Lightroom did not loose your photos, it just lost track of them. You either moved them, renamed them, or renamed the folder they live in.
Theresa JacksonMarch 7, 2015
Your photos can be on any mountable drive with read & write permissions. They can't be on a thumb or jump drive, or a memory card.Photos can be spread across multiple drives, including external drives, and drives that are offline.…
Theresa JacksonFebruary 19, 2015
Your photos are where you put them before importing into Lightroom with the "add" method, or where Lightroom put them using the import "copy" method.If you don't know where you put your photos, or they aren't where you think they…
Theresa JacksonDecember 1, 2014
No it doesn't.Bridge doesn’t have a brain.Bridge is a great pair of eyes wearing night vision goggles. Bridge sees things that the Explorer or Finder can’t.Bridge can preview your raw photos, and read all of the image metadata.
Theresa JacksonNovember 21, 2014
Yes you can rename your catalog, but it requires renaming several items.Quit out of LightroomRename the catalog folder, and everything inside of the folder that shares the same name.If you see extensions in the file name, (anything after a period)…
Theresa JacksonNovember 20, 2014
Moving your catalog could be a good thing.Although your catalog is just a brain, and not a bucket, it can still grow to be a fairly large size. Moving it off of your startup drive and onto another drive, even…
Theresa JacksonNovember 19, 2014
The very first time you launch the Lightroom application, a catalog is automatically created in your Pictures folder. The catalog is created before you even begin importing images.Lightroom does not prompt you to create this catalog, which is unfortunate, because…
Theresa JacksonNovember 18, 2014
A Lightroom catalog is a brain. Every time you add something to your Catalog you teach it something new.
Theresa JacksonNovember 17, 2014
Under the Hood of Tone Curve PosterizationI stumbled into this style of posterized Lightroom edits after doing a daily photo edit for a month and a half. Perhaps I was getting a little bored with my daily edit challenge. From…
Theresa JacksonJune 5, 2014