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The role of folders

The role of folders - Lightroom Tutorial

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The role of folders

- As you start to organize images into multiple albums, you can go one step further and use folders. Folders allow you to group things, for example, personal, business or maybe a particular client or maybe a volunteer organization. This allows you to keep multiple albums organized for easier access. You'll find this over here in the albums view, just click on the plus button here and you can create a folder. So, for example, I can make a folder called Europe and click create and while I know that the Ukraine is technically not in the European Union, it is still effectively European. Let's make one more album. I'll go ahead here and select a range of pictures from Belgium and just shift click here and we'll click to make another album and we'll call this one Belgium. There it is and I can drop it into that folder. Notice how easy that is to keep it organized. Folders are a great way to apply an additional level of…

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