In this episode of the Complete Picture, Julieanne Kost demonstrates the two most frequent methods for importing files into Lightroom. She discusses the advantages of each workflow, whether you’re importing directly from a card or importing images already copied to a specific location on your hard drive.

In this episode of the Complete Picture, Julieanne Kost explains how to transfer all of your Lightroom Catalogs, backups, presets, preferences and supporting files from one computer to another. If the paths to your images change along the way, she provides her tips on how to re-link any missing files and folders.

How to prevent Lightroom’s Previews file from taking over the hard drive. In this quick tip Julieanne explains what makes Lightroom’s Preview file (.lrdat) grow and how to set your Catalog Settings to prevent it.

In this Episode of The Complete Picture Julieanne demonstrates how to combine individual Lightroom catalogs into a single, “Master” Lightroom catalog to simplify a photographers workflow and enable multi-shoot searching.

In this episode you’ll learn how and why you would use both Lightroom and Photoshop Elements together.

In this episode you’ll learn how to import a Photoshop Elements catalog into Lightroom.

In this episode you’ll learn why you should consider upgrading from Photoshop Elements to Lightroom for your digital photography workflow.

In this Episode of the Complete Picture Julieanne answers one of the most commonly asked questions “If should you use a single catalog for all of your photographs or if you should you use multiple catalogs?”. As a general rule, she recommends that you use as few as possible, but discusses when using multiple could be beneficial.

The new, visual import window makes it easier to see where you're getting your photos from, and where you're putting them in the catalog.

In this episode, Julieanne Kost will explain how changes made to photographs are saved automatically to the Lightroom Catalog. Then Julieanne will demonstrate how to use both the “Save Metadata to Files” command as well as the “Automatically write changes to XMP” Catalog Setting to push changes made to photographs from the catalog into individual files (or sidecar files) so that they can be read and utilized within additional applications such as Adobe Bridge.

Acclaimed photographer, Nevada Wier, talks about the features that she loves the most in CS4.

Understanding how catalogs work is at the heart of Lightroom. Colin Smith shows you how to set up and manage catalogs in Lightroom 2.

Watch and uncover the most efficient way to work with multiple catalogs in LIghtroom. Discover how to combine catalogs by merging a “location “ catalog with one in the studio.

Learn the basics of Lightroom's catalog. We cover where Lightroom stores your previews and metadata, how it links to your source files, and how to use Lightroom with Bridge.

Julieanne Kost covers the advantages of working with a database program including multiple catalog support and customizing preferences for your specific workflow.