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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ad Dieleman" data-source="post: 372809" data-attributes="member: 3275">Where to start? Opened up Lightroom Classic to get to some thoughts. When I mentioned Lightroom, I really mean Lightroom Classic, I never use Lightroom (the cloud version). Adobe maximized confusion about product naming when they introduced their new Lightroom product for the cloud. A veritable f*ckup, damn those marketing guys.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Collections, indispensable for keeping track of what I published on forums, what I showed at the photo club, series I made, what I printed, what I want to print etc. etc.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Smart collections are very powerful in conjunction with keywords and other metadata</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Filtering options, vastly extended by <a href="http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/data-explorer">Jeffrey Friedl's Data Explorer</a> plugin</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Metadata panel per picture is configurable with <a href="http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/metadata-presets">Jeffrey Friedl's Metadata-Viewer Preset Editor</a> plugin, showing exactly the data you want to see in the order you want to see them</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Configurable import options, enabling renaming while importing, adding keywords, applying a default setting for the camera and optionally extra develop settings, converting to DNG if so desired, making a backup copy to another folder</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Extensive export functionality, enabling presets which I use all the time</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Keywords, flags, ratings, color labels with filtering on them</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Adding location to photos from a gpx file generated by a GPS (don't need it anymore, but highly valued it when I did)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Synchronizing between Lightroom app on iPhone and Lightroom Classic</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">One catalog easily handles all my image files, 65K+ at the moment and counting</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Moving files within Lightroom takes care of moving files in the file system</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Freedom to choose the folder structure in your operating system to your liking, while cataloguing can make use of collections to augment the folder structure. It took me a few reorganizations, some of which painful, before I got to a structure that works for me.</li> </ul>After I will have posted this, I'll undoubtedly think of things I forgot to mention. Setting up and using the DAM functionality is <a href="https://youtu.be/8LePfr2TBOQ">excellently explained by Tim Grey,</a> almost 2 hours but worth watching IMHO.</blockquote>

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