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Album

A kind of ‘virtual’ container for photographs you want to keep together. When you use an album (or ‘collection’) in photo editing software, it keeps the images together without actually moving them on your hard disk.

Albums are a key feature of image organising software like Lightroom (Adobe calls albums 'Collections'), Capture One, ON1 Photo RAW, Exposure X and Luminar.

Lightroom CC review (2020)

August 16, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Verdict: 4 stars It’s undeniably useful to be able to see, organise and edit your images anywhere, on any device, and the editing tools are now almost the same as those in Lightroom Classic. But you do have to pay for the necessary cloud storage for your photo catalog, and while the Sensei AI image search feature is great, the rest of the organising tools are pretty simplistic – and there are no smart albums. Lightroom CC is unique and effective in some ways, expensive and limiting in others.

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, Reviews Tagged With: Adjustment brush, AI (artificial intelligence), Album, Creative Cloud (Adobe), Lightroom, Lightroom Mobile, RAW processing, Sensei (Adobe)

How to organise your image catalog: some ideas

July 18, 2020 by Rod Lawton

What is the best way to organise your images in cataloguing software? You can use folders, albums, keywords, ratings, color labels, flags… but you should use just what you need. You don’t have to use them ALL.

Filed Under: Featured, General, Tutorials Tagged With: Album, Cataloguing software, Collection, Color labels, Folders, Keywords, Ratings, Smart Album or Collection

Navigating Lightroom Folders and Collections

February 6, 2014 by Rod Lawton

Lightroom Go to Folder in Library

I don’t really like Lightroom folders and collections, or at least the way they (don’t) work together in Lightroom Classic CC. Quite often, you can be browsing photos in a collection and wish you could quickly see the rest of the pictures in the same folder. Or you might be looking at pictures in a […]

Filed Under: Lightroom, Tutorials Tagged With: Album, Collection, Lightroom, Organising

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More reviews

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  • ON1 Photo RAW 2020.5 review
  • ON1 360 review
  • Analog Efex Pro 2 review
  • Perspective Efex review
  • DxO Nik Collection 3 review
  • Exposure X5 review
  • Capture One 20 review

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