The Complete Lightroom Course

John wished he had a magic lamp that could find his photos.

John stared at his screen. He was trying to look for his daughter’s first photos to play as a slideshow at her 8th birthday. He had taken them 8 years and so many hard drives ago; he had no idea where they were.

He had 6 external hard drives with all his photos in them; and he didn’t know which photos were in which one. He would just come back from his shoots, and whichever hard drive had space in it, he would plug that in, make a folder and then copied them onto it. That seemed quite convenient at the time but now his photos were all over the place. Not only that, but he also didn’t know how to name his folders and files. Sometimes he would name his folders by date, sometimes by the name of the shoot. And his photos all had names given by the camera; like DSC_4078 & IMG_6397. This meant that now he couldn't search through his photos by name.

To make things worse, after every shoot, when he wanted to pick out his favorites, he would make more folders inside the folder of each shoot with names such as Selected or Rejected. When he wanted to retouch his photographs, he would open them one by one in Photoshop and apply many different settings individually to each photo, taking about twenty to thirty minutes per photo. Sometimes, it would take him several days just to retouch one shoot. Once he was done with his retouching, he would save it as a separate file in a separate folder usually called Edited or Final. Now, he had so many folders, with so many duplicate versions of the same photos, that it was a complete mess.

And now, he had to find photos of his daughter when she was born and he didn’t know where to look. His 6 hard drives, each had hundreds of folders in them; and because his files & folders weren’t named properly, he couldn’t even run a search to find them.

Distressed, he reached out to his friends to help him out. Someone told him that he should use Lightroom to organize his files. So he got the software and installed it on his computer. Even after spending hours trying to understand it, he thought it was far too complicated of a software. He felt even more confused with Lightroom and eventually uninstalled it from his computer.

I was once like John.

For the longest time as a photographer, I didn’t have any system for what I would do with my photos when I bring them on to my computer from my camera. I just did what seemed right.

Over time as I started shooting more and more photographs, the number of photos on my hard drive became more and more. I got hard drive after hard drive as they got full, and without even realizing, I had five to six different hard drives with no idea about which one contained what. All had mixed data on them; movies, tutorials, my design work… and my photos.

So many hard drives! I had no idea what's in which one!

I figured I had to get organized. But, I had no idea where to start. I figured I was probably not the only one with this problem. Many other photographers must have gone through the same problem and at least some of them would have found a solution. So, I got in touch with these professionals to ask them about their workflows. I arranged for Skype interviews with some of the best photographers from all around the world, that I had met when I attended international workshops & photography conferences. I spoke to photographers from the USA, UK, India, Malaysia & Australia and learnt about the systems they used for their photographic workflow. While each of them had different systems, one thing common with all of them was Lightroom. They were all using Lightroom to manage their files.

From these interviews, I picked out the best systems and strategies in Lightroom to manage my files and started putting them into practice. After carefully working out which systems worked and which ones didn’t, I eventually came up with systems and strategies of my own.

Now, I have more than 225,000 photos from the past 10 years in my archive, but with the help of one of my strategies, The History Book Technique, they are all properly named, and clearly organized in one place. If I have to find any photo from this huge archive, then using Lightroom, it only takes me a few seconds to find it. Lightroom makes things so easy that when I come back from a shoot, I can pick out my favorites from hundreds of photographs, in not more than ten minutes, without creating any extra ‘Selected, Final, Edited, Unedited’ folders. I can now retouch an entire shoot containing hundreds of photographs in only twenty to thirty minutes with only a few clicks.

These systems really paid off!

Because of using all these systems, I was able to get my photographs published in a calendar for a multinational company. I received a call from the company, saying that they were publishing a calendar and their theme was the philanthropic nature of the Pakistani people. They needed some photographs of the relief work done for the floods in Pakistan that had happened in 2009. I knew I had taken photographs of the relief work though it had been a couple of years to that. It was just a matter of finding those photos and that was no problem at ALL! I did a quick search in Lightroom and all the flood relief photos came right in front of me within seconds.

My photos got published in a calendar because of my systems in Lightroom.

If my folder structure was messy and I didn’t know which photos were where, I would have turned them down. But, because I had these systems in place, I was able to find the photos in less than a minute. I shared them with the company and eventually got published (and paid a good amount). My photographs were seen by thousands of people which eventually led to more work!

I don’t want to end up like John, and neither should you!

I recently had a daughter and I obviously love taking her pictures. To save myself from ending up like John, I have set up a few systems in Lightroom through which her photographs are automatically getting collected at one place, without me having to do anything at all.

All photos of my daughter automatically get collected in this folder with the systems I've set up in Lightroom. I don't have to add them.

Every time I take her photos and bring them into Lightroom, they’re also automatically getting stored in a ‘kind of a folder’ which contains all of her photos, right from the time she was born. That way, after a few years, when I want to see all her photos from her birth, all I have to do is go to that folder and they are all right there. And if I have to show a slideshow of her photos on her birthday, I know exactly where to go! Lightroom will even help me put up the slideshow!

That’s the power of Lightroom and that’s what I want to teach you!

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I invite you to use the methods I outline in this course. I am very confident that you will have a much smoother workflow; and you will be taking much less time to retouch your photos. I will be there every step of the way to answer all your questions.

I built this course after testing out all the systems that are out there. I even tried a variety of my own different workflows until I arrived at the systems I teach in this course.

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