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1. MAKE LIGHTROOM CC AS DEFAULT IMAGE VIEWER FOR WINDOWS 10 FULL SIZE
2. MAKE LIGHTROOM CC AS DEFAULT IMAGE VIEWER FOR WINDOWS 10 MAC

If you can’t see it, then you’re not using a monitor that supports 4k resolution, so ignore this tip.īy forcing Lightroom to open in low resolution, you’re sacrificing a slight pixellation of the UI (i.e. Then find the ‘Open in Low Resolution’ check box, and make sure it’s ticked (it won’t be by default).

MAKE LIGHTROOM CC AS DEFAULT IMAGE VIEWER FOR WINDOWS 10 MAC

Choose ‘Get Info’ on a Mac – on a PC, I’m guessing it’s labeled something similar. Simply find the location of the Adobe Lightroom CC folder on your hard drive, open it up, then right click the ‘Adobe Lightroom’ application icon. Hat tip to Sam Hurd for this great tip, which helps to make Lightroom faster with minimal effort. Standard previews offer the best middle ground – large enough that you can see everything you need to without zooming, but also small enough to ensure navigation through the Grid panel, and editing in the Develop panel isn’t hampered.įind the option in the same top-right hand menu, under ‘Build Previews’ > Standard. Here, Adobe ‘borrowed’ one of Photo Mechanic’s best features. Side Note: ‘Embedded & Sidecar’ is for journalists, sports photographers, or anyone who needs to get images edited and sent off asap. before all of the other photos have been imported), there’s no need to choose the ‘Embedded & Sidecar’ option. Similarly, unless you’re in a hurry and need to start editing your photos as soon as they hit your catalog (i.e. Unless you have a job that requires you to zoom in to 100% to check something on every photo, there’s no point created ‘1:1’ previews. Over time, your Smart Previews can grow to many Gigabytes, so it’s good practice to prune them every now and again. You can also build Smart Previews on demand (from within the catlog) – select the files, then click Library > Previews > Build Smart Previews.īonus Tip: When you’re finished editing the photos, you can ‘delete’ the Smart Previews to save some hard drive space – Lbrary > Previews > Discard Smart Previews.

When you import new images into your catalog, select ‘Build Smart Previews’ (in the top right hand corner of the ‘File Handling’ dialog).

MAKE LIGHTROOM CC AS DEFAULT IMAGE VIEWER FOR WINDOWS 10 FULL SIZE

Smart Previews are much smaller than original photos, meaning that as long as you set up your Lightroom Develop module to work from them (rather than from the full size RAWs), your post production will be much snappier.

There are several advantages of using Smart Previews, but all you need to know for now is that you should be building them when you import your photos… every time. 13 Tips to Make Lightroom Faster in 2022 1.