Comments on: Relaunch and Optimize Your Catalog Today

By: Jaap Meijer

Jaap Meijer — Mon, 18 May 2009 17:39:33 +0000

Great, didn’t know the function. Have about 30.000 photos in LR2 en deleting rejected photos took more and more time. Now it’s fast again. Thanks.

By: jakob

jakob — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:04:12 +0000

Now I love that word 2 Thanks for the tip!

By: Yoyo

Yoyo — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:38:13 +0000

@Dan Walsh – I think you are looking for http://www.photographers-toolbox.com/products/lrmogrify.php

The trial version of this software is fully functional and allows you to export up to 10 images at a time. If you would like to support the development of this product then please consider donating. This will remove the restriction.

By: Dan Walsh

Dan Walsh — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:19:04 +0000

Hi Matt;

Just wanted to let you know that Nik Software’s ‘Sharpener Pro 3.0′ is now compatible with Lightroom. free updates are available for all owners of Sharpener Pro 3.0 or their Complete Collection.

Matt, do you know of anyway to;

1.) Resize an image inside Lightroom with having to export it to do so?
2.) Apply a frame inside Lightroom?

My workflow requirement fyg is;
1.) Resize image to 720px (longest edge)
2.) Apply sharpening
3.) Apply simple frame 80px
4.) Apply watermark
5.) Export image for web (under 300kb)

Would greatly appreciate any suggestions you may have. Cheers!
- Dan

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 06 May 2009 04:37:23 +0000

Great tip as always. I try to remember to optimize regularly but I forget often. Wouldn’t it be great if Lightroom would remind you to optimize regularly? Maybe 2.4??

By: Pete Chaloner

Pete Chaloner — Wed, 06 May 2009 01:12:16 +0000

Hi Matt, definitely like the before and after video’s, good to see the whole workflow on some of your actual images.
Cheers

By: Gavin Treadgold

Gavin Treadgold — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:02:20 +0000

Thanks for the tip. In conjunction with Lightroom Queen's post about Hurrying Up Lr, I both optimised the catalogue and undertook some of Lr Queen's suggestions. I also went and trimmed out 11GB of unneeded catalogue backups! I blogged about it here - Tidying up Lightroom. For me, optimising trimmed the catalogue by 20MB, just over an 8% percent decrease in size.

By: Jack Winter

Jack Winter — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:20:38 +0000

Love the before�and after. Keep ‘em coming!

By: Lisa Cirincione

Lisa Cirincione — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:42:06 +0000

Hello,
I make standard size previews when I import my pictures… and I keep my photos on a separate hard drive. I frequently like to to look at the catalog to organize and sort the library with just the previews, and I don’t need the hard drive hooked up to do this (great for plane trips).
When I optimized my catalog, it deleted all the previews I had imported for pictures I hadn’t looked at yet. I had to go back in and waste time re-rendering previews for all of my photos.
Not a big fan of optimizing.

By: Louis Dallara

Louis Dallara — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:20:11 +0000

Great job, really enjoyed the before and after. Learned tons of stuff.
It went a little fast in PS.
Thanks for a great job, sure wish I had know about the arches workshop,
hope you get a mailing list some day.