Get Control of Your Lightroom Catalog

This event is scheduled for January 12, 2027: 6-8pm MT.
Zoom will translate the session time to your local time zone. 8-10pm ET, 7-9pm CT, 5-7pm PT

Your Lightroom catalog should make it easier to find and work with your photographs—not leave you wondering where everything went.

As a photo archive grows from hundreds to thousands—or tens of thousands—of images, a casual approach to organization can quickly become frustrating. Photographs end up scattered across drives, folders become inconsistent, multiple catalogs appear, and finding a particular image becomes harder than it should be.

In this free webinar, we’ll take a practical look at getting control of your Lightroom Classic catalog.

We’ll start by understanding what the Lightroom catalog actually is, what information it contains, and the important distinction between your catalog and your original image files. From there, we’ll explore the fundamental skills needed to build an organized, manageable photo library.

Topics will include organizing folders and photographs, understanding where your files are stored, using collections and metadata to make images easier to find, dealing with missing files and folders, and developing a sensible approach to catalog backups.

We’ll also look at some of the common mistakes that create catalog problems—and how to avoid them.

The goal isn't to create one "perfect" Lightroom organization system. It's to understand how Lightroom manages your photographs so you can build a system that makes sense for your photography and your archive.

If your Lightroom catalog has grown organically over the years—or you simply want to understand it better—this webinar will help you replace uncertainty with a more deliberate and manageable workflow.