I remember correctly he doesn't use collections so much as he has keywords with Who , What, Where. Both ways make sense to me but you need to keep on top of it whichever way you go.

[@sjsphotog]

Great tips/tricks tutorial Terry. You are THE MAN. Yeah I can admit Im a Folder by Date guy in my Lr Catalog. Need to go back and put meaningful names instead. I do keywords but not all the time so....yeah unless you keep it up consistently it gets out of whack quickly. All the rest of the tips I knew about and am NOT in violation of those :P Keep up the good work

[@billyyoung234]

Really Great Tutorial Terry, Have you ever created a Tutorial about how to manage / handle Duplicates ? If you have not, is it worth investigating ? or is it just too complicated to detect duplicates ?

[@FabianEuresti]

Walt Disney Concert Hall, adjacent to REDCAT, the Roy/Edna Disney/CalArts Theatre.

[@FabianEuresti]

someone in the chat knew! i c i c.

[@JerryHelton-w2v]

Terry, I just watched a video that you did 12 years ago on fixing a family photo to reveal someone's face. I'm a technology immigrant, so I won't be able to do it. Can you recommend someone that I could hire to fix one of my family photos? Do you do photo repair work? I appreciate any help you can provide. Jerry

[@colinweir5807]

As you say, the key is that Lightroom is now managing your files over the top of the O.P.

[@wunderhorn]

Hi Terry - is it possible to rename the entire catalogue? When I started, I didn't understand and named it after one trip. Now I'm stuck with that name! Can you point me where to find to the information on how to rename it? I obviously don't want to do it incorrectly and lose everything I've done so far.

[@wunderhorn]

UPDATE: I searched and got the info. It is fixed! Thanks for inspiring me to get going the right way! (I'm also @UnderwaterEllen)

[@TerryLeeWhite]

Yes you can. You quit LrC. Then go to the folder containing your catalog and supporting files. Make a copy of this folder for safety. Then rename each file to the new catalog name. You’ll see the old name on each file. Only change that part of the file name. Then double click on the catalog file to launch LrC with the new name.

[@JohnHumkey]

All great suggestions, but one . . . I've seen too many people go back through catalogs and find "that one photo" of Robin Williams (or someone else famous) in the background, that they were glad they didn't delete "that bad photo". The photo was NOT IMPORTANT AT THE TIME . . . it only BECOMES important YEARS LATER. So no, you can't "be confident" and KNOW what might be a "good photo" years later.

[@TerryLeeWhite]

On this we disagree. But to each his own.

[@dvongrad]

I disagree with you on the use of solo mode. You said yourself you don't remember what you shot a week ago-the use of dates as a categorization method is another kettle of fish I won't get into. Are you going to remember where every develop feature is categorized? If you use LR every day of your life, then maybe. Sure, you're not going to edit a photo with some feature of every category, but if your workflow is basic edits, tone curve, and some colour grading, it makes more sense to me to keep those open and scroll to those sections rather than having the extra click to open the category you want to use. For the features you may use once in a blue moon, open the category, do your thing and close it again which may take some time to train your brain to do, but still keep open all the ones you do 99% of your work in without the extra clicks to open each one!