Taming Your Photo Library with Adobe Lightroom

3. File Management, Lightroom Style

Now that you understand the purpose of the import process, let’s look at the tools Lightroom provides to help you manage your photos and videos. When you use Lightroom to perform basic file management tasks, such as creating, deleting, and renaming files and folders, you keep your catalog in sync with those changes. Following the procedures outlined in this chapter will help you get these common jobs done while keeping your catalog in sync. Should you have been less than diligent in the past or in case an accident strikes, you’ll also learn how to reconnect the catalog to your photos and folders if they do get ...