Category: Lightroom

With Lightroom originals are always stored in the cloud. Delete that and the local copy disappears also. Only Classic enables smart previews to be sent to the cloud from a syncd collection. Does lightroom automatically save? The short answer is that as you work in Lightroom – adding keywords, stars, flags and other metadata; developing […]

Buggy or incompatible graphics card drivers have long been one of the biggest headaches of Lightroom users, causing everything from performance issues to repeated crashing. And then uncheck the Enable Graphics Processor box. This can also help make Lightroom faster. Adobe lightroom crashes when opening? It may be what you’re going through is a Lightroom […]

Lightroom Presets are a popular way to edit images, but if you prefer to use Adobe Photoshop, there’s a way to use them in Photoshop, too—using Adobe Camera RAW (ACR). Let me explain. Adobe Camera RAW and Lightroom use the same image processing engine under the hood, with only slightly different user interfaces. You could […]

Add, edit or organize photos in Lightroom on one computer, and those changes will sync through the Cloud to Lightroom on an additional computer. This means, for example, that you can use Lightroom on a desktop and laptop computer, or on a computer at home and another at work, with everything automatically at your fingertips. […]

, arjun_kartha Sign out of LR desktop. Sign out of CC desktop app. Relaunch LRSign in to both CC and LR desktop once again. How to use Adobe Lightroom like a pro? Lightroom is a photographer’s best friend. The possibilities with this software are unlimited. The best part is that Lightroom doesn’t have to be […]

ARW files are the RAW image files created by Sony Alpha cameras. Lightroom or Photoshop will automatically open files of this type, as will Windows Photos. On Mac, Preview will let you view but not edit ARW, so use the free Adobe Camera Raw application. Is it possible to open ARW files in LR? There […]

May 9, 2016(Updated May 13, 2020) 115 Comments Many photographers today are working between multiple computers, for example, a laptop and a desktop. Lightroom can be activated on two computers at a time, but accessing your catalog from both machines isn’t quite so simple as Lightroom isn’t designed for multi-user or network use. Lightroom can be […]

If Lightroom keeps freezing or shows any other errors, the possible reason for this is that your computer is unable to handle the program anymore. The editing of large and complicated images calls for a more advanced computer. According to Adobe, a minimum of 12GB of RAM is required to run the program. Buggy or […]

Lightroom has two types of collections: regular Collections and Smart Collections. Smart Collections are live and they are created as a result of filtering your photos according to rules that you write. You cannot add an image to a Smart Collection by dragging and dropping it into the collection. What is a smart collection? A […]

To access the watermark function in Lightroom, you can go to “Edit-> Edit Watermarks…” (Lightroom-> Edit Watermarks on Mac) or you can also access it from Lightroom’s Export window. I normally access it via the export window, which can be found in File-> Export or pressing CTRL+SHIFT+E:. Watermarking is something you apply to your photos […]