Streamlined Organization in Lightroom Classic with Tim Grey

Keeping your photos organized is critical for any photographer. Tim Grey shares his expertise in Lightroom Classic, providing tips to help you define a streamlined workflow to keep your photos organized. The result will be a streamlined workflow that enables you to find your photos fast.
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0:00 Intro
2:24: The #1 rule in Lightroom Classic
3:30 Marking unreviewed photos
6:13 Setting up preset metadata
13:41 Update photos with new develop presets
18:45 Creating folder structor
22:51 Importing photos
37:22 Importing more photos to the same location
39:46 Reviewing imported photos
46:53 Deleting rejected photos
50:14 Assigning keywords to photos
56:16 Final thought
57:31 Q&As
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[@bheventspace]

How has organizing your Lightroom Classic catalog helped your workflow?

[@ramnoham593]

Thank you Tim, very helpful video. I've implemented many of your suggestions.

[@sjsphotog]

Tim is one of the best for Lightroom seminars. Thanks.

[@johnclay7644]

useful video on ALR work (organising)

[@draughonc]

I wonder why Tim hasn’t moved his WF to use Collections rather than folders for organizing. Many benefits to having an import folder and finished folder, and using Collections for image WF and storage mgmt.

[@glen-draketoolworks7186]

The total number of photos in a folder will exceed the photos displayed by the number of photos that you have performed Auto NR on. I don't know about manual NR.

[@NiklasHeinecke]

Quick question, you only use one catalogue or many catalogues? I have the feeling mine is getting slower (about 100k photos)…

[@ericlawrie7044]

I need to store my Lightroom catalog on a new drive as my 1TB local system drive is running out of space. I tried running the catalog from a regular internal HDD drive but Lightroom speed suffered badly - the lag I got was a pain. I am purchasing a second SSD, this time 2TB. I have considered two options, however. i) Use the new 2TB drive as my new local system drive and also as my Lightroom Catalog location. And ii) install the 2TB SSD as a 2nd local drive dedicated exclusively to the Lightroom Catalog. So existing smaller 1TB SSD is for system files only and the new 2nd drive is Lightroom Catalog only. Would there be any loss in performance having a dedicated, in this case 2nd internal SSD, for the Lightroom Catalog rather than sharing the system drive with Lightroom?

[@sjsphotog]

The internal SSD will be the fastest option. Even an SSD as external will be slower than internal. Fastest is keep the catalog internal on fast SSD with lots of free space (minimum of 50% free) as Lr needs the free slave as the cache especially when editing. Also a powerful Graphics card with lots of RAM in your pc/laptop makes a huge difference. A gaming PC is great for photo editing to ensure you have the power you need.

[@photographlisbon]

Creating multiple folders from the same location but different years seems to miss the point. In my case, I rename the files on import to include the date and time, and in the end they are stored in a folder with the location. All the dates that I need are in the filename and metadata which I can use to sort the files.
Everyone has specific needs and workflow but honestly what's shown in the video seems to not take advantage of Lightroom Classic.