Go Lightroom

You may be wondering how to run Lightroom 2 as a 64-bit application on Windows XP x64.

Lightroom will not install as a 64-bit application on Windows XP by default because it’s not an officially supported platform for 64-bit version. Lightroom is officially supported only on Vista x64.

But when you run the Lightroom installer and choose to “Open the Specified Folder” in the Files are Ready dialog (Be sure to uncheck the option to “Launch the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.0 Installer”)  you’ll see an Adobe Photoshop Lightroom directory that contains “setup32″ and “setup64″ executables.

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Here’s something that you’ll do quite often - deleting photos. At least I do it very often.

Assuming that not every photo you take is a keeper (well, may be it is just me who takes bad photos sometimes) you’ll inevitably need to delete photos.

There’s two ways in Lightroom:

1. Deleting from your catalog but leaving them on your computer.
2. Removing them from your computer all together.

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Lightroom has many keyboard shortcuts. In this article I will cover module navigation keyboard shortcuts.

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