Lightroom 4: Catalogs

In this course, Chris Orwig investigates the Lightroom properties as a digital asset management (DAM) system—specifically, its catalogs, which track the location, metadata, and keyword tags associated with your images. The course shows how to import images into a catalog and keep them current with synchronized folders, maintain good backup practices, and recover and restore a catalog. Chris also provides his recommendations on hard drive options, and explains the process and benefits to raw processing when working with catalogs.

Topics include:

• Comparing RAID storage to JBOD storage
• Finding images in a catalog
• Importing images
• Understanding the difference between catalogs, collections, and folders
• Optimizing catalogs and upgrading legacy catalogs
• Merging catalogs
• Relinking images
• Solving conflicts with new hard drives
• Restoring from backups
• Saving adjustments to raw files