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I am embarrassed to ask this but How can I find all my edited photos in light room? I created quite a few catalogs and they are spread out over different areas. I want one folder with all my edited photos in it..

Create a new empty catalogue to start with. The import each of your existing catalogues in to the new catalogue. You have to do this one catalogue at a time. This has to be done by using the File-Import from another catalogue command.

Once you have all of your catalogues combined then all you need do is set up a Smart Collection that looks for the edited tag that is applied when an image is edited. Open this Smart Collection and you will be able to see every image that has had LR editing applied to it. If you apply a preset on import though this will set the editing flag too. It is probably a good idea to set a label (red, green, blue etc.) or a star rating to finished images to make it easy for LR to find them.

Once you have done this you have simple access to all of your finished edited images in their existing location. Thete is no real need to move the images into a single folder, which could get pretty big pretty quickly.

With LR there really is no need at all to keep exported copies of images on your local computer. You just export them from LR as you need them, once used simply delete until the next time. This ensures that you are always using an optimised version of the image for the task in hand. I have no finished JPEG files stored on my computer. All of my JPEGs for viewing are online. If I want to see the image on my local computer I just use LR as my viewer and look at the original image. I know that some folks have a local system set up to stream images on the local network, I would count this in the same way as doing it through a service like Flickr. In this situation I would not include these JPEG files in the LR catalogue.

I know in the early versions of LR keeping the catalogue file relativly small had some performance advantages. Since LR4 though the size of the catalogue has no effect on performance, and that there are people out there with 250K and even 500K catalogues. Keeping all of your images in separate catalogues is rather defeating the major usefullness of the application, of having all your images avilable in one place.

Alan

ThomasDidymus wrote in post #17932400


I am embarrassed to ask this but How can I find all my edited photos in light room? I created quite a few catalogs and they are spread out over different areas. I want one folder with all my edited photos in it..

Set up a smart collection, > develop > has adjustments? I don't know if you can encompass multiple catalogs. I only have one catalog, so I cannot test this.

Depends what you mean by edited. I apply a preset on import - is that edited? Use photoshop? pds image? name with Edit or copy in it? If it is your good edits perhaps star rating might help or a keyword for the kind of editing you mean.

Martin Dixon wrote in post #17934062
Depends what you mean by edited. I apply a preset on import - is that edited? Use photoshop? pds image? name with Edit or copy in it? If it is your good edits perhaps star rating might help or a keyword for the kind of editing you mean.

Martin using a preset on inport will set the edited flag on the file, which if you regularly do that rather negates the utility of the flag IMO. I guess if you are always applying the same preset on import it is time to change your default settings. As they can be setup on both a per camera and per ISO basis that should really cover your bases.

Alan