#Lightroom Quick Tips - Episode 19: Keep Track Of Your Exports

This is the Nineteenth episode of Lightroom Quick Tips where I give a single, quick Lightroom tip.

In this episode of Lightroom Quick Tips I give some tips on how to keep track of your exported files.

*Kill The Clock Title by Darren McCormick*

[missas]

I can't really explain how vital and helpful your videos are!
Thank you very much.

[frazermeredith]

Thanks Anthony for another useful tip. I can see many uses for the collections method.

[RWJonesAIC]

Thanks Anthony - Great way to stay organized.

[tonybell]

Thanks Anthony, love this lightroom series. I also use Timothy's (above?) method, add the name of the service you upload as a keyword, then create a smart collection that "looks" for that keyword... Works really well.

[flookoco]

Another very useful tutorial Anthony, I prefer the collections method.

[kftscolopendra]

Hi Anthony,
It is a great idea to keep track of exported photos by making collections. After your video I did this for my Hotshoe, 500px photos. However what I used is also fine. I simply make a keyword, like : 500px and add to each photo what I upload there. This is useful when one has uploaded a higher number of photos and wants to browse photos not yes uploaded there. Then you have the search opportunity Text, keywords, doeas not contain.

[davidfarquhar]

That's an excellent idea, if you are uploading to albums in Flickr etc you could use different collections inside a collection set to represent each album?

In Aperture I also use keywords, and I have smart albums (smart collections in Lightroom) that alert me to all my picks that have not had the Flickr tag applied to them (or the Not For Flickr tag). I find this quite helpful in managing the overall workflow

[STICKJACKET]

Thanks.  Are you going to do the Print Module soon?

[martinwedgeyt]

Very good information, thanks for sharing.
Keep up the good work.

[stornu]

I'm going to share my way I order my library:

-When I import I use the standard order of year / month folder.

-I use the backup functionality so you can import from your SD to 2 disk (the one that you use normally and the second one for backup).

-I always create the previews when I'm importing from the SD and I have set the preferences to delete them in 30 day and I use a very poor resolution  because I only use this functionality to select the shoots in the library module that im going to develop.

-Then I select all the imported images and then create a collection with a human name like "holiday at the beach" or "to the mountains with friends" or whatever.

-Then I will flag all the shoots that I will develop, and then when I'm developing I use the star system 3* for the ones that will go to Facebook and 5* 500px.

-I have 2 smart collections one that only selects 3 stars shoots and the other for the 5 stars.

With all this i keep track of my uploads to Facebook and 500px and I keep track of the let's say events that I shoot with the collections "birthday" "holidays" "beach time" or whatever.

Other thing that i have to say is that my 2 disk are in a cloud based backup system (crash plan is you want to know), so i have 2 disk at home and a mirror of those two in the cloud.

I hope this will be helpfull to someone.

Regards ans happy shooting.

[old]

If you are going to need images with a different aspect ratio for each image, do you work your original image in Lightroom 5, but wait until you decide on the desired two aspect ratios before cropping?  Then do you make a copy for each desired ratio and crop each copy to the desired ratio, so as to not tie the original to a certain ratio?

Hope that question made sense!

[OscarLodge]

Thanks a Now I have learned how to put all my very mixed up photo's into tidy 'similar subject'  named collections...  brilliant !.... Cheers from  D.G.J

[FrankReif]

Instead of sifting through to your pervious location manually, be it collections or locations or wherever, it's best to use the back button in the tool bar.

[jefflaw]

how can I keep the shooting date with the exported file, instead of having Today in the new one?

[hvdalvi]

What is Soft Proofing in LR? how & for what we use it?

[larryferdinande]

Thanks, great info, I have been saving extra copies as well.  My justification is that I want to have access to the version I exported if I go back and make a change later.  It occurs to me that I can also 'snapshot' as I export in case I make a later change but want to go back to that version.  Great stuff, thanks again.

[JonBushell]

great ideas. You could also use tags? That way it's saved in meta data and not lightroom specific.