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New Course: My Simplified Lightroom Image Management System (the “SLIM” system)

Last week we released a new course on how to finally get really organized in Lightroom Classic – and it’s the most recent version of my SLIM system – the same one taught in classrooms around the…

How Often Do You Need to Backup Your Lightroom Classic Catalog?

A. That depends on how much work you’re willing to lose. For example, if you backed up your catalog two days, and this morning you launched Lightroom, and your catalog was totally corrupted (this happens…

Recovering from Catalog Loss or Corruption

Thursday, March 31st is World Backup Day, and I thought it would be a good idea to look at the process of how to use a Lightroom Classic catalog backup copy to get back to…

Lightroom ‘cloud’ Users: How to Back up Your Images To Your Computer

It’s actually more than that in this super helpful video from Terry White — he goes into the process of importing your images into the ‘cloud’ version of Lightroom, but he also tackles one of those…

Three Default Settings Worth Changing

For the most part, I find that Lightroom Classic’s and Lightroom’s default settings are pretty good, but there are three places that I think you should consider changing as they can cause more harm than…

Right Now, Go Backup Your Lightroom Classic Catalog (and here’s how)

It’s 2021, and if you haven’t backed up your Lightroom Catalog in a while (or maybe ever), well…there no day like today, right? Having a corrupt catalog is pretty rare thankfully, but it does happen…

It’s ‘Dump Your Outdated Lightroom Backup Catalogs” Friday!

Hi gang, and happy Friday! Just a quickie today, but it’s kinda important — especially if you’re working on a laptop or a desktop computer where you’re constantly running out of free space. I am…

Backing Up Your Photos: How To Make a Backup Of Your Backup

This is another one I get asked a lot (and it came up numerous times at the Lightroom Conference), and if you caught my session (or if you’ve watch3ed my SLIM [Simplified Lightroom Image Management}…