PhotoPicker
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  • General Information
  • AI Culling
  • Application Interface
  • Application Menu
  • 1. WORKING WITH THE PHOTO LIBRARY
  • 2. WORKING WITH LIGHTROOM CLASSIC CATALOGS
    • Creating a Lightroom Classic Catalog and Importing Photos
    • Importing a Lightroom Catalog into PhotoPicker (macOS)
    • Importing a Lightroom Catalog into PhotoPicker (Windows)
    • Exporting a Catalog to Lightroom
  • 3. CUSTOM CATALOGS
    • General Overview
    • Importing Photos into a Custom Catalog
    • Exporting Sorting Results
  • 4. WORKING WITH PHOTOS ON EXTERNAL STORAGE WITHOUT IMPORT
  • Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
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  • Creating a New Catalog
  • Exporting a Photoshoot to a Separate Catalog
  • Smart Previews Support
  • Importing Photos into the Catalog
  • Important: Re-rendering Previews for PhotoPicker
  1. 2. WORKING WITH LIGHTROOM CLASSIC CATALOGS

Creating a Lightroom Classic Catalog and Importing Photos

Recommendation

We recommend creating a separate Lightroom catalog for each photoshoot, as the app performs best when the number of photos in a catalog does not exceed 10,000.

Creating a New Catalog

  1. In Lightroom, go to File > New Catalog…

  2. Specify a folder for the catalog, enter a name, and click Create

Exporting a Photoshoot to a Separate Catalog

If all your photos are stored in a single catalog, you can export a specific folder to a separate catalog:

  1. In the Folders section, select the desired folder

  2. Go to File > Export as Catalog…

Smart Previews Support

PhotoPicker also supports Smart Previews.

Benefits of Smart Previews:

  • Smaller catalog size

Drawbacks:

  • Previews are stored in the DNG format, requiring decoding during each view, which may slow down performance

Importing Photos into the Catalog

1. Use the File > Import Photos and Video command

2. In the import window, set the Build Previews parameter to 1:1, select your photos, and click Import

Setting 1:1 provides maximum photo detail, making it ideal for use in PhotoPicker.

If catalog size or import speed is a priority, you can choose Standard instead of 1:1. In this case, you need to specify the size of the standard previews before importing:

  • macOS: Go to Lightroom > Catalog Settings…, then under the Previews tab, set Standard Preview Size to 2880 or 2048 pixels

  • Windows: Go to Edit > Catalog Settings…, then under the Previews tab, set Standard Preview Size to 2880 or 2048 pixels

Important: Re-rendering Previews for PhotoPicker

If you edit photos after importing them, Lightroom may delete high-resolution previews for those photos. As a result, you might see the following message in PhotoPicker:

“Preview for this photo in the Lightroom catalog is not available in sufficient resolution.”

To prevent this issue, re-render the missing previews before copying the catalog to PhotoPicker:

  1. Select all photos in the catalog

  2. Go to the Library tab

  3. In the menu, choose Library > Previews > Build Standard-Sized Preview or Build 1:1 Preview

Lightroom will render previews only for photos that are missing them.

Once this process is complete, your catalog will be fully ready for use in PhotoPicker.

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