Questions tagged [lightroom-5]

Questions pertaining to version 5 of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, a popular image management and editing application. Version 5 was released in June 2013.

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Are Lightroom 5 Smart-Previews Useful?

Lightroom 5 added new Smart Previews. These let you work with images which are not found or on a disconnected drive, also known as Offline Editing. All Adobe documentation says that Lightroom Smart-Previews are good for working offline. Now, if one…
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Is there a setting for the adjustment brush in Lightroom that makes the "edit pins" disappear?

Usually when using the adjustment brush in Lightroom a small "edit pin" appears in the center of the adjustment made. For some reason this feature has stopped working. Is this a setting I can set (to off) myself or is this a result of a bug in the…
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Recovering Lightroom edits after a system hard drive failure

I had a hard drive failure, but I had everything backed up. I have replaced the faulty drive and restored the Lightroom images and catalog from the backup. I can see all the images in Lightroom but none of the star ratings or edits were restored. I…
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Can't move images in a selection (normal selection, not a smart collection) in Lightroom 5 every once in a while

I move around images in selections in Lightroom 5 to get a specific order as I am in reportage photography. It happens - quite often - that suddenly I am not able anymore to move around images in the selection. The selections are not smart…
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How do I get Lightroom to stop defaulting to Copy as DNG

When I try to import into Lightroom 5.7, the import dialog defaults to Copy as DNG: I never want to convert anything to DNG. How do I disable this? I looked in Lightroom preferences and Catalog settings, and I see no option. The dialog doesn't seem…
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Are Lightroom collections broken if you reimport photos?

I have some collections in Lightroom that references photos on my hard drive. If I remove those folders and reimport them, will the collections be broken?
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Copy as DNG from lightroom to lightroom

I import my photos to lightroom 5 as raw images from my cameras. In another moment, I try to have a second copy in dng of specific photos, not all, in deferents folders. But when I try to copy as DNG, I choose a folder from the left panel and the…
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