Laura Shoe
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Laura Shoe
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‎Mar 21, 2017
09:11 PM
You're welcome! It's a limitation of Lightroom.
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‎Mar 21, 2017
09:10 PM
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I'd be interested in seeing screenshots of your printer driver page setup, the Layout panel, and the main preview window with the information overlay (I) or the rulers on.
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‎Mar 21, 2017
09:03 PM
Many editing sliders and tools are not supported for video files, including Highlights and Shadows - these involve too much math for Lightroom to be able to do for every video frame.
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‎Mar 21, 2017
08:51 PM
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I think it can be handy to be showing Pictures and Desktop, so I'd suggest right clicking on and hiding the following parents: /, then Users, then johnall. If you decide to move folders around, be sure to do so using the Folders panel (drag and drop folders) - if you go outside of Lightroom to Finder to do it, you'll end up with question marks on them since Lightroom won't know where they went.
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‎Mar 21, 2017
08:45 PM
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I wonder if it's the cable. What happens if you use a card reader (either the built in one if your MBP has one or an external one connected via USB)?
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‎Mar 20, 2017
09:21 PM
Another option would be to have someone make you a custom print profile. Google "order custom print profiles" for some companies that do this. (I don't have experience with any of them to recommend one to you.) This would involve you printing out their test sheet and sending it to them. If you do this, be careful when printing your test sheet to use the exact Lightroom and printer settings that they recommend.
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‎Feb 14, 2017
10:24 AM
You're welcome, Marc!
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‎Jan 08, 2017
11:08 AM
I'm glad that you are set, Tom. Since this is the case I'm not going to try to dissect the process. I do want to stress that you do not and did not need to have the "automatically write to XMP" option checked for the import process and reorganization to work correctly or for you to work successfully in Lightroom going forward - I don't agree with that hypothesis (which can be tested by turning off the preference, selecting a photo, doing Cmd/Ctl-S to save the work to XMP to create the XMP file manually, moving the photo to a different folder, and checking to see if the XMP file moved.) Assuming you don't work in Bridge and Camera Raw (which you don't need with Lightroom) and as long as you back up your catalog regularly - don't ignore the prompt when you close Lightroom - you don't need to have Lightroom automatically write all your work to XMP files and Lightroom will run faster if you don't. Ideally you'll set LR to prompt you to back up the catalog once a day or every time you close Lightroom, and you'll only skip the backup if you haven't done any significant work. This setting is in Preferences (Lightroom (Mac) or Edit (PC) > Preferences. That said, if you don't have the discipline to do these backups, writing to XMP with that preference can save you as it does retain some of your Lightroom work (but not all) and can be used to restore that work from if your catalog becomes corrupted.
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‎Jan 07, 2017
09:37 PM
Hi Jestir, You wrote, "When I'm developing an image inside lightroom I was expecting the same output after exporting it with sRGB color profile." Lightroom essentially works in the ProPhoto color space, which is larger than sRGB - ProPhoto can contain and Lightroom can show you colors that are much more saturated than what sRGB can. If you have intensely saturated colors in your photo, these colors will be dampened down to fit into sRGB. It's no surprise that your photos are displaying brighter on your iPhone. There is nothing in your image file that tells your device (iPhone, monitor) how brightly to set the display - your monitor and iPhone are just set to different brightness values. You could sit down at your computer with an image on your monitor and the same one on your phone and adjust brightness on your iPhone so they match and set your iPhone brightness preference to not automatically adjust, but next time you walk outdoors you'll find that your iPhone is way too dark for you to be able to read it - its brightness needs to be adjusted to varying ambient lighting conditions.
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‎Jan 07, 2017
09:25 PM
I know this won't resolve your issue, Tracy, and I don't have any more to add on that issue, but on another topic, have you considered leaving all years in your one master catalog, and just move the photos to an external drive? In one catalog Lightroom can manage photos that reside on many different hard drives. This way you still have access to them all. As you have seen, having each year of photos in a different catalog makes it very difficult to pull together subsets of photos that span years (such as all 5-star photos).
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‎Jan 07, 2017
09:16 PM
It couldn't hurt to try uninstalling and reinstalling Lightroom 6.
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‎Jan 07, 2017
08:59 PM
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The "automatically write to XMP" setting doesn't need to be on for Lightroom to move the XMP files. It's also not because you were in All Photographs view, tpayres. I don't know why it is, though. Do you see your Elements edits in Lightroom? If so and if you want XMP files (most Lightroom users don't need them, as LR stores this information in its catalog), you can recreate them by selecting all your photos - go to All Photographs, then Cmd/Ctl-A to select all - then go to Metadata>Save Metadata to Files, or Cmd/Ctl-S.
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‎Jan 07, 2017
02:57 PM
There's no need to export / import your catalog - you'll just move the folder and launch the catalog from there.
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‎Jan 07, 2017
02:56 PM
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Hi Steven, Read my article on how to move your Lightroom catalog. It first tells you how to find it.
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‎Jan 07, 2017
12:27 PM
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You'll get the dialog to choose the destination of the backup firs (as well as the choice to optimize), then the 4 GB message. Just hit Continue and LR will backup your catalog. Here's my in-depth article on this 4 GB warning dialog topic. Note that optimization is not necessary every time you back up - just do it occasionally or if you notice a slow down in performance. It's kind of like a disk defrag (and if you don't know what that means, don't worry about it.) On the other hand, always choose the option to test the integrity of the catalog.
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‎Jan 06, 2017
11:34 PM
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The message with 6.8 / CC 2015.8 says that the user's catalog is larger than 4 GB and everyone is seeing it even though most people's catalog is far smaller than this. If so, ignore it. If yours is this large, it just means that if your catalog becomes corrupted at some point and you need to restore from a backup, you'll need a 3rd party utility to unzip it. Don't worry about it - most likely you'll never encounter a corrupted catalog, and if you do you can download the free third party utility then. Just hit Continue and let LR back up your catalog.
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‎Jan 06, 2017
11:27 PM
It is now in the Transform panel, which is below Lens Corrections.
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‎Jan 06, 2017
11:26 PM
From that message it sounds like you're in catalog A, and you're choosing with that command to import catalog A into catalog A - this doesn't jive with the functions purpose, which is to allow you to combine two catalogs by importing catalog B into A. I'm not clear what your goal is with this. To use your catalog on your new computer, if you're not already in it when you open Lightroom (i.e. if you don't see your photos), go out to Windows Explorer/My Computer and double-click on the .lrcat file (i.e. the catalog file) that you moved over. This will launch LR with that catalog. Then go into Edit (PC) or Lightroom (Mac) and on the General tab under startup, rather than "load most recent" choose that catalog from the dropdown so that Lightroom always loads with it.
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‎Jan 06, 2017
11:18 PM
Hi, Use the Metadata panel on the right side of the Library module to enter your information. You'll have to ask them which fields they want you to put the information in. When you're done editing and adding that information, export a copy, choosing DNG as the file type in the File Settings section, choose to embed the original and don't choose lossy compression. In the Metadata section towards the bottom, choose to Include All Metadata. There's no need to use Adobe's Camera Raw program - use Lightroom for all of it.
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‎Jan 06, 2017
11:08 PM
I'm also wondering what you mean by backing up - are these images in folders titled, "Imported on January, 6, 2017 (or whatever date)" as dj_paige assumes, or are these in folders named "2017-01-17" or another date format, but without "Imported on"? If they are just date folders, these aren't backups - these are your master raw files. These masters don't reside "in Lightroom", they reside in folders on your hard drive according to what you choose in the Destination panel in the Import dialog (or what it defaults to if you make no choice). If they are in "Imported on ..." folders, then follow his response above.
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‎Dec 18, 2016
09:40 PM
You're welcome Raphael! Please post unrelated questions in a new thread – otherwise other people won't be able to find and benefit from the discussion.
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‎Dec 18, 2016
10:23 AM
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Yes, you can go back to backing up as usual, Raphael. Note that your catalog may not even be over 4 GB, and if not, you won't need to use a third party utility to unzip it in the event of catalog corruption and restoring from a backup. It seems that all Mac users, regardless of catalog size, are getting this message in error at this point.
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‎Dec 17, 2016
10:21 AM
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I'm afraid I'm not sure what you mean by "they will be backed up, once I clear the other ones", Raphael. No backups happen automatically. When you get this 4 GB dialog, hit Continue so that Lightroom will back up your catalog. Independently of this, you can delete most of your backups - I keep 3-4 of the most recent ones.
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‎Dec 12, 2016
01:11 PM
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Sorry, John - I have corrected my link above on saving your work - thanks for the heads up. I agree with dj_paige: for most users it's best to leave iPhoto behind and do everything from Lightroom. To email directly from within LR, right-click in a photo (Ctl-click with a one button Mac mouse) and choose Email Photo... You'll have to do some setup the first time, but after that it's really quick. Here's an article with more details on how to email from Lightroom. I wrote it when Lightroom 4 was out, but it's still applicable. Otherwise export and then email the exported file.
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‎Dec 12, 2016
12:19 PM
Hi Raphael, I see Mike's answers, which I agree with, but you say that in the end Lightroom closed without backing up your catalog. Is this the case, or did you find the backup?
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‎Dec 12, 2016
12:13 PM
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To piggy back on dj_paige, Lightroom automatically saves all your edits in its catalog, so you don't have to save or export for this.. Here is an article that I wrote that explains this in more detail.
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‎May 22, 2016
03:08 PM
Or you are not selecting an image at all - in this case Lightroom exports all photos in the selected folder.
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‎Apr 09, 2016
02:29 PM
You're welcome, John!
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‎Apr 09, 2016
02:29 PM
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I would expect the alias to update, but it would be most straightforward to just use Lightroom going forward.
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‎Mar 23, 2016
12:50 PM
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I'm glad you enjoyed my video, Jon, and thank you for sharing it! The technique will work for any aspect ratio/proportions that you wish to crop to.
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