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Lightroom Killer Tips
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computer, or share them with friends
or co-workers, go under the Metadata
menu and choose
Export Keywords
to create a text file with all your key-
words. To import these into another
user's copy of Lightroom, go under the
Metadata menu and choose
Import
Keywords
, then locate that keyword
file you exported earlier. Also, you can
copy-and-paste keywords from text files
directly into the Keywording panel.
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Deleting a Collection
If you want to delete a collection, just
click on it in the Collections panel and
then click the - (minus sign) button on
the right side of the panel header. This
deletes just the collection, not the real
photos themselves.
stop popping in/out all day long), and
instead I show/hide them manually as
needed. But you might consider turning
on Auto Hide just for the top taskbar. It's
the most rarely used panel, but people do
seem to like clicking to jump from module
to module, rather than using the keyboard
shortcuts. With Auto Hide turned on, it
stays tucked out of sight until you click on
the gray center triangle to reveal it. Then
you can click on the module you want to
jump to, and as soon as you move away
from the top taskbar, it tucks away. Try it
once, and I bet you'll totally dig it.
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Quickly Apply Keywords to
Yo u r S e l e c it e d P h o it o
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Adding Photos to an
Existing Collection
You can add photos to any existing col-
lection by just dragging a photo from the
grid (or Filmstrip) and dropping it onto
your collection in the Collections panel.
When you hover your cursor over a
keyword in the Keyword List panel, a
checkbox appears that lets you assign
it to your selected photo.
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Renaming a Collection
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Removing Unused Keywords
Any grayed-out keywords in the Keyword
List panel are not being used by any
photos in Lightroom, so you can delete
these orphaned keywords (which makes
your keyword list cleaner and shorter)
by going under the Metadata menu and
choosing
Purge Unused Keywords
.
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Quickly Create Sub-keywords
If you Right-click on a keyword in the
Keyword List panel, there's a menu item
called
Put New Keywords Inside This
Keyword
and until you turn it off (by
To rename a collec tion, Right- click on the
collection and choose
Rename
from the
pop-up menu.
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Making Your Panels Larger
If you want your panels to be wider (or
thinner for that matter), just move your
cursor right over the edge closest to the
center Preview area and your cursor will
change into a two-headed cursor. Now
you can just click-and-drag your panels
out wider (or drag them in to make them
thinner). This also works for the Filmstrip
at the bottom.
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How to Share Smart
Collections Settings
If you Right-click on a Smart Collection,
you can choose
Export Smart Collec-
tion Settings
from the pop-up menu
to save the Smart Collection's criteria, so
you can share it with a friend. After you
send it to them, they can import it using
the
Import Smart Collection Settings
command from the same pop-up menu.
choosing it again in the pop-up menu),
all keywords you create are created as
sub-keywords of this keyword.
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Turning Your Filters On/Off
Just press
Command-L (PC: Ctrl-L)
to
turn your filters (flags, ratings, metadata,
etc., in the Library Filter bar ) on/off.
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Sharing Keywords
If you want to use your keywords in
a copy of Lightroom on a different
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Auto Hide the Top Taskbar
As I mentioned, the first thing I do is turn
the Auto Hide feature off (so the panels
