May 2017
Beginner
240 pages
7h 5m
English
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54. CREATING SMART PREVIEWS IN LIGHTROOM
SOME PHOTOGRAPHERS LIKE to work with and store their images on removable hard drives, and don’t want to have their images connected to the Lightroom catalog all of the time. For that, Lightroom has developed the Smart Preview.
A Smart Preview is a preview that is larger than a 1:1 preview and is meant to serve as a substitute for images when they are not connected to the Lightroom catalog. You can create a Smart Preview during the import process (Figure 54.1), and you can also do it inside the main catalog. To create a Smart Preview in the main catalog, go to Library > Previews > Build Smart Previews ( ...