About Lightroom catalogs

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There has been a tendency for some people to apply a Bridge-style methodology to working with Lightroom catalogs. It has sometimes been suggested that you should consider having one catalog for personal photographs, another for studio work, another for weddings, and so on. While this approach may seem to make sense because different catalogs can be used to segregate your photos into neat groups, it’s quite unnecessary. It is much simpler (and easier) to segregate your images when everything is contained within a single catalog.

Since the very early days of managing documents on a computer, it has been common practice to organize files by placing them in separate system folders. This worked well enough when photographers ...

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