Backing up Lightroom and Your Photos

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Lightroom has become the total package for photographers right? We can import, sort and organize our photos. We use it to develop and process, and we can print or create websites. However, as important as our photos are, Lightroom doesn't really offer an out-of-the-box backup solution. That's exactly what we'll cover in this class.

Introduction (01:52) Instructor Matt Kloskowski talks about what he will cover in the course
How Lightroom Works: 2 Main Things to Backup (04:08) Covering the two main things that users need to backup
Your Photos: Why They Need to Be Backed Up (02:51) Why back up at all?
Your Photos: Backing Them up Automatically (05:33) Setup Lightroom to back up photos
Your Photos: Keeping Backups Up to Date (04:33) Make sure Lightroom is updating regularly
Your Photos: Backing Up the Backup (03:07) Redundancy is important
Your Catalog: Why It Needs to Be Backed Up (02:55) lesson description
Your Catalog: Backing It Up Automatically (05:09) Setting up Lightroom to automatically backup images
Lightroom Catastrophe 1: Restoring the Catalog (03:35) Restoring the catalog
Lightroom Catastrophe 2: Restoring Your Photos (03:14) Restoring photos
Lightroom Semi-Catastrophe 3: Switching Computers (05:23) Switching computers
Backing Up Your Lightroom Presets and Preferences (03:59) Backing up presets and preferences
Archiving Old Projects (08:01) Archiving in Lightroom
Backup Storage Devices (05:13) Recommended devices
Conclusion (00:45) Thanks for following along. Hope you learned a lot

Course Time: 01 Hours 00 Minutes

W. Reinsma

Nov 16 2012

Best hour on Lightroom training I have ever spent! I learned more about backing up from this straight forward and easy to understand video series of what to do and when than any other course I've taken on the subject!
M. Nicholson

Sep 23 2012

This Is AMAZING!!! My disk space is full on my computer and I have been freaking out because I don't understand "computer" language. I just watched all of these videos in a row via the free 24 hour test drive, and I am sold. I have learned more in the last 2 hours than in any photo class. I have the Lightroom book, but it was easier for me to play the video, pause take notes and play the video again until I totally understood the back up process. I can't wait to watch all of the other videos on this site. I like that I can go back to each course over and over and that I can access it anywhere in the world. Thanks guys! I also love the Kelby dvd's!

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Matt Kloskowski

Author and Photography & Photoshop Expert

Matt Kloskowski is the Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. He has authored and co-authored five books on Photoshop and Illustrator and teaches...VIEW FULL BIO»

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