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Pacific Grove Adult School Spring Class Poll

Class proposal for the Spring are due from me on February 9, 2024

I am interested in polling former students (New ones too) knowing what they are interested in taking in the Spring. Classes start on March 25th and run through June 8th, 2024.

Please fill out the poll below. It will be a great help to me in deciding what classes to offer in the Spring. There is no obligation to register or take a class. This is purely for information only. Suggestions welcome.

Please respond to this blog post and use any letter or word on your reply. Comments welcome. Thank you. Barbara

The Old West Exhibit, Sylvan Gallery, Feb 4th, 613 Ortiz, Sand City, 2-6PM

Please join us Saturday, Feb 4th for Photography and Music at the Sylvan Gallery, 613 Ortiz Ave, Sand City, 2-6 PM. Music by Rags Rosenberg of Rags & Bones will perform for us from 3-5 PM. Rags Rosenberg writes Mythopoetic Folk-Rock in the tradition of the songwriter-poets he admires: Cohen, Dylan and Waits to name a few. Our host this Saturday is Fernando Batista. Come and hang out with the artists and find out the story behind the images. Barbara Moon Batista, Sylvia Gardner, Martha Hogan and Nita Griffin will be in the gallery as well. See you soon. Barbara

Exhibit, Images of The Old West, January 28th, Sylvan Gallery, 2-6 PM

You are invited to join us and celebrate The Old West Exhibit on January 28th at at the Sylvan Gallery, 613 Ortiz Unit A, Sand City 2-6 PM. A great way to start 2023. Sylvia Gardner is your hostess. This is your chance to speak with Sylvia one on one about her experience at Fort Churchill, Nevada and see her images. We look forward to seeing you on Saturday as well. Barbara and Fernando Batista, Batista Moon Studio.

Row of Adobes, Fort Churchill, Nevada

Photo by Sylvia Gardner

Black Friday 20% Discount on Lightroom Classic Tutoring

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Lightroom Classic Refresher Week 5 BACKING UP YOUR CATALOG

“When you quit Lightroom, you’ll notice that from time to time it will

bring up the Back Up Catalog dialog, giving you the opportunity to make a

backup of your all-important catalog (it has all your edits, sorting,

metadata, Pick flags, etc., stored in its database”

At the top, it has a popup menu where you can choose how often to bring up this backup dialog, giving you the opportunity to back up from once a day to once a month (I

would choose how often to back up based on how many days of work you’re willing to lose if your catalog did become corrupt, and you had to use a backup catalog). By default, it stores this backup in a folder called

(wait for it…wait for it…) “Backups” inside the Lightroom folder where your regular catalog is stored on your computer. That’s okay, as long as your computer’s hard drive doesn’t ever crash or your computer doesn’t

get stolen.”” Quote from Scott Kelby

I like the choice of Every time Lightroom exists. It gives me a choice and I can evaluate based on the amount of activity I have done in the session.

“That’s why I recommend saving your backup to an external hard drive or to the cloud. In case the

unthinkable happens, you’ve got a backup stored somewhere else. To change where your backup catalog is stored, click the Choose button to the right of Backup Folder. I leave the two checkboxes turned on, so when it does the backup, it tests it to make sure nothing’s wrong with it, and it optimizes the backup catalog, as well. Both are well worth having it do for you.

“So, what do you do if “the unthinkable” happens: you launch Lightroom one day, and you get a warning dialog letting you know that your catalog is “...corrupt and cannot be used or backed up until it is repaired”? Well, first you’d click the

Repair Catalog button, and say a few prayers, and with any luck at all it will fix whatever was wrong with your

catalog, and you’re back up and running. But, what if, for whatever reason, you get the dialog seen hereat the bottom and it can’t repair yourcatalog? Well, we go to Plan B.” Quote Scott Kelby

“Plan B is to restore your latest backup copy of your catalog. Here’s how: In the “I can’t repair your catalog” second warning dialog, click the Choose a Different Catalog button, and when the catalog chooser dialog appears (I have no idea if that’s its proper name, by the way), click on Create New Catalog. You’re doing this just so you can access Lightroom’s menus (without a catalog open, you can’t get to those menus), so name it “Trash Me,” or whatever (it’s just temporary). Once it opens this empty catalog, go under Lightroom’s File menu and choose Open Catalog. In the dialog, navigate to your Backups folder (wherever you chose to save it in Step Two), and you’ll see all your backups listed in folders by date and 24-hour time. Open the folder for the most recent backup, double-click on the “.lrcat file (that’s your backup), click the Open button, and you’re back in business.” Quote Scott Kelby

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Lightroom Classic Refresher Week 4.0 Smart Collections

Smart Collection in Lightroom Classic.

Smart Collections can be used for Automatic Organization.

  1. Choose Create Smart Collection from the left side panel pop-up menu from the + sign at the top of the Collections panel

2. You will get a panel that looks like this.

There is a pop-up menu where you Choose All. It looks like this.

3. There is a menu below that drops down where you can make choices of what keywords you want to list. I am going to use the keyword “snow”. I chose any searchable text, contains, snow

4. You can choose to add other search criteria by clicking on the plus sign at the end of the panel. I chose the world Sierra. You can add to narrow the search down by adding dates, locations, ratings (flags, stars, colors)

5. Name your Smart Collection and click on Create. I named it Sierra Snow and clicked on Create. The program will search your entire catalog based on this criteria and place the images in this “smart collection”.

6. There is now a smart collection named Sierra Snow in my Collection panel. Every time from this point forward that I add a keyword to an image with snow or sierra, the software will add the image to this smart collection. Please note that smart collections have a little flower icon as a visual cue.

You can make as many smart collections as you would like. This is different then a Target Collection where you can have only one at a time.

The next blog post I will talk about Target Collections and Quick Collections.