Lightroom Classic Archives - Lightroom Killer Tips https://lightroomkillertips.com/lightroom-classic/ The Latest Lightroom Tips, Tricks & Techniques Fri, 19 Jul 2024 00:43:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 Travel Photographers: Moving Your Lightroom Classic Edits From Your Laptop To Your Computer At Home https://lightroomkillertips.com/travel-photographers-moving-your-lightroom-classic-edits-from-your-laptop-to-your-computer-at-home/ https://lightroomkillertips.com/travel-photographers-moving-your-lightroom-classic-edits-from-your-laptop-to-your-computer-at-home/#respond Fri, 19 Jul 2024 08:16:00 +0000 https://lightroomkillertips.com/?p=18181 If you travel with your laptop (like I do), you want to be able to sort and edit on your laptop, but then when you get back home, you want to have all those edits and sorting move over to Lightroom on your home computer. This process is way easier than you might think, and I’ll take you step-by-step through the process (again, much easier than you’d think). Here goes: STEP ONE: Once you’re back from your trip, and you’re done with sorting and editing your images on your laptop, right-click (Mac: Ctrl-click) on the Collection (or, in my case, the Collection Set) you made during your trip and from the pop-up menu that appears, choose “Export this Collection Set as a Catalog” as shown above. Of course, if you created a Collection rather than a Collection Set, it would read “Export this Collection as a Catalog” instead. If you work in Folders rather than Collections, it would say, “Export this Folder…” and so on. STEP TWO: This brings up a dialog box asking where you want to save this newly exported catalog. At this point, I would plug in an external hard drive and save it to that hard drive. If you don’t have an external hard drive, you could save it to Dropbox, iCloud, or a cloud-based storage service instead. At the bottom of the window are checkboxes for some options, the most important being “Export negative files.” Turn that on! Turning on that checkbox includes a copy of your actual images, which is important — otherwise, all you’d be moving to your home computer would be the thumbnail previews. You want the RAW (and/or JPEG) files to be copied over to your home computer as well. Now click the Export Catalog button (as shown here). STEP THREE: Here’s a look inside the folder created when you exported that Collection Set as a Catalog. It’s the Preview file, the Catalog file itself, and a folder named “Pictures” with all the Images that were in that Collection Set you edited on your laptop. These are all saved to your external hard drive (or cloud service if you choose to go that route instead). STEP FOUR: Now eject that external hard drive from your laptop and plug it into your home computer (in my case, it’s an iMac). Then go under Lightroom’s File Menu and choose Import from Another Catalog (as shown here). STEP FIVE: This brings up a standard “open” dialog, so navigate your way to have that folder on your external hard drive with your exported catalog. Now choose that Catalog file (not the previews, not the Pictures folder; the one that ends with the file extension .lrcat), and open that catalog. That brings up the Import window, and the important thing to do here is go to the File Handling pop-up menu (seen above). Choose ‘Copy new photos to a new location and import’, then click the Choose button right below that and choose where you want these images from your laptop to be stored (in my case, they are photos from China, so they’d go inside my Travel Folder on my Synology NAS storage unit at my house). Now click the Import button, and you’re done. Your images will copy to wherever you choose, and this Collection Set (or Collection or Folder, depending on what you chose) will now appear in your Collections panel (or Folder panel), just as if you had created it there from the start. All the sorting and editing you did on your laptop will still be intact. NOTE: If you used Dropbox or iCloud instead of a hard drive, the process is the same; just choose to import the catalog from Dropbox or iCloud, etc., instead of from your External Hard Drive. There you have it. Basically, you export a collection from your laptop and then reimport it on your home computer, and it adds it there as if you created it there in the first place. I hope you found that helpful, and here’s wishing you a super relaxing weekend. -Scott

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]]> If you travel with your laptop (like I do), you want to be able to sort and edit on your laptop, but then when you get back home, you want to have all those edits and sorting move over to Lightroom on your home computer.

This process is way easier than you might think, and I’ll take you step-by-step through the process (again, much easier than you’d think). Here goes:

STEP ONE: Once you’re back from your trip, and you’re done with sorting and editing your images on your laptop, right-click (Mac: Ctrl-click) on the Collection (or, in my case, the Collection Set) you made during your trip and from the pop-up menu that appears, choose “Export this Collection Set as a Catalog” as shown above. Of course, if you created a Collection rather than a Collection Set, it would read “Export this Collection as a Catalog” instead. If you work in Folders rather than Collections, it would say, “Export this Folder…” and so on.

STEP TWO: This brings up a dialog box asking where you want to save this newly exported catalog. At this point, I would plug in an external hard drive and save it to that hard drive. If you don’t have an external hard drive, you could save it to Dropbox, iCloud, or a cloud-based storage service instead.

At the bottom of the window are checkboxes for some options, the most important being “Export negative files.” Turn that on! Turning on that checkbox includes a copy of your actual images, which is important — otherwise, all you’d be moving to your home computer would be the thumbnail previews. You want the RAW (and/or JPEG) files to be copied over to your home computer as well. Now click the Export Catalog button (as shown here).

STEP THREE: Here’s a look inside the folder created when you exported that Collection Set as a Catalog. It’s the Preview file, the Catalog file itself, and a folder named “Pictures” with all the Images that were in that Collection Set you edited on your laptop. These are all saved to your external hard drive (or cloud service if you choose to go that route instead).

STEP FOUR: Now eject that external hard drive from your laptop and plug it into your home computer (in my case, it’s an iMac). Then go under Lightroom’s File Menu and choose Import from Another Catalog (as shown here).

STEP FIVE: This brings up a standard “open” dialog, so navigate your way to have that folder on your external hard drive with your exported catalog. Now choose that Catalog file (not the previews, not the Pictures folder; the one that ends with the file extension .lrcat), and open that catalog. That brings up the Import window, and the important thing to do here is go to the File Handling pop-up menu (seen above). Choose ‘Copy new photos to a new location and import’, then click the Choose button right below that and choose where you want these images from your laptop to be stored (in my case, they are photos from China, so they’d go inside my Travel Folder on my Synology NAS storage unit at my house).

Now click the Import button, and you’re done. Your images will copy to wherever you choose, and this Collection Set (or Collection or Folder, depending on what you chose) will now appear in your Collections panel (or Folder panel), just as if you had created it there from the start. All the sorting and editing you did on your laptop will still be intact.

NOTE: If you used Dropbox or iCloud instead of a hard drive, the process is the same; just choose to import the catalog from Dropbox or iCloud, etc., instead of from your External Hard Drive.

There you have it. Basically, you export a collection from your laptop and then reimport it on your home computer, and it adds it there as if you created it there in the first place.

I hope you found that helpful, and here’s wishing you a super relaxing weekend.

-Scott

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]]> https://lightroomkillertips.com/travel-photographers-moving-your-lightroom-classic-edits-from-your-laptop-to-your-computer-at-home/feed/ 0 The Secret To Editing Those Fireworks Images From Last Night in Lightroom https://lightroomkillertips.com/the-secret-to-editing-those-fireworks-images-from-last-night-in-lightroom/ https://lightroomkillertips.com/the-secret-to-editing-those-fireworks-images-from-last-night-in-lightroom/#respond Fri, 05 Jul 2024 14:26:14 +0000 https://lightroomkillertips.com/?p=18143 There are a couple of things you can do to really make your fireworks images pop (no pun intended), and we take you through the post-processing step-by-step in this episode of ‘The Grid” below. We start the editing at around the 32-minute mark (the first part was about shooting fireworks), so if you get a chance, check it out below – it can really make a difference. Hope you have a wonderful holiday weekend. 🙂 -Scott P.S. I’m joining a team of incredibly talented instructors as a part of the Muench workshop’s incredible trip to Antarctica and they are running a summer special until Sunday, offering $500 off the workshop price. You’ve got to check out the video below – it’s one of those one-in-a-lifetime bucket list types of experiences for photographers, and you don’t want to miss out. Here’s the link with more details (make sure you watch the video below – so inspiring!).

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]]> There are a couple of things you can do to really make your fireworks images pop (no pun intended), and we take you through the post-processing step-by-step in this episode of ‘The Grid” below. We start the editing at around the 32-minute mark (the first part was about shooting fireworks), so if you get a chance, check it out below – it can really make a difference.

Hope you have a wonderful holiday weekend. 🙂

-Scott

P.S. I’m joining a team of incredibly talented instructors as a part of the Muench workshop’s incredible trip to Antarctica and they are running a summer special until Sunday, offering $500 off the workshop price. You’ve got to check out the video below – it’s one of those one-in-a-lifetime bucket list types of experiences for photographers, and you don’t want to miss out. Here’s the link with more details (make sure you watch the video below – so inspiring!).

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]]> https://lightroomkillertips.com/the-secret-to-editing-those-fireworks-images-from-last-night-in-lightroom/feed/ 0 How To Use Lightroom’s “Guided Upright” To Fix Lens Perspective Problems https://lightroomkillertips.com/how-to-use-lightrooms-guided-upright-to-fix-lens-perspective-problems/ https://lightroomkillertips.com/how-to-use-lightrooms-guided-upright-to-fix-lens-perspective-problems/#comments Fri, 21 Jun 2024 08:16:00 +0000 https://lightroomkillertips.com/?p=18138 I’ve been doing a series of in-depth photo guides for travel photographers for KelbyOne, and I’ve done it for locations all over the world (Paris, London, Lisbon, Rome, New York, Tuscany, Venice, and more), where I share the best places to shoot, the GPS coordinates; I show images from each location and give as many insights as I can. I did one for Chicago as well and one of the locations I talked about was a parking garage where you can shoot down on an intersection of the “L” (Elevated trains). When my co-host for the course, Larry Becker, saw the behind-the-scenes shot of me taking the shot (shown above), he asked how I could possibly get the shot straight at the angle I was shooting from. The answer? Lightroom’s Guided Edit. Here’s how I used it to fix the perspective issue: STEP ONE: Here’s the shot, taken at the angle you see in the behind-the-scenes shot. To straighten the photo, go to the Transform panel and click on the Guide Button. When you click on this, nothing happens because there are two other steps. One is to click on the Guided Upright Tool (shown circled above), and then next is to drag it out over areas you want to be straightened (we’ll do that in the next step). STEP TWO: I’m going to click and drag out the tool along the left track (I added a red two-headed arrow here to show you where I’m dragging. The tool itself lays down a white line, but it was hard to see it in this small capture, so I added the red line just as a visual. When you use this tool, the lines will be white. When you drag out the first line, nothing happens yet either. STEP THREE: When you draw the 2nd Guide Edit line out (as seen here, where I dragged along the track on the right of my first line) you can see the image starts to straighten out. Depending on the image, you might only need two lines, but in this case, the image still looks skewed (the tracks look like they’re leaning downward from right to left through the horizontal middle of the image). STEP FOUR: Here’s the third line — right down the tracks in the center. STEP FIVE: I dragged the fourth and final line down the opposite tack, and you can see it’s pretty close now, but look up at the top center track, and you can see that when the fourth Guided Edit line did its thing to straighten out the image, it make the top centerline off by a little. Easily fixed because you can reposition the lines once they’re in place by clicking and dragging. STEP SIX: I dragged the little repositioning dot on the top line (not quite sure that’s its real name) shown circled above in red and dragged it upward so it’s straight along the track again, and the image readjusts (as you can see here) and now it’s nice and straight. Have a great weekend, everybody! –Scott

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]]>

I’ve been doing a series of in-depth photo guides for travel photographers for KelbyOne, and I’ve done it for locations all over the world (Paris, London, Lisbon, Rome, New York, Tuscany, Venice, and more), where I share the best places to shoot, the GPS coordinates; I show images from each location and give as many insights as I can. I did one for Chicago as well and one of the locations I talked about was a parking garage where you can shoot down on an intersection of the “L” (Elevated trains). When my co-host for the course, Larry Becker, saw the behind-the-scenes shot of me taking the shot (shown above), he asked how I could possibly get the shot straight at the angle I was shooting from. The answer? Lightroom’s Guided Edit. Here’s how I used it to fix the perspective issue:

STEP ONE: Here’s the shot, taken at the angle you see in the behind-the-scenes shot. To straighten the photo, go to the Transform panel and click on the Guide Button. When you click on this, nothing happens because there are two other steps. One is to click on the Guided Upright Tool (shown circled above), and then next is to drag it out over areas you want to be straightened (we’ll do that in the next step).

STEP TWO: I’m going to click and drag out the tool along the left track (I added a red two-headed arrow here to show you where I’m dragging. The tool itself lays down a white line, but it was hard to see it in this small capture, so I added the red line just as a visual. When you use this tool, the lines will be white. When you drag out the first line, nothing happens yet either.

STEP THREE: When you draw the 2nd Guide Edit line out (as seen here, where I dragged along the track on the right of my first line) you can see the image starts to straighten out. Depending on the image, you might only need two lines, but in this case, the image still looks skewed (the tracks look like they’re leaning downward from right to left through the horizontal middle of the image).

STEP FOUR: Here’s the third line — right down the tracks in the center.

STEP FIVE: I dragged the fourth and final line down the opposite tack, and you can see it’s pretty close now, but look up at the top center track, and you can see that when the fourth Guided Edit line did its thing to straighten out the image, it make the top centerline off by a little. Easily fixed because you can reposition the lines once they’re in place by clicking and dragging.

STEP SIX: I dragged the little repositioning dot on the top line (not quite sure that’s its real name) shown circled above in red and dragged it upward so it’s straight along the track again, and the image readjusts (as you can see here) and now it’s nice and straight.

Here’s a before and after the correction.

Have a great weekend, everybody!

–Scott

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]]> https://lightroomkillertips.com/how-to-use-lightrooms-guided-upright-to-fix-lens-perspective-problems/feed/ 1 Adding a Fog Effect in Lightroom https://lightroomkillertips.com/adding-a-fog-effect-in-lightroom/ Mon, 06 May 2024 08:16:00 +0000 https://lightroomkillertips.com/?p=18070 This is a quick video short I did on how to quickly and easily add a fog atmospheric effect to your image: Have a great Monday, everybody! -Scott P.S. I’ll be speaking at the On1 Landscape Photography Conference coming up next month. Some pretty incredible courses at the two-day online conference, including lots of shooting and post-processing sessions. More details at kelbyonelive.com – get your ticket now and save a bunch!

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]]> This is a quick video short I did on how to quickly and easily add a fog atmospheric effect to your image:

There ya go – easy, peasy!

Have a great Monday, everybody!

-Scott

P.S. I’ll be speaking at the On1 Landscape Photography Conference coming up next month. Some pretty incredible courses at the two-day online conference, including lots of shooting and post-processing sessions. More details at kelbyonelive.com – get your ticket now and save a bunch!

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]]> There’s a Secret Smart Collections Feature in Lightroom Classic….. https://lightroomkillertips.com/theres-a-secret-smart-collections-feature-in-lightroom-classic/ https://lightroomkillertips.com/theres-a-secret-smart-collections-feature-in-lightroom-classic/#comments Fri, 03 May 2024 08:16:00 +0000 https://lightroomkillertips.com/?p=18068 And Adobe’s own Terry White uncovers it right here in this short video. Check it out: Thanks, Terry! Have a great weekend, everybody!!! See ya next week! -Scott

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]]> And Adobe’s own Terry White uncovers it right here in this short video. Check it out:

Thanks, Terry!

Have a great weekend, everybody!!! See ya next week!

-Scott

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]]> https://lightroomkillertips.com/theres-a-secret-smart-collections-feature-in-lightroom-classic/feed/ 4 How To Keep From Scrolling Again and Again Through Your Lightroom Panels https://lightroomkillertips.com/how-to-keep-from-scrolling-again-and-again-through-your-lightroom-panels/ Tue, 09 Apr 2024 08:16:00 +0000 https://lightroomkillertips.com/?p=18035 This is how to use “Solo Mode” (one of my favorite Lightroom settings) to speed up your workflow. In Solo Mode, only the panel you’re currently working within is visible, while all the rest are collapsed out of sight but always just one click away. Check out the short tip below: Give that a try – you’ll love it! 🙂 Here’s wishing you a better-than-average Lightroom Tip Tuesday! -Scott

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]]> This is how to use “Solo Mode” (one of my favorite Lightroom settings) to speed up your workflow. In Solo Mode, only the panel you’re currently working within is visible, while all the rest are collapsed out of sight but always just one click away. Check out the short tip below:

Give that a try – you’ll love it! 🙂

Here’s wishing you a better-than-average Lightroom Tip Tuesday!

-Scott

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]]> The Little Lightroom Finishing Move That Makes a Big Difference https://lightroomkillertips.com/the-little-lightroom-finishing-move-that-makes-a-big-difference/ Mon, 08 Apr 2024 08:16:00 +0000 https://lightroomkillertips.com/?p=18033 This is a simple move – one where I use the same setting every time – and I do this to nearly all of my images as a finishing move after all the rest of my editing is done. Check it out below: Note: I love how the automated close captioning shows my name as “Scott Kelvin.” LOL! Really simple but so effective. 🙂 Here’s wishing you an absolutely kick-butt, awesome Monday! -Scott P.S. Next week we kick off the 2024 Lightroom Conference. Two days, two learning tracks, and tons of really useful new stuff to learn (plus, you get the entire conference archived to stream on demand for an entire year). Don’t miss out – here’s the link to get your ticket.

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]]> This is a simple move – one where I use the same setting every time – and I do this to nearly all of my images as a finishing move after all the rest of my editing is done. Check it out below:

Note: I love how the automated close captioning shows my name as “Scott Kelvin.” LOL!

Really simple but so effective. 🙂

Here’s wishing you an absolutely kick-butt, awesome Monday!

-Scott

P.S. Next week we kick off the 2024 Lightroom Conference. Two days, two learning tracks, and tons of really useful new stuff to learn (plus, you get the entire conference archived to stream on demand for an entire year). Don’t miss out – here’s the link to get your ticket.

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]]> The Quick Trick For Sharpening Women’s or Children’s Skin https://lightroomkillertips.com/the-quick-trick-for-sharpening-womens-or-childrens-skin/ Fri, 29 Mar 2024 08:16:00 +0000 https://lightroomkillertips.com/?p=18020 This is how to use one very powerful slider in Lightroom’s Detail panel to apply sharpening just to your subject’s detail areas (eyes, eyebrows, lips, etc.) without making their skin harsh and grainy (it’s okay to make men’s skin sharp, detailed and textured because nobody really cares about how men look). 😉 It’s surprisingly easy, but it really makes a difference and works like a charm. Just a few weeks away from the Lightroom Conference 2024 It’s a two-day, two-track conference (with a pre-conference session the day before included). We’re talking 20+ Lightroom training sessions; an all-star crew of instructors, and you can save a bundle if you sign up right now at kelbyonelive.com – check out the trailer below with more details: Get your ticket right now at kelbyonelive.com Have a great Easter weekend, everybody! -Scott P.S. Our workshop with Joe McNally – the one I talked about earlier in the week, is now sold out. If you want to get on the cancellation waiting list, head to kelbyone.com/workshops

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]]> This is how to use one very powerful slider in Lightroom’s Detail panel to apply sharpening just to your subject’s detail areas (eyes, eyebrows, lips, etc.) without making their skin harsh and grainy (it’s okay to make men’s skin sharp, detailed and textured because nobody really cares about how men look). 😉

It’s surprisingly easy, but it really makes a difference and works like a charm.

Just a few weeks away from the Lightroom Conference 2024

It’s a two-day, two-track conference (with a pre-conference session the day before included). We’re talking 20+ Lightroom training sessions; an all-star crew of instructors, and you can save a bundle if you sign up right now at kelbyonelive.com – check out the trailer below with more details:

Get your ticket right now at kelbyonelive.com

Have a great Easter weekend, everybody!

-Scott

P.S. Our workshop with Joe McNally – the one I talked about earlier in the week, is now sold out. If you want to get on the cancellation waiting list, head to kelbyone.com/workshops

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]]> Lightroom Tip Tuesday: How To Reset One (or a bunch) of Lightroom Sliders Really Fast! https://lightroomkillertips.com/how-to-reset-one-or-a-bunch-of-lightroom-sliders-really-fast/ Tue, 26 Mar 2024 08:16:00 +0000 https://lightroomkillertips.com/?p=18013 It’s just a quick, short one on this “Lightroom Tip Tuesday,” but it’s a super helpful one I use every day! Check it out below: Really handy, right? Have a great Lightroom Tip Tuesday! -Scott

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]]> It’s just a quick, short one on this “Lightroom Tip Tuesday,” but it’s a super helpful one I use every day! Check it out below:

Really handy, right?

Have a great Lightroom Tip Tuesday!

-Scott

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]]> Are Some of Your Lightroom Photos Stuck in “Syncing Hell?” https://lightroomkillertips.com/are-some-of-your-lightroom-photos-stuck-in-syncing-hell/ https://lightroomkillertips.com/are-some-of-your-lightroom-photos-stuck-in-syncing-hell/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2024 08:16:00 +0000 https://lightroomkillertips.com/?p=18015 UPDATE: A very lucky photographer picked up the last ticket to my Santorini, Greece, travel photography workshop this April, so we are officially sold out. Venice/Dolomites and Norway’s Lofoten Islands workshops are still coming up later this year. Get on the early notice list at scottkelbyworkshops.com – OK, on to today’s tip: If you sync images over to Lightroom “mobile,” it’s either happening or going to happen, but some of your photos are going to get stuck in Syncing Hell where they just never sync. It says they’re waiting to sync…but they never do. See that “Syncing 14 photos” notice? Yeah, it’s been like that for about a year or so. They’re stuck. So, there are two options: (1) Just pause syncing and ignore them. It’s not hurting anything; it’s not stopping other photos from synching, but it’s just annoying, so hit Pause until you need to sync something. Or… (2) Go to your Preferences, find out which images are being held up, and see if you can figure out why (it can’t find the high-res original image and needs to be relinked to the original so it can sync), or maybe the file is corrupt, in which case you can delete it, but first you have to find it (see below). If you go to the Preferences and click on the ‘Lightroom Syn’ tab (as seen above), it will list the images that are stuck in Sync Hell (as seen above). If you double-click on any one of those (as I did here), it brings the image in question forward in your filmstrip at the bottom (as seen here), so you know which one it is and you can troubleshoot (relink or delete) it. Hope that helps. Here’s wishing you an escape from “Sync Hell.” -Scott P.S. only two spots are left for Joe McNally’s upcoming “The Complete Photographer” 6-day hands-on workshop in Florida. Check out the video where Joe describes the workshop at this link (the video is pretty amazing and inspiring – give it a quick watch and you’ll see what I mean. ).

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]]> UPDATE: A very lucky photographer picked up the last ticket to my Santorini, Greece, travel photography workshop this April, so we are officially sold out. Venice/Dolomites and Norway’s Lofoten Islands workshops are still coming up later this year. Get on the early notice list at scottkelbyworkshops.com – OK, on to today’s tip:

If you sync images over to Lightroom “mobile,” it’s either happening or going to happen, but some of your photos are going to get stuck in Syncing Hell where they just never sync. It says they’re waiting to sync…but they never do.

See that “Syncing 14 photos” notice? Yeah, it’s been like that for about a year or so. They’re stuck. So, there are two options:

(1) Just pause syncing and ignore them. It’s not hurting anything; it’s not stopping other photos from synching, but it’s just annoying, so hit Pause until you need to sync something. Or…

(2) Go to your Preferences, find out which images are being held up, and see if you can figure out why (it can’t find the high-res original image and needs to be relinked to the original so it can sync), or maybe the file is corrupt, in which case you can delete it, but first you have to find it (see below).

If you go to the Preferences and click on the ‘Lightroom Syn’ tab (as seen above), it will list the images that are stuck in Sync Hell (as seen above). If you double-click on any one of those (as I did here), it brings the image in question forward in your filmstrip at the bottom (as seen here), so you know which one it is and you can troubleshoot (relink or delete) it.

Hope that helps. Here’s wishing you an escape from “Sync Hell.”

-Scott

P.S. only two spots are left for Joe McNally’s upcoming “The Complete Photographer” 6-day hands-on workshop in Florida. Check out the video where Joe describes the workshop at this link (the video is pretty amazing and inspiring – give it a quick watch and you’ll see what I mean. ).

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