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The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers
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The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers

by Martin Evening
July 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
624 pages
19h 1m
English
Adobe Press
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Chapter 4. Managing photos in the Library module

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

Lightroom is designed to help you organize and catalog your images from the very first moment you import your capture files into the program. And from there on, Lightroom provides a flexible system of file management that can free you from the rigid process of having to organize your images within system folders. Although Lightroom does still use a folder system for storage, it can also manage your images globally by using metadata to filter your image selections. A good example of how such a system works is to look at the way music files are managed on an Apple iPod using the iTunes software. If you are familiar with importing music ...

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