Geotagging With Lightroom

Not always have a device like that records spatial data with each photo. Never mind: Lightroom 4 equips your photos afterwards with longitude and latitude.

You do not necessarily have a GPS receiver or a GPS-enabled camera, write down the GPS coordinates later with Lightroom 4 in your images - and the standard very easily according to the standard. Your computer must be connected to the Internet.

No geodata in the picture? Never mind: Lightroom 4 They carry information instantly search.

Step 1: Select
Top right of the program window, you first click on the "Library" module. In the area to the left click on the desired folder or to the appropriate collection. Drag the images in any appropriate order - you facilitate the further work, if you rearrange recordings with the same position next to each other.
Tip: You can change the order at a later time in the filmstrip below to change the map. Here in the "library" module but it is more manageable.

Step 2: Search Region
Top right of the program window, click on "Map". Directly below, type in a city name and press Return. We are looking for the West African port city "Freetown". Below the map you control the "Card Style": "hybrid" shows satellite photos plus city and street names as "road map" to see a drawn map. Double click on an area that you want to zoom in closer.

Tip: Setting a Region Alt key a - as you zoom very quickly into the desired area.

Step 3: Set Position
Drag images to the correct location on the map, where you will see a new "marker". Hold your mouse over a marker to see the images of this
See position. Or click below photos in the Filmstrip, Lightroom displays the appropriate map.

Tip: Click "Block markers" on the padlock with the Einblendmeldung. To protect the items from shifting.

Step 4: Save Position
Do you have more pictures later on for a specific location? Then left click on the plus sign next to "Saved items" and secure the location for quick recall. Do you want to show the position later, click on the right arrow next to the item name. Even easier: Select a few images in the filmstrip below and click the left of the location name - the shots acquire the proper coordinates.

Tip: Use the dialog "New Position" to "private", the location information in the "export" an image not written - neither spatial nor IPTC fields such as "city" or "country".

Step 5: Save Metadata
The Lightroom database now knows the locations of your shots - but in the image files themselves are the details not listed. Select "Save picture metadata to file" so be sure yet. Confirm the message with "Continue". Now take every file on their own spatial data. Send the picture as to Flickr or Google Earth, it appears on the maps of these services.

Tip: Take note of the best "save metadata to file" the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + S (Command + S on Mac) and press these buttons for regularly.

Advice
Reverse Geocoding

Upon request, Lightroom automatically fills IPTC fields as "place" or "Country" if your image contains longitude and latitude. The coordinates can be obtained from a GPS receiver, or was added later in Lightroom. This so-called reverse geocoding, you must enable: When you first click on the "Map" module in Lightroom, the question you can also initially refuse and the function later unlock, to go via "edit, catalog settings" "Enable Reverse Geocoding?" to the "metadata" and then select the two "geocoding" functions. In IPTC field Lighroom now called Town and Country in italic pale gray. However, check that the details of Lightroom appear completely and in the expected notation.

Once you export the photo (ie the file to pass some new ones), the data is finally immortalized in the IPTC field. The Export dialog offers but also always the option to leave all location data to specifically left out.

Position filter
Useful is the bar "position filter" on the map: In order to hide thumbnails that do not appear on the current map area. Alternatively, you show images that already contain spatial data ("Tagged") or contain no spatial ("Untagged").

Geodata Copy
You do not have to pull all the images on the card. It goes this way:

• Pull only one image to the desired position.
• Select more suitable photos below the filmstrip.
• On the map, right-click the marker and then "GPS coordinates of the selected images to add."