How to organize image libraries from lightroom

just getting started on my new Imac...
I have years worth of images stored on two hard drives and a laptop and a pc. Many duplicates since I am constantly worried about crashes and the like.
My best effort to organize was done about 5 months ago on my pc laptop(windows 7 and lightroom). I have keywords in the lightroom indexes and would like to bring as much forward to the new platform as possible.
I've read that the lightroom images should be converted to a dmg format which will save the info.
Is that the correct starting point?
Should it be Aperture or Iphoto?

There's no "should" here. If you want to use Lightroom then by all means do. There is a Mac version. If you want to move app as well then Aperture and not iPhoto is your port of call. If you do choose to stay with LR then the Adobe forums would be the place to start looking for assistance.
Regards
TD

Similar Messages

How to migrate publish service from Lightroom 4 to Lightroom 5?

I have been upgrading from LR4 to LR5. Then I imported the LR4 catalog. But no Publish service was following to LR5.
I have used the FLICKR plugin a lot - made more than 80 FLICKR-sets. Therefore I would be terribly sorry if I do not succeed in restoring the contact to the old service files. Does anybody know how to migrate publish services from Lightroom 4 to Lightroom 5? Very fine if it's going to be a kind of a workaround.
Best regards
Jimmy

You'll need to backtrack a little, open your LR4 catalogue in LR5 and allow it to upgrade the catalogue with publish services.
If you've done work on images in the "wrong move" catalogue, identify those images, select them, and do a File > Export as Catalog. in the "right move" catalogue, bring this work in by File > Import from Another Catalog.
Alternatively, it may be worth looking at Jeffrey Friedl's Flickr plugin as he may have looked at this problem. Maybe someone here will know if it would help.
John

How do you edit photos from lightroom 5 into elements 12

how do you edit photos from lightroom 5 into elements 12 in the prefrences it dosent show elements 12 only cs5 i cant work out why help please

Hi,
For Windows, in Lightroom preferences for external editing, have you added a custom setting for the elements 12 editor?
Click on the Choose button and navigate to the editor
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 12\PhotoshopElementsEditor.exe"
[omit the (x86) if on 32bit system]
Brian

How do I airplay photos from lightroom mobile?

How do I airplay photos from Lightroom mobile?

Slide up with one finger from the bottom of the screen. Hit the button that says "Airplay". Select your AppleTV. Turn on mirroring option that will show up below your AppleTV.

How to Publish to Revel from Lightroom using a Facebook Account

I signed in to my Revel Account using my Facebook Account. I'm trying to publish from Lightroom but it's not accepting my Facebook ID and Password. How do I publish from Lightrrom using a Facebook account or how do I switch my Revel Facebook login to my Adobe login? Any help is appreciated.
Thanks

Hello
To set up publishing to Revel 1.10 is easy in Lightroom 4. I would suggest that you update to Lightroom 4.4 first. You can goto the help menu in Lightroom and then select " Check for updates" then update to version 4.4. Also make sure you have updated to Revel 1.10
Here is the instructions to do this for Revel as its similar to set it up for Facebook too. It is pretty simple to set up. http://help.adobe.com/en_US/lightroom/using/WS2bacbdf8d487e582-46da1b6f13419e06a64-8000.ht ml
Here you will see the Lightroom Publishing Manager. Click on the Revel tab and then select Authorize Revel button. You will then be prompted to sign into your Revel account. If your Facebook account log in information is not working then I would suggest to log in with your Adobe ID. You are best to do that anyway.
In the image below you can see that I created separate albums for pictures. Then you can drag your photos to these folders and click publish. Then check your Adoberevel.com to see if the images show. Once you see that they uploaded in the upperleft of Lightroom, then you should see the images show in Revel.
You can publish to Facebook from Lightroom the same way. Just click on the facebook tab on the publishing manager and authorize the Facebook connection with your Facebook log information. You will then be prompted to log into your Facebook account thru a browser.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/lightroom/using/WS2bacbdf8d487e582-46da1b6f13419e06a64-8000.ht ml
Let me know if this helped you out or if you have any questions
Thanks
Scott

How do I transfer Libraries from one computer to the other?

ok i know this might sound like a dumb question but i have no idea how to do it how do i? i downloaded another library onto this computer but it wouldnt transfer any of my songs so how do i transfer libraries??

Probably the most straightforward way to get iTunes onto your new computer is to network it with the old one and copy your iTunes folder across. This works fine if you have been using iTunes to completely manage your music and all your songs are in iTunes Music not in different folders. You can also use this method with an external hard drive, you drag the folder from the old computer to the external drive and then from the drive to the new computer. If the songs in your library are not all in the iTunes Music folder you can consolidate them. When you consolidate, any songs in the iTunes Library that are not in the iTunes Music Folder are copied to the Music Folder and the Library is updated to point to those new files. Files already in the iTunes Music Folder have no changes made to them: Copying all your iTunes files to one location - Windows
Copying the whole folder brings with it the iTunes Music folder and also the iTunes Library (iTunes Library.itl in Windows) database file which holds all the information about your songs (Playlists, Ratings, Play Counts, Last Played, Date Added, etc). You'll get more information including the Folder/File structure in this article: What are the iTunes library files?
When you copy the iTunes folder make sure you put it into the same location on the new computer. This has to be the exact same place, on a PC this is \Documents and Settings\Username\My Documents\My Music\. When you open iTunes on the new computer it will be the same as on the original one Songs, Playlists, Play Counts, Ratings etc. When I moved iTunes a while ago for my daughter I was also using the same version of iTunes, not sure how important that is but it's probably worth keeping them the same.
If you have an iPod it can be used as an external drive and you can move the iTunes folder onto it: How to use your iPod to move your music to a new computer

Images sent from Lightroom 5 won't appear in Elements 12

About one month ago I've bought and installed on my computer Photoshop Elements 12. However since then I had never launched the programme, which I did for the first time yesterday by trying to send five TIFF shots from Lightoroom 5.4 to Elements (Photo > Edit in > Merge to HDR in Photoshop).
Elements did open but the five images were not displayed. The same exact thing has happened when I've tried to send from Lightroom to Elements six other shots to merge to Panorama.
I'm working on a brand new computer with Windows 7. The operating system and both Adobe softwares have the latest updates installed.
Could the problem be that I've waited too long before launching Elements after having installed it? When the program opened for the first time yesterday it appeared a message which read that the first launch should have happened within 7 days from installation and never during the process I was asked to input the software's serial numbers (is this the way it's supposed to be?).
Do you think that I should uninstall Elements and start from scratch all over again?

Have you set up the PSE12 Editor correctly in Lightroom?
If not click Edit >> Preferences from the Library and then choose the External Editing tab. Then click on the choose button under the additional editor section and navigate to the editor.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 12
Make sure you choose the application and not a shortcut (see image below) and select 8 bit tiff as your pref (not 16 bit images)
You can’t use merge to HDR with Elements. That function only works with Photoshop CC or Creative Suits. But you can choose a thumbnail in the LR Library and open it for editing in PSE12 by pressing Ctrl+E or using Edit In >> Photoshop Elements 12 Editor.

How to hide image directory from search engines?

Hi,
This is more an SEO question than DW but I can't think who else to ask and I suspect this crowd will know the answer...
I feel like this is a new thing....my image directory is showing up in google for a site that isn't even live yet. The index page is just an image. But I've got dozens of pages on my server and hundreds of photos in an image directory for the images on those dozens of pages. But the current temporary, static index page doesn't have any links to the interior pages yet. I dont remember ever having this happen where (1) the pages that are on my server are being indexed even though there isn't an index page with links to it and (2) I've never seen my image directory show up on Google! I sure don't want that. It's all my original psd files with layers etc.
Is this a "no follow" kind of issue? Is this a new issues? How do I prevent my image directory from showing up in google? It was bizarre...I did a search in google for a term and it brought up my own image directory with an image named that name!! I almost had a heart attack.
Anyone have a favorite SEO forum to post this in as well?
Any help appreciated.
Laura

As always, you are such a reliable source of help! :-)
That robots.txt you mentioned...do what with that? I mean, how does that tell it "dont index the images"? For that matter, there are tons of pages on the server I don't want being indexed yet either because they are half baked for later development.
Thanks!
Create the file, and upload it to the root directory. It's as simple as that. But you'll have to read the details on the google hits to see the exact syntax of the exclusions.
Now - here's why this is happening....
Somewhere, google has found a link to this URL -
http://bluehippotravel.com/photos/destinations/TH/
The bluehippotravel host has NOT disabled directory browsing. When you browse to that URL, instead of getting a FORBIDDEN message like you should, you get a page listing the contents of that directory. Google is indexing that page. Ask your host to turn off directory browsing for that folder.

How to Insert image file from fileChooser to a tabbedPane?

Hi,
Currently, i have encounted a problem halfway through my project. That is how do i insert images into a tabbedPane after selecting a image file from the fileChooser?
Do anyone has any idea of how to solve the above problem?
Thanks!!

I would put the image in a JLabel and put the JLabel in the tabbed pane.

New PC: How to update my libraries FROM my IPod?

I have been using ITunes and Ipod for some time. Now I bought a new Laptop, uploaded the latest ITunes and connected my IPod. I hoped it would be able to sync the libraries exactly from my IPod. However, it only uploads the songs that I bought thru the store. But the songs downloaded from CD cannot be uploaded and sync-ed. So, I have my IPod on one side with all the songs and playlists, and a new ITunes on the other, only with the songs that were once bought online. How can I get my ITunes library up-to-date with my IPod?

For iTunes version 7 or later, then you can transfer purchased iTunes store music from the iPod to an authorized computer by using the "file/transfer purchases from iPod" menu. Note that the maximum of 5 authorized computers applies here.
Find out how to do that here.
How to copy iTunes purchases from an iPod to a computer.
For all other non purchased content (your own CDs etc) try this method which works on some Windows PCs.
Enable your iPod for disk use.
See: iPod Disk Use.
Open iTunes and select edit/preferences/advanced/general. Put a check mark in the box marked "copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to library" and also "keep iTunes music folder organized", then click 'ok'.
Connect the iPod whilst holding down the shift/ctrl keys to prevent any auto sync, and if you see the dialogue window asking if you want to sync to this itunes library, click 'no'.
Then go to file/add folder, open 'my computer', select your iPod and click 'ok'.
The music files should transfer to your iTunes.
If this doesn't work (and it may not because officially it's not supposed to), check out the instructions/suggestions here.
Music from iPod to computer (using option 2). This a manual method using "hidden folders" and although it works, it is a little more involved than other methods.
Much easier ways are to use one of the many 3rd party programs that copy music from the iPod to the computer.
One of the most recommended is Yamipod. This is a free program that transfers music from iPod back to the computer. However, it does not transfer playcounts/ratings etc.
Another free program is Pod Player.
SharePod is also freeware.
If you want to recover just the structure of playlists from the iPod (and not the actual song files themselves), there's iRepo for Windows. which I understand has this feature along with all the standard features for these programs.
iPodRip also has the feature enabling you to reconstruct playlists.
There is also CopyTrans. This does preserve ratings/playcounts etc if those are important to you but this program is not free. It also supports video transfer.

How to recover my files from Lightroom Catalog?

I lost my (NEF) files from hard drive.My Lightroom 1.4 Catalog is on separate hard drive.It is possible to recover my files?

If you have no way of recovering the original .nef files then these are gone forever.
The best then that you can hope for is to extract .jpg files from Lightroom's Preview files. These are in the .lrdata folder next to your catalog (.lrcat) files. Your results will also depend on the size/quality of previews that you had generated.
If you are on Windows (I have only ever tried this on Windows Xp), then you can download lightroom_recover from here:
http://www.ploki.info/index.php?pagename=Main.LightRoomRecover
It will extract .jpg, but they have the same unwieldy names as Lightroom gives to the preview (.noindex) files.
If you still have the disc from which you lost your .nef files it may be worth searching for a data/image recovery program or indeed having a look at recycle/trash first.

How to save image catch from USB camera to database ?

Hi guys.
I needed help on IMAQdx tools. But i dont know how to save image that catch from USB camera to database.

So you can acquire the image OK?
And you want to save it to a SQL database?
See here:
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/epd/p/id/5210

Adjust image resolution from Lightroom into Revel

Anyone know how to change the upload resolution into Revel from Lightroom? It currently is 240dpi I need 300dpi. I can change it when I upload/export into my hard drive.
Thanks,
Jesus Marez

Moved from the Creative Cloud to the Lightroom forum. They will be able to help you here.

How to transfer image files from nikon d800 to ipad4?

How to transfer jpeg image files from nikon d800 to IPad 4?

Are you having a problem? What have you tried? Do you have Apple's camera connection kit?
With the CCK, you can connect the camera or the camera's SD card.
iPad iOS 6 Update - Camera Connection Kit Fix
http://www.georgewheelhouse.com/blog/2012/10/ipad-ios-6-update---camera-connecti on-kit-fix
 Cheers, Tom

How to remove image files from audio files

i dont understand enough about how itunes worked...So my problem is, when i would add album art to a song, i would copy and past to the artwork box on the song. When i would find a better image, i would just past over the last one, not realizing that it was actually adding another image. This form of Copy/past(as i understand) saves the image to the audio file. *My question:* how do i remove the image files from the audio files...?

Right click on the file you want to remove the artwork from, choose Get Info then the Artwork tab, click on the image and press the delete button then OK. To remove from multiple items, highlight the adjacent tracks in your selection (click on the first in the list, hold down the shift key and click on the last), right click and choose Get Info, choose yes when you are asked if you want to edit multiple items, tick the box beside the small empty artwork window about halfway down on the right. (if the songs aren't adjacent to each other but spread through out the playlist or library CTRL & Click on each of the songs you want to highlight)

How to organize image libraries from lightroom

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for