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Lightroom Workflow - How I Process Photos in Adobe Lightroom

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My Lightroom Workflow: Captions
Adding captions in Lightroom

Captions are added in the Metadata panel of the Library module in Lightroom.

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Captions

Depending on what I'm doing with the pictures I have chosen as picks, I may review them once again in the Library module and add captions to those which I have not already captioned. This way, if I am posting the photos online or using them in a project, the captions will appear with the photos.

Useful Shortcuts:

  • Click on the "Title" or "Caption" labels of the metadata panel for a drop down menu of recent entries. Even if you don't use identical captions, it can often save you some typing if you edit a recent caption.
Conclusion And that's it! It sounds like a lot of steps, but most of them are pretty quick, and every step is not always required. From this point, the photos will be exported from Lightroom or published using one of Lightroom's publishing services. I rarely use the Slideshow, Print, and Web modules of Lightroom.

I hope this has helped you develop a Lightroom process that works for you.

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