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Sync your Entire Library to Browse on your Phone Hero

How to sync your entire library to browse on your phone

Until recently, most of us with large photo libraries could only dream about having access to our entire image collection on our phones. While there are endless ways to share photos across devices, keeping photos organized, managing disk space on mobile devices, and the cost of cloud storage made it

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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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Topic based folder structure

Using a topic-based folder structure for cataloging images

When it comes to digital organization, there are a variety of ways to store your images. Using a topic-based folder structure for cataloging images is just one. Depending on how you approach your storage, and what you photograph, you may find it more helpful than just a date-based folder structure.

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Digital asset management in Lightroom

What is a digital asset manager and why do I need one?

A digital asset manager (DAM) is a great way for photographers to organize, view and ultimately go on to edit their photos. There are many different software applications you can use, each with its own pros and cons. In this article, I’ll be sharing what a DAM is, along with

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Albums in Luminar 3 allow a quick way to sort by subject.

Luminar 3: Working with albums

Luminar 3, also known as Luminar with libraries, is available now. Albums is a feature within the folders section of Luminar 3. Learn about its folders in this article. This tool allows sorting and categorizing in Luminar without having to change an existing folder structure. Luminar albums Simply put, albums

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Working with folders in Luminar 3

Luminar 3: Working with folders

Luminar 3, also known as Luminar with libraries is the long-awaited starting point of Skylum adding digital asset management — DAM — to its standalone image processing/editing software. Adding photos to the library Before using the library, photos have to be added to the library. Open is the first button

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Searching for a Lightroom Alternative: Is it Time to Switch?

Since Adobe changed some of its Creative Cloud pricing on Monday (4/16/18; note the Photography plans were not impacted), there’s been a lot of discussion surrounding alternatives to Lightroom. And while Lightroom continues to be the industry standard for photo editing and organization, there’s a lot of tools out there that

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World Backup Day | March 31, 2018

World Backup Day is set aside as a reminder to backup your files, even if it’s once a year! Unfortunately, most people don’t think to backup their files until they face a hard drive crash–and yes even solid-state drives will eventually fail–or they simply don’t know how. I’ve already made

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Quick Tip: Use Velcro To Keep Your Files Safe

If you are using an external hard drive and it gets disconnected from your computer while it is actively transferring information, you may lose those or damage those files. And since you’re a photographer, that means losing pictures you probably can’t replace. Your hard drive can fall off the table

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READ THIS BEFORE Upgrading To The New Lightroom

Installing new updates can be exciting and terrifying at the same time. Exciting because you can’t wait to try out the new features. Terrifying because it may crash your system. Here are a few simple tips to make your upgrade experience better.

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