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I disagree with the warning that is given that Lightroom’s default setting should be changed that have folders setup by date. I setup my folders with a name such as YYYYMMDD and my images are setup as YYYYMMDD-###. As example I may have an image named “20240115-001.” To differentiate images by event I may put this image in a collection named “2024 Super Bowl game.” Of course this image can be placed in more collections as well. The reason I use the old fashion method of having folders by date is that I want to prevent my inadvertently confusing a folder and thinking it is a collection and do an edit on it by deleting, renaming or moving it. Except in incredibly rare cases my rule is that my dated folders mean they are sitting on a hard drive. These folders once entered into Lightroom should almost never be touched.

Amazing Video! Thank you so much! A few questions: If we want to organize a lot of old photos within LR but not edit at the moment is it best to import at a lower setting to save time? Also, when you move photos in to subfolders with the / filter method is there a way to delete them from "mess to organize" as you go, so not to confuse things? also, since all subfolders are within the "Mess to organize" folder how can you delete "Mess to organize" When everything has been sorted? Thanks a lot!

Awesome! Thanks again.

Thank you! Very helpful

Excellent video - thx for the great advice!

This was really helpful, thanks

You are an awesome presenter... easy to follow and learn, thanks

But do you keep all your images on your desktop or do you have a separate drive?

Thanks, as a newbie who hasn’t even got Lightroom yet this will be great

I like the way you summarised at the end. Very useful, thank you

Mine just says importing files and never does anything

Thanks

I've been using folders up until now, but I do not like your method. If you have family pictures, in the smokies, in 2022 and 2023, will you know where to look to find that photo? In collections, you could put them in all three: family, smokies, 2022, etc. The downside to this is that I am likely moving to DxO, where I could not have if I had relied on lightroom as my asset manager all this time.

Thank you, Chrissy -- strategies, rather than how-tos, for organizing photos was exactly what I was looking for.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for making this video. Absolute time saver ❤🎉

Simple to the point, one of the best videos, going to organize my Pics better before setting up new NAS

I watched some tutorials about Lrc and yours is by far far the best one. It's very detailed and well explained. I was intimidated by the complexity of this app. but now I feel much better. Thank you for a great video.

My goodness me I am deeply in love with you....thanks for this...enormous comment sense

Who, What, When, Where, How - beautifully simple but effective.

Excellent tips. Thank you.

Thanks for this - I am a proficient Photoshop user so I'm comfortable with editing tools, but now that I am taking more photos I'm trying to use Lightroom and I am totally mystified by questions like like "where the heck are my files?" to the point where I was getting exasperated with LR and thinking of just going back to PS>

Is there a way to export this structure if we are working with different catalogs?

A great video Yes, I have a big mess to fix This will help

Great tips ! Thanks

This was very confusing for me. I had to cut out at mid six.

Just what I was looking for. Thank you.

Please make more videos

Thank you. Very much a refresher session for me and as always there is something to learn or relearn . I need to do this export/import thing because my old Lr5 that you're not old enough to know about doesn't talk to the newer programs. But I do own it! 🥳 (I smelt the rat when Adobe went to subscriptions) One annoy problem I still have is exporting to a win10 "edit" folder, editing in another program (mostly Affinity) , then importing an edited file back into Lightroom where the keywords don't go under the original hierarchy k/w. They go into a single list. I don't need to the export keywords outside my computer .And I certainly don't need the keyword list you have ---- even heard of the delete buttons 🤗 What do I have, or don't have clicked ? Thank you so much for reading Do you know about [ '/" ] key to flag and unflag a file ;) . Far better than the Adobe way 🤗

I have Lightroom on my Mac and it looks nothing like this. there is no library or develop tabs, im so confused!

Thanks very helpful.

Thank you for this wonderful video

Thank you so much for the great video Do you cover how to use LR on 2 computers in your course

So helpful…I’ve been trying to organize and this all makes sense! Thank you!

This is so helpful! Would you happen to know if this would work from an external hard drive as well, rather than the desktop, could I use a hard drive?

Great tips!

Oh my. My whole Lightroom is a mess to clean up lol I have a lot of organizing to do 🤪

This is brilliant!!!!!! I was so frustrated with how Adobe forces a very unintuitive folder structure when ordering by date. Adobe LET ME CUSTOMIZE HOW THE FOLDERS WILL BE CREATED BASED ON DATE!!! Ahem, with your tip I can do it myself, much cleaner!! THANK YOU!!!

Many thanks for wonderful exposition of this difficult subject. Are there any other Lightroom videos to follow?😊

Beautifully expressed, with a lovely smile!

Do you have a video on how to import your photos directly into Lightroom on a mac? I have a Mac and when you plug in your camera it automatically goes to iPhoto. That is fine for my Phone but as I am getting my old negatives digitized and re-vamping my old photo carreer I would like to keep my photos for my photography business stored in one place and cataloged and keep my phone photos in IPhoto.

My problem is that I can’t access File handling, File remaining etc. When I put card in and press import right panel shows Histogram, keywording etc.

Didn't know Michael Frye was a HUMAN photographer. That was news to me. Great video!

I'm creating a keywords list based on the 'Lightroom Keyword List Project'. I have a couple of questions that I hope you can help me with: 1. How would you categorize "things" that fall somewhat between "WHAT" and "WHERE"? For example, mountains and lakes. A mountain may be present in two photos taken from completely different locations, which seems redundant to label in each instance (and leads to my next question). Categorizing them as "WHAT" creates confusion for smaller items, such as a hot spring or geyser. These items can't be present in photos shot from elsewhere, but technically, you're not at a geyser, you're seeing one. 2. Can the same keyword exist in two different hierarchies?

Great video, very useful! I'm about to set up a NAS for my photos, and plan to use the opportunity to reorganize (which is just a nicer way to say "clean up my mess"). I've been watching a lot of videos about how to organize, but this one was really good and kind of balanced. Thank you! 😀

Awesome!

Great help! This simplified a way to add photos. Thank you!!

I'm late to the party but thank you very much! This is just what I was looking for 🤌. I want to sort my photos on my external hard drive and every other video only covers collections, making the organization useless the moment I unplug it and move it to another machine.

Once the "Mess to Organize" had subfolders, what did you do with those subfolders ?

thanks! very usefull!