Comments on: Synchronizing Your Folders in Lightroom http://digitaldailydose.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/synchronizing-your-folders-in-lightroom/ Lightroom and Photoshop Blog for Photographers Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:12:06 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Laura Shoe http://digitaldailydose.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/synchronizing-your-folders-in-lightroom/#comment-1271 Laura Shoe Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:15:37 +0000 http://digitaldailydose.wordpress.com/?p=594#comment-1271 Hi Wendy, the information is automatically stored in the central catalog. If you want it to also be written out to your files, either select and right-click on your files and choose Metadata>Save Metadata to File, or in Lightroom>Catalog Settings (Edit>Catalog Settings on the PC), check the box "automatically write changes to XMP." For raw files, this will write the info out to the sidecar XMP files that tag along with the raw files. For jpegs and tiffs, it will write the XMP information directly into the jpeg or tiff file header. In any case, be sure to back up both your Lightroom catalog, and your image files! Hi Wendy, the information is automatically stored in the central catalog. If you want it to also be written out to your files, either select and right-click on your files and choose Metadata>Save Metadata to File, or in Lightroom>Catalog Settings (Edit>Catalog Settings on the PC), check the box “automatically write changes to XMP.” For raw files, this will write the info out to the sidecar XMP files that tag along with the raw files. For jpegs and tiffs, it will write the XMP information directly into the jpeg or tiff file header.

In any case, be sure to back up both your Lightroom catalog, and your image files!

]]> By: Wendy Cooper http://digitaldailydose.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/synchronizing-your-folders-in-lightroom/#comment-1270 Wendy Cooper Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:52:59 +0000 http://digitaldailydose.wordpress.com/?p=594#comment-1270 How do you update your original files with the edits you make in Lightroom. or is the information always stored in the external catalogue? I am confused about the catalogue thing. How do you update your original files with the edits you make in Lightroom. or is the information always stored in the external catalogue? I am confused about the catalogue thing.

]]> By: Laura Shoe http://digitaldailydose.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/synchronizing-your-folders-in-lightroom/#comment-974 Laura Shoe Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:27:01 +0000 http://digitaldailydose.wordpress.com/?p=594#comment-974 Hi Bill, For many reasons in Lightroom, it is best to have all your folders within one master folder. For me that is "Pictures". Inside this are folders for each year, and then within these, folders for each shoot. If you have one master folder, you can just synchronize this, and it will automatically do the subfolders. Laura Hi Bill,

For many reasons in Lightroom, it is best to have all your folders within one master folder. For me that is “Pictures”. Inside this are folders for each year, and then within these, folders for each shoot. If you have one master folder, you can just synchronize this, and it will automatically do the subfolders.

Laura

]]> By: Bill http://digitaldailydose.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/synchronizing-your-folders-in-lightroom/#comment-973 Bill Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:16:32 +0000 http://digitaldailydose.wordpress.com/?p=594#comment-973 Is there a way to make a "batch" synch of folders in Lightroom. Doing each folder individually is incredibly time consuming. Thanks! Is there a way to make a “batch” synch of folders in Lightroom. Doing each folder individually is incredibly time consuming. Thanks!

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