Can't get Adobe Lightroom to work

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BirderOzzie

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Oscar Dewhurst
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I just downloaded the free trial of Adobe Lightroom and when I open it, it says my photos are either offline or missing. My external hard drive is connected and works fine. Any help greatly appreciated.

Oscar
 
That's the message which is displayed when an image is already included in the library but Lightroom can't find the source file itself. I sometimes have this problem since I store my photos on a network-attached-storage box.

It sounds like you're storing images on an external harddrive? Is there any chance that it's been assigned a different drive letter to the one it had when you first imported your library? Or failing that, even plugging it into a different USB port was enough to throw my printer into problems.
 
right click on it image and you can tell it where it has gone and it will reconnect to the new file :D
 
If only recognises the letter F and the internal hard drive. My external drive is labelled G.
 
Mine frequently does this. Don't know why!! If I select one of the "file off line or missing" images, browse to find the source file on my server and re-connect, the whole lot then usually re-connect. It's damned annoying and I have no idea why it sometimes does it, but it seems to be something with them not being on my PC hard drive.
 
Why does it have import and export , why not open and SAVE AS?... The image i make and export to my hd isn't the same one i've just edited 0-o
 
Pirate Neilsouth said:
Why does it have import and export , why not open and SAVE AS?... The image i make and export to my hd isn't the same one i've just edited 0-o
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Lightroom stores the image information ( not the image itself) in its own database. The changes you make to the image is stored as metadata, and not as changes to the image itself. This way you can make multiple changes and not affect the original image. And if you completely screw up you just "Reset" which puts everything back to zero.You've not damaged the orriginal

Outputting applies these changes to the output file, TIFF JPEG or whatever. The RAW file is used to render a new file, the original is never touched. The setting are saved within the database so if you want another copy you simply output again, the same settings ( provided you've not changes them) are used for this second file. If you want to keep the orriginal settings but want a second output file with different settings you can make a "Virtual Copy" this then stores the new settings against a proxy image, the orriginal settings are kept with the first.
 
Lightroom keeps the information about the images in a database. You have to tell the database where the images are and what settings you want to use. I guess the Adobe Lightroom team used Import and Export to differentiate their aproach from the simple Open and Save options.

I've used several image database programs and they all use this import / export methodology
 
Thanks guys. Another question. When I am editing it, I want to save it as a different version so I can revert back to the original one. How can I do this. Also, how do I resize the number of pixels an images has.
 
BirderOzzie said:
Thanks guys. Another question. When I am editing it, I want to save it as a different version so I can revert back to the original one. How can I do this. Also, how do I resize the number of pixels an images has.
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Lightroom uses non-destructive editing so any changes you make within the program are only within the program and haven't altered the original file at all - you then export the file to end up with the edited version. The original's still there so no need to save versions unless you're experimenting with different processing.
The export function also has the option to resize the outputted file, you don't resize the original image as such.
 
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