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Photo Storage 101: How to Backup Your Photos and Lightroom Catalog

Back Up Your Photos and Lightroom Catalog: Complete Guide 2025

Use this guide to learn how to protect and back up your photos and Lightroom catalog with a simple, reliable photo backup system.

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The Three Most Important Words to Transform Your Photography

How do we train our brain to keep us motivated for landscape photography? There are three important words to improve and transform your photography.

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Where to Store Your Lightroom Catalog and its backup - the complete guide

Two important Lightroom settings for everyone to review are the locations of where the Lightroom catalog and its backup is stored.

Where to Store Your Lightroom Catalog

Photography for Beginners

Cover Image for Ask Me Anything by Chrissy Donadi on How to Move Photos Between Lightroom Classic and Photoshop

Learn how to seamlessly move photos between Lightroom Classic and Photoshop. Tips for proper settings and workflow to ensure edited images appear in your catalog.

AMA: How to Send a Photo from Lightroom to Photoshop and Back

Lightroom & Photoshop

How to Speed Up Lightroom Classic & Optimize Performance - Part 2: The Right Hardware and Operating System for Speed in Lightroom

How to optimize Lightroom Classic with top hardware tips, storage solutions, and performance enhancements for a smoother editing experience.

Build and Optimize Your Computer for a Fast Lightroom Experience

Lightroom & Photoshop

A comprehensive guide packed with expert advice to speed up Lightroom Classic and boost performance for a fast Lightroom experience.

How to Speed Up Lightroom Classic & Optimize Performance

Lightroom & Photoshop

Learn the correct way to set the white balance in Lightroom for nature and landscape photographs and achieve accurate colors in every image.

How to Properly Set the White Balance in Lightroom for Landscape Photographers

Lightroom & Photoshop

Easily Create a Photo Copyright Preset in Lightroom

Learn how to automatically copyright your photos in Lightroom and the 3 essential elements that must be in your image’s copyright notice.

How to Add a Copyright to Your Photos in Lightroom

Landscape Photography

Cover image to Master Lightroom's HSL Panel

The complete guide to mastering Lightroom’s HSL Panel (hue, saturation, and luminance). Learn to adjust colors in your photos like a pro.

Quick Guide to Understanding Lightroom’s HSL Panel

Lightroom & Photoshop

Cover image for Faster Ways to Organize Photos in Lightroom Classic with Keywords Tutorial

Unlock the fast and easy methods to keyword photos and stay organized in Lightroom Classic.

Fast and Easy Ways to Organize and Keyword Photos in Lightroom

Lightroom & Photoshop

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