1. Adobe Lightroom Library Module
6/26/2018 5:04 PM
Adobe Lightroom Library Module
Vartkes Peltekoglu
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2. Lightroom Library Module
The Library Module is your image collection organization module. This is often referred to as “Digital Asset Management or DAM for short)
It organizes and retrieves images using various metadata (metadata = data about an image)
Date, keyword, GPS co-ords, stars, colour labels, camera model, lens, etc
Library runs on its Catalog – informing it where an image file is stored
Only one Catalog required
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3. Why ‘Organize’ Image Files
You don’t have to!
If you organize, then it is easy to search
For a specific image
Type of images (keywords)
From same location
Category
In a Collection
By label, stars or flags
Invest your time in adding useful metadata to every important photograph in your Lightroom Catalog.
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4. What is Lr Catalog? Lr Catalog is a database that indexes your photos.
This allows you to organize thousands of digital images, easily finding any photo, thanks to Lr’s robust search tools and other organizational features.
In modern words, the wooden box that is the card catalog is a “database” and each book that it indexes is an “object.” Each index card acts as a reference point, or placeholder, for a particular object that the library is storing. When the librarians add new books into the library’s holdings they also add new index cards into the wooden card catalog box.  The card catalog allows library visitors to track down exactly which books they need in no time.
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5. Library Module – Major Functions
Imports image files – save into folders and index entries into the Catalog
Exports image files
Organize images using keywords, flags, labels, GPS-Maps etc
Image Collections
Publishing Services
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6. What is “Import”?
Import means to add new reference points into your Photoshop Lightroom Catalog.
When we Import, we are asking Lightroom to keep track of a group of image flies.
Importing creates pointers between your Lightroom Catalog’s thumbnails/previews and the image files on your hard drive.
Lightroom Catalog is a searchable index of your photographs
Catalog does not contain the image files
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7. Organizing Images
Invest your time to enter ‘Keywords’ after every Import
Enter Keywords for images
Enter broad keywords (e.g. Bird) and specific keywords (e.g. Eagle)
Enter Location info in the MAP module
Identity, ownership and copyright data
Do this to the bulk of imported images all at once.
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