Lightroom 4 Catalogs in Depth

Investigates the Lightroom properties as a digital asset management (DAM) system—specifically, its catalogs, which track the location, metadata, and keyword tags associated with your images.In this course, Chris Orwig investigates the Lightroom properties as a digital asset management (DAM) system—specifically, its catalogs, which track the location, metadata, and keyword tags associated with your images. The course shows how to import images into a catalog and keep them current with synchronized folders, maintain good backup practices, and recover and restore a catalog. Chris also provides his recommendations on hard drive options, and explains the process and benefits to raw processing when working with catalogs. Topics include: Comparing RAID storage to JBOD storage Finding images in a catalog Importing images Understanding the difference between catalogs, collections, and folders Optimizing catalogs and upgrading legacy catalogs Merging catalogs Relinking images Solving conflicts with new hard drives Restoring from backups Saving adjustments to raw files