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Matt Kloskowski from Adobe Lightroom Killer Tips has published new video for Removing Dust Spots from Multiple Photos.

By using the Remove Spots tool along with the Synchronize feature you can get rid of lens spots and dust in just a few seconds.

Adobe Lightroom gives you an ability to organize images in your Library by setting rating to your photographs. You can do it in several ways.

First and most obvious way is to set it using mouse when you are looking at your images Library Loupe view. Just click on the star and you will set corresponding rating to the image.

The other way is by using keyboard shortcuts. Select your image or look at it in Loupe view, then use 1 to 5 keys to set Rating 1 to 5 stars accordingly. After selecting use your arrow keys to move to previous/next image.

Or you can use Shift-1 – Shift 5 to set image rating 1 to 5 stars and move to next image automatically.

There is even better, undocumented way to do it. Turn your Caps Lock on and press 1 to 5 keys. You will set rating and move to next image like if you did this with Shift-1 – Shift-5.

Also you can use same key combinations for setting color labels for images using numbers 6 for red, 7 for yellow, 8 for green, 9 for blue, and 0 for purple.

Summing everything up we have following table:

Jamie Thingelstad wrote a useful article about directory structure for digital photos.

This structure has three main features: consistency, uniqueness, and backup management.

1. Consistency is important. You want to make sure that regardless of camera, subject or any other variable there is a consistent way to find a photo.
2. Uniqueness of photo name is important. Even though the directory structure would allow for multiple files with the same name, you should guarantee that every file is unique and “fully qualified” for each individual photo.
3. Backup management is handled most simply through your file structure. I don’t like to rely on fancy backup programs to know what has been backed up or not, I like to be able to achieve this through chronology.

This looks to be solid, but I personally prefer to have 3 trees of directories with similar trees and independent backups for each:

1. First tree for Shoots – here I store everything I shoot in RAW format.
2. Second tree for Processing – there are shoots that were considered to be good for Photoshop processing.
3. And third is Print. Here I put all final versions of photographs for printing.

Inside these trees I have very similar structure like Jamie has.