{"id":21584,"date":"2022-10-17T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T08:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bendigocameraclub.org.au\/?p=21584"},"modified":"2026-04-09T16:08:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:08:23","slug":"using-lightroom-to-catalogue-your-photographs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bendigocameraclub.org.au\/?p=21584","title":{"rendered":"Using Lightroom to catalogue your photographs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once one gets more than a few hundred photographs saved on the computer it can become a chore to keep them organised and easy to find as time goes by. One eventually runs out of time and enthusiasm if each photograph is given a title and needs to go into specific folders which will eventually become unwieldy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to being a very powerful editing program for your photos it is equally powerful in organising and cataloguing the photos and searching for specific photos when one accumulates large numbers of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have structured the presentation in the order in which one should proceed with this, the exercise begins at the importation of photos from the camera and addresses key-wording, probably the most useful and important part of being able to search for specific photos, as well as tagging and grading. There is also facial recognition so that a person can be searched for easily. The photos can be organised into one or more collections and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The presentation takes you through my own workflow but Lightroom is so flexible that you may prefer to do things in a different way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To view the presentation by Matt Oliver full size, please click the popout icon that appears when you mouse-over the top right corner<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1VuZibW6HBLjh_0R0Z4Cn66CrF47VGShk\/preview\" width=\"100%\" height=\"800\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Want more?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p> The Adobe website contains tutorials on this and Lightroom has really good Help menus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helpx.adobe.com\/lightroom-cc\/tutorials.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" data-attachment-id=\"21594\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bendigocameraclub.org.au\/?attachment_id=21594\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bendigocameraclub.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Adobe-website.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1440,1004\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Adobe website\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.bendigocameraclub.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Adobe-website-600x418.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.bendigocameraclub.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Adobe-website-800x558.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bendigocameraclub.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Adobe-website-800x558.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bendigocameraclub.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Adobe-website-800x558.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.bendigocameraclub.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Adobe-website-600x418.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bendigocameraclub.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Adobe-website-768x535.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bendigocameraclub.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Adobe-website.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Click image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition there are plenty of YouTube sites that address each of the modalities that you may wish to use and get more information on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matt Oliver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once one gets more than a few hundred photographs saved on the computer it can become a chore to keep them organised and easy to find as time goes by. 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