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Nerd Alert! Lightroom Classic (8.4) Improvements
Nerd Alert! In addition to the usual new camera/lens profiles and bug fixes, the latest update of Lightroom Classic (8.4) includes improved folder performance in the Library (YAY!) PNG Export (YAY!), color labels and filtering for Collections (YAY!), and GPU acceleration (hardware dependent) (YAY!). Still no fix for resolution issues in the Slideshow Module (BOO!)….
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Using a single catalog makes the most of Lightroom’s superpowers A Lightroom catalog is much like an old-school card catalog in a brick-and-mortar library. It contains all kinds of information (metadata) about your images — their physical location on a drive, keywords, ratings and even Develop Module changes, but it does not contain the actual…
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Nerd Alert! The Mystery of the Missing HSL Panel SOLVED!
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Seven Deadly Booby Traps in Lightroom Classic
I love Lightroom, but it’s not without a few pitfalls. After years of real-world studio and classroom experience, I’ve identified a bunch of booby traps that consistently derail new and old users alike. Booby Trap: “Default Catalog” at start up When you first launch Lightroom, a new “default” catalog (.lrcat file) is created in your…