The Right Way to Set Up Your Lightroom Catalog For The New Year

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  • @johncalhoun4806
    @johncalhoun4806 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Been considering this since my current catalog contains almost 10 years of photos....so great timing to post this along with a bunch of performance tips. Off to create my 2024 catalog before I need to import anything. Thanks Sam!

  • @csc-photo
    @csc-photo 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wow some great tips here! Will re-watch and make some adjustments. Thanks Sam!

  • @MatteoCremaBL
    @MatteoCremaBL 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    ok, wait, let me buy a 8 tb macbook pro M3 max first, then i come back here to see the rest of the video. See you soon! ;)

    • @iamsamhurdphotography
      @iamsamhurdphotography  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      haha, the 8tb option was actually some of the best money i’ve spent in years. WAY over priced, but to not have to ever shuffle stuff from internet to external all year is a huge relief

  • @danielaargandona6825
    @danielaargandona6825 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    thank you very much. I don't need to copy my sessions as I have them already on an external hard-drive, mostly because my mac is rather old and the disk is just 2 tb. Do you have any other video explaining how to use the "Smart" stuff (catalogs etc) ? Thanks again and best wishes from Uruguay.

  • @irenecolgan4449
    @irenecolgan4449 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sam you are the best! Thank you for this information. Can you tell me why, when importing, you chose to COPY rather than ADD option? what would be the difference? I had mine set to ADD, so thinking that I may have missed some important options available. Happy New Year!

    • @iamsamhurdphotography
      @iamsamhurdphotography  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      because I want a new copy from my memory cards and into my destination folder. I believe add just imports your images at their currently location. for me, that current location is usually my memory card so that's not helpful after I eject and format the card!

  • @BrianPhoto
    @BrianPhoto 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Happy New Year Sam!

  • @aloysiuscalvin9467
    @aloysiuscalvin9467 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hi Sam! Do you also gonna do review about new godox Lux cadet with Nikon cameras DSLR and Mirror less ? Just came up on mind thou 🙏🏼 cheers

    • @iamsamhurdphotography
      @iamsamhurdphotography  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      maybe! i’m aware of the product but haven’t had a chance to try it out yet

  • @ThePhotographerGuy
    @ThePhotographerGuy 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Rad. Thanks for the tips.

  • @DogPileTV
    @DogPileTV 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Just the video I needed. Thank you!

  • @stewartmunrovideo
    @stewartmunrovideo 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video Sam !

  • @patrickmaguire8285
    @patrickmaguire8285 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hey bud. Great vid. Just wondering why you use srgb with PS but not with Topaz Denoise. I'm a total noob but I'm guessing that you denoise first, then work in Adobe rgb (in LR) and then send out to PS last, at which time you convert to srgb for screen use for your clinets?
    I'm starting out using LR, PS and Luminar Neo for real estate photography. LR and Neo will be used to edit RAW. Neo will be used to stack exposures for HDR. PS will be used to edite anything physical in the images e.g. moving furniture for better compositions. Would you recommend using ProPhoto RGB for Neo or will that create the issues that you mention? I intend to export RAW from LR to NEO. Following edits I will send back into LR as a TIFF. Then finally I wil send out to PS if I need to make any final edits.

    • @patrickmaguire8285
      @patrickmaguire8285 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Just realised a mistake in my thinking. If I export from LR to Neo as RAW then the colour gamut has not been added so is inconsequential. I guess however, if I do some editing in LR before exporting to Neo, then I will need to decide on a gamut and at that stage, as LR uses Adobe rgb, it would make sense to retain that. Does that sound correct?

    • @iamsamhurdphotography
      @iamsamhurdphotography  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      hmmm, for what i do i typically stay in sRGB, always!

  • @davidscottbowlesphoto
    @davidscottbowlesphoto 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Cool I’m curious how this works when using Imagen can you select the dates folder within Imagen? Definitely interested in making a singular calendar for this year.

    • @iamsamhurdphotography
      @iamsamhurdphotography  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      yes, you can see the entire directory tree of your lightroom catalog within the imagen app and select from there!

    • @davidscottbowlesphoto
      @davidscottbowlesphoto 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@iamsamhurdphotography awesome!!! As a new Imagen Ambassador this is great news haha thanks Sam.

  • @kavehjohn
    @kavehjohn 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I am officially confused as hell over this catalog business. I have heard people say they create a catalog for every project, or one for the year or just 6 main catalogs covering various projects. I have no idea who to listen to and what to do. if you have a catalog for every year, then why do you merge that into another one for the new year?? PLEAE EXPLAIN. THANK YOU

    • @JFitzsimmons
      @JFitzsimmons 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I do it basically the way he is describing. I have an archive catalog that is all of my photos from previous years. I then have a working catalog for the current year. The reason I do this is because I keep the working catalog and images on my laptop. This is where I do all of my reviewing and editing for the year. Moving it into the archive catalog, which I keep on to separate external drive acts as an archive and helps improve the performance of my working catalog. If I had every one of my photos from all previous years always in my catalog, I would always have to have an external drive connected to my laptop. It can also slow down the performance of Lightroom if you work with a catalog that huge all the time. The reality is, I rarely go back to previous years so it is really more of an archive. As for individual project catalogs, sometimes I will quickly create a new catalog to work on smaller project. It’s not necessary and probably more of an ADD thing, but once I am done, I can import that catalog into my current catalog and all of the edits, etc., come with it.

    • @iamsamhurdphotography
      @iamsamhurdphotography  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      yup, this is the way! I also sync my favorite photos in my "archive" catalog with Lightroom cloud so everything is in the Lightroom mobile app

    • @sternschnupper
      @sternschnupper 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@JFitzsimmons thanks for the explanation! you say with one big catalog you would need to have an external drive connected - as far as i understand it you only need to have the files accessible, when you access them. otherwise they just would show up missing - but once the drive is connected, would work again. i think the missing marked files don't harm anything, thus one big catalog should still work well?

  • @arceepee
    @arceepee 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video. My photos are stored on an ext. drive in specified folders. How do I integrate them with Lightroom?

  • @davidscottbowlesphoto
    @davidscottbowlesphoto 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I’m curious when importing new images from other weddings do you put them in folders? Within the catalog?

    • @iamsamhurdphotography
      @iamsamhurdphotography  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      yes! they go to a dated folder that Lightroom creates on import that set up in the destination tab of the import dialog box

  • @ericmichaud5880
    @ericmichaud5880 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Un gros Merci

  •  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Will definitely do that. I have concern. your RAW file is in your local hard drive, the smart preview has been created but does the preview in LR significantly faster? I mean, when doing smart preview, the RAW should be in external hdd, right? Pls correct me if im wrong, that is my understanding about smart preview

    • @iamsamhurdphotography
      @iamsamhurdphotography  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      doesn't matter where the raw files are, if smart previews are rendered then Lightroom will perform faster - just make sure "use smart preview instead of RAW" is enabled in your Lightroom performance preferences

  • @paulm8157
    @paulm8157 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Do collections and collection sets span multiple catalogs, or need I set up new ones for the new catalog? Thanks.

    • @iamsamhurdphotography
      @iamsamhurdphotography  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      unless you’re importing from a previous catalog I’m pretty sure you’d have to set up new collections with every new catalog

  • @Xanbunny
    @Xanbunny 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Why when you import do you not "Copy as DNG" but rather "Copy" and seemingly keep the CR3 RAWs out of camera? What about the future compatibility of CR3 files and increased storage space when not converting to DNG?

    • @iamsamhurdphotography
      @iamsamhurdphotography  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      i can always convert to dng later if i need… why bother with the added processing time if my files are supported?

    • @Xanbunny
      @Xanbunny 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@iamsamhurdphotography Fair point. Thanks for the great content!

  • @patrickmaguire8285
    @patrickmaguire8285 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm implementing your filename system. The example in the Filename Template Editor is not adjusting for GMT+1 meaning my filenames will be wrong by an hour. Have you noticed this before and what would you suggest?

    • @iamsamhurdphotography
      @iamsamhurdphotography  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      that sounds like an interesting bug that Adobe could potentially patch… But I can’t say I’ve noticed it myself! I’ll try to investigate, but please follow up if you discover fix

  • @lawaii2024
    @lawaii2024 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hmmm I don't understand why people don't commit a separate catalogue for each shoot? That way it's also in the same folder as the shoot, and allows for speed. Thoughts?

    • @iamsamhurdphotography
      @iamsamhurdphotography  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      it’s not necessary for speed, and it makes it very difficult to sort and organize archived images later on. as someone that just redid my entire website it was really great to be able to pull up every image i’ve taken in one catalog and sort by stars to easily export at proper resolutions and tweak editing etc.

    • @lawaii2024
      @lawaii2024 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@iamsamhurdphotography I find it so easily accessible to each shoot, to create a new catalog for each and keep the catalog in the same folder as the shoot. Hmmmmm

  • @KrzysPalacz
    @KrzysPalacz 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I just use Lightroom to cull and edit photos, when im fine with edits im just exporting and then removing the session from LR
    Could you xplain how smart previews make postprocess faster? I stopped generating them because I heard that they only help to work on files without having ssd with working-files connected and I did not see any change in speed when I’m not using them

    • @iamsamhurdphotography
      @iamsamhurdphotography  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      they’re about half the size of the full res raw so when you’re working in the develop module you should notice a performance boost both switching between images, and more computationally complex edits

  • @johnyotka6072
    @johnyotka6072 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What is the size of the catalog file for an average year and what is the size of your epic catalog, thanks

  • @annijoshle-th8kp
    @annijoshle-th8kp 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Now since you have double cat (EPIC & 2023), on which one you do the edits? And how you update the other on then, or is ir then outdated?

    • @iamsamhurdphotography
      @iamsamhurdphotography  9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      good questions. so, the master catalog (epic) in theory is done with edits because its previous years work, but that’s also the one i have sync’d to lightroom cloud, so i can access those images (and edit) anytime. the current year’s catalog (now 2024) i use and edit separately until the end of the year when ill merge it with Epic. hope that makes sense!

    • @mstephensphoto
      @mstephensphoto 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@iamsamhurdphotography I'm having trouble with running out of storage in the cloud. Can I ask what tier (size) you are using with Dropbox and lightroom cloud?

    • @iamsamhurdphotography
      @iamsamhurdphotography  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@mstephensphoto i almost certainly have whatever is largest

  • @noahsedillo5470
    @noahsedillo5470 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is probably an obvious question, but by using LrC with catalogs instead of LrCC means I can work off of my external hard drive instead of having to download a ton of photos onto my local drive right? When I use LrCC I can only have like 1000 photos on the software at a time before my storage fills up.

    • @iamsamhurdphotography
      @iamsamhurdphotography  หลายเดือนก่อน

      this is an obviously misinformed question, yes

    • @noahsedillo5470
      @noahsedillo5470 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@iamsamhurdphotography so would it be more beneficial to create a Lightroom catalog on my SSD, then store everything else on hard drives when it’s not being worked on? Or is deleting files from a catalog a bad idea even if I have backups stored somewhere else?

    • @iamsamhurdphotography
      @iamsamhurdphotography  หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@noahsedillo5470 yes

  • @AdrianNiveau
    @AdrianNiveau 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    New Catalog really recommended for speed?

    • @iamsamhurdphotography
      @iamsamhurdphotography  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      mostly for organizing and optimized cloud backup - i keep a giant catalog with millions of photos for all my previous years work and that gets synced to adobe’s cloud for quick access over lightroom app etx

    • @BrianPhoto
      @BrianPhoto 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      also great for gathering data on your most used lenses of the year!

    • @iamsamhurdphotography
      @iamsamhurdphotography  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      100000%@@BrianPhoto

  • @ktrethewey
    @ktrethewey 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    When you have been doing it long enough you will not remember which year you took a photo.

    • @iamsamhurdphotography
      @iamsamhurdphotography  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      well, ai tools now make it easy to just search by keyword and subject matter etc

  • @az33ria85
    @az33ria85 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Im really curious how you deal with the file naming when you have such large amount of files? I have the issue that for every 10k photos the file naming is reset to the same, and thus I cant just keep on adding to the same folder, but have ended up instead basically making 10k 1 folder, 10k2 and so forth. I am guessing I am missing something really important? Any tips for me?

    • @iamsamhurdphotography
      @iamsamhurdphotography  6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      yeah, that’s a good question! I rename every photo to be the year month date our minute second that it was taken. I can’t tell you how important and critical this is and i highly recommend it

  • @daleantolik3956
    @daleantolik3956 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I can not find the Destination module in my Lightroom CC 2024 13.3.1 nor the Apply During Import.

  • @jamescampbell1862
    @jamescampbell1862 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Whats the thing on the top.of your macbook?

  • @GLOW_WITHIN1
    @GLOW_WITHIN1 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How does this work for windows

    • @iamsamhurdphotography
      @iamsamhurdphotography  หลายเดือนก่อน

      probably very similar, but i stopped using windows a while ago

  • @tommyolsson6198
    @tommyolsson6198 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The thing about the histogram, you dont turn it off just because you minimize it. It still runs in the background, so minimizing that does not do anything. There is no difference in the performance what so ever

    • @iamsamhurdphotography
      @iamsamhurdphotography  หลายเดือนก่อน

      i would agree with you except that i absolutely see and feel a performance difference

  • @koenpijpersphotography
    @koenpijpersphotography 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    3 million photos, i hove 60.000 and i allready think it is a lot.

  • @WoolleyVeromca-f7d
    @WoolleyVeromca-f7d 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    White Jeffrey Taylor Paul Thomas Jose

  • @dandonovan1
    @dandonovan1 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Adobe highly recommends for the vast majority of users to only use 1 catalog. The speed issues have been fixed over the years. th-cam.com/video/-YwPj1uxxTg/w-d-xo.html

    • @iamsamhurdphotography
      @iamsamhurdphotography  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      that’s great! it would be impossible for me to use literally one catalog as i don’t have enough internal storage to deal with it, but if you don’t shoot 250k images a year then it’s probably a fine idea!! multiple catalogs is a nightmare for all kinds of reasons