Hi, today I thought I would write about creating backups for your images in Lightroom.

This is a very important topic for every photographer (or even people treating photography as a hobby). You need to make sure that you have at least two copies of your images. In case anything happens to your hard drive, you have your backup.

The method I use is to keep all my images on an external hard drive and backups on my laptop which is being backed up systematically.

Here is the question I recently received:

Every time you start Lightroom (if you are using Lr 2) or every week – depending on your settings in Lightroom preferences  or when you close Lightroom (if you are using Lr 3), you will be prompted to back up your catalogue:

Here is the screenshot in Lightroom 2:

And here is the screenshot from Lightroom 3 Beta:

As to backing up the images, every time you import images from a memory card, you can tell Lightroom to create a back up of images in your defined location – I use a folder on my laptop that is backed up systematically.

Here is Lightroom 2:

And Lightroom 3 Beta:

That’s it for today. I hope you enjoy it. Tomorrow the second video about using new Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop CS5. Till tomorrow.