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LIGHTROOM VERSUS PHOTO MECHANIC HOW TO

There’s no way to select some of the photos and send them to somebody else using the internet (something that sports photographers need).

There’s no way to see your photos’ metadata in the Import window.

When you open the Import window in Lightroom Classic it automatically takes you to Grid View and displays thumbnails of the photos to be imported. Culling photos in Lightroom Classic with Loupe View Use Loupe View in the Lightroom Classic Import window.

There are two ways to cull photos before importing them into Lightroom Classic.ġ. Learn more: My Lightroom Classic Workflow (Graham Hunt, Photojournalist)

This type of photographer doesn’t have time during the event to import photos into Lightroom Classic and needs a quick and reliable way to view photos, mark the best ones, add keywords and send them via FTP. Sports photographers who use JPEG and send photos via the internet to their agency during sports events. This type of photographer may still import every photo but wants a quicker way to view and rate photos than is offered by Lightroom Classic’s Library module. Wedding photographers who shoot lots of photos and want to view them quickly before import. The aim is to reduce the import time and amount of hard space needed. So, what type of photographer would want to cull photos before they import them into Lightroom Classic? I can think of several people for who this could be useful.Īny photographer who shoots a large number of photos and is confident they can cull their photos accurately before import.

LIGHTROOM VERSUS PHOTO MECHANIC HOW TO

Learn more: How to Find Your Best Photos With Lightroom Classic’s Compare View This approach isn’t for everybody and many photographers are happy to import all their photos into Lightroom Classic and use the tools in the Library module (Compare View, Survey View etc.) to decide which photos to develop. This cuts the import time by half and, as a bonus, means you use less hard drive space (assuming you discard any unimported photos). Let’s say you take 500 photos during a shot, but decide that out of those you only want to import the best 250 into Lightroom Classic. That article assumed that you want to import all your photos into Lightroom Classic before any kind of culling (that is, deciding which photos are worth developing and which ones aren’t) takes place.īut there are ways you can save time by culling your photos before you import them into Lightroom Classic.

In my article How To Save Time Importing Photos Into Lightroom Classic we looked at some ways you can save time importing photos into Lightroom Classic by changing the import settings and understanding the difference between Standard Previews, 1:1 Previews and Smart Previews.