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Lightroom Catalogs

Jared Polin September 1, 2010 7

As you take more and more pictures and your lightroom catalog starts to fill up with thousands of images what should you do?

What Greg and I do is create multiple catalogs to house different years of images. For example I have a catalog that covers just 2008. When I need to go back and find images from there I just switch catalogs in Lightroom. In a matter of seconds you are back to work with all of your old collections and photos that are in that catalog.

You can continue the conversation over at the forum http://froknowsphoto.com/froknows/ If you have any questions please post them there and Greg will answer them

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Jared's work has graced the pages of some of the most prestigious music publications, and his personal blog and online archive have become destinations for budding photographers and music fans around the world. Polin has also photographed professional and recreational sports teams, as well as politicians and international dignitaries.


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7 Comments »

  1. Riko Gonzalez September 1, 2010 at 11:08 am -

    Nice Video! i usually use 2 catalogs; ‘current work’ and ‘old work’,
    Where’s the ‘setting up Lr in 2 Pc’s’ Video?

  2. Anthony September 1, 2010 at 11:15 am -

    Great explanation. I have been using multiple catalogs for a couple years now.

  3. Colin September 1, 2010 at 12:30 pm -

    For Bridge users I guess we would use folders instead of catalogues, but the principle is the same.

  4. Robert Price September 1, 2010 at 1:45 pm -

    Again a great tutorial. I break my catalogs down by year. Then by event, then by Month. I have about 30 different catalogs at last count. Organization is the key, I have found that out a long time ago.

  5. Jason September 1, 2010 at 8:52 pm -

    Hey Greg, there was a photo in your gallery that caught my eye – the one with the hand sticking out of the car window. I like colors and the darkness in the top right corner. Would you mind sharing what post-production you did to that photo?

  6. John Martin September 2, 2010 at 2:41 pm -

    I create a new catalog for each job. It just seems easier to me than keywording. I’ve tried the single catalog with keywording approach and since both myself and my wife work on the same shoots in LR it gets too confusing.

  7. Warren January 7, 2011 at 6:41 am -

    Sorry Greg mate but I didnt understand a thing.. I made catalogues up on my drive (inside my pictures folder (Windows Vista)

    Lightroom found the folder but wouldnt open the files inside. I found myself copying pictures from one folder to another.. have a pile of catalogues now and still none the wiser :(