Instead of downloading the example watermark I went straight to creating my own using this tutorial: http://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/BrandingSM.mov (I used this to create a photoshop watermark action before but went through it again to tweak it for lightroom)

The changes I made were to make my watermark appear about 1/3 down the page, centered vs. on the side (skipping a few steps mid-way through), then I added flattening the image at the end and converting to sRGB.

I then jumped back to your instructions in creating the droplet and putting in the appropriate lightroom directory.

Everything seems to be working great except for the fact that I work in Adobe RGB in Photoshop, not sRGB so I get that color space warning message when Lightroom goes through its export (telling me the workspace and file are in different color spaces). How did you get around that or do you have your warnings turned off?

Hope the link helps – I’ve found it to be the clearest watermark tutorial out there (albeit a tad annoying!).

I have a redesign of this site coming hopefully sometime soon (where soon is in the next couple of months). I hope to come up with a better solution for the list of photographers… but in the meantime, I’ll go ahead and add you.

As to your second question… I have a catalog that includes my external drive… so I just copy the folders I’m done with over. Then, I just select that part of the catalog when I need to get to the older files. It seems to work pretty well with the external drives.

Sean – I think the problem I’m running into is that I tend to move into Develop mode while I’m still shooting, and tweak things as I go along. When I switch back to Library mode, it no longer auto-advances. Good idea on the preset.

If you select the first image and put it in Loupe view, Lightroom will auto update to the new one when it gets in.
As suggested, create a Develop Preset from the first image, and go back to Auto Import Settings.. and select it. That’ll save all the Previous clicks.

As for the question above: Move the photos in Lightroom and Lightroom will track them. I’d suggest moving them back to the drive and then moving them inside Lightrooms Folder Pane.

and (2) have you figured out in Lightroom how to keep copies of the photos that get moved to a secondary hard-drive? I’ve been in the system of moving the projects I’ve completed onto my back-up hard drive from my macbook when completed, but then LR shows that grey question mark over the corner of the photo until I plug my hard-drive back in again. The only solution I’ve found is to keep low-res jpg copies of all my photos on my macbook so LR can still read them.

Christina – I’ll have to take a look. I haven’t noticed it being a problem, and assumed it just used the color profile from the camera. I export to sRGB or AdobeRGB depending on the specific needs and haven’t noticed much degradation (although there always will be some with any conversion).

Jackie – Glad I could help. I’m definitely pleased with the new flow, although I will say that I do miss a few Capture One things. Not enough to change, but enough that I’m a bit wistful when I’m shooting. The capture one overlay functionality was fantastic for shooting for very tight layouts like covers.

Sabra – Bridge is fine for most things, but I really like to have views into my photos that aren’t just flat folder structures. I’m using the collections to manage what files I use for what client or stockhouse, for example. And, being able to go through all 20,000 of my photos from the last year in a single view while sounds horrifying is actually pretty clean in Lightroom where it never would have been in Bridge.

Absolutely Morsels of Memory. Glad to help!

Also, I tend to create a develop preset from the first image that’s shot from a shoot, and then have it applied to any image that’s brought in from then on. This can be set up in the auto import settings.

Good luck!