Mastering Metadata in Lightroom Classic
Learn how to become a master of metadata in Lightroom Classic! Join Terry White as he takes a deep dive into all of the ways you can add, edit, and utilize information about your photographs in your workflow. Metadata is simply information about your photos, and can include information applied during capture by your camera as well as information you add within Lightroom Classic. In this class Terry teaches you how to create and apply metadata templates, how to manually enter IPTC information, the value of keywording, how name people using facial recognition, how to apply location information, and how to manage that metadata during export. The more information you apply to your photographs the better able you’ll be to organize and find them over time.
Release Date: 2019-06-06
Lessons
Introduction
The instructor introduces the class and discusses what will be covered in the lessons that follow.
Duration: 0 mins 58 seconds
Why You Should Care About Metadata
There are two types of metadata. Learn about each and why it is important.
Duration: 5 mins 33 seconds
Applying a Metadata Template
You can create a metadata preset that you can apply during import or later in your workflow.
Duration: 10 mins 21 seconds
Entering IPTC Metadata
There are certain types of metadata you will want to enter into each of your photos.
Duration: 7 mins 46 seconds
To Keyword or Not to Keyword
There are a lot of reasons to consider adding keywords.
Duration: 10 mins 12 seconds
Syncing Lightroom Classic to the Cloud
Once your photos are synced from Lightroom Classic to the cloud those photos will be analyzed by Adobe Sensei and can be searchable without applying keywords manually.
Duration: 6 mins 8 seconds
Naming People
You can take advantage of facial recognition within Lightroom Classic to find and name people in your photographs.
Duration: 7 mins 46 seconds
Capture Date and Time
Lightroom Classic has the ability to edit the capture data and time in your photographs.
Duration: 4 mins 53 seconds
Applying Location Information
The Map module allows you to place photos on the map and add that GPS information to the photo’s metadata.
Duration: 8 mins 13 seconds
Using a GPS Track Log
Utilizing a device that records a GPS track log you can marry the location information in the track log with the capture data and time of your photos to place them on the map.
Duration: 7 mins 29 seconds
Keeping Metadata with Exported Copies
After applying all of that information in Lightroom Classic you will want to be deliberate in your export choices to retain types of metadata in your photos.
Duration: 9 mins 20 seconds
Conclusion
Terry wraps up the class with some closing thoughts to help you move forward.
Duration: 4 mins 29 seconds