Chapter 4

Organizing Your Photos

Now that your photos are safely tucked into Lightroom, our goal is to find the best way for you to organize them so that can find them at a later date. Organizing your photos is a crucial undertaking in this era of digital images, cheap memory cards, and huge hard drives. The fact of it is that people are shooting far more pictures than when the cost of film (and processing) tended to limit the number of photos taken. Further, remember that Lightroom is a workflow management tool. It’s impossible to manage your workflow if you don’t manage (or can’t find) your images.

Lightroom Image Management Concepts

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