How to View Samples
*Photos courtesy of Benjamin Clifford.
Part 5.1 of The Photographer's Edit Workflow walks through how (and where) to download sample images to review. We also cover how to relink your samples catalog in Lightroom Classic (v9, 10 or 11).
How to View a Completed Color Correction Order
*Photos courtesy of Benjamin Clifford.
Part 5.2 of The Photographer's Edit Workflow reviews how to manage completed orders within Lightroom Classic v9, 10 or 11 . We review connecting the updated Lightroom catalog with your original photos, filtering culled and B&W photos or referencing Collections, and merging editing with your primary catalog. We also go over submitting feedback or requesting a redo.
RELINKING YOUR CATALOG
- Download your completed catalog from your Account Dashboard.
- Please place the zipped folder on your Desktop, then unzip the folder to open the completed catalog. The catalog will NOT open correctly if you try to open from the Downloads folder.
- When you open the completed catalog from us, some (or all) of your images might be grayed out - this is normal!
- There should be " ! " marks in the upper right corner of all of your images. Click on one of these and a pop up window should appear telling you to relink to a specific original RAW image.
- Once you relink this, the rest of your images should start to load. Often this disconnect happens if the folder of original RAW files is on an external device. You essentially just need to show Lightroom where this folder is, by relinking an image first!
- If you find that the edits don't load in immediately after relinking to the RAW files, sometimes closing and reopening Lightroom helps!
- If you don't see greyed out images with a " ! " in the upper right corner - congrats! Lightroom was able to relink to your images successfully. :)
To merge our catalog into your main catalog:
- Close out of our catalog, and go to File > Open Recent and select your main catalog.
- Once your main catalog is open, go to File > Import from Another Catalog, and select our completed catalog you just had open.
- In the dialog box that pops up, make sure to select Replace: 'Metadata and develop settings only', and uncheck 'Preserve old settings as a virtual copy'. And click 'Import'.
- At this point, you should see our edits load on top of your images.
- After you import, we recommend that you keep a back up of the completed catalog from us on an external device, as we only keep completed orders on file for up to two weeks after they've been completed.
FINDING CULLED OR BLACK/WHITE IMAGES IN YOUR COMPLETED CATALOG:
If you have ordered Culling, you should find your edited images either Flagged or in a culling Collection. If you have already Flagged images in your catalog, we will create a Culling Collection.
Any images processed in black and white will either be 5-starred or in a Collection, dependent on what you have sent to us.
Haven't used Collections before? No problem! You can find the Collections tab on the left side of Lightroom in the Navigator panel. Just hit the arrow on the left next to 'Collections' to expand it!
Watch the entire workflow.
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