10 Managing your photos in Lightroom

How to use the metadata tools in Lightroom to manage your catalogs

Here is a quick test for you: Can you remember all the things you photographed last month? Were there any particular shots that stood out? Okay, so how about that same month five years ago? Many photographers think they can successfully rely on their memory when accessing pictures from their photo archives. The fact is, as we shoot more and more photographs, this kind of approach is doomed to failure, and as time goes by, it will only get worse.

Lightroom can help you organize and catalog your images from the very first moment you import your images. It provides a flexible system of file management that can free you from the rigid process of ...

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