IntroductionWelcome| 00:00 |
(MUSIC).
Welcome.
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My name is Chris Orwig.
This is our first course in our series on
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Lightroom and in this course, we'll focus
in on what you need to know in order to
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get started with importing your
photographs and video files into Lightroom.
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We'll begin by getting familiar with the
interface here we'll cover topics like how
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we can dim the interface using a feature
called lights out or how we can view an
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image in full screen mode.
We'll talk about some important importing
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preferences different file formats that we
can import in the Lightroom.
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We'll discuss how we can import images or
video files directly from a folder or from
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a media card.
We'll discuss how we can select an import
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destination, how we can rename our files,
or add some important metadata along the way.
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You know once you import your images into
Lightroom, you'll begin in the library module.
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Here I'll highlight how you could use the
grid and the loop view.
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How you can zoom in on your photograph.
Or how you can compare or survey multiple
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images at once.
Now, keep in mind that this course, really
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it's your first step towards creating a
more cohesive, effective and enjoyable
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digital imagining work flow using
Lightroom.
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So thanks for joining me in this course.
Let's begin.
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| Using the exercise files| 00:00 |
If you're a premium member, to the
lynda.com online training library, you
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have access to the exercise files for this
course.
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Once you've downloaded these exercise
files, go ahead and locate the folder and
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double click it to open it up.
Here you'll discover that our photographs
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and video files are organized into
different subfolders.
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What you'll want to do is import this
entire folder into Lightroom.
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So that you can start to begin to work
with these images and video files.
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Now, if you don't have access to the
exercise files, no big deal, you can
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always simply follow along.
Or of course, you could always work on
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your own photographs as well.
Alright, let's begin.
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1. Getting StartedWhat is Lightroom and why use it?| 00:00 |
Lightroom is one of the most powerful and
most widely used image editing
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applications in the world, yet if you're
new to Lightroom you may be wondering,
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well, why is that?
And what is Lightroom, why should I use Lightroom?
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Well, here in this movie, we'll go through
a few slides in order to introduce you to
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Lightroom and in order to begin to answer
a few of those questions.
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In order to really understand Lightroom,
we need to dig a bit deeper.
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It's almost like we need to take an X-ray
photograph of Lightroom, in order to
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discover how it's built.
If we were to do that, we would encounter
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that Lightroom is built based on different
modules.
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Now, all of these modules, they revolve
around the photographer's central task of
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managing and working on images and video
files.
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Let me show you the various modules which
we'll encounter when we start to work in Lightroom.
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Each of these modules allow us to
accomplish different tasks.
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Now, this particular glance of all of
these modules may be a little bit
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overwhelming or a touch confusing, so
let's focus in on one module, the library module.
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Now if I were to just highlight that.
We could mention, that you would go to the
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library module, in order to import, manage
and organize all of your photographs.
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Then you might select one of those images
and bring it over to the develop module.
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Now, the develop module, that's where the
magic takes place.
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That's where you correct, enhance, and
develop your photograph.
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And each and every one of these modules,
they allow us to do different things.
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And herein lies the strength of Lightroom.
And in a way, I like to think of these
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modules almost like different rooms in a
studio.
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So that you have one room that you go to
in order to do some organizational work,
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another in order to make your photographs
come to life, and then yet perhaps another
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in order to work on a book project.
And all of these modules, again, are one
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of the reasons why Lightroom is such a
strong application.
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And if we had to distill what Lightroom
allows us to do.
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Say, into three different words.
Here are the words that I would choose in
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order to describe Lightroom.
Lightroom allows us to manage and organize
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a high volume of photographs.
You know, one of the problems with digital
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capture is that we all capture so many
photographs.
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If you only have 100 images, well,
Lightroom isn't a good tool for you.
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But if you have hundreds, or maybe even
thousands.
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What you'll discover is that Lightroom
will allow you to manage, view, and
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access, and work with all of those images
relatively easily.
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Another reason why people use Lightroom is
because it's phenomenal when it comes to
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improving, enhancing, or correcting your
photographs.
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We all know that as we capture digital
images, almost every image, it needs a
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little bit of work.
Well herein lies really one of the core
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strengths of Lightroom which is to improve
our photographs.
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Another thing that Lightroom allows us to
do is to share our pictures in some unique ways.
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We can create prints or book projects or
share our images online.
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Well, so far we've focused in on
describing a little bit of what Lightroom is.
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Yet, what I want to do next is dig a bit
deeper into the question of why.
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Why should I use Lightroom?
Now, again, in order to distill this, what
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I would say is that there are three main
reasons why people tend to use Lightroom.
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They use it because of its simplicity,
because of its speed, and also because of
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its strength.
Lightroom is a relatively simple
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application, and that's a good thing.
It's easy to learn and it's easy to use.
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Compared to other applications which
really have complex menus and take
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literally years to learn, you can get up
to speed in Lightroom, in a relatively
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short amount of time.
Another reason why Lightroom is such a
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great application is because it allows you
to work quickly, because the interface is
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simple, and also because it allows us to
raw process our images and video files.
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We can work quickly, without having to
wait to save those files or without having
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to wait for any kind of a delay.
We can simply work on our images and we
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can move on to other things.
And by being able to work more quickly,
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this obviously makes us more effective,
but it also makes us more creative.
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Last but not least, people use Lightroom
because of its strength.
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It really is a powerhouse.
As you'll discover, it's a tool which
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provides us with controls and techniques
which we can use in order to accomplish
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professional results in a relatively short
amount of time.
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Alright, well, whenever we talk about
Lightroom, we also have to talk about
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another application, Photoshop.
People say, should I use Lightroom?
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Or should I use Photoshop?
And really that's the wrong question.
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It isn't an either or question rather,
it's both and.
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Remember Lightroom's official name?
It's Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.
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And Photoshop and Lightroom are almost
like brothers which work really well together.
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Often our workflow will begin in
Lightroom, and then we'll make our way to Photoshop.
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And by combining these two applications
together.
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Well, we can often create really stunning
and professional results.
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And one of the reasons why people like to
use Lightroom is because of its tight
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integration with Photoshop.
In other words, it creates a connected or
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a cohesive work flow.
So that you can quickly and easily jump
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back and forth between these two really
powerful applications.
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Alright, well to summarize a few things
that we've talked about here, let me pull
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up one more slide and highlight a few
reasons why people use Lightroom.
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Well, Lightroom is a workflow application.
It's an application which allows us to
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manage a high volume of photographs and to
do so relatively easily.
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It also enables and empowers us to
improve, correct and enhance our
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photographs in some phenomenal ways.
And last but not least, it's a program
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that gives us some options when it comes
to sharing our pictures whether we want to
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create prints or books or just share those
images online.
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| Getting familiar with the Lightroom interface| 00:00 |
In this movie, I want to provide you with
a general introduction to some of the
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essential elements of the Lightroom
interface.
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Now, I'll go through a few of these
essential elements, and then at the end of
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the movie I'll review what we covered
here.
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Alright, well for starters one of the
things that you'll notice is that when you
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open up Lightroom it's pretty easy to look
at.
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The interface is pretty minimal.
It's also pretty simple.
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Well let's talk about the interface from
the top down.
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If we navigate up to the top, will
encounter some pull-down menus.
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For example, we can click on the Photo
pull-down menu or the Library pull-down menu.
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And in doing that, you can see that we
have a number of different tasks we can
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perform with these menus.
If you navigate to the photo pull-down
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menu, for example, we can choose edit in
and then select edit in Photoshop if we
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want to open up one of our images in
Lightroom and bring it over to Photoshop.
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Alright, well, next, underneath the
pull-down menus, we have this top area
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where we have all of these different
words.
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Well, each of thee words describe the
various modules that have in Lightroom.
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We can navigate to the different modules
by simply clicking on the word or the name
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of the module, in this case if we want to
work on this photograph here, just click
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on the word develop and this will bring us
to the develop module.
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When you navigate between modules what
you'll encounter is that these areas, the
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left and right areas, which are called the
panels appear differently.
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That's because the panels contain some
really important controls, and those
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controls are different in each and every
module, alright?
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Well, let's navigate back to the Library
module.
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To do so, simply click on the word
Library.
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And that will bring us back to our view
that we started with originally.
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Alright, let's talk about those panels
that we have on the right and the
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left-hand side of the Lightroom interface.
For starters, you'll notice that the
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folders panel is open.
You can click on this triangle icon in
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order to open and close any panel.
Here, I've selected a folder of photos.
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And then I clicked on one photograph to
view, which we can see here.
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Now we can access the other panels, for
example.
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Let's say that we want to share this image
on Facebook.
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Or here we could click on the Publish
Services panel.
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And then access that by clicking on this
menu item here.
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And in this way, you simply need to click
on that triangle icon, in order to open
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and close any of those panels that you
find or encounter on the left and the
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right-hand side.
Alright, well next let's move to the image.
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Here you can see we have a relatively
large view of our photograph.
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Let's say that we want to see all of the
little thumbnails.
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Well you can change the view in this area
by clicking on these two icons which we
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have in the toolbar.
This area is called the Toolbar.
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If we click on the grid that will take us
to this grid view.
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Here we can use the scroll bar in order to
scroll up and down, and to view all of our photographs.
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You can select a photograph and then click
on this icon which takes us to the loop
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view so that we can see a larger view of
our photograph.
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Alright well next underneath the toolbar
in the panels we have what's called the filmstrip.
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This allows us to select a photograph to
view and to work on.
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And you can do that by clicking on the
image or you can use your arrow keys.
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Press the right arrow key in order to move
forward through your photographs.
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Press the left arrow key in order to move
backwards.
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Alright well, last but not least you may
have noticed that when I position the
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cursor over the image, the cursor changed.
It changed into a zoom tool icon.
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Well, that's telling us that if we click
on the photograph, We can then zoom into
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that area of the image.
Notice that the cursor's changed again.
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Now it's a hand tool, well, this is
telling me that I can click and drag in
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order to move my photograph around.
If you want to zoom out, just click again.
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And you can zoom in and out here in the
library module, when you're working in
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what's called the loop view.
Alright, well, let's go ahead and review
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what we've talked about so far.
We've talked about many of the essential
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elements of the Lightroom interface,
starting up at the top.
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We discussed how we have these pull down
menus.
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Here, we can simply click in order to
access various controls.
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Next, we discussed how underneath that
area, we have the module picker buttons.
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These allow us to access different modules
by simply clicking on the module name.
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In this case.
We've navigated to the Develop module, and
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here we have some Develop controls.
To navigate back to a module, simply click
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on the name of that module that you
want to go to.
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Then I mentioned how we can work with
panels.
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We can open and close panels by clicking
on the triangle icon, either on the left
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or the right-hand side of the interface.
Now in the library module there are a
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couple of great icons which are located in
what's called the toolbar, those are the
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grid and the loop view icons.
Here we can click on the grid to view the
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grid view of our photographs, click on the
loop icon in order to have a closer look
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at the picture.
If you position the cursor over the image
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you can click to zoom in, click again to
zoom out.
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Then, we also discussed how we can work
with the film strip.
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We can do so by simply clicking on a
photograph, or, you can use your arrow keys.
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The left arrow key moves backwards through
those photographs.
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The right arrow key moves forward.
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| An introduction to customizing the interface| 00:00 |
In the previous movie we talked about some
of the essential elements of the Lightroom
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interface in this movie, I want to build
upon what we already discussed and here I
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want to share some tips and tricks and
shotcuts that you can use in order to
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customize the interface.
Let's start out by talking about the
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panels on the left in the right hand side
of the interface.
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>> You'll notice that I currently have the
"Folders" panel open.
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Here I have my photos folder and then I
have some sub-folders.
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Well, I currently can't read the entire
name of a few of these sub-folders.
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Well, if you want to change the size of
this entire panel area, simply position
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your cursor over the edge of that dividing
line right there and then click and drag.
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In this way, we can increase or decrease
the amount of space that we're dedicating
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to either of these panels on the left or
the right hand side.
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So again, simply position your cursor over
the edge and then click and drag.
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We can do the same thing with our film
strip below.
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Notice that as I position the cursor right
underneath the tool bar right there, the
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cursor changes.
When you see the change, click and drag.
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This can help us to have larger thumbnail
previews so that we can have a larger view
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of the photograph.
If that cuts in too much in to the space
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of our area of working on the image or
just position your cursor over that area
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and then click and drag down so that you
can have smaller thumbnails as well.
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Alright, well next one of the things that
I talked about is how you can zoom in on
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an image, simply position the cursor over
an image when you're in the loop view mode.
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You can access that by clicking on this
icon right here.
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Now, when I zoom in on this photograph, I
notice that some of the photograph is
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covered by the panels on the left and the
right.
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Well, here there are a few techniques,
which we can use to hide or collapse those
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panels or to bring them back.
One technique that you might want to use
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is to press the Tab key.
When you press the Tab key, you'll notice
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that it temporarily hides those panels.
Press the Tab key again And then it brings
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them back.
Well lets say that you want to get rid of
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more of the interface.
Well if you want to get rid of a lot of
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the interface.
Add the shift key to that short cut.
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So press Shift-Tab, and you can see that,
that will hide a lot of the different
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areas of the Lightroom interface.
Press Shit-Tab again, and then you can
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bring those areas back.
Well, let's say that rather than hiding
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both panels, you just want to hide one or
just one area of the interface.
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Well you can do that by clicking on these
triangle icons which are located right
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here at the top and bottom and left hand
side of the interface.
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If you click on one of those icons, it
actually changes the way that that area of
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the interface works.
You'll notice that the icon is no longer a
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solid triangle but it's a triangle made
out of dots.
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Well, the way that that works is if I
position my cursor over this area, well,
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this panel comes back.
Then when I position the cursor off of
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that area, well, it disappears.
If you prefer to bring this back so that
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it always stays up, we'll just click on
that icon.
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We can do this with our panels on the left
and the right side, or on the top and the
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bottom of the interface.
Here you can see how you can expand or
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collapse that area of the interface.
So, you can open up more screen real
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estate in order to work on your
photograph.
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Alright, well here I have zoomed out on
the image.
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You can do that by simply clicking.
Click to zoom in and then click to zoom out.
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You'll notice that there is a gray color
surrounding the photograph.
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You can customize or change that by
right-clicking or control-clicking.
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Here I'll choose Dark Gray, and you can
see how it changes the color or the tone
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which surrounds the photograph.
Again, to make that change simply
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right-click, or control-click, and then
choose the option from this pull-down
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menu, which will show up when you click in
that way.
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Alright, there you have it, a few tips and
tricks and shortcuts which you can use in
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order to customize the Lightroom
interface.
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| Dimming the interface with Lights Out mode| 00:00 |
The main focus of this movie is how we can
dim the interface so that we can focus in
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on our images.
Yeah here I also want to highlight the
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helpful shortcut which allows us to
minimize the interface and I want to talk
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about an area that we can navigate to in
order to work on our interface preferences
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which allows to customize the interface.
Say for example, we can change the font
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size which we'll encounter here in
Lightroom.
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All right.
Well I want to focus in on this image.
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In order to do that, tap the L key and
you'll notice that the interface is now
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dimmed out.
Now you can still work with the interface.
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Here we can go to the film strip and click
on another image for example.
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Or you can always use your arrow key.
Use the right arrow key to move forward or
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the left arrow key in order to move
backwards.
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If you want to completely darken the
interface all together and hide the
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interface, tap the L key one more time and
now you can see that it is gone.
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Tap the L key again and that will bring
everything back up or it will turn the
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lights on so to speak.
Now, currently we are able to view the
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image, yet the image was pretty small.
What I want to do, is open up more space
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for the photograph.
To do that, we'll use that shortcut which
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I mentioned or highlighted in 1 of the
previous movies.
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It's the Shift-Tab key combination, which
allows us to minimize a lot of the light
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room interface.
Well now that we've done that and pressed
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the L key, and pressed it again, here you
can see we have this really nice preview
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of our photograph.
I can tap my arrow keys, the right arrow
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key, in order to move forward through
these photographs, so that we can really
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focus in on these pictures.
Now after having shown these photographs
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to a client or a friend, I want to turn
the lights back on, to do that press the L key.
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Then to bring back the rest of those
interface elements, which are now hidden,
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we'll once again press shift and then tab,
and that will bring everything back to normal.
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So again, the 2 shortcuts that you'll
want to write down here are the L key,
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which allows you to dim the interface, and
then Shift-Tab.
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Which allows you to toggle between showing
and hiding the various interface elements
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that we have here in Lightroom.
Alright, well before we wrap up our
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conversation, let's navigate to the
Lightroom pulldown menu and then choose Preferences.
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When we select this Preferences manu item,
we are able to access the Interface preferences.
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Here if you have the General preferences,
you can just click through these various
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tabs until you get to Interface.
In the interface area, we can work on
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areas of the interface like the panels, or
the lights out behavior or the background,
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or the way that we work with keywords.
Here I want to simply focus in on lights out.
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Now currently, when we press the L key,
the interface became darker.
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Well, you can change this to white Then
the interface will become brighter.
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Again, it depends upon your own preference
there.
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We can also customize the font size.
If you prefer to have larger fonts because
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those fonts are a little bit difficult to
read on your laptop or wherever, you can
| | 02:50 |
click on this pull down menu and then
choose this option here.
| | 02:54 |
And what that will allow you to do is to
change the size of the fonts.
| | 02:58 |
When you do that, though, you'll notice
there's a little warning message that this
| | 03:01 |
font change will not take effect until you
restart Lightroom.
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Well, because this is a demo, I'm going to
go ahead and bring this back to the
| | 03:07 |
default setting so that for the rest of
the movies, all of our fonts will look the same.
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Yet I did want to highlight that in case
you want to change that aspect of the interface.
| | 03:16 |
Alright.
Well, after you've customized any of those
| | 03:19 |
preferences here, simply click on the
little icon which allows you to close that
| | 03:22 |
dialog and that will bring you back to the
regular view of Lightroom.
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| Focusing on the image with the full-screen views| 00:00 |
Lightroom is an application which was
built by photographers for photographers.
| | 00:05 |
And photographers love to be able to focus
in on their photograph, so here I want to
| | 00:08 |
highlight a couple of different full
screen modes which you can use in order to
| | 00:11 |
open up more space for your photograph.
Or to just focus in on the image itself
| | 00:16 |
without all of the clutter or distraction
of the Lightroom interface.
| | 00:21 |
Let's take a look at this picture here.
If we really want to focus in on this,
| | 00:24 |
what we can do is press the F key on our
keyboard, this will take the image to true
| | 00:27 |
full screen mode.
Here you can position your cursor over the
| | 00:32 |
image, and then click in order to zoom in.
By doing that you can zoom in close in
| | 00:36 |
order to have a closer or larger view of
that photograph.
| | 00:40 |
Click again in order to zoom out.
Now to exit full screen mode, just tap the
| | 00:44 |
F key one more time and this way you can
quickly and easily navigate to full screen mode.
| | 00:50 |
Here, let's press the F key one more time
to enter into full screen mode, because I
| | 00:53 |
also want to highlight that you can use
your arrow keys in order to scroll to
| | 00:56 |
other photographs as well.
Here I press the right-arrow key in order
| | 01:02 |
to navigate to another picture.
Once again, we can press F in order to
| | 01:06 |
exit out of full screen mode.
Now, another full screen mode which we
| | 01:10 |
have in Lightroom allows us to change the
size of the interface.
| | 01:15 |
If you hold down the Shift key and then
tap the F key, you'll notice it'll take
| | 01:18 |
you through different full screen modes.
Here you can see that the pull down menu
| | 01:22 |
has now disappeared.
Press Shift F again, and we can bring that back.
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By pressing Shift F multiple times you can
see that you can enter or exit different
| | 01:31 |
full screen modes.
What I like to do is to enter this mode
| | 01:35 |
here where it's hiding that top bar so I
can just focus in on the task at hand, and
| | 01:38 |
that is working in Lightroom.
So again, there you have it.
| | 01:43 |
Two different full screen modes which you
can use in order to focus in on your image.
| | 01:47 |
The first one you access by pressing the F
key.
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Press once to enter, press second time in
order to exit.
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The other one you access by pressing Shift
F and press Shift F multiple times in
| | 01:58 |
order to toggle through those different
full screen modes.
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2. Importing Images and Video FilesImporting and file formats| 00:00 |
When you first open up Lightroom, you
won't have any photos or video files in
| | 00:03 |
it, and you may get excited to start
working in Lightroom, and want to go ahead
| | 00:06 |
and press the Import button in order to
begin the import process.
| | 00:12 |
Yet before you do that, here in the next
two movies, I want to talk about a few
| | 00:15 |
considerations, when thinking about
different file formats that we can work with.
| | 00:20 |
I also want to highlight a couple of
important importing preferences.
| | 00:23 |
Alright, well first, I'm going to jump to
a slide in order to talk about file formats.
| | 00:29 |
Now in order to have fun with Lightroom
and start to work on our photographs, we
| | 00:32 |
need to consider, well, what type of files
can we work with?
| | 00:35 |
Here you can see the entire list.
We can work with JPEGs, TIFFs, PSD, RAW
| | 00:40 |
files, CMYK files, MOVIE files, and PNG
files.
| | 00:45 |
Now most commonly we'll work with JPEG,
TIFF, and RAW files.
| | 00:48 |
Yet here what I want to do is just
highlight a few considerations, when we're
| | 00:52 |
working with a few specific file formats.
You know we can work in Photoshop, and we
| | 00:57 |
can save a layered Tiff file, or a layered
PSD file.
| | 01:00 |
And when we're working with layers, one of
the things we have to keep in mind, is
| | 01:03 |
that Lightroom doesn't have layers.
So how can we work with and access those files?
| | 01:09 |
Well if we choose to work with the TIFF
file format we won't have any problems at all.
| | 01:13 |
Yet what about working with the PSD file
format?
| | 01:17 |
Well in that situation, there is a
preference that you may need to customize
| | 01:20 |
or change.
Because remember, Lightroom doesn't really
| | 01:24 |
understand layers.
So what you need to do with those
| | 01:27 |
Photoshop files that you want to work on
in Photoshop which have layers, and also
| | 01:31 |
in Lightroom, you need to turn on a
preference which is called maximize PSD
| | 01:35 |
file compatibility.
Let me show you that preference in the
| | 01:40 |
Photoshop Preference dialogue.
Here's I'll open up the dialogue, in this
| | 01:44 |
dialogue you navigate to an area that's
called File Handling, and I recommend you
| | 01:47 |
do this in your version of Photoshop.
The next, navigate down to an area which
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is called File Compatibility.
At the bottom of this little area, you'll
| | 01:58 |
notice we have this option to maximize our
PSD or PSB File Compatibility.
| | 02:04 |
Now you may be wondering, well what does
this mean, and why would I want to do this?
| | 02:08 |
Well again, what this allows us to do is
to work back and forth between Photoshop
| | 02:11 |
and Lightroom easily when we have layered
files.
| | 02:15 |
Because when you maximize the file
compatibility, it actually saves a
| | 02:18 |
flattened version of the file, inside of
that file format.
| | 02:22 |
Now you and I would never know that that's
happening, but Lightroom knows it's
| | 02:26 |
happening, which in turn allows Lightroom
to read, access, and work on the file.
| | 02:32 |
So again if you're going to work with this
file format, just make sure you turn on
| | 02:35 |
this option to Always.
That will ensure that all of your layered
| | 02:39 |
PSD files, will be able to be viewed and
worked on in Photoshop and also in Lightroom.
| | 02:45 |
Alright, well here I'll go ahead and click
OK, in order to exit out if that dialog.
| | 02:51 |
The next thing that I want to highlight,
is how we can work with various RAW file formats.
| | 02:55 |
Now ideally, you'll change your camera
settings to capture native RAW files.
| | 03:00 |
Yet when you start to work with Lightroom,
you may consider to convert those native
| | 03:04 |
RAW files to a DNG format.
Many Lightroom users do, and we'll talk
| | 03:08 |
more about this later.
Yet here, I simply want to introduce you
| | 03:12 |
to the topic.
The reason why people work with this DNG
| | 03:15 |
format, is because you can create what are
called Fast Load DNGs, and you can also do
| | 03:19 |
some DNG Lossy Compression.
Now what does that actually mean in street language?
| | 03:26 |
Well, what it basically means is you can
work with these DNG files more quickly,
| | 03:29 |
and you can also have a smaller file size.
So they can speed up your work flow and
| | 03:34 |
also decrease your file size, which is a
big bonus.
| | 03:37 |
And again, we'll talk more about that
later, but I simply wanted to highlight it
| | 03:40 |
here as we're talking about importing and
file types.
| | 03:44 |
All right.
Well, next you can import a wide range of
| | 03:46 |
different types of MOVIE files.
There are a whole slew of MOVIE file
| | 03:50 |
formats that you can work with.
So know that Lightroom is able to import
| | 03:54 |
and bring those in really easily.
Last but not least, you can work with the
| | 03:58 |
PNG format.
Often, you'll use this format if you want
| | 04:01 |
to have a file which has some
transparency.
| | 04:04 |
Now in Photoshop you'll see that there is
transparency, but if you import and view
| | 04:08 |
that image in Lightroom, well the
transparent area will appear white.
| | 04:14 |
Now it doesn't mean that it blocked out or
whited out that area, rather it's just the
| | 04:17 |
way that Lightroom reads that transparency
and displays it.
| | 04:21 |
If you're to open up the PNG in Photoshop,
well that transparency would then appear transparent.
| | 04:26 |
So you could then continue to work on the
file in that way.
| | 04:29 |
Alright, well there are a few
considerations for you, as you think about
| | 04:32 |
what files you're going to import into
Lightroom.
| | 04:36 |
Now that we've talked about working with
different file formats, next let's
| | 04:40 |
highlight a few important Lightroom
importing pregerences and we'll do that in
| | 04:43 |
the next movie.
| | 04:45 |
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| Importing preferences| 00:00 |
In this movie I want to highlight a few
importing preferences.
| | 00:03 |
I also want to share with you a
preference, which you can customize in
| | 00:06 |
order to optimize or improve Lightroom's
overall performance.
| | 00:11 |
Alright, we'll navigate to Lightroom
preferences, to do so navigate to the
| | 00:14 |
Lightroom pull down menu, and then select
Preferences, in order to launch and open
| | 00:17 |
up the preferences dialog.
Here we have preferences which are grouped
| | 00:22 |
into different categories.
The category that we're looking for is
| | 00:26 |
File Handling.
So go ahead and click on that option, and
| | 00:29 |
I want to talk about a few importing and
also optimization preferences that we have here.
| | 00:34 |
First I mentioned the dng file format
which you may consider using when working
| | 00:38 |
with Light Room.
If you are going to do that, you might
| | 00:42 |
want to take a look at these options up
top.
| | 00:45 |
First from the pull-down menu, I prefer to
have that extension as a lowercase name.
| | 00:50 |
That way it just keeps things a little bit
simple.
| | 00:52 |
So you can make a choice there about that.
For the compatibility, you want to choose
| | 00:55 |
the latest and greatest version of Camera
Raw.
| | 00:58 |
So click on this menu, and make sure
you're choosing the latest version, in
| | 01:02 |
this case for this particular time when
I'm using Lightroom, it's camera RAW 7.1.
| | 01:07 |
Now it may be later for you when you watch
this movie, so again, just click on this
| | 01:10 |
menu and choose the bottom option there,
from that pull down menu.
| | 01:15 |
Next, for the JPG preview, in most
situations, medium size works incredibly
| | 01:19 |
well, so leave that default setting on as
is.
| | 01:22 |
Make sure to turn on the option for Embed
Fast Load Data.
| | 01:26 |
This allows you to work with these files
much more quickly when it comes to working
| | 01:30 |
with the documents or the files in the
develop module.
| | 01:33 |
So, again, a really important preference
to turn on there.
| | 01:36 |
Next, let's jump down to the file name,
Generation.
| | 01:40 |
Now, when it creates new file names, what
you want to do is have it deal with a
| | 01:43 |
legal characters.
Rather than having these two options,
| | 01:46 |
click on the pull down menu, and choose
these options here.
| | 01:50 |
This'll ensure that your file format
naming convention is really good and solid.
| | 01:55 |
If you accidentally have a strange
character in your file name, well there's
| | 01:58 |
a greater chance that that file will
become corrupt and you'll lose the photograph.
| | 02:03 |
So again you want to make sure that it's
just getting rid of any strange characters.
| | 02:07 |
So click on the pull-down menu here, and
choose this option.
| | 02:11 |
Next, you have an option to replace those
illegal file name characters with
| | 02:14 |
something else.
Here, I prefer to use dashes or underscores.
| | 02:19 |
So in this case, let's select Dashes.
Also, if there's a space in the file name,
| | 02:23 |
what I like to do is to choose the same
option as we have above.
| | 02:27 |
So here we have a dash replacing illegal
characters, or dash which is replacing the space.
| | 02:33 |
Again spaces in your file names are
unstable.
| | 02:35 |
So you want to make sure there's always a
character there, and so that's why we're
| | 02:38 |
choosing this option here.
If you prefer to use underscore, we'll
| | 02:42 |
just make that selection, but make sure
that both of these menu items match.
| | 02:47 |
In this way, your file naming convention
will be very consistent.
| | 02:51 |
That'll make it easier for you to look at
the file names, and also to identify
| | 02:54 |
perhaps any errors with the files names,
et cetera.
| | 02:57 |
So again, just make sure those options are
consistent.
| | 03:00 |
And my preference is to use the dash.
Alright, well while we're here, I also
| | 03:04 |
want to highlight a great little tip or
trick, which will help you to optimize or
| | 03:08 |
improve Lightrooms overall speed.
You can optimize Lightroom by changing
| | 03:13 |
your Camera Raw cache setting.
Now you may be wondering, okay well, what
| | 03:18 |
is a cache?
Why does this matter?
| | 03:20 |
And how can I change the size of the cache
to improve the performance?
| | 03:24 |
Well first of all, if you were to look up
the word cache, what you would discover is
| | 03:27 |
that it's a word which describes something
that's a hiding place for something of value.
| | 03:32 |
It's somewhere where you sort of tuck away
or conceal something that's really important.
| | 03:36 |
Now in Lightroom what's important is our
previews.
| | 03:40 |
And so here what we can do, is cache or
save up all of these previews.
| | 03:45 |
So that if we revisit Images, Lightroom
doesn't have to redraw that preview.
| | 03:49 |
So we aren't waiting all the time for
that.
| | 03:52 |
Now the default cache setting is 1
gigabyte which is incredibly small.
| | 03:57 |
If you want to crank up Lightroom speed,
take this up to 10 gigabytes or higher.
| | 04:02 |
Here I'll go ahead and take this up to 20
gigabytes.
| | 04:05 |
Now if you're really an advanced user, you
may want to consider putting this cache
| | 04:08 |
file on your fastest hard drive.
That will also speed up Lightroom's
| | 04:12 |
performance as well.
Alright, well, in order to Save and Apply
| | 04:15 |
these preference settings, all that we
need to do is to exit out of the
| | 04:18 |
Preferences dialogue, so here we can do so
to close the Preferences dialogue.
| | 04:24 |
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| Importing from a folder| 00:00 |
In order to begin to work in Lightroom we
obviously need to import in some
| | 00:03 |
photographs or video files.
And, you know, importing is one of those
| | 00:08 |
things that you want to get right
otherwise you can run into some problems later.
| | 00:12 |
So here in this movie I want to introduce
you to working with the import dialogue.
| | 00:17 |
Alright, well first, you want to navigate
to the library module, and in order to
| | 00:21 |
import photographs you have a few options.
You can navigate to the File pull-down
| | 00:26 |
menu and here select Import Photos and
Video, or you can also click on the Import button.
| | 00:32 |
That's located in the lower left-hand
corner of the library module.
| | 00:36 |
Let's go ahead and click on that button in
order to launch the Import dialogue.
| | 00:40 |
Now, one of the first things that you'll
notice about the Import dialogue is that
| | 00:44 |
it's divided up into three sections and
the flow starts on the left and it moves
| | 00:48 |
over to the right.
Well, here on the far left we're able to
| | 00:52 |
select a source, what do we want to
import, then in the middle, we obviously
| | 00:55 |
have some image previews.
We have some different ways that we can
| | 01:00 |
handle those files.
Then on the far right we can determine how
| | 01:03 |
we want to copy those files to a certain
location or what we want to do with those images.
| | 01:08 |
You can choose a different source, for
example.
| | 01:10 |
Here by default it's selected my compact
flash card in my compact flash card
| | 01:14 |
reader, which is connected to the
computer.
| | 01:17 |
Or you can also import files from a hard
drive.
| | 01:20 |
Here, I'll navigate down to a hard drive
and I'll select a folder which is located
| | 01:23 |
on my desktop.
This is the Exercise Files folder, which
| | 01:27 |
contains all of the photographs that we'll
be working on in this course.
| | 01:32 |
Now, you may want to import files which
are already on a hard drive or already in
| | 01:35 |
a folder because you've already organized
images.
| | 01:39 |
Let's say these are the photographs that
you've captured over the last few years.
| | 01:42 |
You just want to start to be able to work
on and organize those files in Lightroom.
| | 01:47 |
Well, in that case, you simply want to
navigate to the hard drive.
| | 01:50 |
Select the folder of images.
And up top, you're going to choose the
| | 01:53 |
option which is add.
This allows Lightroom to simply recognize,
| | 01:58 |
and know that those files exist.
Next, let's take a look at the images that
| | 02:02 |
we have here.
Well, here you can see we're viewing our
| | 02:05 |
photographs in this grid view.
You can select a single image and you can
| | 02:09 |
change the view by clicking on this icon
here.
| | 02:12 |
These icons are familiar to us because
we've seen them before.
| | 02:15 |
They allow us to change between the loop
view and also the grid view as well.
| | 02:20 |
Now, you can also determine to import
certain files and not others.
| | 02:23 |
If you don't want to import this image,
well, just click on the checkbox and that
| | 02:27 |
image will not be imported into your
Lightroom catalog.
| | 02:31 |
Here, if you navigate to the loop view,
you can find this option located down
| | 02:34 |
below the image, and you can click on this
checkbox here.
| | 02:39 |
Now you can also scroll through your
photographs by using the arrow keys.
| | 02:42 |
The right arrow key will move forward.
And then the left arrow key will move
| | 02:46 |
backwards, alright?
Well let's navigate back to the grid view
| | 02:49 |
so that we can see all of these
photographs.
| | 02:53 |
Now whenever you're adding images to your
Lightroom catalog, you notice that it will
| | 02:56 |
just read here that it's simply importing
these to the catalog.
| | 03:00 |
We'll be talking much more about the
catalog but basically that is Lightroom's
| | 03:04 |
way to handle and to recognize and
organize all of our files.
| | 03:09 |
So here it's simply just saying to
Lightroom, hey, these files exist.
| | 03:12 |
This is where they reside or where they
live.
| | 03:14 |
Now Lightroom you can start to view and
access and work on those files.
| | 03:19 |
Alight, well next we have a few different
panels over here.
| | 03:21 |
Let's go ahead and click to expand these
panels.
| | 03:23 |
We'll be talking more about some of the
options here but for the most part we'll
| | 03:27 |
leave the defaults settings as is.
Here we can choose our render previews t.
| | 03:32 |
This is important because what Lightroom
will do is it will build previews behind
| | 03:35 |
the scenes so that we don't have to wait
every time we click on an image for that
| | 03:39 |
preview to be rendered.
Next, one of the options that you do
| | 03:44 |
want to turn on is to build smart
previews.
| | 03:47 |
Now, this will slightly increase the
overall file size of your catalog.
| | 03:51 |
Yet, what this will do is it will allow
you to work with your images in a more
| | 03:53 |
flexible way.
Again, we'll talk more about smart
| | 03:57 |
previews later.
Yet, here, I simply want to highlight that
| | 03:59 |
you want to turn on this checkbox.
Later we'll talk about some of the details
| | 04:03 |
of why.
Then down below we have some options to
| | 04:06 |
not import suspected duplicates.
This will ensure that you only have one
| | 04:11 |
version of an image.
In case you have images that are the same
| | 04:14 |
in multiple locations.
You may want to turn on that check box.
| | 04:18 |
And then if you're copying your images in,
you can also copy those files to a
| | 04:21 |
different location.
Again here, we don't need to do that
| | 04:24 |
because we're simply adding our
photographs to the catalog.
| | 04:28 |
Alright, well next we can apply a few
settings during the import.
| | 04:32 |
We can apply some develop settings which
allow us to process our images when
| | 04:35 |
they're imported.
Here we can choose, an ability to process
| | 04:38 |
these images in a few different ways.
With these photographs, I don't want to do that.
| | 04:43 |
I simply want them to come in as-is.
We can also apply some metadata or
| | 04:47 |
metadata presets.
We'll talk about that later.
| | 04:50 |
And then last but not least we have the
ability to add some key words.
| | 04:54 |
Let's go ahead and add some key words to
these.
| | 04:56 |
The key words that I want to add for these
are lynda.com demo files then comma, then Lightroom.
| | 05:02 |
This will add both of these key words to
all of these photographs.
| | 05:06 |
All right.
Well, after we have selected the
| | 05:08 |
photographs that we want to add to our
catalog or import into Lightroom and
| | 05:12 |
customized a few settings here, next in
order to import these images into
| | 05:15 |
Lightroom, simply click on the Import
button.
| | 05:20 |
That will then import and bring in all of
those photographs into Lightroom.
| | 05:24 |
Now it hasn't changed their location,
rather it's just told Lightroom that these
| | 05:28 |
files exist.
Now we can start to work with these files.
| | 05:31 |
Here we can select an image.
And we can view a larger preview of it
| | 05:34 |
here in the library module.
If you navigate to the folders panel, you
| | 05:38 |
can see that it's now brought in these
files.
| | 05:40 |
It's recognized the location where these
files reside so that we can begin to work
| | 05:44 |
with these various images.
Well, there you have it.
| | 05:48 |
Our first look at how we can work with the
Import dialog.
| | 05:51 |
In the next few movies, I want to dig a
bit deeper into working with this dialog.
| | 05:55 |
So let's continue to talk about this
topic, and we'll do so in the next movie.
| | 05:59 |
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| Selecting photos to import from a CF card| 00:00 |
Let's take a look at how we can import our
photographs directly from a memory card
| | 00:04 |
into Lightroom., Before we start to work
with the import dialogue though, you may
| | 00:07 |
want to navigate to the preferences
dialog.
| | 00:11 |
Navigate to the Lightroom pull-down menu,
then choose Preferences and underneath the
| | 00:16 |
general tab in the preferences dialogue I
recommend you turn on this option for your
| | 00:20 |
import option, which is to show the import
dialogue when a memory card is detected.
| | 00:27 |
In that way when you connect a card reader
to your computer and put in your memory card.
| | 00:31 |
It will automatically trigger light room
to open up that import dialogue.
| | 00:36 |
Alright, after having turned on that
option I'll go back to light room and here
| | 00:39 |
I'll simply click on the import button
because my compact flash card and memory
| | 00:43 |
card reader is already connected to the
computer.
| | 00:47 |
Alright, well, starting on the left hand
side of this dial up we need to define
| | 00:51 |
which images we want to import.
In this case, I want to import the
| | 00:55 |
photographs, which are located on this
card.
| | 00:58 |
Now you can also choose different sources
here, as we've already seen, by clicking
| | 01:01 |
on the various menu options that we have,
or you can click on this pull down menu here.
| | 01:06 |
When you do that you'll notice that you
have various options.
| | 01:09 |
In this case ,I can choose files from
certain hard drives, or recent locations,
| | 01:12 |
or in this case, the compact flashcard of
these photographs, which I just captured
| | 01:16 |
this morning.
Now I typically don't show images before
| | 01:20 |
I've worked on them, but here we have a
glance into my overall work flow.
| | 01:25 |
Now, when you select photographs which are
on a card, what you need to do is copy
| | 01:28 |
those half of that card and then save them
to a new destination or a new location.
| | 01:34 |
We'll talk about that in just a minute.
Now when it comes to copying these
| | 01:38 |
photographs, you really have 2 options.
You can either choose to copy the images
| | 01:42 |
and keep them in their current file
format, in this case a RAW format.
| | 01:46 |
These images were captured using the Canon
5D Mark, and three and there is the RAW format.
| | 01:51 |
Or you can copy and convert the files to
the DNG format.
| | 01:56 |
Now that's what I do in my own work flow.
We'll talk a little bit more about the DNG
| | 02:00 |
file format later.
So you don't have to do this, but I just
| | 02:04 |
want to highlight that you can choose
either Copy As DNG or Copy.
| | 02:09 |
One of the reasons why I do this, is
because it creates a smaller file.
| | 02:12 |
Remember there's some lossless compression
that you can do with DNG.
| | 02:16 |
It also allows you to work more quickly
with those files, if you use a fast load option.
| | 02:20 |
So again, let's go ahead and select that
option for now, and here what I'm going to
| | 02:23 |
do is scroll through these photographs
which I haven't edited at all.
| | 02:27 |
And what I want to do is select just a
few, because I don't want to overwhelm our
| | 02:31 |
exercise files folder with a lot of extra
images.
| | 02:35 |
So I'm just looking for a few images.
Now currently all of the photographs are
| | 02:39 |
checked, that would import all of these
pictures.
| | 02:42 |
Rather than doing that here, I'll uncheck
these, and again I'm just doing this
| | 02:45 |
because I don't want to import all 200
photographs here so that you have to deal
| | 02:48 |
with those, rather I'll just import a few
selects.
| | 02:53 |
I think that this image might be a good
one.
| | 02:55 |
In order to zoom in on the photograph we
can either click on the loop icon, or you
| | 02:59 |
can also just double click on the image.
When you double click on the image, it
| | 03:03 |
gives you a closer view of this picture.
These are some portraits that I captured
| | 03:07 |
of a really fascinating person, he owns a
company and designs shows for that
| | 03:11 |
company, the company's name is Ceevee's
and in this case it was just some
| | 03:14 |
editorial portraits of him in this
environment.
| | 03:19 |
Well here I think this picture might work.
It also makes me realize I wish I wouldn't
| | 03:23 |
have hung the shoes in this location, this
may be a good example file because we can
| | 03:26 |
look at how we can quickly remove that in
Photoshop.
| | 03:30 |
So I'll go ahead and select this image to
do that I'll click on the check box here
| | 03:33 |
to include in the import.
Now to scroll to other photographs we can
| | 03:37 |
use our arrow keys, when we press the
arrow keys you can see other options.
| | 03:42 |
Some of these pictures aren't very good.
There's a smiling one which might work.
| | 03:46 |
Again, I'm just going to scroll through
using my arrow keys of this larger view.
| | 03:49 |
Actually, I like this one a little bit
better, him looking down into the corner
| | 03:52 |
over here.
I think that's a fine shot.
| | 03:55 |
So again, I'll include that one in the
import.
| | 03:57 |
Next, we can navigate back to the grid
view by double clicking the image or by
| | 04:01 |
clicking this icon right here.
So again, you can either click on the
| | 04:05 |
icons to navigate back and forth or you
can double click.
| | 04:09 |
Now just so we have a little bit of
variety.
| | 04:11 |
Let me scroll down to later time in the
shoot in order to try to find another
| | 04:14 |
photograph that might be fun.
And here I'm just going quickly in order
| | 04:18 |
to try to highlight or find a file.
I think one of these might work pretty well.
| | 04:23 |
And I'll go ahead and select one.
And click on the loop icon.
| | 04:27 |
Yeah I kind of like that.
And again I will use the arrow keys to
| | 04:30 |
scroll back and forth to look at the
different varieties of the photographs.
| | 04:33 |
That one doesn't work.
I think this one is kind of cool.
| | 04:36 |
All right?
Well, here, we'll include that in the import.
| | 04:40 |
Now, typically you won't need to go
through each and every one of your images
| | 04:43 |
and just select a few.
Yet, it is important to see how you can
| | 04:47 |
start to scan your photographs and then
find certain images that you want to work on.
| | 04:52 |
Because often, you'll encounter that there
will be certain photographs where your
| | 04:55 |
exposure is so far off, where you just
took a test shot and you don't want to
| | 04:58 |
include that in your library to sort of
bog it down with that extra file size.
| | 05:03 |
Now, you can always delete those pictures
later, yet either way, now we've seen how
| | 05:07 |
we can kind of zoom in on our pictures,
and select some pictures that we want to
| | 05:10 |
copy off of the compact flash card.
And then bring over to our hard drive.
| | 05:16 |
Alright, well at this point I think it's a
pretty good stopping point.
| | 05:19 |
Here we've talked about selecting the
source, the compact flash card, we've also
| | 05:22 |
looked at how we're going to copy those
over as DNG, and then we've got into some
| | 05:25 |
of the details of how we can zoom in and
zoom out and select certain files.
| | 05:31 |
Next, let's talk about how we can dial in
a few options when it comes to where we're
| | 05:34 |
going to copy those files to.
And because that's going to be a little
| | 05:38 |
bit more involved, let's talk about that
in the next movie.
| | 05:42 |
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| Choosing an import destination| 00:00 |
In the previous movie we talked about how
we can begin that process of importing our
| | 00:04 |
photographs and video files from a media
card.
| | 00:07 |
And there we selected a few pictures that
we wanted to copy over as DNG files to our
| | 00:12 |
local hard drive.
In this movie we're going to pick up where
| | 00:16 |
we left off and here I want to talk about
how we can define the location where we'll
| | 00:20 |
start to copy these files over to.
Well, if you navigate to this area of the
| | 00:25 |
interface you can click on this pull down
menu and here you can see that it's going
| | 00:28 |
to copy these images to the default
location of the Pictures folder.
| | 00:32 |
Now the default location typically isn't a
very good idea.
| | 00:36 |
You want to select that location whether
it's a hard drive or a certain folder.
| | 00:40 |
Again you want to get specific so that you
can organize those images into a
| | 00:43 |
particular spot.
You can do so by clicking on Other
| | 00:47 |
Destination or you can always open up the
Destination panel.
| | 00:51 |
When you open up the Destination panel, it
will show you how you can save those files
| | 00:54 |
to this particular spot, the Pictures
folder.
| | 00:57 |
In this case, it's organizing those by
date, so there's a main folder named 2013
| | 01:01 |
and then a sub folder when these
photographs were captured.
| | 01:06 |
Well rather than organizing these images
by date, what I want to do is save them
| | 01:09 |
into a folder that I'm going to name.
To do that, I'll navigate to my desktop folder.
| | 01:16 |
And here, I want to include these in the
exercise files folder.
| | 01:19 |
So I'm just going to navigate down until I
get to the location where I want to save
| | 01:22 |
these files.
And then I'll click on the folder.
| | 01:24 |
And often, you'll have a folder structure
already created.
| | 01:28 |
You'll have a folder area where you
want to save all your pictures to.
| | 01:32 |
And in this case, this is the location
where I want to save my pictures.
| | 01:36 |
Now, if you need to create a new folder
what you can do is click on this icon here
| | 01:39 |
and then select Create a New Folder.
And that way you can create a brand new
| | 01:43 |
folder in order to copy your images into
that brand new folder.
| | 01:47 |
Well I don't need to do that because I
already have a folder here which is named People.
| | 01:52 |
But rather than organizing these into this
folder by way of date, I want to organize
| | 01:56 |
them into a specific sub-folder.
To do that, we'll go to the organize pull
| | 02:01 |
down menu and here, I'll choose into one
folder.
| | 02:05 |
Next, we have the ability to name that
folder.
| | 02:06 |
I'll go ahead and name this folder Steven
because that's the name of the person or
| | 02:10 |
the subject of this photograph.
If we scroll down a little bit, we can see
| | 02:14 |
here that it's creating a new folder,
which is called Steven.
| | 02:18 |
I should also point out that as you name
these folders, if you see the name of the
| | 02:22 |
folder turn red that's because there's a
problem.
| | 02:25 |
Take a look at this.
Here I'll type out Steven space and then
| | 02:29 |
I'll add his last name, Tiller.
And notice that the name of that folder
| | 02:32 |
has become red.
That's because I've added a quote, illegal character.
| | 02:37 |
That's a character which makes the name of
this folder a little bit unstable.
| | 02:42 |
If you press Enter or Return when you have
an illegal character, well, it will take
| | 02:46 |
advantage of the preference which you
dialed in.
| | 02:49 |
We talked about that in a previous movie.
And it will replace the illegal character
| | 02:53 |
with one which is more stable.
Here you can see it added a dash between
| | 02:56 |
these two names.
Then you can click OK in order to apply that.
| | 03:00 |
Or of course you can always just go in and
customize the name.
| | 03:03 |
Here I'll delete that, just bring this
back to Steven.
| | 03:06 |
Alright, well now that we've defined the
destination for where we're going to copy
| | 03:09 |
these photographs.
Next we need to take a look at a few other
| | 03:12 |
options which we'll encounter in these
various panels.
| | 03:16 |
So let's go ahead and talk about a few
other importing considerations and we'll
| | 03:19 |
do that in the next movie.
| | 03:22 |
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| File handling and renaming options| 00:00 |
In our pursuit to learn how we can more
effectively import our photographs and
| | 00:03 |
video files from a media card into
Lightroom.
| | 00:06 |
Well here we're going to continue our
conversation and talk about the options
| | 00:10 |
that we'll find in the File Handling and
the File Renaming panels.
| | 00:14 |
Let's begin by talking about file
handling.
| | 00:17 |
If you click on this menu item here, you
can open and close that panel.
| | 00:21 |
One of the first things to consider is
your Render Preview.
| | 00:24 |
Now this option is actually pretty
important and we'll talk more about it at
| | 00:27 |
length later, yet for now I simply want to
highlight that typically, what works
| | 00:31 |
really well in most situations is
Standard.
| | 00:36 |
What this will do is it will ask Lightroom
to render a preview behind the scenes, it
| | 00:39 |
will render a really nice high resolution
file.
| | 00:43 |
So that you can then start to work on the
image.
| | 00:45 |
On the other hand if you want to quickly
work on your photographs and if you aren't
| | 00:48 |
as concerned with the quality of the
preview you may want to choose one of
| | 00:51 |
these options.
Embedded and Sidecar or Minimal.
| | 00:56 |
And those will generate a preview from the
JPEG file, which is actually inside the
| | 00:59 |
raw file.
Again we'll talk more about all of these
| | 01:03 |
details later.
So for now, simply choose Standard as that
| | 01:06 |
works well in most situations.
Next you want to turn on all three of
| | 01:10 |
these check boxes.
First let's begin with Build Smart Previews.
| | 01:15 |
You want to turn on that option because it
will allow you to work on your images, say
| | 01:18 |
in the Develop module, even if that
photograph is on a hard drive which is
| | 01:22 |
offline or turned off.
So, I recommend you turn on that option.
| | 01:28 |
We'll talk more about the details of smart
previews a little bit later.
| | 01:32 |
That you definitely want to turn on this
option to make sure that you aren't
| | 01:35 |
importing suspected duplicates.
This is helpful if you have a lot of media
| | 01:40 |
cards so that you don't accidentally
import the images a second or third time.
| | 01:45 |
If you do that, it makes your overall
library really messy and it just causes a
| | 01:49 |
lot of problems.
So again, make sure to turn on that check box.
| | 01:54 |
And then last but not least.
You may want to consider creating a
| | 01:57 |
duplicate or a backup version of your
photographs and your video files.
| | 02:02 |
If you turn on this check box, you can
select another location by clicking on
| | 02:05 |
this link here.
This will then allow you to duplicate all
| | 02:08 |
of these files to another hard drive or
another location, so that you're backing
| | 02:12 |
these files up as you're importing them.
Alright.
| | 02:17 |
Well there are a few things to consider
with the File Handling panel.
| | 02:21 |
Next let's talk about file renaming.
This is actually pretty interesting and
| | 02:25 |
sometimes really helpful.
You can, of course, choose to import your
| | 02:29 |
images with the default names which your
camera gave those files, or you can rename them.
| | 02:34 |
By clicking on this check box.
When you do this, it will show you the way
| | 02:37 |
it will rename the file down below.
We can customize this by clicking on these
| | 02:42 |
pull-down menus.
Currently the template is just showing me
| | 02:45 |
the default file name.
Yet you can change that.
| | 02:48 |
For example, here, let's select another
option.
| | 02:51 |
I'll choose Shoot Name - Sequence.
Now the company that I was shooting for
| | 02:56 |
with these photographs is named Seavees,
their really interesting and awesome shoe
| | 03:00 |
company so I'll go ahead and name that
shoot name there.
| | 03:04 |
And then I can also choose a start number,
in this case I'll leave it at one, here it
| | 03:07 |
shows me the name, Seavees-001 or we can
choose other options as well.
| | 03:12 |
For example, we could choose a custom name
and a sequence.
| | 03:16 |
By doing that, we can choose some custom
text.
| | 03:18 |
I'll go ahead and type out his name, just
so you can see.
| | 03:20 |
We can add custom text and a sequence.
And here, what we might do is increase the sequence.
| | 03:25 |
If we've already imported 500 photographs,
we'll start this sequence with 501.
| | 03:30 |
What I've encountered is that people have
many different ways that they like to
| | 03:34 |
rename their file.
So there isn't necessarily one correct way
| | 03:38 |
to name your files, but what you may
want to do is try out using one of these
| | 03:41 |
templates, or, you may want to customize
one of these templates further.
| | 03:47 |
For example, one of the things that I like
to do, is I like to use the custom text of
| | 03:50 |
my name.
Corwig, the first initial of my first
| | 03:54 |
name, then my last name.
Then I want to add some other information
| | 03:58 |
over here.
To do that, click on the Template
| | 04:01 |
pull-down menu, then select Edit.
When you select Edit, it will open up the
| | 04:06 |
File Name Template Editor, and here it
will show you the current name and it will
| | 04:09 |
show you the current name with these
various items which are called tokens.
| | 04:15 |
For example, if you decide that you don't
want to have sequence here, click on it,
| | 04:19 |
Press Delete on a Mac or Backspace on
Windows.
| | 04:23 |
Now it just reads the custom text corwig.
Now I could add something else after this,
| | 04:28 |
here I could add perhaps the date.
To do that, go down to this area, and we
| | 04:32 |
could select the date.
You could see it can be formatted a number
| | 04:35 |
of different ways.
Then you can see how it's adding that here
| | 04:39 |
after my custom text.
Again, in order to remove any of these
| | 04:43 |
simply click on that and then go ahead and
press the Delete or the Backspace.
| | 04:48 |
Another thing that you'll encounter here
is that as you insert these various
| | 04:51 |
options, what you can do is change them by
clicking on this icon here.
| | 04:55 |
You may have noticed that, as it briefly
showed up, here we can choose different
| | 04:59 |
formatting for this and it will update
that up here in our example file name.
| | 05:04 |
Alright?
Well, rather than date, what I want to do
| | 05:06 |
is a sequence of numbers.
So here, I'll go ahead and press the
| | 05:09 |
Delete key.
We'll go down to this Numbering option.
| | 05:12 |
And here I'll click from the sequence.
When I have a sequence of numbers which
| | 05:16 |
has five different numbers in it, or maybe
even six.
| | 05:19 |
In this case, we'll go ahead and choose
this option, which has five numbers.
| | 05:22 |
And here you can see it's going to create
that sequence for me.
| | 05:25 |
Then, click Done, and in that way you can
customize the way that you're renaming
| | 05:29 |
your files.
Again, there isn't necessarily a right or
| | 05:33 |
wrong here.
Yet you want to come up with a method of
| | 05:36 |
renaming your files which is consistent
throughout your entire photographic library.
| | 05:42 |
So that you can then easily organize and
access all of those various images.
| | 05:46 |
Alright, well now that we've covered file
handling and file renaming next we have
| | 05:49 |
one more panel to look at, Apply During
Import.
| | 05:53 |
And well take a look at how we can work
with those panel options in the next movie.
| | 05:57 |
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| Applying copyright metadata and creating a preset| 00:00 |
In this movie, we're going to finish up
our importing process as we're importing
| | 00:04 |
these photographs from a media card.
And here, we're going to look at a few
| | 00:08 |
options that we have in the Apply During
Import panel.
| | 00:11 |
And also we'll explore how we can create
what's called an Import Preset, alright.
| | 00:15 |
Well, let's first navigate to the Apply
During Import; go ahead and click on that
| | 00:19 |
name in order to expand that panel.
The first option that we have allows us to
| | 00:23 |
apply developed settings.
These are actually kind of interesting.
| | 00:27 |
If we click on this pulldown menu, you can
see that we have a number of different presets.
| | 00:31 |
Some of them are creative.
Some are a bit more functional.
| | 00:34 |
You know, I know a lot of Lightroom users
who actually use this preset here.
| | 00:38 |
What it does is it adds a medium contrast
curve to their photographs.
| | 00:43 |
Because you know, we've all discovered
that raw files typically are lacking a
| | 00:46 |
little bit.
By adding a bit of contrast well, it helps
| | 00:49 |
us to see those images with just a little
bit more of a snap.
| | 00:53 |
Now in my own work though, I actually like
to start from scratch, so I don't apply
| | 00:56 |
any of these presets, but I simply wanted
to highlight that you can choose those
| | 00:59 |
options from that pull down menu.
Next I want to take a look at how we can
| | 01:04 |
create some custom metadata which will be
added to our photographs and video files.
| | 01:09 |
And that is how we can add some copyright
information as we import our pictures.
| | 01:13 |
Here I'll go ahead and click on this pull
down menu and then choose new.
| | 01:17 |
When you click on the new option this will
give us the ability to create a new
| | 01:20 |
metadata preset.
Now what I want to do is give this one a
| | 01:24 |
name and add some copyright information
here as well.
| | 01:28 |
To do that, I'll go ahead and give this
one a name.
| | 01:30 |
And I'll go ahead and type out copyright
Chris Orwig.
| | 01:34 |
Now you can create that copyright symbol
on a Mac by pressing Option G on Windows
| | 01:38 |
press Ctrl, Alt, C.
Next, let's give this one a preset name
| | 01:43 |
which is identical to this, so again, go
ahead and press Option G on a Mac.
| | 01:48 |
Alt, Ctrl+C on Windows, and then type out
your name.
| | 01:51 |
We'll do the same thing down here.
Just to keep this really simple, we'll be
| | 01:54 |
consistent throughout.
Now you can obviously add other
| | 01:57 |
information here as well, but we're just
focusing on copyright, make sure that this
| | 02:02 |
is copyrited.
So this copyright information will then be
| | 02:06 |
applied, if we choose this preset.
As we import our photographs.
| | 02:11 |
The advantage of this, of course, is that
it speeds up the work flow, so that we
| | 02:13 |
don't have to do this later.
And also, once you create a preset, you
| | 02:18 |
can reuse it as you continue to import
your photographs.
| | 02:22 |
So again, you'll want to do this.
You'll want to create a little metadata preset.
| | 02:25 |
In particular for the copyright
information.
| | 02:28 |
Next, let's click create.
In doing that you'll be able to access
| | 02:32 |
this from the pull down menu here.
You can see that we now have that option
| | 02:36 |
right here and we can select that metadata
preset to apply to our photographs.
| | 02:41 |
Now this point before we actually begin to
add keywords, we may want to save all of
| | 02:45 |
this out as an import preset.
To do that, simply click on the none
| | 02:50 |
button which is located down here at the
bottom of the interface.
| | 02:54 |
When you click on that you can save these
current settings as a preset.
| | 02:58 |
I'll go ahead and name this Chris Orwig -
General.
| | 03:01 |
What this will do is it will give me the
ability to reuse all of these setting
| | 03:05 |
which we've defined here.
As we click on this pull down menu you can
| | 03:09 |
see that you can access different user
presets.
| | 03:13 |
In this way you can take advantage of
these and then customize these further as
| | 03:17 |
you need to as you import other pictures.
Alright, well next, let's add some key
| | 03:22 |
words to this photograph.
Here I'll go ahead and start off by adding
| | 03:24 |
the word Santa Barbara.
I'm also going to add, comma and portrait.
| | 03:30 |
The company name, in this case was
Seavees.
| | 03:32 |
I'll type that out and then I'll also type
out the person I was photographing, which
| | 03:35 |
was Steven Tiller.
In this way you can see that we can
| | 03:39 |
quickly add these keywords to all of these
photographs.
| | 03:42 |
Now, you want to keep these keywords
pretty general because remember typically
| | 03:46 |
you're importing a whole group of
photographs.
| | 03:49 |
Yet, you also want to make sure that
you're actually taking advantage of this
| | 03:52 |
feature because it will speed up your work
flow later by already adding some of these
| | 03:55 |
general presets.
Alright, well after you have customized
| | 03:59 |
all of these settings, last but not least,
what you'll want to do is click on the
| | 04:03 |
import button.
Yet before you do that, I simply want to
| | 04:06 |
highlight that you want to make sure this
default setting of Eject after Import is
| | 04:10 |
turned on.
What that will allow you to do is import
| | 04:14 |
the photographs.
It will then eject the card so that you
| | 04:17 |
can take it out and then put in another
one and import other photographs as well.
| | 04:22 |
All right?
Well here let's go ahead and click Import.
| | 04:24 |
This will then import those photographs.
We'll see that Lightroom will convert
| | 04:28 |
these images to the Digital Negative file
format.
| | 04:31 |
It will then copy those files over to this
particular folder, in this location on our
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hard drive.
And here you can see in this folder, we
| | 04:38 |
now have successfully imported in these
photographs.
| | 04:42 |
If we look in the Library module at our
Metadata panel, we can see that the
| | 04:45 |
Copyright metadata has been added to these
pictures.
| | 04:49 |
And now we are ready to work on them.
To do so, simply double-click the image in
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order to zoom in on this picture, and then
we can press the arrow keys in order to
| | 04:56 |
scroll through our photographs and take a
look at these pictures which we have now
| | 05:00 |
successfully imported into Lightroom.
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| Setting catalog preferences, importing, and using previews| 00:00 |
Now that we know quite a bit about
importing our photographs and video files.
| | 00:04 |
Here I want to dig deeper into the topic
of selecting the right Option for our
| | 00:09 |
render previews.
We'll encounter these controls in the File
| | 00:13 |
Handling panel.
You can click on that panel to open and
| | 00:15 |
close it.
And here when we click on this Pull-down
| | 00:18 |
menu, you'll notice that we have four
Options.
| | 00:21 |
Now, we'll need to make a selection of
these Options here.
| | 00:23 |
We'll also need to navigate to our catalog
settings in order to customize this even further.
| | 00:29 |
So, in order to talk about this topic,
what I want to do is open up a few slides
| | 00:32 |
that I have prepared to talk about the
topic of importing and selecting the right
| | 00:36 |
Option for our file handling preview.
Now, you may be wondering, well, why is
| | 00:41 |
this a big deal and why does this matter.
We'll talk about that as we make our way
| | 00:45 |
into the dialog.
Well, as I mentioned, inside of the Import
| | 00:48 |
dialog, we have a few Options.
These Options allow us to choose different
| | 00:52 |
size previews.
And when it comes to choosing the right
| | 00:56 |
size, really it's a question of speed
versus quality.
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Now, the first two Options, Minimal and
Embedded & Sidecar actually create a
| | 01:04 |
preview based on the JPEG which is in the
raw file.
| | 01:08 |
You know, when you view your image on the
back of your camera, you're actually
| | 01:11 |
viewing the JPEG preview.
You aren't viewing the raw data.
| | 01:15 |
And so, here, these previews are generated
or pulled from that JPEG information.
| | 01:21 |
If you choose this Option, it allows you
to really quickly view and start to work
| | 01:24 |
with your files.
This may be helpful if you're a wedding photographer.
| | 01:28 |
And if you want to create a slideshow of
the photographs at the wedding, you can
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import the photographs.
Use a minimal previews so that you can
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quickly see the images, make some
selections, and then generate the slide show.
| | 01:40 |
On the other hand, in most situations, you
want a larger preview.
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You're more interested in quality.
So that as you start to work with the
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image, you can actually see the detail
that you have there.
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You can focus in on it.
You can zoom in on the image and work on
| | 01:54 |
all of the particulars of the photograph.
In that case, Standard will work really well.
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Now, if you actually want all of the
information to be included in the preview,
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well, then you can choose 1:1.
If you choose Standard, and if you zoom in
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to 1:1, what you'll find is that Lightroom
will then generate that preview.
| | 02:13 |
So, what I find is it most situations,
Standard works well.
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Then if I need to zoom in while I wait for
that preview to be generated, it helps to
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keep the preview size down a little bit,
so that your can work quickly and efficiently.
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So, again, when it comes to making this
decision, remember the top two Options are
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about speed, the bottom two are about
quality.
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Now, we'll also encounter some Options for
file handling when we navigate to our
| | 02:37 |
Catalog Setting dialog.
I'll show you this in a minute in
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Lightroom, yet here I simply want to
highlight the similarities.
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Notice that we can define that actual size
of the standard preview size, the Option
| | 02:48 |
that we'll use most frequently.
And here we'll select 1440 pixels, or a
| | 02:53 |
monitor with a more dense resolution like
a retina display.
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You might want to chose a higher pixel
value there.
| | 03:00 |
You can also select different quality
settings.
| | 03:03 |
Here we have High, Medium, and Low.
And these particular settings, in my
| | 03:06 |
opinion at least are a little bit vague.
What does this mean?
| | 03:10 |
What it means is something kind of
interesting.
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High generates a preview which is based on
the ProPhoto color space or close to that
| | 03:16 |
color space, which is a color space which
has a wide gamut.
| | 03:21 |
In other words, it includes a lot of
colors.
| | 03:23 |
The other Options create a, a preview in
this smaller color space of Adobe RGB.
| | 03:29 |
Now, all of these are pretty good, yet the
best of course is ProPhoto.
| | 03:32 |
So, if you want the highest quality
preview, well, then choose that High
| | 03:35 |
option there.
Alright.
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Well, that wraps up our look at this
issue, how we can start to work with
| | 03:40 |
importing and file handling previews.
Now that we've seen this, let's go back to Lightroom.
| | 03:46 |
Well, here in Lightroom, we've already
discussed that typically you want to
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choose this Option here.
Next, let's click Cancel to exit out of
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the Import dialog.
Click on the Lightroom Pull-down menu and
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then choose Catalog Settings.
In the Catalog Settings dialog, you
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want to make your way to the File Handling
tab.
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In doing that, you have what's called a
Preview cache.
| | 04:08 |
Here's where we can define the standard
preview size and also the quality.
| | 04:13 |
Notice that the quality by default is
Medium.
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If you really want to focus on the
quality, you may consider taking that to High.
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You also may consider changing the overall
size of the preview.
| | 04:23 |
If you have a higher resolution monitor,
perhaps you want to generate a higher
| | 04:27 |
resolution standard preview size.
And in doing that, you'll have access to a
| | 04:31 |
larger or a higher resolution preview.
Alright.
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Well, this topic is obviously a bit more
advanced.
| | 04:37 |
That's why I included it at the end of the
chapter.
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Yet, nonetheless, I think it's helpful
information, so that you can make the best
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choice about how you're starting to
generate those previews.
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And the reason why this is so important,
is because, as you start to work more and
| | 04:51 |
more in Lightroom.
You want to get all of these settings
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right from the beginning, so that you
don't have to change them later.
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So that as you start to work, you can
really get onto the good stuff to
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enhancing and correcting your photographs
in the ways that you need to do so.
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Alright.
Well, in order to apply these catalog
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settings changes, simply close this.
That will then apply those settings, so
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that the next time you import those
photographs, it will take advantage of the
| | 05:15 |
way that you've customized or changed
those settings.
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3. Specialized Importing SituationsDrag-and-drop importing| 00:00 |
In the previous chapter, we covered all of
the essentials that you need to know in
| | 00:03 |
order to effectively import your
photographs and video files in the Lightroom.
| | 00:08 |
In this chapter, I want to build upon what
we learned and here I want to focus in on
| | 00:12 |
a few specialized situations.
Where you can take advantage of some
| | 00:16 |
techniques which will allow you to import
your images into Lightroom, in a few other ways.
| | 00:21 |
First I want to highlight how we can drag
and drop images or folders of images into
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Lightroom, in order to quickly start to
work on our photographs.
| | 00:29 |
Right well here, I'm going to minimize the
Lightroom interface because it's covering
| | 00:32 |
the entire screen.
You can do so by clicking on this icon here.
| | 00:37 |
This will show me my desktop.
Now, on the desktop, I have this folder,
| | 00:40 |
exercise files.
I have a few other images from my photo
| | 00:43 |
shoot this morning, that I want to bring
into Lightroom.
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I'm first going to work with this
photograph here.
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You can select a single image, or multiple
images or a folder of images.
| | 00:54 |
And then drag and drop over the Lightroom
interface.
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When you notice that the cursor changes.
So there's that little plus icon that
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shows up.
We'll just let go.
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And that will trigger the import dialogue.
Now, here, because this is kind of compressed.
| | 01:08 |
I'm going to click on this icon in order
to expand our view.
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And take this to the loop view so we can
focus in on this photograph.
| | 01:15 |
Now, when it comes to importing pictures,
we know that we have a few options.
| | 01:19 |
We can simply add this photograph to our
catalogue and the image will stay in its
| | 01:22 |
current location.
Or we can copy the image.
| | 01:26 |
If we copy the image, either copy as DNG
or copy, it will create a duplicate of
| | 01:30 |
this file and allow us to save this to a
new destination as you can see here.
| | 01:36 |
Or we can also choose to simply move this
image.
| | 01:39 |
That's what I'm going to do, simply
because we haven't highlighted that option yet.
| | 01:43 |
Next, of course, we want to define the
destination.
| | 01:46 |
So here I'll click on the destination
panel in order to open this up.
| | 01:51 |
It remembers the subfolder which we
entered in last time.
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And that's exactly where I want this
photograph to go.
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We can navigate to a location, in this
case, the People folder, and then it will
| | 02:00 |
be saved inside of the Steven subfolder.
Now, if we hadn't selected that, we could
| | 02:05 |
also just click on that folder and it
would save it to that location as well.
| | 02:10 |
Alright, well next, let's close the
Destination panel.
| | 02:13 |
I always like to just have one panel open
at a time, otherwise it's a bit
| | 02:17 |
overwhelming or confusing.
What about file handling?
| | 02:21 |
Well, here we already know that standard
works best.
| | 02:24 |
We want a smart preview.
No need to import a duplicate file.
| | 02:28 |
And in this case, I'm not going to make a
second copy to another location.
| | 02:31 |
Then I'll go down to file renaming.
In renaming we can choose a custom name.
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Here I'll go ahead a custom text.
I'll name this one out as Steven, and then
| | 02:41 |
for my start number I'm going to use a
lower number.
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I'll just enter in the value of 1 there.
Next we can apply during import.
| | 02:50 |
Here I want to choose the metadata
copyright preset that we created, so go
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ahead and apply that.
And then simply click import.
| | 02:57 |
In doing that, Lightroom will then import
that photograph.
| | 03:00 |
And in this case, it will move it over to
this location.
| | 03:03 |
So if we go to that folder, we'll now see
that we have this image inside of this
| | 03:07 |
location, with this new file name.
Alright, Well, that's one way that we can
| | 03:12 |
quickly and easily import in a photograph,
or a folder of pictures.
| | 03:16 |
And that is by simply dragging and
dropping in order to trigger the import dialogue.
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| Auto-importing from a watched folder| 00:00 |
Another efficient way that you can import
your photographs and video files into
| | 00:04 |
Lightroom is by taking advantage of Auto
Import.
| | 00:07 |
In order to see how this works, I'll once
again minimize the Lightroom interface.
| | 00:11 |
To do so, we'll click on this icon here so
I can see the desktop.
| | 00:15 |
Well here on the desktop, I have two other
photographs that I want to import into Lightroom.
| | 00:19 |
And to illustrate how we can work with
this particular feature, I'm going to be
| | 00:22 |
importing these two folders in a new
folder.
| | 00:26 |
So on the desktop, I will right-click or
Ctrl+click and choose new folder.
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I'm going to name this new folder, Watched
folder.
| | 00:32 |
And you can name this folder whatever
you'd like, but I'll just go ahead and
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name it Watched folder to illustrate a
point of how we can start to work with
| | 00:39 |
Auto Import.
Next back to Lightroom.
| | 00:43 |
Here I'll click on light room and then
navigate to the File pull down menu then
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select Auto Import.
Here under Auto Import we want to turn on
| | 00:51 |
Auto Import settings.
When we do that this will open up an Auto
| | 00:54 |
Import dialogue.
Here we can select a Watch folder.
| | 00:58 |
And what this is, is a folder that
Lightroom keeps its eye on.
| | 01:02 |
So that if anything shows up in this
folder, it will then trigger the import dialog.
| | 01:07 |
Here we'll go ahead and select that by
clicking Choose.
| | 01:10 |
This then allows us to navigate to this
location where this folder is living on
| | 01:13 |
the desktop.
Here I'll click Choose.
| | 01:16 |
We can see that it's now looking to that
folder for any updates.
| | 01:20 |
Then we can also define a destination for
where we want these images to go.
| | 01:25 |
In this case, I don't want these images to
go to the default pictures location.
| | 01:29 |
In my opinion, that is a bad location for
your photographs.
| | 01:32 |
You want to have your photographs in a
folder that you've defined, that you've
| | 01:35 |
created, in a particular location that you
can keep tabs on.
| | 01:39 |
Alright well here, let's go ahead and
choose that.
| | 01:41 |
In this case, I'm going to choose my
Exercise Files folder, so I'll go to my desktop.
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I'll choose Exercise Files.
And then I'm going to select Photos and
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just save it into this main photos folder.
Next we'll click Choose.
| | 01:53 |
Now we can name this folder, in this case
it will be called Auto Imported Photos.
| | 01:58 |
Let's leave that default name as is.
We can also rename the file if we want to.
| | 02:03 |
Again, I'll leave the file name as is.
We'll actually look at how we can rename
| | 02:07 |
files once we're in Lightroom a little bit
later.
| | 02:10 |
So just leave these default file names as
they are.
| | 02:12 |
Next we can apply develop settings if we
want to, or metadata.
| | 02:16 |
The only metadata preset I've created is
one for copyright, so I'll select that.
| | 02:22 |
Now in regards to keywords this a little
bit tricky, because when you have a Watch
| | 02:25 |
folder you never know what you're going to
bring into it.
| | 02:29 |
So typically you won't want to add any
keywords here.
| | 02:32 |
Next, what about previews.
Well, here I'll go ahead and bring that up
| | 02:35 |
to our standard preview size, which
typically works best.
| | 02:39 |
That gives a nice high quality preview.
Alright?
| | 02:42 |
We'll go ahead and click OK.
In all that we've done so far is
| | 02:45 |
essentially we've created this Auto Import
folder.
| | 02:49 |
Well now what I want to to do is enable
Auto Import.
| | 02:52 |
In doing that, this folder is now watched
so that if I drag these two images by
| | 02:56 |
selecting them, and then dragging and
dropping them into this folder.
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What it will do in Lightroom is it will
trigger this import process.
| | 03:06 |
Here you can see how it's building these
standard previews, and it's importing
| | 03:09 |
these photographs into the library.
Here if we look at this folder that it
| | 03:12 |
created for us, we can see that these
images now reside in this particular location.
| | 03:18 |
Let me extend the overall view of
Lightroom so that we can see this a little
| | 03:21 |
bit better.
Here we have two photographs raw files
| | 03:24 |
which were just captured this morning.
Now part of my library in this Auto Import folder.
| | 03:30 |
Well this obviously is the wrong folder
for these files.
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No big deal simply select the file and
drag and drop this to new location.
| | 03:39 |
Now when you do that Lightroom gives us a
little warning, this says hey we are going
| | 03:43 |
to move these files on the hard drive from
one folder to another folder.
| | 03:47 |
If that's what you want to do click Move,
well that is exactly what I want to do, so
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it will then be moved to that location.
I'll move the other image as well.
| | 03:56 |
And again click Move.
In doing this, you can see that you can
| | 03:59 |
kind of have a general folder that you're
bringing your photographs into.
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Then you can selectively sort of customize
where they can go by dragging and dropping
| | 04:07 |
those photographs to different areas.
Alright?
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Well then let's click on the Steven folder
so we can see that we no have all six of
| | 04:14 |
these photographs inside of this location.
If ever you decide that you want to get
| | 04:20 |
rid of a folder, well you can always
select it, like Auto Import, then click on
| | 04:23 |
the Minus icon.
That will then delete or remove that
| | 04:27 |
folder so that it's no longer part of the
Lightroom catalog and library.
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| Importing from iPhoto or Aperture| 00:00 |
Let's take a look at how we can quickly
and easily import in photographs which we
| | 00:04 |
have in other applications like iPhoto or
Aperture.
| | 00:08 |
To do this, I'll go ahead and minimize the
Lightroom interface by clicking on this
| | 00:11 |
icon here, and then I'll click on iPhoto
which I have open in the background.
| | 00:17 |
Well, here in iPhoto, you'll notice that I
have an album of photographs.
| | 00:20 |
And these are some pictures of some family
friends that I captured down at a local beach.
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Well, what you want to do is you want to
navigate to the area where your iPhoto
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library is saved.
In this case, I saved it to the desktop.
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Next, what you want to do is you want to
simply drag and drop that library of
| | 00:35 |
images over into Lightroom.
To do that, click on the library and then
| | 00:40 |
hover over Lightroom until you see the
cursor change so that you have that plus
| | 00:44 |
icon next to it and then let go.
Next, I'll go and expand the view here so,
| | 00:49 |
we can actually see what we have.
And what we'll see is we have all of these
| | 00:53 |
photographs, yet if I scroll down, you'll
notice that I also have some other images.
| | 00:58 |
These are all of the images which were
generated by iPhoto as it was detecting
| | 01:02 |
the faces.
So, I have all of these little face thumbnails.
| | 01:06 |
Well, I want to get rid of those.
One easy way to do that is to change the
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way that you sort the files.
If you have the sorting Option on file
| | 01:13 |
name, you'll notice that these will sort
of be interspersed throughout your photographs.
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Yet, if you change this to an Option like
capture time, it will then group all of
| | 01:21 |
these images together.
So, there are the original images, and
| | 01:24 |
then of course these other photographs
were created later.
| | 01:27 |
So, you can click on one, scroll down to
the very bottom of this.
| | 01:31 |
Hold down the Shift key and click on
another, in order to highlight all of
| | 01:34 |
those images which you don't want to
import.
| | 01:38 |
Then just click on one of the check boxes,
and that will make sure that those images
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will not be imported.
Alright.
| | 01:44 |
Well, back to the photographs that we
want to import.
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Next, what we need to do is to define a
location where we want these.
| | 01:51 |
Here I'm going to select my People folder
in the Destination panel, and I'll choose
| | 01:54 |
a New Folder.
I'm going to give this one a name.
| | 01:57 |
I'll go ahead and name this Beach-Family.
I need to create a dash between them, so,
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I have a good file name.
Alright.
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Well there we have our new name for
Beach-Family.
| | 02:06 |
Next, we can go into the various Options,
like File Handling.
| | 02:09 |
Build some smart previews.
Make sure we're not importing duplicates.
| | 02:13 |
We can rename these files if we need to.
In this case, they already have pretty
| | 02:17 |
good file names, so, I'm going to leave
this as it's.
| | 02:19 |
And last but not least, we'll go to Apply
During Import and here I'll add or append
| | 02:23 |
my metadata copyright preset, which we've
already created.
| | 02:27 |
And then next, simply click Import in
order to import these photographs in.
| | 02:34 |
I should also highlight that we're going
to be moving these files to a new location.
| | 02:38 |
So, we're going to take the files where
they were, and we're going to be moving
| | 02:41 |
them to a new spot.
You could of course leave them where they
| | 02:44 |
were, and just create a copy or a
duplicate version of the files as well, if
| | 02:47 |
you know you want to keep working on those
files in those other applications.
| | 02:52 |
Well, let's just choose this Option just
so we have the best flexibility.
| | 02:56 |
Next, we'll go ahead and click Import.
That will then import and bring over all
| | 02:59 |
of those photographs.
You can see, it created a new folder for us.
| | 03:03 |
And it's starting to bring in these
photographs, and generate all of the
| | 03:06 |
previews, so that we can begin to work on
these images, which we originally had in
| | 03:10 |
another application, like iPhoto or
Aperture.
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4. Importing with Tethered CaptureIntroducing tethered capture| 00:00 |
In this chapter, we're going to focus in
on another way that we can import our
| | 00:03 |
photographs into Lightroom.
And that's through a feature called
| | 00:07 |
Tethered Capture.
What Tethered Capture allows us to do is
| | 00:11 |
to connect our camera to our computer.
And in doing this, we can then trigger the
| | 00:16 |
Shutter Release button, either on the
camera or in Lightroom, and the image will
| | 00:20 |
be written directly to our hard drive and
then imported into Lightroom.
| | 00:26 |
And because Tethered Capture is a pretty
important concept, especially if you shoot
| | 00:29 |
in the studio a lot or even if you shoot
outdoors.
| | 00:32 |
What I want to do is take a look at the
next slide, which will show us a version
| | 00:36 |
of the Tethered Capture menu that we will
see when we start to work in Lightroom.
| | 00:41 |
And I want to talk about this menu so that
we're familiar with it, once we start to
| | 00:44 |
work in it inside of Lightroom.
This menu or this dialog displays a lot of
| | 00:48 |
helpful things.
For starters we can make a selection of
| | 00:52 |
the camera.
If you have multiple cameras connected,
| | 00:54 |
you can choose a camera that you want to
work with.
| | 00:57 |
Next, you can define the folder where you
want to save those photographs.
| | 01:01 |
Then we have some of our camera
information like Fstop, Shutter Speed, ISO
| | 01:05 |
and White Balance.
Now, because we will be importing these
| | 01:09 |
images directly into Lightroom, we can
take advantage of Lightroom's power to
| | 01:12 |
process our photographs, and here we can
apply some develop settings.
| | 01:17 |
This is especially helpful when it comes
to White Balance, and I'll talk about that
| | 01:21 |
in one of the later movies.
And next, we can reopen the dialog for our
| | 01:25 |
settings by clicking on the little gear
icon.
| | 01:28 |
You can click on this button here to close
or to minimize this menu.
| | 01:32 |
And last but not least, we have a button
which allows us to trigger the Shutter Release.
| | 01:36 |
Now, there is a shortcut for that, you may
want to jot this one down.
| | 01:40 |
It's the F12 key.
That way you can just tap that key in your
| | 01:43 |
keyboard, and what it will do is it will
actually trigger the Shutter Release.
| | 01:46 |
It will copy that image over to your hard
drive to a specific folder, and then
| | 01:50 |
import it into Lightroom, so that you can
start to view and work on that image right away.
| | 01:57 |
Alright.
Well, now that we've been introduced to
| | 01:59 |
this concept of Tethered Capture, what I
want to do is take a look at how we can
| | 02:02 |
start to work with this feature in
Lightroom.
| | 02:05 |
So, let's go ahead and do that in the next
movie.
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| Working with tethered capture| 00:00 |
Before you can begin to work with tethered
capture in Lightroom, what you need to do
| | 00:04 |
is connect your camera to your computer
and then set up the shot.
| | 00:08 |
And then once you're ready, you can
navigate to the File Pull-down menu.
| | 00:12 |
And here you want to choose the option for
tethered capture, and select the menu
| | 00:15 |
option which is start Tethered Capture.
Here I'll go ahead and click on that menu
| | 00:20 |
item and it will open up our Tethered
Capture Settings dialogue.
| | 00:24 |
Now you want to give your session a new
name.
| | 00:26 |
I'll go ahead and name this one
studio-demo.
| | 00:29 |
In doing that, you can see that it's
going to use a naming convention which
| | 00:32 |
will follow our session name.
Here it's a session name plus a sequence,
| | 00:36 |
or you could also choose another option
here from this template pull-down menu.
| | 00:41 |
I'll start this with image number one.
The next I need to choose where I want to
| | 00:45 |
actually save these files.
I'll save these files to my Exercise Files folder.
| | 00:50 |
We can also define, if we want to add some
metadata.
| | 00:53 |
Here I'll add my copyright.
If you haven't added your copyright
| | 00:56 |
information in your metadata fields here,
what you can do is create a new preset and
| | 01:00 |
add that copyright information there and
then select this from the pull down menu here.
| | 01:07 |
After having defined the way we want to
save and name the files.
| | 01:10 |
Where we want to save them.
And if we want to add any metadata.
| | 01:13 |
The next step, of course, is to simply
click OK.
| | 01:16 |
Once we click OK, this will then show us a
connection to our camera.
| | 01:21 |
Here, it's connecting to the camera.
The 5D Mark III that I have connected to
| | 01:24 |
the computer.
Here at my current camera settings.
| | 01:28 |
And what I want to to do is just take a
test shot.
| | 01:30 |
To do so, we can either press the F12 key
or click on the Capture button.
| | 01:35 |
Now you can click on the Capture button
here inside of Lightroom or you can also
| | 01:38 |
do the same thing just by pressing the
button on your camera.
| | 01:42 |
And in this case I just set one of my old
cameras on a chair over in the corner.
| | 01:46 |
And I'm taking a picture of it.
I don't have a lot of light here so the
| | 01:49 |
exposure's a little bit long but you know
what, I think that this looks pretty good.
| | 01:54 |
Now one of things that happens as you work
with tethered capture, is that you may
| | 01:58 |
find that this particular menu is a little
bit cluttering your view.
| | 02:03 |
Well, one of the ways that you can
minimize it, is by holding down the Option
| | 02:06 |
key on a Mac or Alt on Windows.
Notice that it changes that close button
| | 02:11 |
to a minus icon.
When you click on that after holding down
| | 02:14 |
Option on a Mac, Alt on Windows, that
allows you to minimize this menu so you
| | 02:17 |
can tuck that off to the side.
Then you can go ahead and trigger the
| | 02:22 |
shutter release button which in turn will
allow you to then take another picture.
| | 02:27 |
So here we'll go ahead and fire another
shot.
| | 02:29 |
And then we, that will bring that into
Lightroom.
| | 02:32 |
You know, often one of the reasons why
you'll want to do tethered capture is just
| | 02:35 |
to make sure that your exposure is
correct.
| | 02:38 |
You can also zoom in on the image of
course by clicking it.
| | 02:41 |
Here we'll zoom in on this into this old
brownie camera and see if the image is
| | 02:45 |
sharp, if we have good focus and detail
and of course we can pan around the
| | 02:48 |
photograph as well.
Alright, you can click again in order to
| | 02:53 |
zoom out.
Let's go ahead and expand this dialogue.
| | 02:57 |
To do that again, hold down Option or Alt,
Option on a Mac, Alt on Windows.
| | 03:02 |
Now the little x has turned into a plus
icon.
| | 03:05 |
This allows us to expand this.
Alright.
| | 03:08 |
Well, so far, so good.
We've looked at how we can capture a
| | 03:10 |
photograph using tethered capture.
You can see that that's bringing this
| | 03:15 |
image into a folder on our hard drive in
this case.
| | 03:18 |
It's naming these files based on the
naming convention which we've added there
| | 03:21 |
in those settings.
Now if ever you want to change those settings.
| | 03:25 |
If you decided you know what, I don't like
the naming convention.
| | 03:28 |
That isn't really working or I just
want to customize this further.
| | 03:31 |
Well just click on the Gear icon.
When you click on the Gear icon, this will
| | 03:35 |
reopen the tethered capture settings.
So here what I want to do is use a custom name.
| | 03:40 |
And I'm going to go ahead and name this
one.
| | 03:42 |
Actually, custom name with the sequence.
I'll just call this Brownie, which is the camera.
| | 03:47 |
And then dash and a number.
And I'll choose a number of one.
| | 03:51 |
Alright.
Well, now that we have that custom naming
| | 03:53 |
convention there.
What I want to do is click OK and then
| | 03:57 |
again I'll press the shutter release
button.
| | 04:00 |
And you can do that either by clicking on
your camera or by pressing that button or
| | 04:04 |
by pressing the F12 key.
And now you can see that this image came
| | 04:08 |
into Lightroom with a much better name.
In the previous two files in a sense those
| | 04:13 |
were just my test files to help me get
started.
| | 04:17 |
Often when you're shooting with tethered
capture, you'll need to fire off some test images.
| | 04:21 |
Eventually what you want to do is delete
those.
| | 04:24 |
I'm going to go ahead and do that here.
So I'll select these two images, click on one.
| | 04:29 |
Hold down the command key and click on
another in order to delete multiple files
| | 04:33 |
from your library, you actually need to be
in the grid view mode.
| | 04:37 |
So here, let me move that over.
We'll click on the Grid view.
| | 04:41 |
Now that I have both of these images
selected, as you can see here, these two.
| | 04:46 |
We can press delete on a Mac.
Backspace on Windows.
| | 04:49 |
And say, hey.
We want to delete these from the desk.
| | 04:52 |
We are done with those images.
We only want to have this one photograph.
| | 04:56 |
And then of course we can keep shooting.
Alright, well now that we've been
| | 05:00 |
introduced to how we can work with
tethered capture, let's go ahead and
| | 05:03 |
continue to work with this feature.
There's some more that I want to cover in
| | 05:07 |
regards to this, so let's continue to talk
about how we can further work with
| | 05:10 |
tethered capture, and we'll do that in the
next movie.
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| Using guides and grids for alignment| 00:00 |
Another helpful feature when it comes to
tethered capture is being able to use
| | 00:04 |
grids or guides in order to be able to
align multiple photographs.
| | 00:09 |
Now, before we actually start to work with
this, I'm going to press the Capture
| | 00:11 |
button so I can trigger another
photograph.
| | 00:14 |
You can do that by pressing the Capture
button or by pressing the F12 key, or by
| | 00:17 |
pressing the Shutter Release button on
your camera.
| | 00:21 |
You most always just make sure that you
have that connection and that you have a
| | 00:24 |
good shot there.
Well next you can go to the View pull down
| | 00:27 |
menu then navigate to Loop overlay, here
we have two options.
| | 00:32 |
We can turn on a grid and what the grid
can help us to do is to see or just to
| | 00:35 |
make use our image is straight and we can
change this grid by holding down the Cmd key.
| | 00:42 |
Press the Cmd key on a Mac or Ctrl key on
Windows, then what you can do is navigate
| | 00:45 |
to this menu up here.
And we can change the size of the grid,
| | 00:49 |
sometimes it's helpful to have a smaller
or larger grid.
| | 00:53 |
You can also click and drag to change the
Intensity or the Opacity of that grid.
| | 00:57 |
Again, this is especially helpful for
studio shooting.
| | 01:01 |
Now, after you've used the grid, what you
may want to do is turn that off.
| | 01:05 |
To do so, navigate to View.
Choose Loop Overlay.
| | 01:09 |
And you can either press this shortcut key
here, which is Option+Cmd+O on a Mac, or
| | 01:13 |
Alt+Ctrl+O on Windows.
Or you can just always click on this menu
| | 01:17 |
item right here.
Now in doing that, you can see that it's
| | 01:20 |
hidden that grid.
So that's no longer distracting what I'm doing.
| | 01:24 |
What about those situations where maybe
your photographing a lot of things and you
| | 01:28 |
want to make sure that your alignment is
correct.
| | 01:31 |
To do that you'll want to navigate to the
View pull down menu, choose Loop Overlay,
| | 01:35 |
and then select Guides.
What guides allow us to do is create a
| | 01:40 |
guide, hold down the Cmd key on Mac, Ctrl
on Windows, and you can move this around,
| | 01:43 |
again just so you can align things.
Let's say that we want to align a few
| | 01:49 |
photographs so that this area right here
is the center of what we're capturing.
| | 01:53 |
Well, what I want to do here in a moment
is remove this camera and position another
| | 01:57 |
one there, and just see if I can't use
these guides in order to be able to help
| | 02:00 |
me to align these two photographs.
Okay, so I have now sat another camera on
| | 02:05 |
the chair there, and I'll trigger another
capture here by pressing the Capture button.
| | 02:11 |
And we'll see that this will then show us
another one of my old cameras that I have.
| | 02:14 |
And in this case you can see that this
particular shot is a little bit off.
| | 02:19 |
Now I might not have noticed that had I
just simply been taking the picture, but
| | 02:23 |
it's this guide which really helps me to
see that.
| | 02:27 |
So what I can then do is try to reposition
this.
| | 02:30 |
So I'm going to go ahead and do that right
now, so that I can get these images to all
| | 02:33 |
line up.
Here goes.
| | 02:35 |
All right, I've slid the camera over a
little bit.
| | 02:38 |
Again, I'll press the Capture button so
that you can see how we can bring in
| | 02:41 |
another version of this.
And what this will take is a little bit of
| | 02:44 |
back and forth until you get it just
right.
| | 02:47 |
In this case you can see that I moved it
just a touch too far.
| | 02:50 |
So I'll go ahead and nudge it over to the
other side and then press the Capture
| | 02:53 |
button one more time to capture yet
another photograph.
| | 02:56 |
When it comes to studio work, sometimes
alignment is very important.
| | 03:00 |
And so, as you can see here, this guide
can help us to try to align these
| | 03:04 |
photographs so that we have them in the
same exact position.
| | 03:08 |
And really, without the guides, this type
of alignment would be near impossible.
| | 03:13 |
All right.
Well, there you have a few features that
| | 03:15 |
you can take advantage of when you're
working with this.
| | 03:17 |
You can access those by navigating to the
View menu, and then Loop Overlay.
| | 03:23 |
And here we can work with Grids or Guides.
You can actually also turn both of those
| | 03:27 |
options on at once, if you like.
Here you can see I have both of those on.
| | 03:32 |
And then you can always turn the
visibility of them off, either by clicking
| | 03:35 |
on the option for which one you want to
turn off.
| | 03:38 |
Or you can click on this menu item here
which will show or hide the grids and the guides.
| | 03:44 |
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| Using Develop presets to process images| 00:00 |
In the next few movies, I want to take a
look at how we can take advantage of the
| | 00:03 |
develop settings options that we have when
we're working with tethered capture.
| | 00:08 |
First, I'll go ahead and press the capture
button because I've set another one of my
| | 00:12 |
old cameras on the chair behind me, just
so that we can look at how this image will
| | 00:15 |
appear without any develop settings
applied.
| | 00:19 |
You know, because we're working with
Lightroom One of the things that we can do
| | 00:22 |
is we can take advantage of develop
settings preset.
| | 00:26 |
You can do so by simply clicking on this
pull down menu here.
| | 00:29 |
We have presets for black and white, color
presets, general effects or we can just
| | 00:32 |
use some general presets.
For example, we could say, well what about
| | 00:36 |
if we were to add a little bit of punch to
this?
| | 00:39 |
Well in doing this, when we press the
capture button what this will do, is it
| | 00:43 |
will then create an image, bring it in,
and it will bring it in with a little bit
| | 00:46 |
of a contrast.
We'll be able to compare these two results
| | 00:50 |
by clicking back and forth between these
photographs.
| | 00:53 |
And sometimes this can be helpful
especially if there's a client watching
| | 00:57 |
the monitor.
We all know that raw images, well they're
| | 01:00 |
a little bit lacking, like with this
photograph here.
| | 01:04 |
Perhaps if I zoom in on it.
Here I'll just zoom in on it into a one to
| | 01:07 |
four perspective.
You can see that we have some good detail
| | 01:10 |
there and it looks okay, but then this
image it just has that little extra punch
| | 01:14 |
or snap to it.
And so what you might want to do is take
| | 01:19 |
advantage of using some of these develop
settings pre-sets.
| | 01:23 |
You know we can also process an image and
then we can apply the previous settings as well.
| | 01:29 |
We can do this here in Quick Develop in
the Library module, or in the Develop
| | 01:32 |
module as well.
To keep things simple, I'm going to go to
| | 01:36 |
Quick Develop.
And with Quick Develop, what I want to do
| | 01:39 |
is increase my contrast here a little bit
more.
| | 01:42 |
I'll go ahead and click on this a few
times to add the contrast, to increase the contrast.
| | 01:46 |
I also want to cool off the overall color
temperature.
| | 01:49 |
So here I'm going to change that.
I'm just going to do this, so that we have
| | 01:52 |
something a little bit different.
And I'll just click through a few of these buttons.
| | 01:56 |
Contrast, maybe a touch of clarity as
well.
| | 01:58 |
Just to illustrate that we can process our
images in some different ways.
| | 02:02 |
Now, once you've processed your photograph
in a certain way.
| | 02:06 |
Either, with Quick Develop, or with a
develop module.
| | 02:09 |
What you might want to do is rather than
using a develop setting preset, you may
| | 02:13 |
want to use the option which is same as
previous.
| | 02:17 |
In other words, after you've dialed in the
look that you're interested in, go ahead
| | 02:21 |
and choose same as previous.
Now, every time that you click that
| | 02:24 |
capture button or press the shutter
release button, what this will do is it
| | 02:27 |
will trigger the photograph, bring it in,
and it will then process the image with
| | 02:31 |
all of those settings applied.
Here we'll see in this next photograph
| | 02:36 |
this is the original file, now its loading
or processing the image with those settings.
| | 02:41 |
And you can see that this image now looks
identical to the previous photograph.
| | 02:46 |
In this way what we can start to do is we
can start to process these photographs a
| | 02:49 |
little bit, so that they already have a
touch of the look that we want and again
| | 02:52 |
this can be helpful to help us to envision
how the photograph may appear.
| | 02:58 |
It also can be especially helpful when
there's a client looking over your
| | 03:01 |
shoulder trying to evaluate the
photographs.
| | 03:05 |
And this is especially helpful if you're
photographing people, so you can get the
| | 03:08 |
skin tones, and the color, and the look to
appear exactly how you want it.
| | 03:13 |
Another great thing about this, of course,
is you can always go back and change these
| | 03:16 |
settings later.
So we could open this image up in the
| | 03:19 |
develop module and reset it or reprocess
it.
| | 03:22 |
So, we have flexibility, it's just that
this particular feature here helps us to
| | 03:26 |
begin our overall workflow and also to see
how our images might appear with various
| | 03:31 |
develop settings applied.
| | 03:34 |
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| Creating color-correct photographs| 00:00 |
Next, I want to take a look at how we can
take advantage of Lightroom's ability to
| | 00:03 |
color correct our photographs.
And this is especially helpful when it
| | 00:08 |
comes to working with Tethered Capture.
So, here, I'm going to go ahead and choose
| | 00:12 |
my Develop Settings as None, and then I'll
click the Capture button in order to
| | 00:15 |
capture a photograph.
And what I want to do here is see how the
| | 00:19 |
photograph appears without any adjustments
applied to it in Lightroom at all.
| | 00:23 |
This will bring up the photograph.
And one of the things that we'll see here,
| | 00:27 |
is that the image has just a slight warmth
to it.
| | 00:30 |
So, what I want to do is set something up
in my frame.
| | 00:33 |
In this case, I'm going to use what's
called the Color Checker Passport.
| | 00:37 |
It's a device which allows you to capture
an image and then color correct based on
| | 00:41 |
this photograph.
You'll see what I mean in just a second.
| | 00:44 |
Let me go ahead and set this item down in
front of the camera.
| | 00:47 |
Alright.
Well, now that I've set that down there,
| | 00:49 |
I'm going to go ahead and trigger the
capture in order to try to capture a frame
| | 00:52 |
with this included.
And often what you can do, is include
| | 00:56 |
something which you know has some sort of
neutrality to it.
| | 01:00 |
In this case, let me zoom out a little bit
so, you can see all of this.
| | 01:03 |
Here you can see the Color Checker
Passport, again, it's just sitting right
| | 01:06 |
in front of the camera.
And what you can do is you can then color
| | 01:10 |
correct your images based on this.
To do this, I'm going to navigate to the
| | 01:14 |
Develop module.
Now, I know we haven't covered much of the
| | 01:17 |
Develop module yet, but what I do want to
highlight here is that in the Develop
| | 01:20 |
module, you can use your White Balance
tool which is this eyedropper, and you can
| | 01:24 |
click on something that you know should be
neutral.
| | 01:28 |
In this case, we can click on one of the
swatches here.
| | 01:31 |
And what it will do is it will slightly
modify the color in the photograph.
| | 01:35 |
In this case, you can see that it made a
slight correction to the overall color.
| | 01:39 |
If we look at the before and after, here's
the before and after, it may be difficult
| | 01:43 |
to see.
Let me zoom in a little bit on the
| | 01:45 |
photograph, perhaps even further to a
one-to-one perspective, to one of these
| | 01:49 |
areas where we have some gray.
Here you can see again, the image has a
| | 01:53 |
little bit of yellow or red to it, and
then that's without that, this is with the correction.
| | 01:59 |
Sometimes what you'll have is a color cast
which is really dramatic.
| | 02:03 |
In the area where I'm sitting I have white
balance lights which are neutral lights.
| | 02:08 |
So, there isn't much of a color cast, yet
there's still is a little bit.
| | 02:11 |
Well, what you can do is you can use
something like this.
| | 02:15 |
And this device, it is pretty affordable,
it's something that I use all the time
| | 02:18 |
when I'm capturing images, especially with
Tethered Capture.
| | 02:23 |
Again, it's called the Xrite ColorChecker
Passport.
| | 02:25 |
Then after you have used that device to
create a White Balanced setting, what you
| | 02:29 |
do is you then capture another photograph,
but the next photograph you use Same As Previous.
| | 02:36 |
When you do this, of course, you'll
want to remove that color checker chart.
| | 02:40 |
So, I'm going to go ahead and do that now.
Alright.
| | 02:42 |
Well I pulled that ColorChecker chart out
of the way, I'll go ahead and capture
| | 02:45 |
another frame.
And what this will allow me to do is to
| | 02:48 |
capture an image which is now color
correct.
| | 02:52 |
And in a sense, what we can do now is
really begin the task of shooting.
| | 02:56 |
And you know, this is so important when
you're in the studio, because you never
| | 03:00 |
know what's going to happen in regards to
your overall color.
| | 03:04 |
For example, if there's a color shift, and
it's always better to correct that at the
| | 03:07 |
beginning of a shoot, rather than after
the fact.
| | 03:11 |
And by using this technique here, we can
take advantage of that.
| | 03:14 |
We can use that Same As Previous setting,
which in turn will apply a color
| | 03:18 |
correction to this image, so that now we
can just keep shooting.
| | 03:22 |
And we can shoot whatever we want.
As long as we use the Same As Previous
| | 03:26 |
setting, this will then apply that White
Balance correction to all of the other
| | 03:30 |
photographs that we then capture.
| | 03:34 |
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|
5. Working with CatalogsCatalogs are the backbone of Lightroom| 00:00 |
One of the reasons why Lightroom is a such
a powerful and widely used application, is
| | 00:04 |
because of the Lightroom catalog.
And having a better understanding of what
| | 00:09 |
this catalog is and why it matters, can
help you to more effectively harness the
| | 00:13 |
power and the features of Lightroom.
So, here, in the next few movies, we'll
| | 00:18 |
talk a little bit about these Lightoom
Catalog files.
| | 00:21 |
You know, when you import a photograph
into Lightroom, one of the things that
| | 00:24 |
Lightroom does is it generates a preview,
so that you can quickly and easily start
| | 00:27 |
to work on the photograph.
It also remembers those previews, so that
| | 00:32 |
when you revisit a photograph, it doesn't
have to redraw the preview.
| | 00:36 |
Lightroom also tracks the location.
It remembers where the file is located on
| | 00:41 |
a particular folder or in a specific hard
drive.
| | 00:45 |
Then as you begin to work in Lightroom,
for example, you're in the Library module,
| | 00:48 |
let's say that you add a key word.
Here I'll go ahead and add one more
| | 00:52 |
keyword by simply typing out the word
surfer, and then press Enter or Return.
| | 00:57 |
Well, you'll notice that it will add that
key word to this photograph, yet you don't
| | 01:00 |
need to save the file.
All of what you do inside of Lightroom is
| | 01:04 |
saved automatically behind the scenes.
This is true as well, if we navigate to
| | 01:09 |
other modules.
For example, here I'll navigate to the
| | 01:12 |
Develop module.
The Develop module is where we can go in
| | 01:14 |
order to make some powerful corrections
and enhancements to our photographs.
| | 01:19 |
Here I'll work in the Basic panel just to
illustrate a point.
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In this case, I'm going to desaturate the
photograph, and then increase my overall exposure.
| | 01:28 |
Now again, when you make these
adjustments, there's no need to save the
| | 01:31 |
file because all of this is saved behind
the scenes.
| | 01:35 |
And all of this, it's saved in the
catalog.
| | 01:38 |
So, as you can see, the catalog file is
indeed an important flie.
| | 01:42 |
Alright.
Well, let's take a deeper look at where
| | 01:44 |
the Catalog files reside and also why
they're important.
| | 01:48 |
To do that, we'll begin here in Lightroom.
On Mac, go ahead and navigate to the
| | 01:52 |
Lightroom pull-down menu, then choose
Catalog Settings.
| | 01:55 |
On Windows, you can find the same menu
item underneath the Edit pull-down menu.
| | 02:01 |
Well, either way, in the Catalog Settings
panel click on the General tab.
| | 02:05 |
Here we have some information about the
catalog.
| | 02:08 |
And if we click on Show, this will show us
the location on our hard drive where these
| | 02:12 |
Catalog files reside.
Here, we have the Catalog file itself, and
| | 02:17 |
then also a few preview documents.
These two documents below are telling us
| | 02:22 |
that this particular catalog is in use,
so, it's locked down so that we don't
| | 02:25 |
inadvertently delete it or change it while
this catalog is being used.
| | 02:31 |
Alright.
Well, in order to really focus in on what
| | 02:34 |
the catalog is, what I want to do next is
open up a document where I have a few
| | 02:37 |
slides which will help us begin to answer
the question, what is a catalog and why
| | 02:40 |
does it matter.
Well, as we've already started to discuss,
| | 02:45 |
the catalog files are made up of the
catalog and also these previewed documents.
| | 02:50 |
And in a sense, it's these documents which
are the engine, which really drive and run Lightroom.
| | 02:56 |
They allow Lightroom to to track the
location and the processing of the files.
| | 03:00 |
The catalog really, it's a database, and
it's a database which contains some pretty
| | 03:04 |
valuable information.
Here you can see, these files contain
| | 03:08 |
preview information, metadata, ratings,
keywords, file location, collection info,
| | 03:12 |
and develop settings.
So, much of the work that we do on our
| | 03:16 |
photographs in Lightroom, well, it's all
saved to the catalog.
| | 03:21 |
And here in lies why the catalog is so
valuable.
| | 03:24 |
It allows us to work with more
flexibility.
| | 03:26 |
It allows us to work quickly.
Because all of these settings are saved in
| | 03:30 |
one central location.
Lightroom also remembers everything that
| | 03:34 |
we've done.
And ultimately, this helps us to achieve
| | 03:37 |
even better results.
Alright.
| | 03:39 |
Well, now that we've been introduced to
this whole topic of what a Lightroom
| | 03:42 |
catalog is, then let's continue this
conversation in the next movie.
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| Explaining catalogs by way of a comparison| 00:00 |
Now that we're starting to develop a
better understanding of how the Lightroom
| | 00:03 |
catalog files actually work and why
they're important.
| | 00:07 |
What I wanted to do next, is to revisit
this topic in order to continue the
| | 00:10 |
conversation, so that we understand this
in even better ways.
| | 00:14 |
And sometimes the whole idea of a catalog
can be a bit vague or abstract.
| | 00:19 |
So what I want to try to do is to compare
it to something which is a bit more concrete.
| | 00:24 |
Here I'm going to make a comparison of
working with our photographs to working
| | 00:27 |
with bikes and owning a bike shop.
Well, let's say that you have a bike shop
| | 00:32 |
and you only have four bikes that you're
selling.
| | 00:35 |
Well, in a situation like this, you could
use a tool like Adobe bridge in order to
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manage and access those bikes.
In other words, if you have a low volume
| | 00:43 |
of photographs or bikes, you only need a
tool which allows you to work with those
| | 00:46 |
or to access those in a pretty simple and
straightforward way.
| | 00:51 |
Yeah, let's say that all of the sudden
your bike business is booming.
| | 00:56 |
And now you have a show room and you have
couple of warehouses full of bikes or
| | 00:59 |
maybe you have A couple of hard drives
full of photographs.
| | 01:03 |
Well in a situation like this, this is
where Lightroom really comes into play.
| | 01:07 |
Lightroom steps in and what it does is it
generates a catalog.
| | 01:12 |
It makes sense of the madness.
It then helps us to organize and access
| | 01:15 |
all of these files.
And here, we're starting to encounter that
| | 01:19 |
what Lightroom does well is it does well
in working on a lot of photographs.
| | 01:24 |
Or it helps us in this case to work with a
lot of bikes.
| | 01:28 |
And Lightroom's able to organize all of
this in a unique way.
| | 01:30 |
So that if we walk into the warehouse,
well Lightroom remembers exactly where
| | 01:34 |
each and every bike is.
It also remembers how that bike appears.
| | 01:38 |
In this way, it really speeds up our
workflow.
| | 01:41 |
And it's that catalog file which contains
all of this information about the
| | 01:44 |
filename, where that file resides, the
metadata, the ratings, the labels, the
| | 01:47 |
flags, the previews, the develop
settings,et cetera.
| | 01:51 |
Again it's Lightroom which helps us to
make sense of this madness and somehow to
| | 01:55 |
be able to access it in a more organized
and sane way.
| | 02:00 |
And the catalog really is the engine which
allows for all of this to take place.
| | 02:05 |
And as we start to work in Lightroom we
just need to keep in mind that a lot of
| | 02:08 |
the work that we're doing well that's
saved in the catalog.
| | 02:13 |
And because of that, we want to become
farmiliar with what this catalog file is.
| | 02:18 |
We also want to start to look at how we
can back up this catalog so that we can
| | 02:22 |
protect all of this valuble information.
Alright, now that we've had our
| | 02:27 |
conversation about what the catalog is and
why it matters, let's dig deeper to
| | 02:30 |
working with these catalogs in Lightroom,
and let's do that in the next few movies.
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| Optimizing and backing up catalogs| 00:00 |
In one of the previous movies in this
chapter, I compared the Lightroom catalog
| | 00:04 |
files to the engine of a car.
And one of the tricks of driving a car is
| | 00:08 |
that you know that the engine is there,
yet it's easy to neglect.
| | 00:13 |
Well that's what happened to my mom when I
was a kid.
| | 00:15 |
She forgot to take her car into the shop,
and she neglected to have the oil change
| | 00:19 |
until the oil had completely run out.
I'll never forget the day when we were
| | 00:25 |
driving to swim team practice and all of
the sudden, these white billowing clouds,
| | 00:29 |
came out of the back of the car and
eventually the engine died.
| | 00:34 |
Well, my dad wasn't very happy to say the
least.
| | 00:37 |
And you know the same thing can happen
with our Lightroom catalog files.
| | 00:40 |
Well, we know that they're there.
We know that they're important yet we can
| | 00:43 |
neglect to really save or back up or
optimize those files.
| | 00:48 |
Well, fortunately, there are some built in
features which can allow us to do this.
| | 00:52 |
As we've discovered in this chapter, the
Lightroom catalog files are really important.
| | 00:57 |
So let's take a look at how we can back up
those files.
| | 01:00 |
If you're on a Mac, navigate to the
Lightroom pull down menu, on Windows,
| | 01:03 |
navigate to the Edit pull-down menu.
And then select Catalog settings.
| | 01:09 |
Click on the General tab, and here we
want to look at our backup catalog options.
| | 01:13 |
By default, Lightroom is set to backup
this catalog once a week when we exit Lightroom.
| | 01:20 |
What I recommend you do is that you
ratchet that up a little bit so that
| | 01:23 |
happens more frequently because the
catalog is a really important thing.
| | 01:27 |
Choose this option, or at least that's
what I do in my own workflow, every time
| | 01:31 |
Lightroom exits.
And this way, every time you quit
| | 01:34 |
Lightroom, it'll give you the option to
tune up or optimize a catalog, to test its
| | 01:38 |
integrity, and also to back it up.
All right, well after having dialed in
| | 01:43 |
that catalog setting, let's go ahead and
close this.
| | 01:47 |
And next, let's quit Lightroom.
To do so, click on the Lightroom pull-down
| | 01:50 |
menu, and choose Quit Lightroom.
When you do that, the backup catalog
| | 01:54 |
dialogue will appear.
This will give us a really important option.
| | 01:59 |
The first one is the backup folder.
In other words, where do you want to save
| | 02:03 |
the backup?
By default, it saves the backup in the
| | 02:07 |
same exact location as the catalog file.
You know.
| | 02:11 |
That's kind of like going on a trip, and
having a passport and a photocopy of your
| | 02:14 |
passport, in case you lose it.
Inputing the original passport, and
| | 02:19 |
photocopy, in the same pocket in your
jacket.
| | 02:23 |
If you lose one of those documents,
there's a good chance you'll actually lose both.
| | 02:27 |
So what you want to do is choose a
different location.
| | 02:31 |
You can do so by clicking on this icon
here.
| | 02:33 |
I'm just going to select the desktop for
demo purposes.
| | 02:36 |
You may want to choose an external hard
drive.
| | 02:39 |
That would be ideal so that you can then
save the backup to a different location.
| | 02:43 |
You also want to make sure to test the
integrity of the file and optimize the catalog.
| | 02:48 |
In a sense, this is kind of like giving
the engine a good old tune up, alright?
| | 02:53 |
Well after you've done that go ahead and
click backup, when you do that it will
| | 02:56 |
test the integrity of the catalog it will
optimize it and it will back it up to
| | 02:59 |
whatever location you define.
Well in this case you an see here I am
| | 03:05 |
back to the desktop, I have my original
catalog with all of the previews.
| | 03:10 |
In the catalog file.
And then I have the backup which was just
| | 03:13 |
created or saved to the Desktop.
Now, if we double-click to open up this
| | 03:17 |
file, what we'll encounter is that in this
file, or in this folder I should say, we
| | 03:21 |
only have a duplicate version of the
Lightroom catalog.
| | 03:26 |
Well there it is, the exact same file we
just duplicated or copied to another location.
| | 03:31 |
And this is great right?
Because, we could have this on another
| | 03:34 |
external hard drive, so that we would have
a backup or safety net here, of our catalog.
| | 03:39 |
Yet one of the downsides, is it doesn't
automatically back up our previews or
| | 03:43 |
smart previews.
And those are actually pretty important,
| | 03:47 |
because those allow us to work really
quickly in Lightroom.
| | 03:50 |
So, what I like to do with my back up
files, is to go to the original location,
| | 03:53 |
where the original file is, hold down the
Shift key and select both of the previews,
| | 03:57 |
previews and smart previews, if you're
using those.
| | 04:02 |
Then, navigate to your Edit pull down
menu, choose Copy 2 Items.
| | 04:07 |
Then navigate to where you have the backup
over here and choose edit and past to items.
| | 04:13 |
And this way you'll have a more well
rounded backup, which not only backs up
| | 04:16 |
the catalog but also the previews.
And, you know, in my mind I think of it as
| | 04:21 |
the overall catalog files.
It isn't just a catalog.
| | 04:25 |
Rather, it's a catalog in its neighboring
preview files, which really allow us to
| | 04:29 |
work well here in light room.
And by making sure that you do this, and
| | 04:33 |
do this frequently, well this will ensure
that you won't have any trouble at all
| | 04:36 |
with those catalog files, you won't have
any engine trouble.
| | 04:41 |
And things will run smoothly for you as
you start to work in light room.
| | 04:45 |
Now, last but not least, as you create a
lot of these back ups let's say you create
| | 04:48 |
one today and then the next day and the
next day and the next day.
| | 04:53 |
Well eventually what you can do is you can
get rid of those older backups so you just
| | 04:56 |
want to make sure that your managing those
backups because they will increase in file
| | 05:00 |
size as you generate a lot of those
backups.
| | 05:04 |
Alright.
Well there you have it.
| | 05:06 |
A safe and effective way to start to
optimize and to back-up your catalog files
| | 05:10 |
by taking advantage of that feature which
allows you to do so every time you exit Lightroom.
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| Importing and updating legacy catalogs| 00:00 |
As you start to work in Lightroom, one of
the things that you might need to do is to
| | 00:03 |
combine multiple catalogs together.
And so here, I want to take a look at how
| | 00:08 |
we can do that.
We'll also talk about how we can update
| | 00:11 |
legacy catalogs.
So, first I'm going to minimize the
| | 00:15 |
Lightroom interface.
In doing that will help us to view a
| | 00:18 |
folder here where I have an older catalog.
This is a catalog which I worked on in a
| | 00:23 |
previous version of Lightroom.
So, what I need to do is to update this
| | 00:27 |
catalog and I also want to import the
catalog and everything that I've done to
| | 00:30 |
these images into the catalog that we have
here.
| | 00:34 |
Now, whenever you import two catalogs
together, in a sense what you're doing is
| | 00:38 |
you're taking two distinct catalogs and
making them one.
| | 00:42 |
And ideally that's what you want to do.
Ideally you only want to have one catalog
| | 00:46 |
in Lightroom.
Alright, well here, let's look at how we
| | 00:49 |
can do this.
I also should mention too that we don't
| | 00:52 |
want to import the images by themselves
because if we did that we'd lose all of
| | 00:56 |
our work on those photographs.
That's why we're importing them as a catalog.
| | 01:01 |
Alright, we're here, we'll go back to
Lightroom.
| | 01:04 |
Click on this icon to expand this view and
then navigate to the File Pull down menu.
| | 01:09 |
The option that you're looking for is
Import from Another Catalog.
| | 01:13 |
In doing this, again, it will merge these
two catalogs together.
| | 01:16 |
So, let's select that option.
Then we can navigate to the folder where
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this catalog resides.
In this case, it's inside of a folder,
| | 01:23 |
which is called People Pictures.
And these are some photographs that I'd
| | 01:27 |
worked on for one of by book products,
which was called People Pictures.
| | 01:30 |
Alright, we're here, simply select the
catalog file, the DOT-LR-CAT file, then
| | 01:35 |
click Choose.
In doing that, it will bring up a dialog.
| | 01:40 |
And in this case, this dialog is telling
me that this particular catalog, it needs
| | 01:43 |
to be upgraded.
Before it can be imported and worked with
| | 01:47 |
in Lightroom5 because this was from a
previously or a legacy version of Lightroom.
| | 01:53 |
So, in this case, Lightroom will upgrade
the catalog in the background, and then
| | 01:57 |
resume the import after that's been
complete.
| | 02:00 |
Well, I need to decide what to do with the
upgraded catalog.
| | 02:03 |
Do I want to save it, or do I want to
discard this after import?
| | 02:07 |
In this case, I'll select to Save It, and
you can see here, it's going to be saved
| | 02:10 |
to the particular location where this
catalog file lives.
| | 02:14 |
Here, we'll go ahead and click on Start
Background Upgrade.
| | 02:17 |
And this will happen whenever you open up
a catalog, which is from a previous
| | 02:20 |
version of Lightroom.
After it's upgraded that, it will then
| | 02:25 |
bring me to the import dialogue, and here
it'll ask well, how do you want to deal
| | 02:28 |
with these particular photographs?
Here I can add the photos to the catalog
| | 02:33 |
without moving so that they'll stay in
their same location.
| | 02:37 |
Sometimes that's helpful if you have a lot
of files on a certain hard drive and you
| | 02:40 |
don't want to move those files to a new
hard drive, we'll just use this option here.
| | 02:46 |
On the other hand, because I want these
files to be part of our exercise files,
| | 02:50 |
I'm going to copy them to a new location.
So here, I'll go ahead and select that
| | 02:55 |
option, and then click Choose.
This will give me the ability to navigate
| | 02:58 |
me onto the area where I have the Exercise
Files, these Photos.
| | 03:03 |
And then the People photographs.
So.
| | 03:04 |
I'll select that folder, and then click
Choose.
| | 03:07 |
Again, most importantly, just choose the
location where you want your photographs
| | 03:11 |
to be.
In my case I want them as part of our
| | 03:14 |
exercise files so I quickly navigated to
that little location.
| | 03:19 |
Alright, well, in this dialogue you can
show the preview if you want, click on
| | 03:22 |
this check box, the two photographs that
we'll be importing from that book project.
| | 03:27 |
After we selected the location and how we
want to handle those photos simply click Import.
| | 03:33 |
What will happen here is it will bring in
those photographs.
| | 03:36 |
And any settings that we apply to those
images in a previous version of Lightroom.
| | 03:41 |
Here, I'll go ahead and increase the
thumbnail size.
| | 03:43 |
And I'll do so by dragging the thumbnail
slider, or you can always click on the
| | 03:47 |
Loop view so that you have a larger
preview of these two images.
| | 03:51 |
Alright, well, here you can see we have
now successfully upgraded a previous
| | 03:55 |
catalog version, we have also imported as
cataloged and when you choose that option
| | 03:59 |
by going to File and selecting Import from
Another Catalog.
| | 04:05 |
What that in turn does is it takes those
two catalogs and now makes them one.
| | 04:10 |
And why this is important is if we were to
minimize Lightroom for a moment.
| | 04:14 |
And here, I'll do this by clicking on this
icon here.
| | 04:17 |
We can now disregard or discard all that
we've done here.
| | 04:21 |
In a sense, this is just back-up.
Because the new catalog is now part of
| | 04:26 |
what I'm doing here.
That's my Lightroom5 catalog.
| | 04:29 |
And these images have also been copied
over to a new location.
| | 04:33 |
So here, we have the older version over
there.
| | 04:35 |
I don't necessarily need to do anything
with that.
| | 04:38 |
And for that matter, we could delete those
files if we wanted to.
| | 04:41 |
Alright well there you have it.
There's a technique that you can use which
| | 04:45 |
allows you to combine multiple catalogs
together and also, which highlights how
| | 04:49 |
you can upgrade older legacy version
catalogs.
| | 04:53 |
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| Exporting a catalog| 00:00 |
In this movie let's take a look at how we
can select photographs and then export
| | 00:04 |
those photographs as a stand alone
catalog.
| | 00:07 |
Now you may want to do this for example if
you have a really large catalog, and let's
| | 00:11 |
say you just want to select a folder of
images and then bring those images and all
| | 00:14 |
of the catalog settings with you when you
go on a trip.
| | 00:19 |
Or maybe you want to export these images
here.
| | 00:21 |
These six photographs, which I captured
this morning.
| | 00:24 |
I want to export them as a catalog so I
can pass them off to my assistant.
| | 00:28 |
He can then add some key words, he could
build a book, make some prints, etcetera.
| | 00:32 |
So, in this way what you want to do first,
is select the photographs that you want to export.
| | 00:37 |
Here I'll click on the first image, hold
down the shift key, then click on the last photograph.
| | 00:42 |
Next, we'll navigate to the file pull down
menu and here choose export as catalog.
| | 00:47 |
When you click on this option, it will
open up a dialog which will allow us to
| | 00:50 |
save this to a particular location.
Well, on my desktop, I have a folder which
| | 00:55 |
is titled SeaVees, which is the client
name.
| | 00:58 |
I'll go ahead and name the catalog the
same name as well.
| | 01:01 |
When we export these catalog, it will
include or copy these files to this new location.
| | 01:06 |
It will export the negative or original
files.
| | 01:09 |
It will include smart previews and
available previews.
| | 01:12 |
Next simply click export catalog.
Now what Lightroom will do is it will
| | 01:16 |
generate or create a new catalog.
It will copy all of these files over to
| | 01:20 |
this new location, so that this is now a
standalone, free-standing catalog with all
| | 01:23 |
of the settings which we've applied here
in Lightroom, alright.
| | 01:29 |
Well, let's hide Lightroom for a moment.
To do that, press Command-H on a Mac or
| | 01:33 |
Control-H on Windows.
Now here on the desktop, you can see that
| | 01:37 |
I have this folder, CVs.
And here's the catalog that it's created.
| | 01:41 |
You can see we have the catalog file, and
all of the previews as well, as well as
| | 01:44 |
the folder structure.
In this case, I'll drill down to these
| | 01:48 |
folders until we get to this folder here,
where we will encounter the various
| | 01:52 |
photographs which we included in this
export.
| | 01:56 |
And so in this way you can see that it's
maintaining all of this information.
| | 02:00 |
And all of the processing that we've done
on these photographs.
| | 02:03 |
I could then have my assistant work on
these images.
| | 02:06 |
Or I can work on them, for example on a
trip.
| | 02:08 |
And then I could come back and re-import
this as a catalog, in order to sink up all
| | 02:12 |
of those settings across these files.
Yet, either way, we are starting to see
| | 02:17 |
how we can now export select files as a
catalog, and by doing that, that allows us
| | 02:20 |
to then have a freestanding catalog which
just contains the relevant information to
| | 02:24 |
the photographs which we've selected.
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6. The Essentials of the Library ModuleWorking in the Grid and Loupe view| 00:00 |
Let's look at how we can change or
customize the view of our photographs in
| | 00:03 |
the Library module.
Here we'll start with a bit of a review,
| | 00:07 |
talking about how we can use the Loop and
the Grid view.
| | 00:10 |
And also sneak in a few tips and tricks
which will help you out as you start to
| | 00:13 |
work with the Library module.
Alright, well here you can see I've
| | 00:17 |
selected a folder of images.
It's titled Wedding, and we have five
| | 00:21 |
photographs in it.
I'm currently viewing this image in what's
| | 00:25 |
called the Loop view.
To change the view, you can click on these
| | 00:28 |
icons right here.
Click on the Grid icon in order to view
| | 00:31 |
the images as small thumbnails, and then
click on the loop view in order to get up
| | 00:35 |
close and have a nice big view of the
photograph.
| | 00:40 |
Now you can change between the Loop and
the Grid view by obviously clicking on the
| | 00:43 |
icons as I've just done.
Yet there are a few other helpful
| | 00:47 |
shortcuts which you might want to consider
using.
| | 00:50 |
The first few shortcuts that I want to
highlight are the G and the E key.
| | 00:54 |
You press the G key to navigate to the
Grid view.
| | 00:56 |
Press the E key to navigate to the Loop
view.
| | 01:00 |
So in this way we can press G or E to
navigate back and forth between these two
| | 01:03 |
different views.
Well now that I'm in this Grid view, these
| | 01:07 |
thumbnails are small so I want to use the
thumbnail slider to increase their size.
| | 01:12 |
If this slider isn't visible.
Click on this triangle icon in the
| | 01:16 |
toolbar, and you can select to show or
hide various options or tools here.
| | 01:20 |
We're going to turn on the option to
change the Thumbnail Size, so go ahead and
| | 01:23 |
click and drag this to the right to
increase the size.
| | 01:27 |
Well, now that these thumbnails are
larger, we need to use the scroll bar to
| | 01:30 |
scroll up and down to view all of the
photographs.
| | 01:34 |
Or, If you have a three-button mouse, you
can always use that third button, the
| | 01:37 |
mouse wheel there, in order to scroll up
and down.
| | 01:42 |
Alright, well let's go ahead and decrease
the thumbnail size, just so we can see the
| | 01:45 |
difference between Grid and Loop.
Well so far, we've talked about how we can
| | 01:50 |
click on these icons to change the view.
I mentioned how you can use the G key or
| | 01:55 |
the E key.
And another way that you can zoom in and
| | 01:58 |
zoom out, so to speak, is by
double-clicking on the image.
| | 02:01 |
If we double-click on the image here, it
will take it to the Loop view.
| | 02:05 |
Double-click again, and it will bring it
back to the Grid view.
| | 02:08 |
We can also double-click on the thumbnail
which is located in the film strip.
| | 02:13 |
Here, I'll select an image to work on,
double-click it, and you can see that it
| | 02:17 |
navigates to what's called the Loop view.
Alright, well there you have it.
| | 02:22 |
A number of different techniques that you
can use to change your view in the Library module.
| | 02:26 |
Keep in mind that while I showed you a
handful of techniques, you don't
| | 02:29 |
necessarily need to use them all.
I simply wanted to show you a few
| | 02:32 |
different options that you have there.
So that you can choose the method which
| | 02:36 |
best suits your own workflow.
Also, if you don't like shortcuts, that's
| | 02:40 |
totally fine.
You can always click on these icons while
| | 02:43 |
you're learning those shortcuts.
Yet eventually I'm guessing that you'll
| | 02:47 |
want to start to integrate those shortcuts
into your workflow.
| | 02:50 |
So you might as well jot those down,
because those will really help you to save
| | 02:53 |
some time in the long run.
| | 02:56 |
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| Navigating and zooming| 00:00 |
In this movie, I want to build upon what
we talked about in the previous movie.
| | 00:04 |
And that was how we could change the way
we viewed our photographs here in the
| | 00:07 |
Library module.
In particular, let's look at how we can
| | 00:11 |
zoom in close to our photographs using
some Zoom techniques, and also working
| | 00:15 |
with the Navigator panel.
In the Library module, go ahead and open
| | 00:19 |
up the Navigator panel.
You'll find it over there in the upper
| | 00:23 |
left hand corner.
You'll notice that we have a few different
| | 00:26 |
features here which allow us to zoom in
and zoom out in different ways.
| | 00:30 |
Well, first, let's talk about how we can
simply work with the Zoom tool.
| | 00:33 |
If you position your cursor over the
image, you can then click, which in turn
| | 00:36 |
allows you to zoom in.
Click again, and then you can zoom out.
| | 00:41 |
Here you can see, I'm currently zooming
between or toggling between the view of
| | 00:45 |
Fit and a 1:2 zoom rate.
You can change this, perhaps if you
| | 00:49 |
want to zoom in even closer, or if you
want to hold back a little bit.
| | 00:53 |
Here I'll choose 1:3, which will help me
to pull back a little bit to see a bit
| | 00:56 |
more of the photograph.
Now, I can click and drag this around to
| | 00:59 |
view a different part of the image, or we
can also click and drag the photograph around.
| | 01:04 |
Well, now because we're toggling
betweenFfit and 1:3, as we click, you can
| | 01:08 |
see that I can go back and forth between
those different view amounts.
| | 01:13 |
Another way to toggle back and forth
between two different types of views of
| | 01:16 |
our photographs, is to press the Spacebar
key.
| | 01:20 |
Tap the Spacebar key once to zoom in to
that particular zoom rate.
| | 01:23 |
Press the Spacebar key again in order to
zoom out.
| | 01:27 |
Alright.
Well, next, let's go to a higher
| | 01:28 |
resolution file.
Here I'll select this file here.
| | 01:32 |
What I want to do is zoom in all the way.
I want to zoom in 100% in order to analyze
| | 01:36 |
the detail that I have in this photograph,
or maybe the lack of detail, I don't know.
| | 01:42 |
So, here we'll click on this 1:1 Option,
that allows us to zoom in really close.
| | 01:47 |
Well, it's obviously showing me kind of
the wrong area of the image.
| | 01:50 |
What I want to do is actually view an area
above.
| | 01:53 |
We can either click and drag, or we can
click and drag this little rectangle
| | 01:56 |
around in order to view this part of the
photograph.
| | 02:00 |
Well, now that I've selected to zoom into
100% or to have this 1:1 view, when I
| | 02:04 |
click I can zoom out or I can click again
in order to zoom into that rate.
| | 02:10 |
Notice that it's now toggeling back and
forth between these two Options here in
| | 02:14 |
the Navigator panel.
Now, let's go ahead and click to zoom out,
| | 02:18 |
and then I want to zoom in on the subjects
face.
| | 02:20 |
Re-position the cursor over that area and
click to zoom in on that area.
| | 02:24 |
So, wherever you click, it will then
recenter that image on that area, so, you
| | 02:28 |
can focus in on those details.
If we want to take a look at these shoes
| | 02:32 |
above, we can click on that area and zoom
in to see the detail that we have there.
| | 02:38 |
Again, when we tap the Spacebar key, now
that will also toggle back and forth
| | 02:41 |
between these two Options because we've
clicked in to those Options.
| | 02:45 |
And you can see how that helps us to get
up close, and to also zoom out really quickly.
| | 02:50 |
Alright.
Well, last but not least, you may have
| | 02:53 |
noticed that there is a Zoom slider which
you can access in the toolbar.
| | 02:57 |
If this isn't visible, click on the
triangle icon.
| | 03:00 |
And in this Pull-down menu, you can choose
to Show or Hide this Option.
| | 03:04 |
Sometimes it's kind of handy to have that
there, because this allows you to zoom in here.
| | 03:08 |
I'll just click and drag this slider to
zoom in a little bit.
| | 03:12 |
Next, I'll let go and then click to
reposition this.
| | 03:15 |
In this way, we can zoom into different
rates and you can see how we can customize
| | 03:19 |
that by simply dragging that slider and
zooming in or zooming out.
| | 03:23 |
Alright.
Well, there you have it.
| | 03:25 |
A few different techniques that you can
use in order to zoom in and zoom out on
| | 03:28 |
your photographs.
You can either use the Zoom tool, the
| | 03:31 |
Spacebar key, work with the custom
controls that we have here in the
| | 03:34 |
Navigator panel.
Or of course, you can also work with the
| | 03:38 |
Zoom slider which we have access to in the
toolbar.
| | 03:42 |
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| Customizing the Loupe Overlay and Grid views| 00:00 |
Another way that you can work with the
grid in the loop used in the library
| | 00:03 |
module is by customizing the information
which is surrounding the thumbnail or
| | 00:07 |
which is an overlap on top of the loop
view.
| | 00:12 |
First let's take a look at how we can work
with the loop view.
| | 00:14 |
Because that's a little bit easier to see
and understand.
| | 00:18 |
Here, go ahead and select a photograph and
press the E key to navigate to the loop view.
| | 00:22 |
Next, if you tap the I key on your
keyboard think of I, as information
| | 00:26 |
overlay, you can see that I can display
different information on top of the image.
| | 00:32 |
In this case, it's showing me the file
name and also the lens that was used, the
| | 00:35 |
F stop, the shutter speed, the ISO and all
of that really relevant information.
| | 00:41 |
Tap the I key multiple times and you can
toggle through those different information
| | 00:45 |
overlays until you remove it altogether.
Well you can customize that by navigating
| | 00:50 |
to the View pull-down menu.
Here we want to select View Options.
| | 00:55 |
When we navigate to the Library View
options, you'll notice that there are two buttons.
| | 00:59 |
One for the Grid View.
One for the loop view.
| | 01:02 |
Lets start off with the loop view.
Now in order to see a preview of this.
| | 01:06 |
We can click on this check box and it will
show us the loop info overlay.
| | 01:11 |
In this case which is showing us info too.
That's all of this information down below.
| | 01:16 |
So lets say we want to customize this
further.
| | 01:19 |
Rather than displaying the file name, we
can click on this pull-down menu and we
| | 01:22 |
could choose something else, for example
like Common Attributes.
| | 01:26 |
Here this will show us if this file was
flagged or rated or if it has a label.
| | 01:30 |
And in all of these menus, we can
customize these in order to change
| | 01:33 |
whatever is displayed in this area.
Now if we want to change this to info 1,
| | 01:38 |
we can then select that.
And here we can choose other options for
| | 01:41 |
this one as well.
I'll go ahead and select a different name.
| | 01:45 |
Or select a different option I should say.
The capture date.
| | 01:47 |
You can see how it's displaying that here.
The time of day, and the date that this
| | 01:51 |
image was captured.
If ever you need to reset these values to
| | 01:54 |
their defaults, just click on use
defaults, and it will bring those back to
| | 01:57 |
their default settings.
All right well next, let's look at the
| | 02:01 |
grid view.
If you click on the grid view button, you
| | 02:04 |
notice that it will change the view of
your photographs here in the library module.
| | 02:08 |
Well, in the grid view, we have the
ability to work with what are called
| | 02:11 |
expanded or compact cells.
Let me show you what that looks like.
| | 02:16 |
Here I'll close this dialogue for a
moment.
| | 02:18 |
If you press the J key, that will allow
you to toggle through the different views
| | 02:22 |
that you have here in this particular way.
Here you can see I have different
| | 02:27 |
information surrounding the photograph.
Well, if we want to customize that,
| | 02:31 |
navigate to the View pull-down menu and
choose View Options.
| | 02:35 |
Here we have our grid options.
We can show these extras either in the
| | 02:40 |
expanded or in the compact view.
And in this way, what we can do is we can
| | 02:44 |
really customize what we're seeing here.
For example, we can currently see a
| | 02:48 |
particular file size or the file type, and
we can change that information as well.
| | 02:54 |
But you can see that you can change that
by working with these dialogues here.
| | 02:58 |
In this case for expanded, they're all
located down in this part of the photograph.
| | 03:02 |
So rather than crop dimensions, what I
actually want to see, is I want to see the
| | 03:05 |
megapixels, so I'll make that selection.
That will then update this area of these
| | 03:10 |
extras which are surrounding those
thumbnails.
| | 03:13 |
So here you can click through all of these
various items in order to customize the
| | 03:17 |
expanded view.
To customize the compact view, choose that
| | 03:20 |
option but just make sure you're making
selections right here.
| | 03:24 |
And this way what you can do is you can
show or hide different elements which will
| | 03:28 |
be surrounding or on top of those
thumbnails.
| | 03:31 |
Alright.
Well, last but not least let's review our shortcuts.
| | 03:35 |
Well, to change whats viewed or what's
showing around the thumbnails You press
| | 03:39 |
the J key.
Press the J key multiple times in order to
| | 03:42 |
change that information.
If you change an image view to the loop
| | 03:47 |
view, select a photograph, press the E key
to change the overlay here, press the I key.
| | 03:54 |
That will allow you to toggle through
these different information overlays, in
| | 03:57 |
order to view different options.
If you ever want to customize what's
| | 04:01 |
viewed there, what's shown there, navigate
to the View pull-down menu.
| | 04:05 |
Select View Options, and then here just
navigate to the area, either the Grid View
| | 04:09 |
or the Loop View, and make any needed
changes to these menus.
| | 04:14 |
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| Customizing the Filmstrip view| 00:00 |
Next, let's take a look at how we can
customize the way that the thumbnails
| | 00:03 |
appear in the filmstrip below.
Now, we've already talked about how we can
| | 00:07 |
change the size of the filmstrip, and the
filmstrip thumbnails.
| | 00:10 |
To do that, position your cursor between
the toolbar and the filmstrip area.
| | 00:15 |
Then click and drag up or down in order to
increase or decrease the size of those thumbnails.
| | 00:20 |
I'm going to make the thumbnails really
big, so that we can focus in on some of
| | 00:23 |
the things that we'll notice surrounding
the thumbnail or also on top of the thumbnail.
| | 00:29 |
Next, what I want you to do is to navigate
to the toolbar.
| | 00:31 |
In the toolbar, click on this icon which
opens up a Contextual menu.
| | 00:35 |
This allows you to add things to the
toolbar.
| | 00:38 |
Let's go ahead and add Rating, Star
Rating, and also Colored Labels.
| | 00:42 |
Now, we'll talk more about stars and
labels later, yet for now simply select
| | 00:45 |
the photograph and then click on a Star
Rating.
| | 00:48 |
We'll give this one two stars, we'll also
add a red label.
| | 00:52 |
Now, in doing this, you can see if you
look really closely underneath the
| | 00:55 |
thumbnail here, the two star rating is
showing up below.
| | 00:59 |
Now, the red tint is also showing us that
this particular image has a red label on it.
| | 01:04 |
We can see that red tint up here as well.
Now, we can customize this in the grid if
| | 01:09 |
we navigate to the View Pull down menu.
Then, if you select View Options, one of
| | 01:13 |
the options allows us to tint the grid
cells with a label color.
| | 01:18 |
Here we can turn this on and off by
clicking on this icon.
| | 01:22 |
In doing that, you can see how it turns
off the tint here in this view.
| | 01:25 |
Also, it turns it off in the filmstrip
below.
| | 01:28 |
Yet, we can't really customize this area
any further with this dialog.
| | 01:32 |
To do that, what we need to do is we need
to navigate to the Lightroom Pull down
| | 01:35 |
menu on a Mac.
On Windows navigate to the Edit Pull down
| | 01:39 |
menu and then select Preferences.
In the preferences dialogue you want to
| | 01:44 |
click on the interface tab.
This will take you to the area where you
| | 01:47 |
have some options for the film strip.
Here I'll go ahead and drag this over to
| | 01:51 |
the left so we can focus in on the image
that we have here.
| | 01:55 |
Here if we turn these options off what
you'll encounter is that it will appear a
| | 01:58 |
bit more minimal here removing some of
those overlays or some of the surrounding information.
| | 02:04 |
There's also a really handy option, which
allows you to show your photos in the
| | 02:08 |
navigator in mouseover.
Here, let me leave this preference on and
| | 02:12 |
open up the navigator to show you how this
works.
| | 02:15 |
Currently, as I hover over the different
images in the film strip, well it then
| | 02:18 |
updates the navigator view here.
This can be a handy way to try to find or
| | 02:22 |
select the correct image.
Yet, if you find that distracting, we'll
| | 02:26 |
just navigate back to that preference
area, which is in the interface tab.
| | 02:30 |
And then go ahead and turn off that
option.
| | 02:33 |
In that way, the only image that will
appear in the navigator is the one, which
| | 02:36 |
you've selected.
Last but not least we have the ability to
| | 02:39 |
show photo info tool tips.
This can be helpful because it can give
| | 02:43 |
you some tips about what you can do.
Now, in regards to what you want to have
| | 02:47 |
displayed in this film strip area,
obviously it's completely up to you.
| | 02:51 |
In my own preference for my own workflow
what I like to do is have those thumbnails
| | 02:55 |
pretty small.
So, therefore I don't really want anything
| | 02:58 |
around them or on top of them, because
it's going to be to difficult to see.
| | 03:03 |
Because you know, you can always access
this information other ways.
| | 03:07 |
So again, in my own work flow I turn off
these preferences.
| | 03:10 |
Except I leave on the option for Show
Photo and for Tool Tips.
| | 03:13 |
And I select this one, which shows photos
in the navigator on mouse over.
| | 03:18 |
Alright, we're here, back to the
photograph, let me click on another image.
| | 03:21 |
In doing that you can see that this image
has no stars or no labels.
| | 03:26 |
Now, when we go back to the other
photograph we can see the star rating and
| | 03:28 |
the label or the color label here.
We can also see that if we go to the Loop
| | 03:33 |
view, here in the Loop view you'll notice
that again we have the star rating and
| | 03:36 |
also the colored label.
So, in my opinion, again I prefer to
| | 03:40 |
access and find that information in other
locations.
| | 03:44 |
Yet, in your own workflow, feel free to
choose the preferences, which will work
| | 03:46 |
best for you.
Alright, well, now that I've zoomed in on
| | 03:49 |
those thumbnails down there and made those
bigger, I'm going to go ahead and click
| | 03:52 |
and drag to make those a bit smaller
because that was just for demo purposes.
| | 03:56 |
Alright, well, there you have it.
There are a few techniques that you can
| | 04:00 |
use in order to customize the thumbnails
in the film strip.
| | 04:03 |
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| Comparing two images| 00:00 |
Another helpful feature that you will
encounter in the Library module is the
| | 00:04 |
Compare mode.
This allows you to compare photographs
| | 00:07 |
side by side.
Well, here you can see I've selected the
| | 00:10 |
folder Stephen.
And let's go ahead and select the second
| | 00:13 |
image, and then press the E key or click
on the loop icon.
| | 00:16 |
This will allow us to zoom in on the image
a bit, so, we can actually evaluate it.
| | 00:21 |
Now, if you press the Right Arrow button,
you'll notice that these two images are
| | 00:24 |
very similar.
Often when you're capturing photographs,
| | 00:27 |
you'll have photographs which are similar.
And let's say, you just want to make a
| | 00:30 |
selection out of two or three photographs.
Well, to do that, you want to enter
| | 00:34 |
Compare mode.
You can enter Compare mode by pressing the
| | 00:37 |
C key, think C for compare, or by clicking
on this icon here.
| | 00:42 |
Either way, this will give you access to
this particular mode.
| | 00:45 |
Now, as you start to work with this mode,
you'll find it a little bit awkward, yet,
| | 00:48 |
let me help you to navigate this so that
you can work with this pretty effectively.
| | 00:53 |
Well, first of all, you can see we have
two images, side by side.
| | 00:57 |
On the left we have the select, on the
right we have the candidate.
| | 01:01 |
Now, we can change the candidate.
For example, let's say we want to compare
| | 01:04 |
this with another image.
We'll just click on the Arrow button, and
| | 01:07 |
here, you can see how I can select other
photographs.
| | 01:10 |
We can also click in the filmstrip as
well, in order to change that selection.
| | 01:14 |
Now, I'll go ahead and bring that back to
the original comparison of these two pictures.
| | 01:18 |
We can zoom in on these pictures if this
lock icon is locked or unlocked.
| | 01:23 |
What you can do a zoom is in on both when
it's locked, or zoom in on one when it's unlocked.
| | 01:26 |
So, let's go ahead and lock this down, and
then click on the Zoom slider.
| | 01:29 |
In this way, we can zoom in on these
photographs, so that we can evaluate the
| | 01:32 |
detail that we have in both pictures.
Now, to change the zoom rate in one,
| | 01:37 |
unlock it by clicking on the lock icon.
Click into the image that you want to work on.
| | 01:42 |
For example, let's say this one here.
And then change the Zoom slider and this
| | 01:45 |
way, for example, will zoom in even closer
on the right.
| | 01:48 |
Alright, well after having zoomed in to
both of these photographs, you know what?
| | 01:52 |
I've decided that I actually like the
image on the right better than the one on
| | 01:56 |
the left.
Well, to flip-flop your select in
| | 01:59 |
candidate, you can use this icon right
here.
| | 02:02 |
Notice that as we click on this, it
flip-flops both of these photographs.
| | 02:06 |
So, here, we can change our decision about
which image is actually the select photograph.
| | 02:12 |
Alright.
Well, if you want to bring the zoom rates
| | 02:14 |
back to normal, we'll just lock this back
down.
| | 02:16 |
And then what that will allow you to do is
to zoom those both in in the same way, so
| | 02:19 |
that that will then be in the exact same
spot, so, you can really evaluate the pictures.
| | 02:25 |
Now, once you've found the image that you
want to work with, what you can do is you
| | 02:28 |
can add flag gradients, stars by clicking
here.
| | 02:31 |
And by doing that, you can give this
particular image a rating.
| | 02:34 |
You can also just simply click Done.
Now when you click Done, that will take
| | 02:38 |
you out of that mode so that you now have
this image here visible.
| | 02:41 |
And in a sense, you can just use that
Compare mode to help evaluate multiple photographs.
| | 02:46 |
Alright.
Well, next, I want to show you just one
| | 02:48 |
more thing here with this mode.
Lets go ahead and enter into it again.
| | 02:51 |
Click on the Compare Mode icon or press
the C key.
| | 02:54 |
Next, lets change the zoom rate a little
bit.
| | 02:57 |
Let's bring those back to something a
little bit more normal here.
| | 03:00 |
Now, if you want to open up more space for
actually looking at the image, what you
| | 03:04 |
might want to do is you might want to
press Shift+Tab.
| | 03:08 |
If you press Shift+Tab as you remember,
this will minimize the entire interface.
| | 03:13 |
In this way, you can see that we now have
an up close view of these photographs.
| | 03:17 |
Again, to change the photograph that we're
comparing, let me go ahead and click on
| | 03:20 |
these arrows so that we have these two
images now side by side.
| | 03:23 |
And in this way, you can see that we can
really evaluate these photographs Without
| | 03:27 |
thinking about the rest of the Lightroom
interface.
| | 03:30 |
All right.
Let me reiterate that shortcut for you.
| | 03:33 |
It's Shift+Tab.
Shift+Tab allows you to minimize most of
| | 03:36 |
the Lightroom interface.
Press it once to hide the interface, press
| | 03:39 |
it again in order to bring that back.
Alright.
| | 03:42 |
Once again, after you've made that
selection go ahead and click Done.
| | 03:46 |
That will bring you back to your select
photograph, and here, I'll choose Fit in
| | 03:49 |
the Navigator panel so that I can view the
entirety of this photograph.
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| Surveying two or more images| 00:00 |
Another great tool that you can use in the
Library module in order to compare and
| | 00:04 |
evaluate photographs is called the Survey
mode.
| | 00:07 |
The survey mode allows you to compare two
or more photographs at one time.
| | 00:11 |
And so here I want to show you how you can
use the survey mode.
| | 00:15 |
I also want to sneak in a few tips and
tricks.
| | 00:17 |
A couple of shortcuts which will help you
get even more out of this tool.
| | 00:21 |
Alright well you can see currently I have
one image selected.
| | 00:24 |
I actually want to compare both of these
photographs.
| | 00:26 |
To do that, hold down the Cmd key and then
click on both images on a Mac on windows
| | 00:30 |
that's the Ctrl key.
So go ahead and select a couple of images.
| | 00:35 |
Then press the N key or click on this icon
here in order to enter the Survey mode.
| | 00:41 |
Now, so far, this looks a lot like the
Compare mode; we have two images side-by-side.
| | 00:45 |
Yet what's distinct or different about
Survey mode is if you hold down the Cmd
| | 00:49 |
key on a Mac or Ctrl key on Windows and
then click on other photographs.
| | 00:54 |
You can see how you can add images to this
particular view.
| | 00:58 |
In this way I now have all six photographs
up here, so that I can then evaluate those pictures.
| | 01:04 |
Now some times what I like to do when I'm
evaluating photographs is I like to
| | 01:08 |
minimize the interface.
Here let me remind you of the shortcut to
| | 01:11 |
do that, press the shift + tab key to hide
the interface, press Shift+Tab again in
| | 01:15 |
order to bring it back.
Alright, well next let's talk about how
| | 01:20 |
you can use this view in order to
critically evaluate a few photographs.
| | 01:24 |
One of the images that I like in this set
is this one here.
| | 01:27 |
And I'm not sure if it's sharp.
Well if you're in the survey mode, you can
| | 01:31 |
actually navigate to the Loop mode where
you can zoom in on your photograph by double-clicking.
| | 01:36 |
If you double-click once, you'll enter
Loop.
| | 01:39 |
Double click again, you'll come back to
survey.
| | 01:41 |
Let me show you how that works.
Here we'll double click.
| | 01:44 |
Notice how we're in the Loop mode.
Then I can click to zoom in.
| | 01:48 |
This image is unfortunately a little bit
soft.
| | 01:50 |
That's a bit of a bummer.
So here I'll go ahead and click back to
| | 01:53 |
zoom out and then double click to go back
to this mode.
| | 01:57 |
So it remembered.
That all of these images were selected.
| | 02:00 |
It also remembered that the Survey mode
was active.
| | 02:04 |
All right, well next let's use this image.
Double-click it to zoom in and let's zoom
| | 02:07 |
in on this one.
This one is much sharper.
| | 02:10 |
That's great.
All right?
| | 02:12 |
Well here we can go ahead and double-click
to go back to our Survey mode.
| | 02:15 |
So again, just a little trick there.
It's double-clicking to get to the loop
| | 02:19 |
and then double-clicking to get back to
survey.
| | 02:22 |
Well now that I evaluated this image
critically, I realize this one just isn't
| | 02:26 |
sharp enough.
So, I'll remove it from the selection by
| | 02:29 |
clicking on the X icon in the lower right
hand corner.
| | 02:33 |
You can also remove images from a
selection by holding down the Cmd key Mac
| | 02:37 |
or Ctrl on windows.
And then clicking on images in the film
| | 02:41 |
strip which are selected.
In this way you can see that I'm
| | 02:44 |
minimizing the images, or reducing the
amount of the images which are selected.
| | 02:49 |
Again, once you've come to your final set,
what I like to do is press Shift+Tab to
| | 02:52 |
minimize the interface so I can really
evaluate the photographs together.
| | 02:57 |
Then, of course, press shift tab again in
order to bring back the interface.
| | 03:02 |
Now, one of the things that's kind of
unique about working with the Survey mode
| | 03:05 |
is eventually you'll say, okay, wait.
This is great.
| | 03:08 |
I have these three images, and then you'll
sort of move on to other things.
| | 03:12 |
For example, you may just click on a
single image.
| | 03:14 |
Now as I click on single images, notice
how there's a transition.
| | 03:19 |
I don't know if you can see it in this
movie.
| | 03:21 |
There's also a white box around the image.
Sometimes what happens to me is I forget
| | 03:25 |
that I'm in the Survey mode and, and I
say, well what's that white box, and
| | 03:28 |
what's that little fade?
Well, that's because I haven't fully
| | 03:33 |
exited Survey mode.
To do that, navigate back to the Loop mode.
| | 03:37 |
Press the E key to do so.
Once you're in the loop mode, here let's
| | 03:40 |
go to the fit and view.
You can see that as I scroll through my images.
| | 03:44 |
What it will allow me to do is just
quickly view them image without that
| | 03:47 |
transition and also without the white box
around the photograph.
| | 03:51 |
So again, if ever you enter into the
Survey mode, make sure you exit that.
| | 03:56 |
You can exit the Survey mode by selecting
another View mode, for example Grid or
| | 04:00 |
Loop or whatever it is.
The easiest way I think to do this is to
| | 04:04 |
press the E key just to navigate back to
the Loop mode.
| | 04:08 |
Alright.
Well, there you have it, a few tips and
| | 04:10 |
tricks on how you can work with the Survey
mode.
| | 04:12 |
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| Working with folders and files| 00:00 |
In this movie, we'll take a look at how we
can work with the folders panel, and here
| | 00:03 |
we'll explore how we can rename a folder.
We'll also look at how we can rename one
| | 00:08 |
or more photographs and how we can move
our images around into different folders.
| | 00:13 |
So let's go ahead and open up the Folders
panel.
| | 00:15 |
To do that, click on the word Folders here
in the Library Module in the panels on the left.
| | 00:20 |
Next navigate down to the People folder
and then click on the sub folder, Chapter-Portraits.
| | 00:26 |
Now this is a folder and these are some
pictures that I imported from another catalog.
| | 00:31 |
Well now that these are part of this
catalog, the naming convention really
| | 00:34 |
doesn't make sense.
So first I want to rename this particular
| | 00:38 |
folder, to do so, right click or Ctrl +
click on the folder name.
| | 00:42 |
This will open up a contextual menu which
allows us to do a lot of things like
| | 00:45 |
create a sub folder inside of this folder.
Or we can remove the folder, or what we're
| | 00:50 |
looking for here is Rename.
Go and click on that option and then here
| | 00:54 |
we're going to go ahead and type this out.
I'll rename this one to portraits 4.
| | 01:00 |
In doing that you'll see that it will
relocated that folder because these are
| | 01:03 |
organized alphabetically and numerically.
So it will now show up in this area right here.
| | 01:09 |
Next let's take a look at these
photographs.
| | 01:11 |
If you press the J key multiple times you
can toggle until you can see the view
| | 01:14 |
which shows you the file name.
Now the file name here that we can is
| | 01:19 |
chapter six and chapter seven.
That doesn't really work for this naming
| | 01:23 |
convention in this catalog.
Because remember these are photographs
| | 01:27 |
that I was working on for a book project.
But now I've brought those into this
| | 01:31 |
catalogue, and so I want to rename the
images.
| | 01:34 |
Well to do that you can either click on
one image or if you want to rename a group
| | 01:37 |
of images, select them all.
Then navigate to the Library pull-down
| | 01:41 |
menu and select Rename Photo, or you may
want to jot down the shortcut, which is
| | 01:45 |
the F2 key.
Which will also trigger and open up the
| | 01:49 |
Rename dialogue.
Here we an choose a custom name for this photograph.
| | 01:53 |
I'll go ahead and name this one
Rodney-Smith.
| | 01:56 |
Next I'll click Okay, in doing that you
can see it will update the name of this file.
| | 02:02 |
Let's go ahead and move over to this image
here to do that I'll just tap the left
| | 02:05 |
arrow button.
This time let's use that shortcut key
| | 02:08 |
which I mentioned previously.
It's the F2 key.
| | 02:12 |
So go ahead and tap the F2 key on your
keyboard.
| | 02:15 |
Here I'll name this one, Jack O'neil.
Alright well next, we'll go ahead and
| | 02:19 |
click OK.
And you can see that, that will allow us
| | 02:21 |
to rename this photograph.
Now what about if we want to move a folder
| | 02:25 |
to another area.
We can do that but we always want to do
| | 02:29 |
this inside of Lightroom.
In other words, you never want to make a
| | 02:33 |
change behind Lightroom's back so to
speak.
| | 02:36 |
You never want to go to your finder or
your Explorer window and make a change there.
| | 02:40 |
Make all the changes inside of Lightroom,
and Lightroom and the Lightroom catalog,
| | 02:44 |
will be very happy.
So here, let's go ahead and move things around.
| | 02:48 |
For example, if you want to relocate this
folder, we can just click on it, and drag
| | 02:51 |
it to new location.
I'll drag it to the main photos folder.
| | 02:55 |
This will tell me, hey, you're moving
files.
| | 02:57 |
Well that's what I want to do.
So we'll click move.
| | 02:59 |
That will then move and relocate this
folder to another area.
| | 03:03 |
And you know, we can do the same thing
with images as well.
| | 03:06 |
For example, if you want to move an image
to another location.
| | 03:09 |
We'll just click on it and then drag it to
new folder, here again it's giving me this
| | 03:13 |
reminder that I am moving something,
that's fine, click move or click OK there.
| | 03:18 |
And you'll see that this image is now
located in this folder.
| | 03:21 |
To bring it back we'll just click and drag
and drop that to a new location.
| | 03:25 |
And in this one you can see that you can
really quickly and easily shuffle or move
| | 03:28 |
things around.
Well, let's go back to portraits 4.
| | 03:32 |
This is currently in the wrong location.
I want to bring it back to the people folder.
| | 03:38 |
So again, just click and drag and drop on
to that area.
| | 03:40 |
And here we can move this into that
location.
| | 03:43 |
And in doing this, we can really quickly
and easily shuffle all of our things around.
| | 03:48 |
Now, if ever you want to add a new folder.
What you want to do is click on the area
| | 03:51 |
that you want to work on.
In this case, in the people area or the
| | 03:54 |
people folder.
Then you can click on the plus icon.
| | 03:57 |
In doing that, you can see I can add a sub
folder, which would be inside of the
| | 04:01 |
People folder.
Or I could also just add a folder which
| | 04:04 |
would be on the same level as People.
So here let's go ahead and create Add a sub-folder.
| | 04:10 |
In doing that, I'll go ahead and add a
folder which is called Demo.
| | 04:13 |
Next, we'll click Create.
That will then create a new folder, which
| | 04:17 |
is located right here.
Well, this folder doesn't have any images
| | 04:20 |
in it.
And you know what, after I've created this
| | 04:23 |
folder, I've decided I want to get rid of
it.
| | 04:25 |
To do that, simply click on the Minus icon
which is located right here at the top of
| | 04:29 |
the Folders panel.
When we click on the Minus icon, it will
| | 04:33 |
delete and remove that folder.
Alright, well there you have it.
| | 04:37 |
A few tips and techniques for you as you
start to work with the Folders panel.
| | 04:41 |
And as you start to look at how you can
rename folders by right clicking or Ctrl
| | 04:45 |
+clicking and choosing Rename.
And also how you can rename one or more
| | 04:50 |
images by selecting those images then
pressing the F2 key which will open up the
| | 04:53 |
Rename dialog.
And then last but not least, we also
| | 04:58 |
talked about how we can drag our folders
and our images around.
| | 05:02 |
Alright, well I hope that that helps you
out as you start to work with the Folders panel.
| | 05:06 |
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| Deleting and removing images from folders| 00:00 |
As you start to work more with Lightroom,
there may be a situation that you'll come
| | 00:03 |
across where you may want to remove or
delete a photograph from your Lightroom catalog.
| | 00:09 |
Now, removing and deleting are two
different things.
| | 00:12 |
So here let's talk about how we can do
that, and we'll also talk about how we can
| | 00:15 |
synchronize our folders so that our
folders are up to date.
| | 00:19 |
Alright.
Well, here let's say that we've navigated
| | 00:21 |
to this folder.
Nature folder.
| | 00:23 |
It has three images.
And we select a photograph.
| | 00:26 |
And we decide, you know what?
I'm not really sure about this image.
| | 00:29 |
I don't want to delete it completely.
But I might just want to remove it from my
| | 00:33 |
Lightroom catalog.
Well, to do that press Delete or Backspace.
| | 00:36 |
That's a Delete on a Mac.
Backspace on Windows.
| | 00:40 |
This will open up a prompt which will ask
you.
| | 00:42 |
Do you want to delete it completely
forever or do you just want to remove it
| | 00:46 |
from this particular catalog.
Well, here I'm going to select remove.
| | 00:50 |
You often will do this when you have
images that your unsure about that you
| | 00:53 |
want to keep around but you don't want to
have bogging down or cluttering your
| | 00:57 |
Lightroom catalog.
Well, now you can see that only have two
| | 01:01 |
photographs in this particular folder in
my Lightroom catalog.
| | 01:05 |
Yet if we navigate to the Finder, say for
example, and here you can see I've
| | 01:08 |
navigated to the Finder to that folder.
You'll notice that that particular image
| | 01:13 |
corrig-3 /g, well it still lives.
It's still there.
| | 01:17 |
Yet it's just not part of Lightroom.
It's as if Lightroom is ignoring it.
| | 01:21 |
Well, we can bring that image back by
synchronizing our folders.
| | 01:26 |
If ever you make changes, quote, behind
Lightroom's back, or if you select this
| | 01:30 |
option to remove an image.
You can re-synchronize that folder so that
| | 01:33 |
it's up to date.
In order to do that, just navigate over to
| | 01:34 |
the folder.
Here we'll go ahead and click on this
| | 01:37 |
folder here.
Then right click or Ctrl click.
| | 01:42 |
In this contextual menu choose Synchronize
Folder.
| | 01:47 |
When you click on this option it will give
you a prompt.
| | 01:49 |
This is what the prompt says.
Synchronizing keeps your Lightroom catalog
| | 01:53 |
up to date.
With the latest changes you may have made
| | 01:56 |
to your photos and other applications or
perhaps just using the Finder or Explorer Window.
| | 02:01 |
And what this will do is it will make sure
that Lightroom knows everything about that folder.
| | 02:05 |
In this case, it picked up that there's a
photograph that it doesn't have as part of
| | 02:09 |
the catalog.
So here, we can import these photos.
| | 02:13 |
If we want to do this, we can show the
import dialogue before importing.
| | 02:17 |
We can also scan for any metadata updates
as well.
| | 02:20 |
So, I'll go ahead and click Synchronize.
What this will do, is it will pull up my
| | 02:24 |
import dialogue, here we have the
photograph that we want to re add.
| | 02:28 |
We can of course choose our options for
file handling if we want to.
| | 02:32 |
I'll go ahead and click Import just to
speed this up a little bit.
| | 02:35 |
What you'll see here is that this image is
now reunited.
| | 02:39 |
It's now back again.
It's now part of the Lightroom catalog.
| | 02:43 |
So again, you can use that option for
remove, just when you want to sort of hide
| | 02:46 |
that from Lightroom, so to speak, when
you're perhaps uncertain about whether or
| | 02:50 |
not you want to delete a file.
Now, if you want to delete an image
| | 02:55 |
completely, let's take a look at how we
can do that.
| | 02:58 |
Here I'll navigate to another folder,
navigate to the folder Golden_Puppies.
| | 03:02 |
I'm going to scroll down in this folder.
This is or these are some photographs of
| | 03:06 |
our puppy, Daisy, that we adopted, and
let's say that for some reason, we want to
| | 03:10 |
delete this picture here.
Now, I do not know why you'd want to
| | 03:14 |
delete a photograph like that because
that's a cute dog.
| | 03:18 |
Even if it isn't photographically perfect.
That's our little puppy there.
| | 03:21 |
Yet, let's say that we've decided we want
to trash this one, we want to get rid of it.
| | 03:25 |
Well, press the delete key on a Mac or the
backspace on Windows.
| | 03:29 |
This will again open up this prompt.
Notice that the prompt default to remove,
| | 03:33 |
its trying to help you out, it's saying,
hey are you sure about this?
| | 03:37 |
Do you really want to delete this from
disk?
| | 03:39 |
Well, I do want to delete this so here
I'll go ahead and Click Delete from disk.
| | 03:44 |
What that would do is it will remove it
from my folder.
| | 03:47 |
It also will remove it from the folder on
the hard drive where this image resides.
| | 03:52 |
And it will throw it to the trashcan or to
the recycling bin.
| | 03:55 |
So when you select that option, you want
to make sure you that you know what you're
| | 03:58 |
doing because that will get rid of that
file and it will take it out of your
| | 04:01 |
Lightroom catalog and it will also delete
it on your hard drive.
| | 04:05 |
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| Dual-monitor support| 00:00 |
In this movie I want to highlight a really
fun feature in Light Room, and it's a
| | 00:04 |
feature which enables dual monitor
support.
| | 00:07 |
Now this movie will only be relevant to
you if you have the luxury of having a
| | 00:10 |
second monitor.
If you don't have a second monitor, feel
| | 00:14 |
free to skip ahead to the next chapter.
Alright, well if you do have a second
| | 00:18 |
monitor what you'll want to do is right
click or Control click on the number two
| | 00:21 |
icon here.
Here you want to choose "Full Screen".
| | 00:26 |
Now, for demo purposes, I can't really
show both of my monitors.
| | 00:30 |
So I'm going to select "show." This will
create a smaller window and we'll have to
| | 00:33 |
use out imaginations and pretend that this
is taking up a second monitor.
| | 00:38 |
Alright well as you can see here, what you
can do is have different views based on
| | 00:41 |
the different monitors.
For example here I have a loop view, while
| | 00:46 |
I have a grid view in my main monitor.
As I click around these photographs I can
| | 00:50 |
then click into these pictures, in the
loop view, I can then click to zoom in.
| | 00:54 |
We can also do exactly the opposite.
So for example, lets click on the grid button.
| | 01:01 |
In doing that.
You can see that my second monitor now has
| | 01:03 |
this grid so that I can click through the
photographs, and then see a larger preview
| | 01:07 |
on my main monitor.
We can do other things as well.
| | 01:11 |
We can have a compare mode or a survey
mode.
| | 01:13 |
And in this way we can survey or view
multiple images.
| | 01:17 |
Just select those images in the film
strip, hold down the Cmnd key on a Mac or
| | 01:20 |
the Ctrl key on Windows, and you can see
how we can take advantage of these
| | 01:22 |
features which we've talked about in other
places.
| | 01:27 |
Now if ever you want to lock an image into
your view in the secondary display, you
| | 01:30 |
can do so by right clicking or control
clicking on the image.
| | 01:35 |
Here I'll choose lock to second window.
Notice that your second view is locked in,
| | 01:40 |
so as I navigate around to different
photographs it doesn't change this in the
| | 01:43 |
second display.
On the other hand, if you choose normal
| | 01:48 |
mode, what this allows you to do is to
update both screens here, or you can also
| | 01:51 |
have a live view.
Here, I'll go ahead and zoom out so we can
| | 01:55 |
see that a little bit better.
As I scroll over these thumbnails, you can
| | 01:58 |
see that it's updating the view there in
that secondary display.
| | 02:02 |
In this way, you can start to see how you
can take advantage of having two displays.
| | 02:06 |
So that you can one display perhaps which
displays smaller thumbnails.
| | 02:10 |
Then you have your main display which
might be displaying a larger loop view of
| | 02:14 |
the picture.
In this way it almost doubles the viewing
| | 02:18 |
capacity of Light Room.
Which in turn can help you to become more
| | 02:21 |
effective and also more creative.
| | 02:23 |
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7. Using Multiple Hard DrivesWorking with multiple hard drives| 00:00 |
As you start to capture more and more
photographs, one of the things that will
| | 00:03 |
eventually happen is you'll fill up your
hard drive, and you'll need to purchase another.
| | 00:08 |
Then, you'll have images on multiple hard
drives.
| | 00:11 |
Well, let's take a look at how we can work
with multiple hard drives when we're
| | 00:14 |
working in Lightroom.
Now, the first thing that I need to do
| | 00:18 |
here is to import some photographs, which
reside or live on another hard drive.
| | 00:23 |
To do that I'll go ahead and click on the
Import button in order to trigger or
| | 00:26 |
launch the import dialog.
Now here I want to access some files which
| | 00:30 |
are on a hard-drive which I've labeled or
named Spark.
| | 00:33 |
There's a folder which is titled family
photos.
| | 00:36 |
These are some photographs, that one of my
former students captured of me and my
| | 00:39 |
family, and there's some fun pictures
there.
| | 00:42 |
Well, I want to be able to work with and
access these files inside of Lightroom.
| | 00:47 |
So, rather than copying or moving these
images, you simply want to add.
| | 00:51 |
By adding that will tell Lightroom that
there are photographs on another hard
| | 00:54 |
drive that you then want to work with.
Alright, well next let's look at a few
| | 00:59 |
file handling considerations.
I want to go ahead and render my standard previews.
| | 01:03 |
I also want to build smart preview, so
turn on that option.
| | 01:07 |
We'll talk more about smart previews later
but for now let's select that option.
| | 01:12 |
It will take a little bit more time
initially but it's almost always worth the wait.
| | 01:17 |
Next I want to make sure that I'm not
importing any suspected duplicates, and
| | 01:20 |
regards to the develop settings, here I'm
just going to leave this all as is.
| | 01:25 |
Next, I'll go ahead and click on the
Import button.
| | 01:28 |
What this will allow me to do is, it will
allow me to import or add these images to
| | 01:31 |
my Lightroom Library.
Here you can see, we now have a new hard drive.
| | 01:36 |
It's labeled Spark.
And inside of that hard drive, I've
| | 01:39 |
imported or added a folder of pictures
here, which is titled Family Photos, to my library.
| | 01:44 |
Here, as I scroll through this, you can
see these photographs.
| | 01:47 |
There are about ten or so photos.
Alright well next, what I want to do is
| | 01:51 |
take a look at what happens if we
disconnect a hard drive.
| | 01:55 |
Because the reality of it is when you have
two or three or four or five hard drives,
| | 01:58 |
you don't always have them all turned on.
There are times, especially say at the end
| | 02:03 |
of the day, where you turn off a hard
drive.
| | 02:05 |
And then maybe you select a picture.
For example let's say that I double-click
| | 02:09 |
one of these photographs and zoom in on
it, and I really like this family photograph.
| | 02:13 |
And I decide that I want to do something
to the image, like crop it or, or who
| | 02:16 |
knows what.
Well, what would happen if this hard drive
| | 02:20 |
was turned off?
Well, let's go ahead and turn off or eject
| | 02:23 |
the hard drive.
To do that, I'm going to go ahead and
| | 02:26 |
navigate to an area where I can just press
an eject button for that hard drive.
| | 02:30 |
And ejecting that hard drive, what will
eventually happen is this green light,
| | 02:33 |
well it will turn out.
We also notice there's a question mark
| | 02:38 |
next to the folder.
Now, in the loop view, I don't really see
| | 02:41 |
any issue or problem.
Yet when you press the G key to go to the
| | 02:45 |
grid view, what you'll notice is that all
of a sudden, you'll see all of these
| | 02:48 |
little icons here.
These icons will show us a little bit of a
| | 02:53 |
warning error.
This warning error will say, this file can
| | 02:56 |
be edited using the Smart Preview, because
remember, we generated those.
| | 03:01 |
But the original file, it can't be found.
It's, it's gone.
| | 03:04 |
There's something wrong.
So we could, of course, work with the
| | 03:07 |
smart preview, and we could go to the
develop module or do what we needed to do.
| | 03:11 |
Yet we want to work with the original
file.
| | 03:14 |
And so, if ever that happens, you can
click on this little indicator.
| | 03:18 |
Now, if you didn't generate smart
previews, it will just be an exclamation point.
| | 03:22 |
Then go ahead and click on that and you
can look up the hard drive name.
| | 03:25 |
This is a little trick for finding where
those files are located.
| | 03:29 |
These files are located on the hard drive
which is titled Spark.
| | 03:33 |
So, all I need to do is to go ahead and
flip on the switch for that hard drive
| | 03:36 |
then I'll be good to go.
Alright well here I'm going to go ahead
| | 03:39 |
and just walk over to turn that on real
quick and we'll see what happens next.
| | 03:44 |
Alright.
Well, I have now turned that hard drive
| | 03:46 |
back on.
So here I'll go ahead and click Cancel.
| | 03:48 |
As you can see, the light is now green,
showing me that this hard drive is connected.
| | 03:53 |
That little warning indicator is gone.
So here, now that that hard drive is back
| | 03:57 |
on, I can select a photograph.
Here, I'll select this one and double
| | 04:01 |
click it, and then I can begin to work on
this image, in any way, shape, or form.
| | 04:05 |
Alright, well there you have it.
There's a technique that you can use when
| | 04:08 |
working with multiple hard drives.
Really, all that you need to do is to
| | 04:12 |
click on the import button and then make
sure that you add those photographs.
| | 04:16 |
Alright, well in this movie, we started to
bring up a topic of working with smart previews.
| | 04:21 |
So, what I want to do in the next movie is
pick up on that topic so that we can take
| | 04:24 |
a look at how we can leverage and take
advantage of this feature.
| | 04:29 |
Alright well that wraps up this movie.
And we'll go ahead and talk about smart
| | 04:32 |
previews in the next movie.
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| What are Smart Previews and why do they matter?| 00:00 |
In the next few movies, we're going to
focus in on the topic of smart previews.
| | 00:05 |
Now, because the concept of Smart Previews
is pretty important to understand, here in
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this first movie I want to walk through a
few slides so that we can start to ask the
| | 00:11 |
question, well, what is a smart preview
and why does it matter.
| | 00:16 |
Then in the next movie, we'll take a look
at how we can work with Smart Previews in Lightroom.
| | 00:21 |
You know, in most cases we have a work
flow, which is like this.
| | 00:24 |
We have our main computer, perhaps a
desktop or maybe even a laptop.
| | 00:29 |
And on that computer when we work in
Lightroom we create a catalog.
| | 00:32 |
And often that catalog, it resides on the
internal hard drive of our desktop or our laptop.
| | 00:39 |
But then we may also have other external
drives.
| | 00:42 |
Here are a few drives just as examples.
Now, what happens is is in this catalog we
| | 00:46 |
have some really valuable things.
We've talked about this before.
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We have previews, module settings, file
location, metadata, ratings, keywords,
| | 00:54 |
collections and more.
And all of this catalog information is
| | 00:58 |
really helpful.
Because it allows us to view, access and
| | 01:01 |
work on our images, which can reside on
other hard drives.
| | 01:05 |
Yet, the challenge of course is when one
of those hard drives go offline.
| | 01:10 |
If a hard drive goes offline, all of the
sudden we lose some functionality.
| | 01:14 |
We're unable to export, or publish, or
work in the develop module and convert our
| | 01:17 |
images to black and white or do whatever
we need to do.
| | 01:20 |
Yet of course, if we turn the hard drive
back on, well then we can keep doing
| | 01:23 |
whatever we need to do.
Yet, when the hard drive goes off, well,
| | 01:26 |
then we lose that functionality.
So, it's a bit of a back and forth game.
| | 01:31 |
That is, of course, unless we work with
Smart Previews.
| | 01:34 |
Smart Previews allow us to have a
consistent and a cohesive workflow.
| | 01:40 |
When we generate Smart Previews, either in
the import dialogue or inside of
| | 01:43 |
Lightroom, what happens is it creates a
file.
| | 01:46 |
In order to take a look at this file,
let's first compare this to a regular catalog.
| | 01:50 |
The catalog here you can see has a catalog
file and previews.
| | 01:54 |
And if we compare that to a catalog, which
has Smart Previews, you'll notice
| | 01:57 |
something different.
We have a Smart Previews file.
| | 02:01 |
This file does have some file size, yet
this file size is often well worth it
| | 02:05 |
because it gives us extra flexibility as
you'll see in just a minute.
| | 02:11 |
So again, this particular file, well, what
is it?
| | 02:13 |
And why does it matter?
Well I like to think of it this way.
| | 02:16 |
I like to think of Smart Previews as a
lighter weight versions of our images,
| | 02:20 |
which can be used in place of the larger,
full resolution raw files.
| | 02:25 |
And these give us some flexibility.
In more specific terms these are Lossy DNG files.
| | 02:31 |
They're smaller in file size so they don't
have as much file size or as much quality
| | 02:35 |
yet they can be used when a large file is
offline.
| | 02:38 |
And they can be stored or they are stored
I should say, in the same folder as the catalog.
| | 02:43 |
Alright, well, let's go back to our
overall workflow.
| | 02:46 |
Well here, we have our main computer.
Again, desktop or laptop, it doesn't
| | 02:49 |
matter, and we have our catalog, which
allows us to do many different things our
| | 02:52 |
photographs, even if those photographs are
on external drives.
| | 02:57 |
Well, if we take the time to generate that
Smart Preview, what this will then allow
| | 03:00 |
us to do is to have this extra little bit
of flexibility.
| | 03:05 |
Here, once we have those Smart Previews
even if those hard drives go off line if
| | 03:08 |
we turn the switch on those to off or
eject those hard drives we can still work
| | 03:12 |
in the development module.
Now, the advantage of this is actually
| | 03:17 |
pretty significant because here we can
have a continuous cohesive workflow even
| | 03:21 |
if we pick up our laptop and work on the
plane.
| | 03:25 |
We can then replug in the hard drive when
we get home and what it will do is it will
| | 03:28 |
synchronize the settings from the Smart
Previews to the higher resolution files.
| | 03:34 |
In this way, our work flow isn't
interrupted when those hard drives are offline.
| | 03:38 |
Alright.
Well to summerize, what is a Smart Preview?
| | 03:41 |
And why does it matter?
Well, here's how I like to think of it.
| | 03:44 |
I think of a Smart Preview as a light
weight image, which can be used in place
| | 03:48 |
of the larger file when those files are
offline.
| | 03:52 |
Alright, well now that we've brought up
the topic of what Smart Previews are,
| | 03:55 |
started to dig into this topic a little
bit.
| | 03:58 |
Let's dig a bit deeper and take a look at
how we can work with Smart Previews, and
| | 04:02 |
let's do that in the next movie.
| | 04:05 |
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| Working with Smart Previews| 00:00 |
What most photographers do, amateurs and
pros alike, is they often keep and store
| | 00:04 |
their photographs on external hard drives.
And you know what, this is a really good
| | 00:09 |
thing to do because it allows you to
easily duplicate and back up those photographs.
| | 00:14 |
You can also turn off the hard drive which
will extend that hard drive's life.
| | 00:18 |
And so, in most situations, photographers
have all of their photographs on these
| | 00:22 |
external drives.
And when you have images on external
| | 00:25 |
drives, you can take advantage of Smart
Previews, which should give you a more
| | 00:28 |
cohesive or uninterrupted workflow.
So in order to follow along with this part
| | 00:33 |
of the movie, what you'll want to do is
select some photographs to work on which
| | 00:37 |
you have on an external drive.
Where here you can see I have my external
| | 00:41 |
drive which is labeled "spark".
Inside of that I have a folder of family
| | 00:45 |
photos that one of my former students
captured and here I've selected a single image.
| | 00:50 |
Now currently this hard drive is turned
on.
| | 00:53 |
If we navigate to the develop module,
there we can go in order to make
| | 00:55 |
corrections or enhancements of the
photograph.
| | 00:59 |
You see that I have access to all of these
various controls.
| | 01:02 |
Next, let's go back to the library module.
And what I want to do, is I want to
| | 01:06 |
discard the smart preview and then I
want to turn the hard drive off.
| | 01:10 |
And we'll take a look at how it will
change the way that we work with other
| | 01:12 |
modules, say like the develop module.
So here you can navigate to the library
| | 01:17 |
pull-down menu, and then select previews.
You can use this option to build smart
| | 01:22 |
previews or also to discard or get rid of
them.
| | 01:26 |
Well I want to get rid of the smart
preview, just for demo purposes.
| | 01:29 |
So again that's library, previews and then
discard smart previews.
| | 01:33 |
Keep in mind the preview is generated when
I imported these photographs.
| | 01:37 |
So here I'm discarding that preview and
I'll just discard one.
| | 01:40 |
After having that, what I'm going to do is
open up my finder window.
| | 01:44 |
And here in this finder window.
I'll click on the eject button for the
| | 01:48 |
spark hard drive.
In ejecting that hard drive.
| | 01:51 |
When we come back to Lightroom.
What we'll encounter is it will say, hey,
| | 01:55 |
you know what?
That hard drive.
| | 01:56 |
It's offline.
And here, we have a little question mark
| | 01:59 |
next to this folder.
Well now, let's say that I don't quite remember.
| | 02:03 |
I forgot that that hard drive is offline.
And I get excited about this photograph.
| | 02:07 |
'Cuz it's a picture of me and my girls.
My wife, and our three daughters there.
| | 02:11 |
And I want to crop this image, because I
want to sort of crop off this side of the photograph.
| | 02:15 |
Or I want to convert it to black and white
or whatever.
| | 02:18 |
Well, if we navigate to the Develop module
to do something like that, again just
| | 02:21 |
click on the Develop module button, you'll
notice that all of the controls are grayed out.
| | 02:26 |
I can no longer modify its contrast, or
change or work on this image.
| | 02:31 |
Yet if I select one of the other
photographs like this one here which has a
| | 02:35 |
smart preview, it will tell me, hey you
can work off of the smart preview.
| | 02:41 |
With this photograph I could do things
like crop.
| | 02:43 |
Here I'll select the Crop Tool.
What the Crop Tool allows us to do is to
| | 02:46 |
just click and drag this in order to re
crop or compose the photograph.
| | 02:51 |
Next, I'll click Done.
In doing that, it will then crop the smart preview.
| | 02:56 |
And the great thing about this is that it
doesn't interrupt my workflow.
| | 03:00 |
There's nothing I really need to worry
about here.
| | 03:02 |
Now, I am working on a smaller,
lighter-weight file, yet I can still work
| | 03:06 |
with all of my basic controls and
adjustments, changing the exposure, color
| | 03:10 |
contrast, etc.
Then, when you reconnect the hard drive,
| | 03:15 |
what will happen is it will re-sync up
these settings and apply those to the
| | 03:19 |
larger file.
In other words, it'll only use a smart
| | 03:23 |
preview when the high resolution or the
raw file is offline.
| | 03:27 |
Again, in this way, it creates a bit more
of a cohesive and an uninterupted work flow.
| | 03:32 |
Now with the other photograph, obviously I
was stopped.
| | 03:35 |
I was stopped in my tracks because really
here, there's nothing that can be done.
| | 03:39 |
I can look at the photograph.
I can add some metadata and keywords and
| | 03:43 |
things like that, yet I can't work in the
develop module.
| | 03:46 |
So here we're starting to see really
impractical ways why smart previews can
| | 03:50 |
help out.
Now, they do increase your file size which
| | 03:54 |
is saved on your hard drive in that smart
preview file.
| | 03:57 |
Yet often, if your images reside on
external hard drives, it's helpful to
| | 04:01 |
generate smart previews so that you can
continue to work on your files even if
| | 04:05 |
that hard drive is offline.
| | 04:08 |
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8. Customizing the Lightroom InterfaceCustomizing the interface background| 00:00 |
In the next few movies, I want to share
with you a few tips and techniques that
| | 00:03 |
you can use in order to customize the way
that Light Rroom appear For starters,
| | 00:06 |
we'll begin by taking a look at how we can
customize some of the main interface elements.
| | 00:13 |
In order to do this, we'll navigate to the
LightRoom pull-down menu and here we'll
| | 00:17 |
select preferences.
In the preferences dialogue, you can click
| | 00:21 |
on the tab for interface.
When you do that, you'll notice that you
| | 00:25 |
have a few options which allow you to
customize a couple of areas of the interface.
| | 00:29 |
Now you can access a few of these controls
here.
| | 00:32 |
You can also access them by way of
shortcut when you're using LightRoom.
| | 00:36 |
So let's talk about how we can do this.
In regards to panels we can add what are
| | 00:40 |
called n marks here I can choose small
flourish and you'll see this little
| | 00:43 |
flourish graphic down here.
Or we can customize that further I'll take
| | 00:48 |
this back to none we'll talk more about
flourishes in a minute.
| | 00:52 |
We can change our font size if we want a
larger font size we can choose that here.
| | 00:57 |
We can also choose the background color.
Notice that this is a medium gray there in
| | 01:01 |
the background.
If we want that to be darker, or we could
| | 01:04 |
choose a color perhaps like black and you
can see how that is now completely dark
| | 01:07 |
there in the background.
We can also add a texture to that.
| | 01:12 |
The texture that we have access to is
pinstripes.
| | 01:15 |
Once you've changed those interface
preferences you can close a preferences
| | 01:19 |
dialogue to apply those.
Now let's say that after having made the
| | 01:23 |
change you actually don't like the
pinstripes very much, no big deal.
| | 01:27 |
Just right click or control click on that
area and here we have access to these
| | 01:31 |
diferrent options.
We can change that background color or
| | 01:35 |
right-click or Ctrl Click again, and we
can turn off that texture there, and the
| | 01:38 |
background as well.
When it comes to working with the
| | 01:42 |
flourishes, we can do that by hovering
over the panel, and then right click or
| | 01:46 |
Ctrl click, and here we can choose a panel
end mark.
| | 01:50 |
We can select that default one that is
there, which is that small flourish, if
| | 01:54 |
you prefer to have that little graphic
there.
| | 01:57 |
Alright?
Let's go ahead and go back to that, by
| | 02:00 |
right clicking, or Ctrl clicking, and
we'll go ahead and turn that off for now,
| | 02:03 |
in order to bring the LightRoom interface
back to its default settings.
| | 02:08 |
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| Minimizing various interface elements| 00:00 |
Next, I want to take a look at how we can
customize the interface by minimizing
| | 00:03 |
different aspects of the interface, which
will in turn allow us to open up more
| | 00:07 |
screen real estate so we can focus in on a
particular task at hand.
| | 00:13 |
Well here we are in the library module,
I'm viewing this image in what's called
| | 00:16 |
the Loop view.
You can access that by pressing the E key
| | 00:20 |
on the keyboard and what I want to do is
hide the toolbar below.
| | 00:24 |
To do that, tap the T key that allows you
to toggle between showing and hiding the
| | 00:28 |
toolbar, so you can press that multiple
times in order to show or hide that area
| | 00:32 |
of the interface.
Next, let's press the G key to navigate to
| | 00:37 |
the Grid view.
When you're in the grid view, you can turn
| | 00:40 |
on and off the library filtering options,
which you can see above the thumbnails,
| | 00:44 |
located right here, by pressing the back
slash key.
| | 00:48 |
That's the key which leans to the left.
All right, well what about other parts of
| | 00:53 |
the interface.
Well, each of the areas, the top, the
| | 00:56 |
bottom, the left and the right you can
open and close by clicking on the triangle
| | 01:00 |
icon here, or you can also do so by way of
a shortcut.
| | 01:05 |
If you click on the icon, it allows you to
collapse that.
| | 01:08 |
Click again, you can bring that back.
And what I want to do here is highlight a
| | 01:13 |
few shortcuts that you might use in your
workflow, as you start to get better with
| | 01:16 |
working with Lightroom.
So what I recommend you do is, pause this
| | 01:21 |
real quick and take out a scratch piece of
paper and jot down these shortcuts.
| | 01:26 |
Now, to hide both of the panels on the
left and the right, tap the Tab key, tap
| | 01:30 |
the Tab key again to bring those panels
back.
| | 01:34 |
To get rid of almost everything, we'll
press Shift Tab, that minimizes a lot of
| | 01:38 |
the interface.
Press Shift Tab again to bring back all of
| | 01:42 |
those elements.
Now that one is especially helpful if
| | 01:46 |
we're viewing the image in the Loot view.
Here we'll press Shift Tab, now we have a
| | 01:50 |
much larger view of the image.
To get rid of the toolbar below, you know
| | 01:55 |
that shortcut, it's the t key.
To change the background color to
| | 01:59 |
something other than gray, you know how to
do that as well, Right Click or Control
| | 02:03 |
Click and then choose, for example, black
so we can really just focus in on that photograph.
| | 02:10 |
Alright well to bring everything back,
press Shift and then Tab, and that will
| | 02:13 |
bring back those interface elements.
Then tap the T key to bring back the Toolbar.
| | 02:20 |
To change the background color back to the
default setting, just Right Click or
| | 02:24 |
Control Click in that area, and then
select medium gray.
| | 02:27 |
What about if we just want to minimize one
area of the interface like the top or the bottom.
| | 02:34 |
Well to do that, we'll press our f keys,
If you look at your keyboard for a moment,
| | 02:38 |
look at the F5, 6, 7, and 8 keys and then
tap or press those.
| | 02:43 |
Here you can teach yourself how these
shortcuts work, press F5 to minimize the
| | 02:47 |
top, press it again to bring that back, F6
is the bottom, and then F7 allows us to
| | 02:51 |
show or hide the panels on the left.
And then F8 allows us to show or hide the
| | 02:59 |
panels on the right.
Now I know that I included a lot of tips
| | 03:04 |
and shortcuts here, so what you might
want to do, is go ahead and press pause
| | 03:07 |
here and take a few notes or go back and
rewatch this, so that you can learn those shortcuts.
| | 03:13 |
Because while they may not be very
relevant right now, as you get better at
| | 03:17 |
working with Lightroom, you may find that
some of those shortcuts may be helpful
| | 03:20 |
because they will allow you to customize
the interface in order to suit your needs,
| | 03:24 |
so that you can focus in on the task at
hand that you are trying to accomplish.
| | 03:31 |
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| Adding custom panel end marks| 00:00 |
In the next few movies, I want to
highlight how we can customize some of the
| | 00:03 |
aspects of the Lightroom interface by
adding our own graphics to what we're
| | 00:07 |
seeing here.
One of the things that I've already talked
| | 00:11 |
about is that we can add what's called a
panel end mark.
| | 00:14 |
We can do so by right-clicking or
Ctrl+clicking over one of the panels and
| | 00:18 |
then choose a panel end mark, in this case
I can select Small Flourish.
| | 00:24 |
You can also create your own panel end
marks as you can see that I've created here.
| | 00:27 |
There are two that I've created, which are
located in the Resource Files folder.
| | 00:32 |
Now, in order to find these, what you can
do is you can right-click or Ctrl+click on
| | 00:36 |
any image in the Lightroom catalog.
Then you can choose Show in Finder or if
| | 00:41 |
you're on Windows, Show in Explorer.
This will open up a dialog where you can
| | 00:45 |
then find those files.
You can also find your Panel End Marks
| | 00:49 |
folder if you navigate to that area of
Lightroom, and then just right click or
| | 00:53 |
Ctrl-click and select the panel end mark,
and then say go to the panel end mark's folder.
| | 01:00 |
In this way, you can see that we have this
end marks folder and I can just, copy
| | 01:03 |
these over to that particular folder.
In doing that, once those are there, I can
| | 01:09 |
then take advantage of those, and have
those show up inside of Lightroom.
| | 01:15 |
And again, these are just graphics that
I've created in Photoshop or you could
| | 01:18 |
create them yourself and you can include
whatever you wanted to include.
| | 01:22 |
In this case, I just made sure that the
gray background color would match the
| | 01:26 |
background color that we have here.
Well, once you locate graphics into that
| | 01:31 |
folder, you can then right click or
Ctrl+click in this panel area and then you
| | 01:34 |
can choose one of your own custom panel
end marks.
| | 01:39 |
You can see how that appears, here, on the
right and on the left or you can change
| | 01:43 |
that by right-clicking or Ctrl+clicking.
And, you can chose another option, this
| | 01:48 |
one's a little bit more simple and it's
one of my favorite quotes, it says that
| | 01:51 |
Photography is savoring life at 1/100th of
a second.
| | 01:56 |
It's a quote by a photographer, French
photographer named Mark Rubin.
| | 02:00 |
So, again if you're interested in
customizing that part of the interface
| | 02:03 |
there's how you can do it.
What you need to do is to create some
| | 02:07 |
graphics and then copy those graphics into
that folder, which you can locate by
| | 02:11 |
right-clicking or Ctrl+clicking.
And then if you copy them into that
| | 02:16 |
folder, they'll show up here in this menu
then you can select those so that those
| | 02:20 |
will then appear at the end of your panels
in all of different modules in Lightroom.
| | 02:27 |
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| Creating a custom identity plate| 00:00 |
Another way that you can customize the
Lightroom interface is by changing what
| | 00:04 |
appears up here, which is called the
Identity plate.
| | 00:08 |
You can also customize the way that the
module picker buttons appear.
| | 00:12 |
Notice that they're light gray and then
when you roll over them they become white.
| | 00:16 |
When you click on one it becomes bright
white.
| | 00:19 |
Well, you can change all of this by
navigating to the Lightroom Pull down menu.
| | 00:23 |
And here, you can choose Identity Plate
Setup.
| | 00:27 |
When you select that menu item, it will
launch the Identity Plate Editor.
| | 00:32 |
And in order to be able to modify the
identity plate, and the module picker buttons.
| | 00:36 |
You want to make sure that you're showing
that entire interface, so click on Show
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Details, if you don't see this side over
here.
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Then to enable some customization click on
this icon here.
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And then you can either use text or
graphics.
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Lets begin by taking a look at text.
What I'm going to do is go ahead and click
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into this field.
And I'll highlight that.
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And I'll type out my name in all caps plus
the word, photography.
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Now, to change the font here just
highlight it, and then in these fields
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make a new selection.
I'm going to choose a font, which I like,
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which is Helvetica, go ahead and make that
selection.
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You can further customize this by
highlighting just one word, here we can
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make changes to that with regards to the
font, the size or the color.
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If you click on the color chip, for
example, we could change the color there
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so that we have a different look up there
in the identity plate as you can see here.
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Alright, well, after having done that,
next, you may want to customize the module
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picker buttons.
In this case, all that I want to do is
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make those a little bit smaller so, here
we could choose a smaller font size or if
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they're too small, you can always choose a
larger size as well.
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When it comes to the colors there are two
color chips.
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The first one, is the color for the
module, which is selected in this case
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we're, in the Library module.
The second color chip here is for the
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modules, which aren't selected.
So, in this case, you can see we have the
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ability to customize these colors.
Now, of course, you'll want to choose
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colors and fonts and sizes here, which
makes sense, and which really match your
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overall aesthetic and the look and feel
that you'd like to have with what you're
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working with.
In this case I think the red is a little
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bit too bold.
So, what I'll do, so I'll change this to
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white, and I'll change the other colors to
a nice dark gray so I can really just
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focus in on what module it is that I have
selected.
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Alright, well, that's how we can customize
this so that the typography appears
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differently up there.
And I should also point out that you may
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want to do this just to customize
Lightroom so that when a client is viewing
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your work, they aren't seeing the Adobe
branding.
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Rather they're focusing in on your logo or
trademark or your brand.
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It's also just kind of fun to do as well.
Well, we can use a graphical identity plate.
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In the background in this folder, you can
see that I've created a few.
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These are just documents that I created in
Photoshop and what I want to do is use of those.
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So, we'll click on this option here and
then we locate that file by clicking on
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the Locate File button.
In this case, we can scroll down to the
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Resource Files folder inside of that i'll
choose the first identity plate.
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It's just a Photoshop document and I'll
click Choose.
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In doing that you can see that this now
appears in this area, it includes
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typography and photographs as well.
You can also include identity plate switch
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extend even further.
Let me show you another one.
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This one is much longer.
It's titled identity plate long because it
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is so long.
And here you can see how this runs along
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the background of this entire area.
And it's sort of like a, a little bit of a
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light gray shadow in that area of the
interface.
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And so here, what I was hoping to do is
just to start to show you how you can
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customize this area.
Either by customizing the typography or
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also by adding your own graphics.
And again with those graphics you just
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want to make sure they have a black
background,which matches the black in this area.
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And you can add whatever you want to add
of that area of Lightroom.
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Now, if ever you decide, you know what,
after having customizing this you actually
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want to go with the default settings.
We just click on this checkbox, and that
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will bring back all of those default
settings.
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And in that way, you can have some
flexibility about whether or not you
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want to customize that area of Lightroom.
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ConclusionNext steps| 00:00 |
Hey congratulations on making it through
this couse if I were sitting next to you
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in a classroom I would give you a high
five.
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And you know this course is part of a
larger series which focuses in on LightRoom.
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And now that you know a bit about how you
can import your photographs and video
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files into light room the next step is to
really learn how you can use the library
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module well that's exaclty what course
number two will begin to focus in on.
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How you can use the library module in
order to manage, and access, and organize
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all of your photographs and video files.
So if you are ready to dig deeper into LightRoom.
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Be sure to check out course number two in
this series.
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As we focus in on how we can use LightRoom
in order to improve our work flow, and our photographs.
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