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). 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 2023 1.

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