Tips for New Lightroom Users

If you’re a new Lightroom user and there are still aspects of the program and how it works that are a bit unclear, then this episode is for you. Photoshop and Lightroom author and educator Rob Sylvan joins host Seán Duggan to discuss some essential tips for new Lightroom users, including explaining the Lightroom catalog/database in depth, as well as helpful tips to ensure that you’re always working in the right catalog, when it might make sense to maintain multiple catalogs,  renaming folders, backup tips, and what gets saved into an XMP sidecar file, and whether or not that option is something to consider.

About Our Guest

Rob Sylvan is a photographer, teacher, and author. In addition to being KelbyOne’s Lightroom Help Desk Specialist, he also writes the “Under the Loupe” column for Photoshop User magazine, and blogs about Lightroom at Photofocus.com. He is the author of several photography related books, eBooks,and videos including Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC / Lightroom 6 Learn by Video by Peachpit Press.

Links Mentioned in this Episode

Lightroomers.com    |    Digital Photo Workshops    |     Photofocus.com

10 More Things I Would Tell a New Lightroom User – article by Rob Sylvan

Lightroom Hangout: Liberating the Local Adjustments hosted by Rob Sylvan & Levi Sim (with guests Seán Duggan and Vanelli)

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