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Capture One Sessions

Deciding between Sessions and Catalogs in Capture One

If you have been using Lightroom, you are probably quite familiar with using Catalogs. But up until the last few years, Capture One only had Sessions. So what’s the difference between the two options? Why should you use one over the other? What is a Catalog in Capture One? A

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Relive memories with Mylio Photos Calendar

Photos should be for memories. Mylio Photos is designed to let you access your photos from everywhere, and the Calendar view is a delightful way to take a trip down memory lane from any of your Mylio-connected devices. If you haven’t tried Mylio yet, getting set up is straightforward. If

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Why deleting photos is NOT a crime

Losing precious data is always in the back of our minds as photographers. What happens if a client comes back and wants more photos? What happens if, three years from now, I decide to randomly edit photos from this one particular photoshoot? What if I don’t keep every one of

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Digital asset management in Lightroom

The downside to catalogs in digital asset managers

Using digital asset managers (DAMs) can be a great move to help organize your image library. But as wonderful as they can be for your workflow, you still have to make sure you don’t succumb to some of their downsides. I recently wrote about some of the benefits of using

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Choosing between catalogs and sessions in Capture One

Long before catalogs were as popular as they are now in photo editing software, Capture One had sessions available to help photographers organize their photoshoots. Based on the thought behind tethering, each session is a different photoshoot, filled with a series of files from your camera. Sessions let users stay

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Skylum addresses migrating catalogs to Luminar Neo

This morning, Skylum issued a statement that addresses the migration of the catalog from previous Luminar versions to Luminar Neo. As the company has stated in the past, migration will not be available upon launch. However, the team is working on a tool to make this easier: “What differentiates Luminar

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Help! My Lightroom cloud storage is full

Last year I started using Lightroom on my mobile phone. As a longtime Lightroom Classic enthusiast, I started using Lightroom for the portability: I love being able to edit photos on my phone or tablet, without needing to be at my desktop computer. However, as I’ve written about before, there

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How Luminar interacts with files on your hard drive

With Luminar, any changes made to an image are non-destructive, meaning the original image hasn’t changed. We can undo any edits we have made at any stage using the history tool. To make this possible, Luminar uses a catalog to store a reference to the location of folders and subfolders

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Best organizational practices for Luminar 3 catalogs

In addition to being an excellent image post processing tool, Skylum’s Luminar 3 is also a digital asset management tool. As with any photo organization tool, users should put some thought into the organization of the images on their hard drive before getting too far along with the software. A

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