Give this one a try, and you’ll super dig it.

Thanks To Everybody Who Join Us For Photoshop World 2024

The conference wrapped up yesterday (Hurricane and all), and I’m very grateful to all the folks who spent 3+ days with us learning, and laughing, and making friends. The weather here proved to be a challenge, but our team did an amazing job of keeping the trains on the tracks. I’m very grateful to Erik Kuna, Ron Ducan, Christina Sauer, Jason Stevens, Eric Hathaway, Juan Alfonso, Dobson “Gibmaster,” Kathy P (K-Pop), and our whole crew, who worked through it all and delivered an amazing conference with lots of “Lightroom learnin’.”

Here’s wishing you a safe, dry weekend. #GoBucs, and #RollTide!

-Scott

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I hope you find it helpful! Many thanks to Glyn for having me on as a guest!

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This process is way easier than you might think, and I’ll take you step-by-step through the process (again, much easier than you’d think). Here goes:

STEP ONE: Once you’re back from your trip, and you’re done with sorting and editing your images on your laptop, right-click (Mac: Ctrl-click) on the Collection (or, in my case, the Collection Set) you made during your trip and from the pop-up menu that appears, choose “Export this Collection Set as a Catalog” as shown above. Of course, if you created a Collection rather than a Collection Set, it would read “Export this Collection as a Catalog” instead. If you work in Folders rather than Collections, it would say, “Export this Folder…” and so on.

STEP TWO: This brings up a dialog box asking where you want to save this newly exported catalog. At this point, I would plug in an external hard drive and save it to that hard drive. If you don’t have an external hard drive, you could save it to Dropbox, iCloud, or a cloud-based storage service instead.

At the bottom of the window are checkboxes for some options, the most important being “Export negative files.” Turn that on! Turning on that checkbox includes a copy of your actual images, which is important — otherwise, all you’d be moving to your home computer would be the thumbnail previews. You want the RAW (and/or JPEG) files to be copied over to your home computer as well. Now click the Export Catalog button (as shown here).

STEP THREE: Here’s a look inside the folder created when you exported that Collection Set as a Catalog. It’s the Preview file, the Catalog file itself, and a folder named “Pictures” with all the Images that were in that Collection Set you edited on your laptop. These are all saved to your external hard drive (or cloud service if you choose to go that route instead).

STEP FOUR: Now eject that external hard drive from your laptop and plug it into your home computer (in my case, it’s an iMac). Then go under Lightroom’s File Menu and choose Import from Another Catalog (as shown here).

STEP FIVE: This brings up a standard “open” dialog, so navigate your way to have that folder on your external hard drive with your exported catalog. Now choose that Catalog file (not the previews, not the Pictures folder; the one that ends with the file extension .lrcat), and open that catalog. That brings up the Import window, and the important thing to do here is go to the File Handling pop-up menu (seen above). Choose ‘Copy new photos to a new location and import’, then click the Choose button right below that and choose where you want these images from your laptop to be stored (in my case, they are photos from China, so they’d go inside my Travel Folder on my Synology NAS storage unit at my house).

Now click the Import button, and you’re done. Your images will copy to wherever you choose, and this Collection Set (or Collection or Folder, depending on what you chose) will now appear in your Collections panel (or Folder panel), just as if you had created it there from the start. All the sorting and editing you did on your laptop will still be intact.

NOTE: If you used Dropbox or iCloud instead of a hard drive, the process is the same; just choose to import the catalog from Dropbox or iCloud, etc., instead of from your External Hard Drive.

There you have it. Basically, you export a collection from your laptop and then reimport it on your home computer, and it adds it there as if you created it there in the first place.

I hope you found that helpful, and here’s wishing you a super relaxing weekend.

-Scott

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Hope you have a wonderful holiday weekend.

-Scott

P.S. I’m joining a team of incredibly talented instructors as a part of the Muench workshop’s incredible trip to Antarctica and they are running a summer special until Sunday, offering $500 off the workshop price. You’ve got to check out the video below – it’s one of those one-in-a-lifetime bucket list types of experiences for photographers, and you don’t want to miss out. Here’s the link with more details (make sure you watch the video below – so inspiring!).

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I’ve been doing a series of in-depth photo guides for travel photographers for KelbyOne, and I’ve done it for locations all over the world (Paris, London, Lisbon, Rome, New York, Tuscany, Venice, and more), where I share the best places to shoot, the GPS coordinates; I show images from each location and give as many insights as I can. I did one for Chicago as well and one of the locations I talked about was a parking garage where you can shoot down on an intersection of the “L” (Elevated trains). When my co-host for the course, Larry Becker, saw the behind-the-scenes shot of me taking the shot (shown above), he asked how I could possibly get the shot straight at the angle I was shooting from. The answer? Lightroom’s Guided Edit. Here’s how I used it to fix the perspective issue:

STEP ONE: Here’s the shot, taken at the angle you see in the behind-the-scenes shot. To straighten the photo, go to the Transform panel and click on the Guide Button. When you click on this, nothing happens because there are two other steps. One is to click on the Guided Upright Tool (shown circled above), and then next is to drag it out over areas you want to be straightened (we’ll do that in the next step).

STEP TWO: I’m going to click and drag out the tool along the left track (I added a red two-headed arrow here to show you where I’m dragging. The tool itself lays down a white line, but it was hard to see it in this small capture, so I added the red line just as a visual. When you use this tool, the lines will be white. When you drag out the first line, nothing happens yet either.

STEP THREE: When you draw the 2nd Guide Edit line out (as seen here, where I dragged along the track on the right of my first line) you can see the image starts to straighten out. Depending on the image, you might only need two lines, but in this case, the image still looks skewed (the tracks look like they’re leaning downward from right to left through the horizontal middle of the image).

STEP FOUR: Here’s the third line — right down the tracks in the center.

STEP FIVE: I dragged the fourth and final line down the opposite tack, and you can see it’s pretty close now, but look up at the top center track, and you can see that when the fourth Guided Edit line did its thing to straighten out the image, it make the top centerline off by a little. Easily fixed because you can reposition the lines once they’re in place by clicking and dragging.

STEP SIX: I dragged the little repositioning dot on the top line (not quite sure that’s its real name) shown circled above in red and dragged it upward so it’s straight along the track again, and the image readjusts (as you can see here) and now it’s nice and straight.

Have a great weekend, everybody!

–Scott

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Have a great Monday, everybody!

-Scott

P.S. I’ll be speaking at the On1 Landscape Photography Conference coming up next month. Some pretty incredible courses at the two-day online conference, including lots of shooting and post-processing sessions. More details at kelbyonelive.com – get your ticket now and save a bunch!

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Thanks, Terry!

Have a great weekend, everybody!!! See ya next week!

-Scott

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Give that a try – you’ll love it!

Here’s wishing you a better-than-average Lightroom Tip Tuesday!

-Scott

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Note: I love how the automated close captioning shows my name as “Scott Kelvin.” LOL!

Really simple but so effective.

Here’s wishing you an absolutely kick-butt, awesome Monday!

-Scott

P.S. Next week we kick off the 2024 Lightroom Conference. Two days, two learning tracks, and tons of really useful new stuff to learn (plus, you get the entire conference archived to stream on demand for an entire year). Don’t miss out – here’s the link to get your ticket.

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It’s surprisingly easy, but it really makes a difference and works like a charm.

Just a few weeks away from the Lightroom Conference 2024

It’s a two-day, two-track conference (with a pre-conference session the day before included). We’re talking 20+ Lightroom training sessions; an all-star crew of instructors, and you can save a bundle if you sign up right now at kelbyonelive.com – check out the trailer below with more details:

Get your ticket right now at kelbyonelive.com

Have a great Easter weekend, everybody!

-Scott

P.S. Our workshop with Joe McNally – the one I talked about earlier in the week, is now sold out. If you want to get on the cancellation waiting list, head to kelbyone.com/workshops

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