Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
If you're running Lightroom on a laptop during your location shoots, you
might want to take all the edits, keywords, metadata, and of course the photos
themselves, and add them to the Lightroom catalog on your studio computer.
It's easier than it sounds: basically, you choose which catalog to export from
your laptop, then you take the folder it creates over to your studio computer and
import it—Lightroom does all the hard work for you, you just have to make a
few choices about how Lightroom handles the process.
Step One:
Using the scenario described above, we'll
start on the laptop. The first step is to
decide whether you want to export a folder
(all the imported photos from your shoot),
or a collection (just your Picks from the
shoot). In this case, we'll go with a collection,
so go to the Collections panel and click on
the collection you want to merge with your
main catalog back in your studio. (If you had
chosen a folder, the only difference would
be you'd go to the Folders panel and click
on the folder from that shoot instead. Either
way, all the metadata you added, and any
edits you made in Lightroom, will still be
transferred over to the other machine.)
Step Two:
Now go under Lighroom's File menu and
choose
Export as Catalog
(as shown here).
