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Excellent tutorial, one of the best I have seen!

I learned so much in three videos. Than you, and I look forward to more soon.

Thanks for sharing your experience and knowledge. I have been using LR since the beginning but I have thought about using keywords like you show🙏🙏👍👍👌👌

Thanks so much for this tutorial, I have been using Lightroom for years without knowing anything about Keywords, you have been doing my life a lot easier, liked and subscribed

This tutorial vas exactly what I what looking for! Thank you!

if you accidentally delete all the standard presets, is there a way to get them back?

Hello what is the alt/option key on windows keyboard?

I bought the subscription for Adobe LR which said LR classic was part of the price. Problem is I can't plugin cloud spot LR still. And having problem with pulling up LR classic only

Excellent tutorial.Many thanks.

On youtube I think yours is the best.

Love the way you teach, thank you. I've learned so much in such a short time.

That was a great12 minutes

Recently moved to lightroom. This is the best thing I've viewed in ages

OMG - where did you shoot that Galearis ?!!!!!!

You have done a great job. Never say never. Some say never use folders. However collections are only in the catalog. Always THINK.

Could anyone please explain why one would rename/categorize photos in folders on the hard drive other than just by date? Or IOW, why add location, topic, etc into folder names when LRC has multiple powerful tools to perform this organization (metadata, keywords & collections). Isn't this folder work redundant? If all folders include specific sortable data, why even use Lightroom? Thanks for any insight.

Wow...excellent tip....have not seen or heard this one before....I'm going to give it a try

Excellent tutorial! Much Needed! Now I have lots of organizing to do....lol

This is great. I’m in the process of reorganising over half a million photos, setting up an archive hard drive and culling many worthless photos. I have two catalogues on LR - one for my travel, landscape and nature photography and the other for my professional dog photography business plus all my general dog photos. I do use a process similar to yours but it is a bit messy so I’m looking forward to following your structure more diligently.

Something I am noticing in a lot of photo editing programs and not just lightroom. They are really cataloging programs. The annoying thing for me is they are great when I can create my directories and folders within Windows explorer and just bring in the photos I want to work on into the photo editing program. In Windows I gravitate to ACDSee Ultimate since I can just look over the folders I have on my HDD and then bring in what I want and then put them in a catalog/album if I want. In Lightroom and the program requires me to create a Catalog before doing any editing. Annoying.

Hi, just found your video it was very informative. Can you share your color wheel image? I would like to experiment with HSL outside of a photo. Thanks

I’ve watched a couple of you importing videos and they are hands down the best and most easily understood that I’ve seen. Thanks! Steve

So well explained. Great walk through. Learned so many new processes. Thanks for posting Subscribed.

You have some beautiful photos in your catalog

Excellent video! Very concise and easy to follow. I do have one question: When I want to create a folder within a folder, I usually right-click and create a folder. But I see you're using the option to create a subfolder. I wonder what is the difference between the two and when would I want to use one or the other? Thank you so much!

I actually use the same system as you but for some reason I'm constantly getting orphaned (outside of the hierarchy) keywords. Any idea why this happens and how to avoid it?

I have no 'edit preset' option in the dropdown. I have a million presets, so have done this before. Does anyone know if I can find 'edit presets' somewhere else?

Hi Chrissy. Great video. I tried to move a folder into a parent folder from Lrc but instead of just moving it on my hardrive, it duplicated it. So I now have on my drive the original file ( exactly where it was) plus the same file on the parent folder. Any suggestions? Thanks

❤❤❤thank you

Thank you

This is the first time I have really understood how lightroom works for organising photos . And that also includes a paid course on udemy!! Thank you 🙏

I love the "mess to organise" folder! Great idea.

Never use folders! Use Collections. Lightroom is not only a photo editing program, it’s basically also a database; use that strength. Let the database manage your files. You can search on date and time. And of course Keywords are an essential asset. You never need to “rename or organize’ your files; that’s Lightroom’s job. Remember you can always choose “show in finder” if you ever need to see the actual file.

Thank you for some great tips. I’m a commercial photographer and you have given me back hours of my time.

Thank you so much❤

I use multipal external drives. What happens to the folder in Lr if the incorrect drive is attached?

Hi , I am in such a mess with all my photos and have looked at hours and hours of videos on organising but yours is the only one that gives me any hope of being able to sort them out , thanks for posting

Thanks for a topic so many avoid presenting! I love way you make it based on how the user works.

Wonderful video, and so, so helpful. Many thanks.

Thanks Chrissy this is just what i was looking for, so I'm off to sort my mess of 45,000 photos.

Good information. I personally don't import to the final destination folder just because I like to keep the new files separate until I see the initial edits. Yes, I could, and do, put them in collections. In fact, my initial imports go to a 'full shoot' collection under a collection set for the event. Second, I advise caution with the 'don't import suspected duplicates' if you are a sports or wildlife shooter. In cases where you are shooting 10-30 frames per second or more, Lightroom will skip the majority of your photos if this box is checked because there isn't enough difference in the time stamp - sometimes none at all - for it to recognize that they are separate captures. Otherwise, I agree and appreciate this information.

This might be the video I've been looking for.. looking forward to going through it again very slowly. Thank you... new subscriber here.

Thank you Tip number 1 ..be ruthless at import so that you don’t end up with hundreds of thousands of rubbish images cluttering up your disk and LR No way are you ever gonna look back through hundreds of thousands of images . Question on collections …how do you simultaneously remove an image and delete from disk . It can’t be done . I never use collections for that very reason and instead use folders I never keyword or color label ..all time consuming Import process :- Source ..card Destination …right click parent folder choose create new folder ..give it your naming convention. Click import and Lr Classic moves all the images from the card to the folder and simultaneously populates the library screen Ruthlessly cull by a combination of sorting by meta data and rejecting ( X key ) then delete all rejected . Edit the left overs . I’m left with shoot named folder incorporating date Loads of folk will say but what about if you want to look at all the images that are …for example ‘flowers ‘ . In years of shooting I have never had a need to do that My Lr Classic catalogue is just 7249 images …through ruthless deletion leaving me with images from a number of years that I am super happy with .

Hi Chrissy hope you may be able to tell me where i am going wrong. I have multiple catalogues and within those catalogues there are members of my family when I use keyword ie family then do keylisting I go into a catalogue and it and the i transfer to the keylisting then I go to another catalogue with more family in it will only let me put them in that catalogue any help would be appreciated.

Finally, a video I can understand and implement. Thank you Chrissy. A question - as a new LR Classic user, I have messed up my folders, in that some of my images are on my Mac, and the rest are on an external drive. I would like to put them all on the external drive. Can I move folders from one to the other within Lightroom?

Life Saver Tips. Thank you.

I thought Lightroom automatically baked the keywords into the photos until I got a corrupted catalogue & lost everything... total nightmare, so much work all gone... lol

Excellent video Chrissy, thank you very much for uploading.🍷

Organizing in lightroom IMO is more of a personal preference. Yes, it is true that using a date structure can be a bit redundant for the sake of searching or sorting, as LR can already do this through metadata searches regardless of how your files are physically stored. I think the reason that the Foldres panel is NOT discussed in most beginner courses is that you can actaully lose stuff if you start deleting or moving folders (more so deleting, not so much moving, but you could lose track of things and think they were deleted). Whereas with things like Collections, they obviously work regardless of how the files are physically stored. I do agree that a good physical folder structure is important (however you feel that should be is up to the specific photographer) but a good foundation is important, and once you learn and realize the benefits and pitfalls (potential dangers) of the Folders panel, then you can use it with ease and without worrying too much providing you know what you are doing and you realize that deleting files in the Folder pane will / may actually delete them from your drive / computer, whereas deleting a collection, doesn't remove the actual files. Plus, one thing to differentiate too is that some modules only use Collections (they can't see the Folders pane or any folders in general). Plus Collections let the same image appear multiple times in different collections, wherereas with Folders, a file can only be in one folder at a time (you could copy it I guess and rename it, but then you have a duplicate and if you change the original, the duplicate doesn't change). Basically the concept of Collections separates the physical storage from the organizational storage in the LR environment but it is important to have a good physical organizational structure on your drive first, and then build your catalog around that. Personally I use both. I use folders to locate specific shoots, but have Collections and Smart Collections to keep track of things that might span across multiple folders (For example, my Favorites from a particular year, which may consist of say 100 images in different folders -- something you can't do with Folders panel alone). But if I wanted to see all of my particular photos from a single shoot, I just go to the folder (since creating collections and collection sets for the same physical folder structure IMO is tedious and repetitive I don't bother unless in a few rare instances I might. So I'm sort of a "hybrid" type of user where I Use both, to save time, make organization easier, but also not duplicate work (creating a separate collection for each folder within your physical folder structure takes time, at least initially when importing the folder for the first time but it may have advantages so I might start creating the same folder structure in Collections as my physical folder structure, but it will take time. I just don't see the benefit now. Rarely do I need access to ALL photos from a particular shoot, and usually just am working with my Picks, Selects (photos I am going to edit) and finished images, which I have created collections and smart collections to access those faster. So basically what I did a few years ago, was I took Scott Kelby's "SLIM" system suggestions for physical folder structure organization, but I don't create the same Collections in LR he does because I feel its too redundant (Creating a "Full Shoot","Picks", and "Selects" folder for each shoot) but rather just use pre-set Filters I've created so I can just navigate to the folder, and apply the pre-set filter to do the same task, with less work. Then I have my custom collections (which are not based on a physical folder, but some criteria -- either my Best Shots of X year, or all time, or all my landscapes, etc, additional custom organization -- such as by Genre or rating --- that I cannot do through the Folders pane since some of the criteria may apply to multiple folders. I also created a base "Workflow" collection set which basically shows me 3-4 things (and it appears at the top of my Collections list): "Picks, Edits (in progress), Finished Images, and Hold (images I'm holding off on, but intend to edit, but either have started or are waiting to start). I would say 80% of the time, I'm working with my "Workflow" collection set of collections (the ones I just listed).

Thanks for this. Here's my hip-tip: Watch this vid and figure this out well in advance of 20 years of images in 180K files.