dj_paige

And yet, my folders aren't meticulously organized, and I can find any photo I want, quickly, without knowing the file name or the folder location. That's what keywords and other metadata do for ...

Lightroom is a DAM. Lightroom allows you to add keywords and other metadata. You don't need other software to do this. A particularly poor strategy. On the one hand, you state "it wouldn't matter ...

First, let me say that in my opinion, you are asking the wrong question. The question should NOT be how to re-arrange your folders. The question should be how you should organize your photos (not ...

I doubt you will find lists of what software does NOT do. Yes, we know the big things that software does not do, Lightroom does not do layers (although they are less necessary now because of some ...

Primary appeal of LR is many things to many people, you can't narrow it down to one thing.

Well, that's a four year old article, a lot has changed, and you no longer have to pick just one. If you purchase a subscription to LR, you also get PS at no extra cost to you. In particular, there ...

Hmmm ... translation: tell me everything, and tell it to me in language I will understand. Well, I don't know whta languague you will understand, and I can't possibly tell you everything. There ...

Not only do I find the digital asset management (DAM) in Lightroom to be NOT confusing, but I find it invaluable in helping me organize and find my photos. I have over 30,000 images  managed by ...

This is the exact problem I have, and instead of explaining how this shouldn't be a problem, you have explained it in such a way that it remains a problem. You have re-inforced my point. If you ...

The most common cause of this is that the monitor is not properly calibrated. Or perhaps FastStone is not color managed (I believe you have to turn on the option to enable color management, it's ...

"If you don't use any other features that can't be saved into xmp sidecar files" But what are those features? How can anyone make a judgment about whether or not to use this method if they don't ...

But the solution I gave does not require an external drive.

That's a phrase that doesn't indicate a positive mindset. A positive approach would probably work better. It's actually very simple. You can create a temporary catalog on the laptop, work with the ...

(1) Correct (2) You can install Lightroom Classic CC on as many computers as you want. You can activate Lightroom Classic CC only one two computers at any given time, and actually use LR Classic ...

I found a photo of mine, taken before PV 5 was available, with noticeably purple noise in one of the corners. Under PV4, the purple noise did not go away. After modifying the process version to ...

With regards to Lightroom, you need to state the problem you are having (in detail) that you would like to improve. There's really no general answer that solves all problems.

So explain what can be learned from this.

I am skeptical that anything can be learned from these screen captures (and I was not the one that suggested them) If I were you, I'd make copies of both of these folders as backups, then open the ...

I guess I don't see how this helps. There are usually hundreds or thousands or tens of thousands of photos in a catalog, and seeing the few that appear on one screen capture doesn't really tell ...

See my reply at https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/61858278