IntroductionWelcome| 00:03 | Welcome to Lightroom 4 Power Shortcuts!
| | 00:06 | Hi, my name is Chris Orwig.
| | 00:07 | I'm a photographer, and a teacher.
| | 00:10 | In this course, I want to share with
you some shortcuts which will help you to
| | 00:14 | be at the top of your game in
regards to working with Lightroom.
| | 00:17 | We'll start off by covering some
of those foundational shortcuts that
| | 00:21 | everyone needs to know.
| | 00:22 | Then we'll spend some time looking
at shortcuts in the different modules.
| | 00:25 | We'll look at how we can
work in the Library module,
| | 00:28 | and we'll cover topics like importing,
organizing our photographs, or adding metadata.
| | 00:33 | We'll spend a lot of time in the Develop module.
| | 00:36 | Here, we'll explore how we can enhance
and correct our photographs; how we can
| | 00:39 | make those core adjustments to our images.
| | 00:42 | We'll also cover many of the other
modules, whether that's the Map, the Book, the
| | 00:46 | Slideshow, Print, or Web modules.
| | 00:48 | So if you're ready to take your
Lightroom skills to the next level, 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, or if you're
| | 00:04 | watching these movies on a disk,
you have access to the exercise files.
| | 00:09 | Once you've located the Exercise Files folder,
go ahead and double-click it to open it up.
| | 00:14 | Here you'll discover that I've
organized all of the images that we'll be using
| | 00:18 | in this course into different subfolders.
| | 00:19 | I recommend that you import all of
these photographs into Lightroom, so that
| | 00:24 | you can follow along.
| | 00:25 | Now, if don't have access to
the exercise files, no big deal.
| | 00:29 | You can always use your own images,
or of course, you can always just
| | 00:32 | simply follow along. All right!
| | 00:34 | Let's begin.
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| Tips for getting the most out of this course| 00:00 | Before we dig into this course, I
thought it would be helpful to step back, and
| | 00:04 | share with you a few tips which I
think will help you to get even more out of
| | 00:08 | this course, because, you know, learning
shortcuts can be a difficult thing.
| | 00:12 | What you might want to do is, rather than
trying to learn all of the shortcuts at
| | 00:16 | once, perhaps you want to
focus in on a specific area.
| | 00:19 | You want to focus in on,
say, the Library module.
| | 00:22 | Well, learn those shortcuts, and then
spend some time working in Lightroom, and
| | 00:26 | working with those shortcuts, and
then focus in on a different area.
| | 00:30 | By dividing it up, many times this will help
you to learn these shortcuts more effectively.
| | 00:35 | There's also a really valuable
resource that we've created for you.
| | 00:38 | It's a PDF document.
| | 00:40 | This document is free, and it has all of the
shortcuts that will be used in this course.
| | 00:44 | What I recommend you do is that you print out
that document, and keep it with you at all times.
| | 00:49 | Use it as a reference guide as you
seek to learn these shortcuts, and to
| | 00:53 | integrate them into your own workflow.
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1. Foundational Shortcuts Everyone Needs to KnowUsing advanced shortcuts for the Full Screen and Lights Out modes| 00:00 | All right, well in these first few
movies, we're going to take a look at a few
| | 00:04 | general interface shortcuts.
| | 00:06 | In this first movie, we're going to
focus in on how we can dim or darken the
| | 00:11 | interface, and also how we can
change the different screen modes.
| | 00:13 | Well, we can press the L key in
order to change the lights out mode.
| | 00:18 | If you press the L key once,
the interface, it becomes dim.
| | 00:23 | Press it a second time, and
everything becomes completely black.
| | 00:27 | This can be really helpful when you
just want to focus in on your image.
| | 00:31 | To bring back the interface to its full
brightness value, we'll just press the L key one time.
| | 00:37 | By pressing the L key, we're moving
forward between these different lights Out
| | 00:41 | modes, yet you can also move
backwards through these modes.
| | 00:45 | For example, if you press Shift+L,
everything becomes dark. Press Shift+L again,
| | 00:51 | it becomes dim, and then once
again, everything becomes bright.
| | 00:55 | Now, why does that shortcut matter?
| | 00:57 | Well, many times you'll be working on a
photograph like this, and you just want
| | 01:00 | to focus in on it, you want
everything to become dark.
| | 01:04 | To do that, press Shift+L. Next, you can
evaluate or review your picture, and then
| | 01:09 | if you want to bring back the interface
to its full brightness value, well then
| | 01:13 | just press the L key, and it'll bring
back everything to its full brightness.
| | 01:18 | All right, well how else
can we work with the interface?
| | 01:21 | Another thing that we can do is we
can press the F key in order to toggle
| | 01:25 | through different full screen modes.
| | 01:28 | Press it once, and you see that the
title bar will be missing. Press it again,
| | 01:32 | and it will dedicate even more
space to the Lightroom interface.
| | 01:35 | Press it one more time, and it
will bring all of that back.
| | 01:39 | So the F key allows us to toggle, or
to move forward in these different full
| | 01:43 | screen modes, and this is pretty helpful,
again, just to dedicate more space to
| | 01:48 | working in Lightroom.
| | 01:49 | Yet, there is this incredibly helpful
kind of secret shortcut which we can use
| | 01:55 | in order to go to a full screen mode,
which will hide a lot of the interface, so
| | 01:59 | we can really focus in on
the image, and here it is.
| | 02:03 | On a Mac, press Shift+Command+F. On
Windows, press Shift+Control+F. By doing that, it
| | 02:10 | will take us to this full screen mode
here, and it will hide almost all of the
| | 02:15 | Lightroom interface.
| | 02:16 | Next, if we want to turn the lights out,
if we want to darken the rest of the
| | 02:21 | interface, well, we can use that
shortcut that we learned just a few moments
| | 02:25 | ago. Press Shift+L for everything to
go completely dark, and here we can show
| | 02:30 | this image to a client, or review it
without really thinking about all of the
| | 02:34 | clutter of Lightroom.
| | 02:36 | And also, in this view, we obviously have a
larger view of our image, which is really nice.
| | 02:41 | Now if we want to bring back the
brightness to the rest of the interface, we'll
| | 02:45 | just press the L key to bring it back.
| | 02:47 | How, then, can we show the rest of the interface?
| | 02:50 | Well, to do that, we'll use the same
shortcut that we used to get here. On a Mac,
| | 02:54 | press Shift+Command+F; on
Windows, press Shift+Control+F.
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| Minimizing different areas of the interface| 00:00 | Now that we know a little bit about
how we can modify the interface by way of
| | 00:04 | a shortcut, here I want to share with
you a few handy and helpful shortcuts
| | 00:08 | that you can use in order to show or to hide
different areas or aspects of the overall interface.
| | 00:15 | One of the things that you can do in
order to open up more space for your images
| | 00:19 | is to press the Tab key.
| | 00:21 | By pressing the Tab key, it will show
or hide the panels on the left and the
| | 00:26 | right. Press the Tab key again, and
it will toggle back on their visibility.
| | 00:31 | Well, let's say that you want
to hide a lot of the interface.
| | 00:34 | Well, another way to do that
is to press the Shift+Tab key.
| | 00:37 | By pressing Shift+Tab, it will
minimize or hide a lot of the different
| | 00:41 | interface elements.
| | 00:43 | Press Shift+Tab one more time, and
it will bring all of those elements back.
| | 00:48 | Now, you may have noticed that in these
different view modes, whether I press Tab,
| | 00:52 | or Shift+Tab, the toolbar, which is
located at the base here, was always visible.
| | 00:58 | Well, how can we show or hide
that aspect of the interface?
| | 01:02 | You can do that by pressing the T key.
| | 01:05 | If you press the T key in any of
these view modes, it will toggle the
| | 01:08 | visibility of that toolbar on and off,
and that's really helpful, especially
| | 01:12 | if you're going to one of those view
modes where you really want to minimize a
| | 01:15 | lot of the interface.
| | 01:16 | So, for example, if we press Shift+Tab
to minimize a lot of the interface, and
| | 01:21 | then we also want to minimize the
toolbar, we'll just press the T key in
| | 01:26 | order to hide that.
| | 01:27 | Next, if you want to bring back the
interface, press Shift+Tab, and then press
| | 01:31 | the T key to bring back the toolbar.
| | 01:33 | Now, I should point out with the
toolbar that we can show or hide this in the
| | 01:37 | Library module, as well as the Develop module.
| | 01:40 | Now, if you hide it in one, it doesn't
necessarily mean that it will be hidden in the other.
| | 01:45 | Rather, you'll need to work with the
toolbar in regards to its visibility in
| | 01:50 | whatever module you're in; either
Library or Develop. So here I can press the T
| | 01:54 | key to hide that as well.
| | 01:56 | All right, well next let's
go back to the Library module.
| | 01:59 | In the Library module, I'll press the T
key to bring back the toolbar, and let's
| | 02:03 | say that what we want to do is, rather
than hide a large part of the interface,
| | 02:08 | we want to have precise control over
the different areas of the interface.
| | 02:12 | Well, to do that, we can
use our different F keys.
| | 02:15 | If you look at them on your
keyboard, you've F5, 6, 7, and 8.
| | 02:19 | We can press the F5 key in order
to hide the top of the interface.
| | 02:23 | If we want to hide the
filmstrip down below, press F6.
| | 02:26 | If you want to hide the panels on the
left, press F7, and then the panels on the
| | 02:31 | right, you can press F8.
| | 02:33 | By doing this, we can show or
hide these different panels.
| | 02:37 | So, for example, if we've hidden a lot of
the interface, as I've done here, and if
| | 02:42 | we want to bring part of it back by
way of a shortcut, like let's say we want
| | 02:46 | to bring back the filmstrip in
order to select another photograph.
| | 02:49 | Well, here we can press the F6 key; that
will bring back the filmstrip. Then we
| | 02:54 | can click on an image, and then if we
want to hide the filmstrip, we can just
| | 02:58 | press that F6 key one more time.
| | 03:00 | All right; well many times, as you're
learning to use these shortcuts, what will
| | 03:04 | happen is you'll bring back different
interface elements, but it will kind of
| | 03:08 | be a mess. How can you reset the interface, so
that you can bring everything back all at once?
| | 03:14 | Well, to do that, you just need to press
Shift+Tab multiple times. Press it once
| | 03:19 | in order to hide everything, then press
Shift+Tab again, and it will bring all
| | 03:24 | of the interface elements back into view.
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| Exploring background and panel shortcuts| 00:00 | In the previous movie, we looked at how
we can use shortcuts in order to show or
| | 00:04 | hide large areas of the interface.
| | 00:06 | Well, here what I want to do
is get a bit more specific.
| | 00:09 | In particular, I want to take a look
at how we can change the background area
| | 00:13 | around our image, and also how we can
start to work with the panels that we'll
| | 00:17 | find on the right-hand side
of the Lightroom interface.
| | 00:20 | Well, let's go ahead and position our cursor
over this background area, which is a light gray.
| | 00:25 | To change that we can right-click,
or Control+Click, and choose a
| | 00:29 | different background color.
| | 00:30 | For example, let's say
that we want to choose white;
| | 00:33 | you can now see that the background
is bright and white. And this background
| | 00:37 | color, it will carry over to other
modules as well, like the Develop module.
| | 00:42 | If we navigate to the Develop module
by clicking on the Develop module picker
| | 00:46 | there, you can see that the
image background is now white.
| | 00:50 | We can change this by right-clicking, or
Control+Clicking, and let's say we want to
| | 00:54 | choose something like dark gray. And
again, as we click between these two
| | 00:58 | modules, you can see that that
background area color, well, it carries over.
| | 01:02 | All right, well, how can we
start to work with our panels?
| | 01:06 | Well, for starters, we can click
on these triangle icons in order to
| | 01:10 | expand these panels.
| | 01:11 | In this way, we can scroll up and
down, and use these different controls.
| | 01:15 | Yet, let's say that what we want to do
is we want to expand or collapse all of
| | 01:20 | these panels at once.
| | 01:22 | Well, to do that, you can hold down the
Command key on a Mac, or Control key on
| | 01:27 | Windows, and then click on
that same triangle icon.
| | 01:31 | When you Command+Click or Control+Click on
it, you can see it either collapses all
| | 01:35 | of the panels, or Command+Click or Control+
Click it again; you can now see that all
| | 01:40 | of these panels are now open.
| | 01:41 | And, you know, sometimes it's helpful to
be able to have them all open, or closed,
| | 01:46 | yet many times this requires that you
do a lot of scrolling here, up and down,
| | 01:52 | in order to find these different controls.
| | 01:54 | So there's another mode that you can
take advantage of, which enables you to
| | 01:59 | only have one panel open at a time.
This mode is called Solo mode.
| | 02:04 | In order to show you that mode, I'm
going to go ahead and Command+Click or
| | 02:07 | Control+Click on this triangle icon, just
to collapse all of those panels, so that
| | 02:11 | we can see them all there.
| | 02:13 | Well, rather than Command+Clicking or
Control+Clicking that triangle icon, if you
| | 02:17 | press Option on a Mac, or Alt on Windows,
this will give you an optional way to
| | 02:22 | work with these panels.
| | 02:23 | Here, when I click on that, you notice
that the icon is now made up of little dots.
| | 02:29 | If I go to open up another panel, it
will then close whatever is open, so that I
| | 02:34 | only have one panel open at a time.
| | 02:37 | Well how, then, can we override this?
| | 02:40 | Because let's say that we want to have
the Basic panel, and also the Tone Curve
| | 02:44 | panel open at the same time.
| | 02:46 | Well, you can temporarily override
Solo mode by holding down the Shift key.
| | 02:51 | If you hold down the Shift key, and then
click on multiple panels here, you can
| | 02:55 | see that I can have two, or -- if I hold
down the Shift key, and click on another --
| | 03:00 | or even more panels open.
| | 03:02 | Next, in order to go back to just the
regular Solo mode, what you can do is
| | 03:07 | click on one of those triangle icons
once, and then click on it again, and by
| | 03:11 | doing that, it will take you out of that mode
where you have multiple panels open at one time.
| | 03:16 | All right; well, so far we've been
talking about how we can expand or collapse
| | 03:20 | this different panels by way of
clicking, yet let's say that what we want to
| | 03:24 | do is we want to access these panels and
their controls by way of a keyboard shortcut.
| | 03:30 | Well, let's take a look at how
we can do that in the next movie.
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| Advanced panel navigation| 00:00 | I imagine that when it comes to
workflow, and to working with shortcuts, we all
| | 00:04 | have our favorite shortcuts which
we rely on on a day to day basis.
| | 00:09 | Well here in this movie, I'm going to
show you a few of my favorite shortcuts
| | 00:13 | that I use all the time.
| | 00:14 | These are advanced shortcuts which
allow us to access the panels, and their
| | 00:19 | controls, which are located on the
right of the Lightroom Interface.
| | 00:23 | And, you know, we're going to spend a lot
of time in these panels, so it could be
| | 00:28 | really helpful to have a keyboard
shortcut which would allow you to access and
| | 00:31 | to work with these controls.
| | 00:33 | Say, for example, in a situation like this,
here I am in the Develop Module, and
| | 00:38 | with this photograph, I want
to apply a Split Toning effect.
| | 00:41 | Well, rather than clicking on this in order
to expand or collapse this particular panel,
| | 00:46 | I want to open it by way of a shortcut.
| | 00:49 | To do that, you can press Command on a
Mac, or Control on Windows, and then 0 through 8.
| | 00:55 | If we press Command+0 or Control+0, it will
open up the Histogram. Press that again;
| | 01:00 | it'll then close that.
| | 01:02 | In order to access, say, this Split Toning
panel, here I'll press Command+4 or Control+4.
| | 01:08 | Next, I'll dial in my effect, and what I
want to do is I want to add a little bit
| | 01:13 | of yellow to the Highlights, and
then also some blue to the Shadows.
| | 01:16 | Now, after having done that, I realize
that this image also needs some contrast,
| | 01:21 | and clarity, so I want to
go back to the Basic panel.
| | 01:25 | Again, rather than clicking on that
panel in order to open it up, I'll press
| | 01:30 | Command on a Mac, Control on
Windows, and then the 1 key.
| | 01:35 | That will take me to the Basic panel;
| | 01:37 | here I'll increase the Clarity, and
also the Contrast in order to modify
| | 01:41 | the image in this way.
| | 01:42 | And, as you can imagine, by knowing how
to use these shortcuts, it's going to cut
| | 01:48 | out that step of needing to click into
the different panels, and this can speed
| | 01:52 | up your workflow immensely.
| | 01:54 | I should also point out that as you
work in the different modules, whatever
| | 01:58 | module it is, you may have a hard
time memorizing the exact number which is
| | 02:03 | associated with that particular panel.
| | 02:06 | Well, that doesn't even really matter,
| | 02:07 | because let's say you're in the Develop
module, and let's say that now you want
| | 02:11 | to sharpen the image.
| | 02:12 | Well, rather than trying to memorize
the number for sharpening, you can press
| | 02:17 | Command on a Mac, Control on Windows,
and press and hold down that key.
| | 02:21 | Then you can just start
typing the different numbers.
| | 02:25 | I'll try 4; that wasn't it.
Then I'll try 5; okay, I got it.
| | 02:29 | And by using this technique, we can
click through these different numbers until
| | 02:32 | we find the panel that we want to work with.
| | 02:35 | In this case, I want to go ahead and
sharpen the image, so I'm just going to add
| | 02:39 | a little bit of a Sharpening effect.
| | 02:41 | So again, by using these different
shortcuts, it can really speed up your workflow.
| | 02:45 | So these are a few that I
recommend you write down.
| | 02:47 | You write down that you can use Command
or Control, plus the number keys, in order
| | 02:52 | to toggle open or close the
different panels on the right side of the
| | 02:56 | Lightroom interface.
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| Choosing the different modules| 00:00 | All right, well here I want to talk
about two different sets of keyboard
| | 00:03 | shortcuts that we can use in order to
navigate between the various modules.
| | 00:08 | Now, the three modules that you'll most
likely be using most frequently are the
| | 00:12 | Library, Develop, and Print modules,
| | 00:14 | so let's go ahead and start off with those.
| | 00:17 | Typically, we begin our
workflow here in the Library module.
| | 00:20 | Next we move to the Develop module.
| | 00:22 | Well, to navigate to the Develop module
by way of a shortcut, you can press the
| | 00:27 | D key; think D for develop.
| | 00:30 | Here in the Develop module, we may make
a few adjustments to the image, and then
| | 00:34 | we'll decide that we want
to print this photograph.
| | 00:36 | To navigate to the Print module, you press
Command+P on a Mac, or Control+P on Windows.
| | 00:43 | Well, after having printed this
photograph, let's say that we want to go back to
| | 00:47 | the Library module to select
another photograph to work on.
| | 00:51 | To do that, we can either
press the G or the E key.
| | 00:56 | The G and the E key allow us to go to a
Library module either in the grid; G for
| | 01:01 | grid, or E for loupe.
| | 01:03 | Let's go back to the Loupe
mode in the Library module,
| | 01:05 | so press the E key. Here I'll press the
G key to go to that Grid View, then I'll
| | 01:11 | select a picture;
let's say this one right here.
| | 01:13 | Next, I want to take this
picture to the Develop module.
| | 01:17 | To do that, I'll simply press the D key,
and here we are inside of that module.
| | 01:22 | If we want to go back to the Library
module, and to view this image in the Loupe
| | 01:26 | mode, so we have a nice large view of
this, you just press the E key, and it
| | 01:31 | will take you to that module, and show
you the image in that particular mode.
| | 01:34 | Well, now that we've covered these
shortcuts for Library, Develop, and Print,
| | 01:39 | what about the other modules?
| | 01:41 | Well, for all of the modules there
actually are some modifier keys and numbers
| | 01:46 | which we can use in order
to navigate between them.
| | 01:49 | If you're on a Mac, you
press and hold Option+Command;
| | 01:52 | if you're on Windows you
press and hold Control+Alt.
| | 01:55 | Then you can press the
different numbers on your keyboard.
| | 01:58 | For example, if I press and hold Option+
Command+3, or Alt+Control+3, what that will
| | 02:05 | do is it will take me to the Map module.
| | 02:07 | Or if I want to go to another module,
I can press the shortcut for that, and
| | 02:12 | here you can see, I'm just pressing
those two modifier keys, which is Option and
| | 02:16 | Command, and then a number.
| | 02:17 | It goes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and then 7.
| | 02:23 | So again, we can use those keys, and
the great thing about the shortcuts is
| | 02:27 | that you don't have to memorize the number
which is associated with the different module.
| | 02:31 | Rather, you just need to
memorize those two modifier keys.
| | 02:35 | Again, on a Mac that's Option+Command, on
Windows that's Control+Alt, then one of the numbers.
| | 02:41 | Another thing that we can do is we can
go, say, to the Library module, and then
| | 02:45 | navigate to the Develop module.
| | 02:48 | And let's go there by way of this
new shortcut that we've learned.
| | 02:51 | Here I'll press Option+Command+2,
or Control+Alt+2.
| | 02:55 | Now, if we go to Develop module, and
if we want to go back to the previous
| | 02:59 | module that we just worked on, we
can use those same modifier keys in
| | 03:04 | combination with our left or right arrow keys.
| | 03:08 | So here, if we press Option+Command+
left arrow, or Control+Alt+left arrow, it will
| | 03:14 | take us back to the previous module.
| | 03:16 | Press that shortcut again, and it'll go
back to the one that we've used before that.
| | 03:21 | So again, by using Option+Command, or
Control and Alt, we can either use those
| | 03:25 | modifier keys in combination with the
numbers to go to a specific module, or in
| | 03:31 | combination with the arrows to move
backwards or forwards between how we've
| | 03:36 | navigated with these modules.
| | 03:38 | To move forwards, I'll press Option+
Command+right arrow, or Control+Alt+right arrow.
| | 03:43 | All right, well there are a lot of
shortcuts there. What you'll want to do is write
| | 03:47 | them down, and then decide
which shortcuts you want to use.
| | 03:51 | You know, as with most software
applications, there are always more
| | 03:55 | shortcuts than you need.
| | 03:56 | You don't need to use all of them.
| | 03:58 | Rather, you want to become familiar
with a wide range of shortcuts, and then
| | 04:03 | select the few which will help you
navigate in order to use the application
| | 04:07 | most effectively.
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| Accessing contextual menus in each module| 00:00 | Here, I want to share with you a
shortcut that definitely every Lightroom
| | 00:04 | user needs to know.
| | 00:05 | And this shortcut is right-clicking, or
Control+clicking. And you can right-click or
| | 00:10 | Control+click all over the Lightroom
interface in order to perform different
| | 00:14 | functions, or different tasks.
| | 00:16 | For example, here we are in the
Library module. If we right-click or
| | 00:20 | Control+Click over the background -- we've already
seen this -- we can change that background color.
| | 00:25 | Or if we position our cursor over the
image, and then right-click or Control+click,
| | 00:29 | all of a sudden we have access to
all of these different menu items.
| | 00:34 | We can add metadata, we
can e-mail this photograph,
| | 00:37 | we can edit it in Photoshop;
| | 00:39 | again, there's a lot that we can do here.
| | 00:42 | We could also position our cursor over
other areas of the interface, like the panels.
| | 00:46 | Here, if we right-click or Control+click,
we can choose to display or hide the
| | 00:50 | different panels here.
| | 00:51 | We can also change these
panels to work in Solo mode.
| | 00:54 | If we move up to the top of the interface,
we can right-click or Control+click, and
| | 00:58 | we can hide different module picker buttons.
| | 01:01 | Again here, right-click or Control+
Click, and then we can show those.
| | 01:05 | Moving down to the base of the interface,
if we hover over this area here, right
| | 01:10 | above the filmstrip, and right-click
or Control+click, then we can select recent
| | 01:14 | folders that we've worked on.
| | 01:16 | Again, the point here isn't to show
you the specifics of all of these menus;
| | 01:20 | rather, it's to highlight this whole
idea of using these keys, or using this
| | 01:25 | functionality, which you can access
by right-clicking, or by Control+clicking.
| | 01:30 | If we navigate to different modules,
you'll find this in other modules as well.
| | 01:34 | Here in the Develop module, if we right-
click or Control+click over the image, we
| | 01:38 | could apply a metadata preset. We could
add our copyright information if we've
| | 01:43 | created a metadata preset previously.
| | 01:45 | Or if we navigate to the Map module,
here if we right-click or Control-click, we
| | 01:50 | can Add GPS Coordinates to Selected Photos.
| | 01:53 | If we go to the Book module, we can
then work to add pages, or copy layouts. And
| | 01:59 | so here you can see we can do
quite a bit with this functionality.
| | 02:02 | So here's what I recommend: rather than
showing you all of the ins and outs of
| | 02:06 | how you can work with these
contextual menus, I recommend that you start
| | 02:11 | right-clicking or Control+clicking all
over the Lightroom interface, so that you
| | 02:16 | can discover these contextual menus,
because many times you'll discover things
| | 02:21 | which will help you to work
more efficiently with Lightroom.
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| Adjusting preferences and catalog settings| 00:00 | In this brief movie, I want to share
with you two more need to know shortcuts
| | 00:04 | which you can use in order to access
and change your Preferences, and also
| | 00:08 | the catalog settings.
| | 00:10 | If you're on a Mac, you can press Command
+Comma, if you're on Windows, you can
| | 00:14 | press Control+Comma, in order
open up the Preferences dialog.
| | 00:19 | Here we can customize these Preferences.
| | 00:21 | For example, underneath the Import
Options, I always like to turn on the option
| | 00:25 | to Show the import dialog
when a memory card is detected.
| | 00:29 | Next I'll go ahead and close that, and
then next, let's look at how we can open
| | 00:34 | up our Preferences for our catalog settings.
| | 00:36 | To do that we will press Command+
Option on a Mac, or Control+Alt on
| | 00:41 | Windows, and then the same key: the Comma key.
| | 00:44 | This will open up our Catalog Settings,
and again, here we can customize these.
| | 00:49 | Rather than backing up my catalog
once a week, I want to back this up every
| | 00:53 | time Lightroom exits, so I will go ahead and
choose that option, and then close this dialog here.
| | 00:58 | All right, well just to reiterate
those, it's either Command+Comma or
| | 01:02 | Control+Comma for the Preferences,
or it's Command+Option+Comma or
| | 01:06 | Control+Alt+Comma in order to
open up the Catalog Settings.
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| Looking up keyboard shortcuts| 00:00 | Here I want to talk about how we can
look up shortcuts in the various modules,
| | 00:04 | and also how we can take advantage of
Adobe Help in order to get even better
| | 00:09 | with working with shortcuts.
| | 00:10 | All right. Well here we are
in the Library module.
| | 00:13 | Now, you may recall that we talked a bit
about the shortcuts that we can use in
| | 00:17 | the Library module to navigate
between the Grid and the Loupe View mode,
| | 00:22 | but let's say that you've forgotten
those shortcuts; how can you look them up?
| | 00:25 | Well, in each and every of the modules,
what you can do is press a shortcut key
| | 00:30 | in order to open up a view of the most
essential or important shortcuts for that module.
| | 00:36 | To do that, press Command on a
Mac, Control on Windows, and then the
| | 00:40 | forward slash key. The forward slash
key is the one which leans to the right.
| | 00:44 | And here you can see we can look up our
shortcuts for working with the Grid or the Loupe View.
| | 00:49 | That's either the G or the E key.
| | 00:52 | In order to hide this view of all of
these shortcuts, just click on them, and it
| | 00:56 | will take you back to the
regular view here in Lightroom.
| | 00:59 | If we navigate to a different module,
say, like the Develop module, we can
| | 01:03 | also use that shortcut.
| | 01:05 | Press Command on a Mac, Control on Windows,
then the forward slash key, and again,
| | 01:10 | this will open up our Develop module shortcuts.
| | 01:13 | Now, one thing that I should point out
here is that all of the shortcuts that
| | 01:17 | we'll be using in the
Develop module aren't here.
| | 01:19 | Rather, the most essential or more
important shortcuts are listed in this location.
| | 01:25 | Well let's go ahead and close the Develop
module shortcuts by clicking on this area.
| | 01:30 | Next what I want to do is take a look
at how we can look up the shortcut for
| | 01:35 | opening up that view of the shortcuts.
| | 01:36 | So let's say we've forgotten
how we can actually view that.
| | 01:39 | We've forgotten Command
or Control+forward slash.
| | 01:41 | Well, you can find that
by going to the Help menu.
| | 01:45 | Here in the Help menu, it will show
you that you can view the Develop module
| | 01:49 | shortcuts, or whatever module you're in,
by pressing these two keys together:
| | 01:54 | that's either Command or Control+forward slash.
| | 01:57 | And while we're here, I want
to highlight something else.
| | 02:00 | There's a really helpful feature
underneath the Help menu, which is Lightroom Help.
| | 02:05 | You can either click on
that, or press the F1 key.
| | 02:08 | Now, that's a key that I recommend
you write down, because it's incredibly
| | 02:12 | helpful to go to this Lightroom
Help area, especially when it comes to
| | 02:17 | working with shortcuts.
| | 02:18 | Here what I'm going to do is go ahead and
click on that in order to open up Lightroom Help.
| | 02:23 | Now I've opened up the online Adobe
Help for Lightroom, and here at the base of
| | 02:28 | this list, you can click on this menu
item here, Keyboard Shortcuts, in order to
| | 02:33 | view some really essential
and helpful keyboard shortcuts.
| | 02:37 | If we scroll down a little bit, you
can see there are keyboard shortcuts for
| | 02:40 | working with panels.
| | 02:41 | We've talked about a lot of these already.
| | 02:44 | Next we can scroll down to see
some keyboard shortcuts for navigating the
| | 02:47 | panels, or changing view or screen modes.
| | 02:50 | Again, there are a ton of
really helpful shortcuts here.
| | 02:54 | These will be a valuable resource
for you as you seek to get better to
| | 02:58 | working with shortcuts.
| | 02:59 | One of the things that I find, though,
that happens when you have a list of
| | 03:03 | shortcuts like this -- and let me show
you the list -- is that this list can
| | 03:07 | become overwhelming.
| | 03:09 | There are so many shortcuts to
memorize, it can seem impossible.
| | 03:13 | Well, what I like to do is to
use this list as a reference.
| | 03:17 | You can always print this out, and
have this sitting next to your computer,
| | 03:20 | and just highlight a few shortcuts that
you're working on; that you're seeking
| | 03:24 | to try to memorize.
| | 03:25 | Another thing that you can do is
simply go to this Help area, so that you can
| | 03:30 | then remember or relearn a few shortcuts,
because in my own experience, I find
| | 03:35 | that it's better to learn the shortcuts
in Lightroom, actually doing something,
| | 03:39 | and then to have something to refer
back to in order to freshen up my memory of
| | 03:43 | those various shortcuts.
| | 03:45 | Last, but not least, I should point out that in
this area, you won't find all of the shortcuts.
| | 03:50 | In this training course, we'll cover
some shortcuts which aren't listed here.
| | 03:55 | Yet, that being said, I hope that the
techniques that we've talked about here in
| | 03:58 | this movie will help you as you seek to
look up these shortcuts, so that you can
| | 04:03 | integrate more of them
into your overall workflow.
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2. Library Module: Getting Started and Importing ImagesWorking with the interface| 00:00 | Here I want to talk a little bit about
how we can get started working with the
| | 00:03 | Library module interface.
| | 00:05 | And in this movie, I'll share with you a
few shortcuts which will be a bit of a
| | 00:10 | review, but I'll also include
a couple of new ones as well.
| | 00:13 | All right; well for starters, here
we are in the Library module, and we're
| | 00:17 | viewing our images in the Grid View mode,
we've selected a folder; this folder
| | 00:21 | titled Daisy, because these are some
pictures that I captured of our puppy
| | 00:25 | Daisy, which we recently
adopted, and also her family.
| | 00:29 | In order to view one of these images in
the Loupe View, we can either click on
| | 00:33 | the image here in this Grid View, or we
can click on it in the filmstrip, and then
| | 00:38 | press the E key in order
to go to that Loupe View.
| | 00:41 | Next, you can use your arrow keys in
order to navigate between the different
| | 00:45 | photographs. Then if you want to go back
to the Grid View, simply press the G key.
| | 00:51 | Well, let's say that we want to do
some filtering with these photographs,
| | 00:54 | so that we can just view certain pictures
which were captured with a particular lens.
| | 01:00 | Well, to do that we need to open
up our Library filtering options.
| | 01:04 | In the Library module, to do that you
press the backslash key; that's the key which
| | 01:09 | leans to the left. Here you can see
it's opening up my Library Filters.
| | 01:13 | Next, we could click on a
filtering option, say, like Metadata;
| | 01:16 | here I could click on a lens, for example.
| | 01:19 | I just want to see the images which
were capture with a 50 mm lens. Or perhaps
| | 01:24 | I want to see those photographs which were
captured with the 24 to 70 millimeter lens.
| | 01:29 | In order to remove whatever
filtering criteria you've applied, you can
| | 01:33 | just click on None.
| | 01:34 | Next, if you want to show or hide the
Library filtering options, you can press
| | 01:39 | that backslash key in order to open
or to close those filtering options.
| | 01:44 | Next, let's move to the base of this
interface here, where we have the toolbar.
| | 01:49 | We've already talked about how we can
press the T key in order to show or hide
| | 01:53 | the toolbar. Then underneath that, it's
showing us where we are; we're in this
| | 01:58 | folder. We have 14 photographs in that folder.
| | 02:02 | If we want to change folders, we can
obviously either click inside of the folders
| | 02:06 | here, if you go ahead and select a
folder, or you can right-click or Control+click
| | 02:11 | on this area in order to choose the
folders which you've recently navigated to.
| | 02:16 | Now, if you have a folder that you work
with a lot, what you might want to do is
| | 02:21 | right-click or Control+click, and
then choose Add to Favorites.
| | 02:24 | By doing that, every time when you right
-click or Control+click, it will list that
| | 02:29 | folder here underneath Favorite Sources.
| | 02:31 | Well last, but not least, I want to take a
look at how we can start to work with our panels.
| | 02:37 | The panels on the right are going
to become really important for us, and
| | 02:41 | let's say that what we want to do with one of
these pictures is we want to add some metadata.
| | 02:45 | So here I'll go ahead and select a
photograph, and in order to view that
| | 02:49 | photograph a little bit better, I'm
going to press the E key to take this
| | 02:54 | to this Loupe View.
| | 02:55 | Next, I want to open up my
Metadata panel in order to add a caption.
| | 03:00 | To do that, rather than clicking,
we'll use the shortcuts which we've
| | 03:04 | learned previously; that is, to press Command
on the Mac, Control on Windows, and then a number.
| | 03:10 | In this case, our numbers
are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
| | 03:14 | Well, I want to go to the Metadata panel,
so we'll press Command+4 or Control+4 in
| | 03:19 | order to open up that panel.
| | 03:21 | Next here we could click on this pulldown
menu, and choose whatever metadata
| | 03:25 | criteria we want to work on.
| | 03:27 | I want to use the large caption option;
| | 03:29 | I'll go ahead and just
type out Daisy our new puppy.
| | 03:33 | Next, in order to apply that caption,
I'll just click out of that caption area
| | 03:38 | here, and by doing that I can then
apply that metadata to the photograph.
| | 03:42 | To close that panel, go ahead
and press Command+4 or Control+4.
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| Importing images and videos| 00:00 | Here I want to share with you a few
shortcuts that you can use when importing
| | 00:04 | photographs and video files into Lightroom.
| | 00:06 | For starters, you can import images
or video files directly to a folder by
| | 00:11 | selecting the folder, and then by
right-clicking or Control+clicking.
| | 00:16 | In this contextual menu, you can choose
Import to this Folder, and it will open up
| | 00:21 | the Import dialog, so that you
can start your importing process.
| | 00:24 | Another way that you can access or
open the Import dialog is by using a key
| | 00:29 | combination. On a Mac press Shift+Command+I;
on Windows press Shift+Control+I. In
| | 00:35 | this case, you can see that it's opened
our Import dialog, and here I'm importing
| | 00:39 | some photographs from a compact flash card.
| | 00:42 | Next, we're viewing the images
currently in this Grid View mode.
| | 00:47 | If we want a larger view of these
photographs, we can go ahead and, say, select
| | 00:51 | one. Then you can press the E key.
| | 00:54 | Think the E key for the Loupe View.
| | 00:57 | To navigate back to the Grid View, well,
here we can go ahead and press the G key.
| | 01:01 | Another way to navigate between
the Grid and the Loupe View is by
| | 01:05 | double-clicking. Double-click on a
thumbnail; the image becomes large.
| | 01:10 | Double-click again, and it
becomes small in the Grid View.
| | 01:13 | Well, let's say that you want to
change the thumbnail size. To do that, press
| | 01:17 | Command+Plus on the Mac, or
Plus on Windows, and then press
| | 01:21 | Command+Minus on a Mac, or Minus
on Windows, in order to change the size
| | 01:25 | of those thumbnails.
| | 01:26 | Well, how else can we change the view
that we have here with our photographs?
| | 01:30 | Well, if we navigate through our
pictures, and find an image that we want to
| | 01:34 | import -- let's say this one here -- let's
say that we'll double-click it in order
| | 01:38 | to take it to this Loupe View mode. Then we want
to see if we have good detail on the photograph.
| | 01:43 | Well, we can either simply click
in order to zoom in, or you can press
| | 01:47 | Command+Plus on a Mac, or Plus
on Windows in order to zoom in.
| | 01:51 | Here I'm zooming into this one to one
ratio in order to evaluate the detail that
| | 01:56 | we have in this photograph. To zoom
back out, just go ahead and click.
| | 02:00 | So you can zoom either by clicking on
your photograph, or by using those shortcut
| | 02:05 | key combinations of Command+Plus or
Command+Minus on a Mac, or Plus
| | 02:09 | or Minus on Windows.
| | 02:10 | All right, well, let's say that we've
decided that we only want to import a few
| | 02:15 | photographs from this set.
| | 02:16 | Well, let's take a look at
how we can select pictures.
| | 02:20 | In order to do that, I'm going to press
the G key, just so that we can see that
| | 02:24 | currently all of these
images are checked to be imported.
| | 02:27 | Well, let's say that we want to
uncheck all of the photographs.
| | 02:31 | To do that, you can press Command+A on
a Mac, or Control+A on Windows. Then you
| | 02:37 | can press the U key.
| | 02:38 | Think U for uncheck.
| | 02:41 | In order to select the photograph that
you want to import, go ahead and click on
| | 02:45 | it. Then you can press the P key.
| | 02:48 | This also works inside of the
Loupe View mode.
| | 02:50 | So here, I'll press the E key to go to
that Loupe View mode. You can see that
| | 02:55 | this one is checked off to
be included in the import.
| | 02:58 | If we use that same shortcut, which was
the U key to uncheck, the P key to check,
| | 03:04 | you can see that we can
turn that option on and off.
| | 03:07 | Last, but not least, what you may
start to do as you import your photographs
| | 03:12 | is you may start to create some of
your own presets. I talk about how you can
| | 03:16 | do that in one of my other courses, so I'm
not going to mention how we do that here.
| | 03:21 | Yet, what I do want to mention is that
if you're working with presets when you
| | 03:25 | are importing, what you'll probably
want to do is minimize the Import dialog.
| | 03:29 | To do that, you can press the Tab key.
The Tab key will show you a smaller
| | 03:33 | version of this import dialog; really
all of the essential information there.
| | 03:38 | To view all of the rest of the
interface again, we'll just press the Tab
| | 03:41 | key one more time, and it will bring
back the larger view of the Import
| | 03:45 | dialog interface.
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| Understanding tethered capture| 00:00 | Another way that you can import
photographs into Lightroom is by using what's
| | 00:03 | called Tethered Capture.
| | 00:05 | Tethered Capture entails connecting
your camera to your computer via a cord, so
| | 00:11 | that when you capture images, those
images can be saved on your hard drive, and
| | 00:15 | then directly imported into Lightroom.
| | 00:18 | Let's take a look at just a couple of
shortcuts that we can use when we're
| | 00:22 | using Tethered Capture.
| | 00:24 | In the Library module, let's
navigate to the File pulldown menu.
| | 00:27 | Here we're going to select
Tethered Capture, and then go ahead and
| | 00:30 | Start Tethered Capture.
| | 00:32 | This allows us to dial in
some Tethered Capture Settings.
| | 00:36 | I'm just going to use these default
settings here, and simply click OK.
| | 00:40 | Once we've done that, it will pick up
the camera that we have; also the settings
| | 00:44 | which we have for the camera.
| | 00:46 | In order to take a picture, we can
either click on the shutter release button on
| | 00:49 | our camera, or you can
press the Capture button here.
| | 00:53 | In this case, I'm just taking a photograph
of the coffee mug that I'm using, and
| | 00:57 | we'll see how that will
be imported into Lightroom.
| | 01:01 | You know, a lot of times with
Tethered Capture, this helps us to view our
| | 01:04 | images really quickly to check focus,
and composition; it gives this larger
| | 01:08 | preview of our photographs.
| | 01:10 | It also helps us so that we can really
start to work on the images pretty quickly.
| | 01:14 | Yet, a trick with Tethered Capture is
that this dialogue, here it's just too
| | 01:19 | big. It's hard to position this anywhere
where it isn't covering up something important.
| | 01:24 | So what I want to do is I want to talk
about a few shortcuts that you can use in
| | 01:29 | order to minimize, or to hide
this Tethered Capture dialog.
| | 01:33 | One technique that you can use is you
can hold down the Option key on a Mac,
| | 01:37 | or Alt key on Windows.
| | 01:38 | Notice that it changes that
X icon to a little dash.
| | 01:42 | If you click on that, it will then
the minimize this, so that we can then
| | 01:46 | position this somewhere where it's out
of the way, so that we can then access
| | 01:50 | the rest of the Lightroom interface.
| | 01:52 | If we go ahead and hold down the
Option key on a Mac, or Alt key on Windows,
| | 01:56 | notice the X turns into a plus icon.
Here we can click on that in order to
| | 02:00 | expand this dialogue, then we can
click and drag to move this around.
| | 02:04 | All right, well, what
about hiding this altogether?
| | 02:07 | Let's say that we don't
even want to see that dialogue.
| | 02:10 | Well, to hide it altogether, you press
Command+T on a Mac, or Control+T on Windows.
| | 02:15 | Now, this didn't stop or quit my
Tethered Capture session; rather, it's just
| | 02:20 | hiding that element of the interface.
| | 02:23 | In order to shoot, here I would just
press on the shutter release button on my
| | 02:27 | camera, then I could take a
picture, and you could see how it would be
| | 02:30 | automatically imported here into Lightroom,
| | 02:33 | and we can see that photograph here.
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3. Library Module: Viewing Your ImagesZooming in on images| 00:00 | Here we're going to talk a little bit
about filtering and finding photographs in
| | 00:03 | order to review a couple of the shortcuts
that I've already mentioned, and also
| | 00:07 | we're going to talk about how
we can zoom in to our pictures.
| | 00:11 | Well first what I want to do in the
Library module is I want to open up our
| | 00:16 | filtering options. To do that,
press the backslash key.
| | 00:19 | Next let's click on the Metadata tab in
order to filter based on some metadata.
| | 00:23 | Now, in the right-hand column, click on
this menu item and choose File Type. By
| | 00:28 | doing that, you can filter based on the
different type of files that you have.
| | 00:32 | In this case, I've selected the main
Exercise Files folder, and here I just want
| | 00:37 | to view the Digital Negatives.
| | 00:39 | These are the files which are
high or full resolution files.
| | 00:43 | Next, I'll go ahead and scroll down to
pick one out to work on, and to zoom in on.
| | 00:47 | I'm going to with this photograph
here. Next, I want to close the Library
| | 00:52 | filtering option, so here I'm going to
click None, so that I can then work
| | 00:57 | with all of the images, then I'll press the
bavkslash key to hide that filtering option up top.
| | 01:02 | Next, currently I've selected this
photograph here, yet I am viewing all of the
| | 01:07 | images that I have inside
of this Lightroom catalog.
| | 01:11 | Well let's say that I just want to go to
the folder where this image lives. To do
| | 01:15 | that, you can right-click or Control+click
on the image, then you can select Go to
| | 01:21 | Folder in the Library.
| | 01:22 | This will take us to the folder where this
image lives: the People folder. All right.
| | 01:28 | Now that we've done that, let's take a
look at a handful of different techniques
| | 01:31 | that we can use in order to
zoom in and out on this photograph.
| | 01:36 | Well if we want to this image, say, in that
Loupe View mode, we can either press the E
| | 01:41 | key, or we can double-click
on the photograph.
| | 01:44 | Double-clicking it takes it to this
larger view. Double-click again, and it
| | 01:48 | takes it back to this smaller view.
| | 01:51 | So double-clicking is a great way to
kind of zoom in and out in between the
| | 01:55 | Loupe and also the Grid View.
| | 01:58 | Next, let's take a look at how we can
use a few shortcuts on our keyboard.
| | 02:01 | On a Mac, we're going to press Command+Plus, or Minus.
On Windows, that will be Control+Plus, or Minus.
| | 02:07 | So here if we press Command+Plus or Control+Plus
multiple times, you can see how we can
| | 02:12 | zoom in closer and closer into this image.
| | 02:16 | Now that we've zoomed into this one to
one perspective, as you can see over here
| | 02:19 | in the Navigator panel, we can go ahead
and click and drag around the image, so
| | 02:24 | that we can see some
important details in this photograph.
| | 02:27 | We can go ahead and zoom in even further
by pressing Command+Plus or Control+Plus.
| | 02:32 | Now we've zoomed in beyond 100%. To
zoom back out, just press Command on a Mac,
| | 02:38 | Control on Windows, and then the Minus key,
and here you can see I can zoom all the
| | 02:42 | way back to that Grid View.
| | 02:44 | Well, another way that we can change our
view mode is by going to the Loupe View
| | 02:49 | here. Let's just double-click to do that,
and then we
| | 02:54 | can just click on the image.
| | 02:55 | If we click on the image one time, we
will zoom into that area the photograph at
| | 03:00 | this one to one perspective. Click
again to zoom out. Click on another area in
| | 03:04 | order to zoom into that area on the picture.
| | 03:07 | Once again, click in order to
zoom back to that Fit view.
| | 03:12 | Next, there are some other
shortcuts that we can use as well;
| | 03:15 | there are a lot of
different ways that we can zoom.
| | 03:18 | One that I find to be really
handy is to press the spacebar key.
| | 03:21 | If we press the spacebar key, it will
zoom in to that one to one perspective.
| | 03:26 | Press the spacebar key again,
and then it will zoom out.
| | 03:29 | Another shortcut key that we can
use on the keyboard is the Z key.
| | 03:34 | It does the same thing.
| | 03:35 | Here, when I press Z key,
I'm going to that one to one perspective.
| | 03:39 | Press it again, we can then
zoom back to this Fit in View mode.
| | 03:44 | So you can see, there are a number of
different ways that we can zoom in and
| | 03:48 | zoom out. What I recommend is that you
write down those different techniques or
| | 03:52 | shortcuts, and then figure out which
shortcuts suit you best, so that you can
| | 03:57 | integrate some of them into your workflow.
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| Exploring the Survey and Compare views| 00:00 | Next I want to take a look at how we
can use a few different view modes in the
| | 00:04 | Library module, which can
help us to find the keeper;
| | 00:07 | it can help us to survey the
photographs that we have, or to compare some
| | 00:11 | pictures, so that we can
determine which one we like best.
| | 00:14 | Well, first what we're going to do is take a
look at how we can work with this Survey mode.
| | 00:19 | You can see that I have one image
selected in the filmstrip below, and that I'm
| | 00:23 | working from this folder, Jared.
| | 00:24 | These are some pictures that I
captured in one of my other courses, Narrative
| | 00:28 | Portraiture, where we went to New York,
and where I photographed this Broadway
| | 00:31 | performer here on the Brooklyn Bridge.
All right.
| | 00:34 | Well, I want to add a few photos, so that I
can then survey all of these pictures together.
| | 00:40 | So to add some pictures to what I have
selected, hold down the Command key on a
| | 00:44 | Mac, and the Control key on Windows, and
go ahead and click on multiple images.
| | 00:48 | In this case, I've clicked on three images.
| | 00:51 | Next, we're going to press the N key in
order to enter what's called the Survey mode.
| | 00:56 | Here we can see that we have
these three images together.
| | 00:59 | Sometimes, when working in the Survey
mode, it may be helpful to press the Tab key
| | 01:04 | to hide the panels on the left and the right,
| | 01:06 | so you can really focus in on the images. Or you
may want to decrease the size of the filmstrip.
| | 01:12 | To do that, hover over the dividing
line, and then click and drag down, so that
| | 01:17 | those thumbnails become smaller.
| | 01:19 | Next, if you want to hide the
toolbar, just press the T key.
| | 01:23 | Well here let's add a few
more images to our survey.
| | 01:27 | To do that, press the Command key on the Mac,
Control key on Windows, and then go ahead
| | 01:32 | and click on a few more pictures.
| | 01:34 | As we do that, you can see that it's
going to arrange these photographs, so that
| | 01:38 | these can then all fit in this survey.
| | 01:40 | This can be a nice way to kind of almost
half, like, a light table, and to see some
| | 01:45 | photographs together.
| | 01:46 | Now, if ever you want to remove
photographs from a Survey mode, you can either
| | 01:50 | hover over the image, and click on the X
in the bottom right-hand corner, or you
| | 01:55 | can hold on the Command key on a Mac,
Control key on Windows, and then click on the
| | 01:59 | images here in the filmstrip below.
| | 02:02 | To bring back the panels on the right
and the left, press the Tab key. That
| | 02:07 | will then automatically arrange these
photographs, so that we can see all of them together.
| | 02:12 | You know, sometimes it's a nice way
to start to think about how you might
| | 02:15 | combine multiple images together.
| | 02:18 | Perhaps you want to have
two photographs side by side.
| | 02:21 | Well here, let's go ahead and
hide some of these pictures,
| | 02:24 | and in this case, I'm just going to
click on that bottom right-hand corner here
| | 02:28 | to hide those, so that I just
have these two pictures here.
| | 02:31 | Again, this might be a nice layout to
have these two photographs next to each other.
| | 02:36 | Now that we've looked at how we can
work with Survey mode, we've seen that it's
| | 02:40 | pretty free-form, and that you can
work with two or more photographs.
| | 02:44 | Next, let's take a look at how we
can work with what's called Compare.
| | 02:48 | To do that, I'm going to go ahead and
click on one image down here in the
| | 02:52 | filmstrip, then I'm going to press
the C key to enter into Compare mode.
| | 02:56 | In doing that, you notice that it automatically
selected the photograph right next to it.
| | 03:01 | Here I have the Select image, then
next to it I have the Candidate.
| | 03:06 | You can also see that in the filmstrip
down below, we have these little icons:
| | 03:10 | either a diamond which is
white, or one which is black.
| | 03:14 | Now, we can select different photographs
in order to, say, make some comparisons to
| | 03:19 | try to find the best picture.
| | 03:21 | To do that, I'll go ahead and press
Command or Control, and then I'll click on a few
| | 03:26 | other pictures here in the filmstrip.
| | 03:28 | Next, to change the Candidate, we can go
ahead and use our arrow keys; either our
| | 03:32 | left or a right-hand arrow keys.
| | 03:34 | Here I'm going to press the left arrow
key, and you can notice that that little
| | 03:38 | diamond, it traveled over to this
picture, showing me that this is the image
| | 03:42 | which I'm now comparing against this one.
| | 03:45 | Press the left arrow key again, and
you can see that we now have these two
| | 03:48 | photographs in View.
| | 03:49 | Next, I'll press the right arrow key
to go back to just having these two
| | 03:54 | photographs together, and then I want
to remove these two from my comparison.
| | 03:59 | So hold down the Command on a Mac, Control
key on Windows, and then click on those
| | 04:03 | images here in the filmstrip.
| | 04:05 | Next, if you want a flip-flop that
which is selected, and also that which is the
| | 04:10 | Candidate, you press the Command key
on a Mac, or Control key on Windows, and then
| | 04:15 | you use your arrow keys.
| | 04:17 | In doing that, either by pressing the
right or the left arrow key, you can see
| | 04:21 | how these icons have now changed, and also
the position of the images up top have changed.
| | 04:28 | By doing this, what essentially I've
done here is I've decided that this one is
| | 04:32 | my Select photograph.
| | 04:34 | I like this expression more than this picture,
so that's the image that I want to work with;
| | 04:39 | that's the keeper.
| | 04:40 | In order to exit out of this Compare
mode, we'll just press the C key again, and
| | 04:44 | this'll just go back to this regular
view mode, with the image which you had
| | 04:48 | selected, or the photograph which
you had in that Select position.
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| Rotating the image| 00:00 | Here I want to briefly talk about
how we can rotate or flip our images
| | 00:04 | horizontally or vertically.
| | 00:06 | You know, sometimes what will happen is
you have a photograph which will come
| | 00:09 | into Lightroom and you'll need to rotate it.
| | 00:12 | To do that, you can press Command on a Mac,
Ctrl on Windows, and then use the bracket keys.
| | 00:17 | If you press the right bracket key,
you can rotate your image to the right;
| | 00:22 | press Command+Left Bracket or Ctrl+Left Bracket key
and you can rotate your image to the left.
| | 00:27 | And here you can see I'm just
rotating the image by pressing
| | 00:30 | Command+Left Bracket key.
| | 00:32 | What about being able to flip the image?
| | 00:35 | Let's say that we want to have the
exact opposite of this, so that we can flip
| | 00:39 | the image horizontally.
| | 00:40 | Well, to do that, we need to right-click
or Ctrl+Click on the photograph. Then we
| | 00:45 | can go to the Transform options here,
and we can use either Rotate Left or
| | 00:50 | Right, which we just talked
about, or we can flip this.
| | 00:53 | There isn't a shortcut key command for
flip horizontal or vertical, so you have
| | 00:57 | to go to this menu, whereas with
rotation, we could use Command or Ctrl, Right
| | 01:02 | Bracket or Left Bracket.
| | 01:04 | So let's go ahead and select Flip
Horizontal, and you can see how we now have a
| | 01:07 | mirrored version of this photograph.
Right-click or Ctrl+Click again and then
| | 01:12 | choose Transform and you can use Flip
Vertical as well in order to change the
| | 01:16 | orientation vertically.
| | 01:18 | Well, that didn't really work
for me, so I want to undo that.
| | 01:22 | To undo anything in Lightroom, you can
press Command on a Mac, Ctrl on Windows
| | 01:27 | and then Z key. That will
step back through your history,
| | 01:31 | so you can undo the different
adjustments that you've made.
| | 01:34 | Now by flipping this image, it now has
this new orientation. If ever you want to
| | 01:39 | take this back to the normal way
that we had the photograph, we can then
| | 01:43 | right-click or Ctrl+Click and choose
Transform, and then just choose Flip
| | 01:47 | Horizontal, to bring this back
to the way that it was originally.
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| Exploring view options | 00:00 | Here I want to share with you a few
view options that we have in the Library
| | 00:04 | module, whether we're working with
the Loupe or the Grid View modes.
| | 00:07 | The shortcut keys that you will want to
write down are I, J, then Command+J, or
| | 00:13 | Control+J; that's Command+J on a Mac, or Control+J
on Windows, and let me show you what I mean.
| | 00:19 | Well here in the Loupe View mode, if we
press the I key, we can all of a sudden
| | 00:23 | see this information
overlaid on top of the photograph.
| | 00:26 | This is showing us the filename, also
how the image was captured, and the focal
| | 00:30 | length of the lens that was used.
| | 00:32 | Press the I key again, and we
see some other common attributes.
| | 00:36 | Press the I key a third time, and
all of this information disappears.
| | 00:40 | Well, where does this information come from?
| | 00:43 | Well, if you press Command on a Mac, or
Control on Windows, and then the J key, it will
| | 00:50 | open up your Library View Options.
| | 00:52 | Here we can go into these Loupe View
options, and rather than displaying the File
| | 00:57 | Name, let's say that we want to
include the overall Cropped Dimensions.
| | 01:00 | Here, when we select that, it
will show us those options here.
| | 01:04 | If we want to change the criteria for
the Loupe Info 2, here we can go ahead and
| | 01:09 | click on a different option, say, like
File Name, so it will then display that.
| | 01:14 | Next, if we close out of these Library
View Options, we can then press the I key
| | 01:19 | in order to toggle through these
different information overlay views.
| | 01:24 | All right, well that's with the
Loupe View; what about the Grid View?
| | 01:28 | Let's press the G key, and
navigate to the Grid View.
| | 01:31 | To change the way that we're viewing
this grid, or the cells, or the information
| | 01:35 | around the images, we can do
that by pressing the J key.
| | 01:40 | If we press the J key, we'll toggle
through the different views that we
| | 01:43 | have here, so that we can either display
more or less information with those thumbnails.
| | 01:49 | To change what information we're
seeing here, once again, press Command on a
| | 01:53 | Mac, Control on Windows, then the J key.
This will open up our Library View Options,
| | 01:59 | but this time it will
highlight the Grid View.
| | 02:01 | Here it's showing us these
Grid Options in different ways.
| | 02:05 | Here I want to Show the Grid Extras,
either with Expanded or with Compact Cells.
| | 02:11 | With the Compact Cells, I could go ahead
and choose to display less information
| | 02:15 | here, so I'm just going to click
to remove some of these criteria.
| | 02:18 | Here, perhaps I'll just
leave the Index Number on.
| | 02:22 | Then we could go to the Expanded
Cells, where we have a lot of different
| | 02:26 | information displayed, and in that, I'm
going to go ahead and click on some of
| | 02:30 | these criteria, so that we have those.
| | 02:32 | And in this way, we can modify
or customize what's displayed.
| | 02:36 | After we've customized those options,
we'll click on this icon in order to close
| | 02:41 | that dialog, then we can press the J
key in order to toggle through those
| | 02:46 | different view modes.
| | 02:47 | So again, let's reiterate
these shortcuts that we've learned.
| | 02:51 | If we're in the Loupe View mode, which
we can access by pressing the E key, we
| | 02:56 | can press the I key to toggle
through the Information Overlay options.
| | 03:00 | If we're in the Grid View mode, which
we access by pressing the G key, we
| | 03:05 | can press the J key to toggle through the way
that we view information with our thumbnails.
| | 03:11 | And then last, but not least, we learned
the shortcut to open up the menu where we
| | 03:16 | can customize either our Grid or
Loupe Views, and the shortcut for that is
| | 03:21 | Command on the Mac, Control on Windows,
then the J key in order to open up our
| | 03:27 | Library View Options.
| | 03:29 | And last, but not least, once these
options are open, you can always click
| | 03:33 | on these tabs in order to access
these menus, so that you can then change
| | 03:37 | the criteria. So it's as simple as
clicking on those tabs, and then making
| | 03:41 | the choices of what you want to have
displayed either over or around your
| | 03:45 | photographs.
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| Creating a layout overlay| 00:00 | The latest version of Lightroom
provides us with a way to overlay a transparent
| | 00:05 | PNG file on top of our image, in order
to simulate how our photograph might look,
| | 00:10 | say, if it were on the
cover of a particular magazine.
| | 00:13 | Well here we're going to take a look
at the shortcuts that we can use in order
| | 00:17 | to select, and then to activate that
image, to kind of preview how a photograph
| | 00:22 | might look if it were
chosen as a cover of a magazine.
| | 00:26 | This particular technique is really
helpful when you're shooting for a magazine
| | 00:30 | in order to kind of mock up a layout.
| | 00:32 | Well here what we need to do first is
to select the transparent PNG file that
| | 00:37 | we've created in Photoshop.
| | 00:38 | To do that, press Shift+Option+Command+O
on a Mac, or Shift+Alt+Control+O on Windows.
| | 00:45 | Next, I'm navigating to the Resource
Files folder, which is located inside of
| | 00:50 | our Exercise Files folder, and I'm going to
select overlay-idea-1.png, and then click Choose.
| | 00:57 | Here you can see we now have this layout.
We can move this around a little bit
| | 01:01 | by holding down the Command key.
| | 01:03 | Press the Command key, then you get
access to some other options, like
| | 01:07 | repositioning this, or you can
also change the surrounding area.
| | 01:12 | Press and hold Command, and we can
control that color of the background.
| | 01:16 | We can either black that out
completely, or just have it light gray.
| | 01:20 | We can also control the
overall Opacity of the graphic.
| | 01:23 | Here we can have this a little bit
more transparent, or we can bring its
| | 01:27 | Opacity all the way up.
| | 01:28 | Now, with this mock layout, I'm not
really liking this image for the cover, so I
| | 01:34 | want to try another photograph.
| | 01:35 | To do that, just click on another
image, and you can see how that would then
| | 01:39 | fit with this layout.
| | 01:40 | You can also choose different layout images.
| | 01:43 | Press Shift+Option+Command+O on a Mac,
or Shift+Alt+Control+O on Windows, and then
| | 01:49 | select another overlay idea, in this
case, overlay-idea-2, and you can see that
| | 01:54 | this cover has a little bit of a border.
| | 01:56 | Here we can choose different photographs, and
we can see how these might fit in this area.
| | 02:01 | Next, press the Command key in order
click and drag this around, so that we can
| | 02:05 | position this exactly where we want it.
And I think for this mockup, perhaps
| | 02:10 | this photograph would work well.
| | 02:12 | Now, once we've viewed our image with
this overlay, we will want to be able to
| | 02:16 | turn this off quickly.
| | 02:17 | To do that, press Command+Option+O on
a Mac, or Control+Alt+O on Windows. That
| | 02:23 | toggles the visibility of
that overlay on and off.
| | 02:27 | So again, to bring that back, press
Command+Option+O or Control+Alt+O. That will
| | 02:32 | then bring back the visibility of this
overlay PNG file that we've selected.
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| Finding and selecting images| 00:00 | Here I want to share with you
some valuable shortcuts when it comes to
| | 00:03 | selecting and deselecting your photographs.
| | 00:06 | Currently, you can see we're working with
this Jared folder inside of our Library
| | 00:10 | module, and I have one
image selected; this one here.
| | 00:14 | Well, to select all of the images
inside of this folder, we can press Command
| | 00:18 | on the Mac, Control on Windows, and the A key;
think of Command or Control, A being for All.
| | 00:25 | All right.
| | 00:25 | Well now that we have all of the
images selected, let's say that we want to
| | 00:30 | deselect all of these photographs;
we don't want any of them selected.
| | 00:33 | To do that, press Command+D or Control+D.
Next, to choose an image, we can go ahead
| | 00:39 | and click on it here in the filmstrip.
| | 00:41 | Then, if we want to select specific
images, you can press the Command key on the
| | 00:47 | Mac, or Control key on Windows, and you can
go ahead and click on images in order to
| | 00:51 | add them to the selection.
| | 00:53 | To deselect these, just go ahead and
click on them while holding down the Command
| | 00:57 | or Control key. Or if you want to reselect
them, press Command on the Mac, Control on
| | 01:03 | Windows, and go ahead and
just click on those images.
| | 01:05 | Well, let's say that you've made a
selection of photographs, but then you've
| | 01:09 | decided that you want to deselect these
pictures, but you only want to deselect
| | 01:15 | the ones which you added to the selection, so
that you only have the active photo selected.
| | 01:21 | Well there is a shortcut for that.
| | 01:22 | That would be the first photo
that we clicked on to Select.
| | 01:25 | So if we only want that one
selected, what we'll do is we'll press
| | 01:29 | Command+Shift+D on the Mac,
or Control+Shift+D on Windows.
| | 01:34 | Do you remember that Command+
D or Control+D was Deselect All?
| | 01:38 | Well, Shift+Command+D or Shift+Control+D, is
deselect all except for the active image. All right!
| | 01:45 | Well, let's say that we want to deselect
the active photograph; how can we do that?
| | 01:50 | Well, you can do that by pressing the
Forward Slash key; that's the key which
| | 01:55 | leans to the right. So here, when we
press that, we now have no photo selected.
| | 02:01 | Next let's go ahead and take a look at a
shortcut of how we can add pictures to a selection.
| | 02:06 | One way to do that is to click on
an image, and then to use some shortcut
| | 02:10 | keys on our keyboard.
| | 02:12 | If we want to add a photograph to the
selection, what you can do is press the
| | 02:16 | Shift key, and then use your arrow Keys.
| | 02:19 | Here I'll press the right arrow key;
you can see how I'm adding these images to
| | 02:23 | the right. Or you can press the left
arrow key to remove those from the
| | 02:27 | selection. Keep pressing this, and you
can see how we can add these images on
| | 02:31 | the left-hand side.
| | 02:32 | Once again, once we're ready to deselect,
say, all of these except for the active
| | 02:37 | photo, just to reiterate this shortcut,
we press Shift+Command+D on the Mac, or
| | 02:42 | Shift+Control+D on Windows.
| | 02:45 | Now, so far we've looked at a lot of
really helpful shortcuts for selecting and
| | 02:49 | deselecting, and you may be thinking to
yourself, well, why will we want to select pictures?
| | 02:54 | Well, you may need to select pictures
so that you can export those, or upload
| | 02:58 | them to an online Web gallery, or send
them to a client, and knowing how to
| | 03:02 | effectively select or deselect your
images can really increase your overall
| | 03:07 | effectiveness when it comes to
completing other tasks with your photographs.
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4. Library Module: Organizing Your ImagesRenaming and relocating images| 00:00 | Here we are going to start to talk
about how we can organize our images and
| | 00:04 | media files by using the Library module.
| | 00:06 | In particular, we are going to be
focusing in on three different topics.
| | 00:10 | We will look at how we can locate our
files in a particular folder on a hard drive.
| | 00:14 | We will also talk about how we can
most effectively relocate those files; in
| | 00:19 | other words, how we can move those
files to different folders. And then we will
| | 00:23 | talk about how we can
rename our images or movie files.
| | 00:26 | Well, let's start off with this image here.
| | 00:28 | With this image, what I want to do is
take a look at the file name, and I want to
| | 00:33 | look at that as some information
which is overlaid on top of the image.
| | 00:37 | So let's go ahead and press Command+J
on a Mac or Control+J on Windows to open up
| | 00:42 | our Library View Options.
| | 00:43 | In the Loupe Info, make sure you have
the File Name option here, then go ahead
| | 00:48 | and press the I key in order to
turn that information overlay on.
| | 00:52 | Well as you can see with this file name,
it's the generic file name that came
| | 00:56 | straight off the computer.
| | 00:58 | Well, what I want to do is I
want to change that file name.
| | 01:01 | To do that we will go
ahead and press the F2 key.
| | 01:04 | Once we've done that, we can go ahead
and click on this pulldown menu. Here I
| | 01:08 | will choose Custom Name.
| | 01:09 | I will go ahead and name this file
lake_casitas, because that's where it was
| | 01:13 | captured, and then I'll click OK.
| | 01:15 | Now we can see that this file has a new name.
| | 01:18 | Next, I want to take a look at a few
other images. As I click on these other
| | 01:23 | images, I notice that there are some
custom names here; Santa Barbara Harbor 01
| | 01:26 | and 03.
| | 01:27 | Yet actually what I want to do is
make a new sequence, or I want to rename
| | 01:32 | a sequence of images.
| | 01:33 | So I want to reorder my images.
| | 01:36 | To do that, I can either work in the
filmstrip here, and I can click on a photograph,
| | 01:40 | and then click and drag it, or if you
press the G key to go to the Grid View, you
| | 01:45 | can also click and drag
to rearrange your images.
| | 01:47 | I want these three images to have
a name which reflects the sequence.
| | 01:52 | So here, we'll go ahead and select those
three images. You can select those files
| | 01:57 | by doing this either in
the grid, or in the filmstrip.
| | 01:59 | You click on the first image, hold
down the Shift key, then click on the last
| | 02:03 | image in the sequence,
however long the sequence is.
| | 02:07 | Next, press the F2 key, and here in our
File Naming pulldown menu, this time we
| | 02:13 | will use Custom Name - Sequence.
| | 02:15 | I will go ahead and name this sb-harbor,
and then I'll go ahead and click OK.
| | 02:20 | In this way, if we press the E key,
you can see we have one file named
| | 02:24 | sb-harbor-1, here is sb-harbor-2,
and then we have sb-harbor-3.
| | 02:28 | So you can see that we can rename either
single images, or images that are in a sequence.
| | 02:34 | Well, what about locating a file in
a particular folder on a hard drive?
| | 02:38 | Well, to do that, you simply click on the
image that you want to target or locate.
| | 02:43 | And here, then, we'll press Shift+Command+D
on a Mac, or Shift+Control+D on Windows to
| | 02:48 | deselect the other photographs.
| | 02:50 | Next, you can right-click or Control+click,
and then select Show in Finder, or Show
| | 02:55 | in Explorer, depending upon the
operating system that you're using.
| | 02:59 | In my case, I'll click on Show in Finder.
| | 03:02 | This will then pull up my Finder window,
and it will point to that folder, which
| | 03:06 | is titled Other, and there you can see the image.
| | 03:09 | The reason why I wanted to highlight
this here is it is helpful to know how to
| | 03:14 | locate those files on particular hard
drives, and it's also helpful to point out
| | 03:18 | that when you view your images in
these folders, you don't want to make any
| | 03:22 | changes here. You may be tempted to
relocate the file, or to change its name
| | 03:27 | here; you don't want to do that.
| | 03:29 | Changes like renaming or relocating
files, you always want to do those right
| | 03:34 | inside of Lightroom.
| | 03:35 | So let's go ahead and close
this Finder or Explorer window.
| | 03:38 | Next, let's go to the People folder.
| | 03:40 | In the People folder, if you press the G
key, you can see that the top two images
| | 03:45 | are not people photographs;
these images are in the wrong folder.
| | 03:49 | So hold down the Command key on a Mac,
or Control key on Windows, and click on both
| | 03:54 | of those images in order to select them.
| | 03:56 | Now, if we want to relocate these,
say we want to take these to the Travel
| | 04:00 | folder, we can go ahead and hover
over the image, and then click and drag on
| | 04:04 | those images to this Travel folder.
| | 04:06 | This will open up a dialog which is
saying, hey, you are moving these files on
| | 04:10 | the disk; they are now being moved from one
folder on your hard drive to another folder.
| | 04:15 | This will cause these files to
be moved. This cannot be undone.
| | 04:20 | So that's exactly what we want to do, so
here we will simply click Move in order
| | 04:24 | to relocate these files to a new folder.
| | 04:27 | If we go to the Travel folder, we will
now see those files, and we will now see
| | 04:32 | that they reside inside of that folder.
| | 04:34 | Also, if we were to select one of
these images, then we could go ahead and
| | 04:39 | right-click or Control+click on the
image, and you can select Show in Finder, or
| | 04:43 | Show in Explorer, and that will then
open up that particular folder on our hard
| | 04:47 | drive, in this case, the Travel folder,
and here you can see those two images
| | 04:52 | reside in that folder.
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| Adding labels, stars, or flags| 00:00 | When it comes to organizing your
images and media files in the Library
| | 00:04 | module, one of the most common things
that you'll want to do is to add flags,
| | 00:08 | stars, or labels in order to
separate the good photographs from those
| | 00:13 | photographs which aren't so good.
| | 00:15 | Because you know in digital capture
we typically take too many pictures,
| | 00:19 | we need some sort of a method or some
shortcuts which will help us separate
| | 00:23 | those photographs which are keepers
from those which aren't. So here, let's take
| | 00:28 | a look at this set of photographs.
| | 00:30 | I've clicked into this folder,
Sayulita, Here we have 13 images,
| | 00:34 | and what I was trying to capture with
these photographs were the colors of this
| | 00:37 | little town which we had visited in Mexico.
| | 00:40 | So let's go ahead and take our first
image to the Loupe View by pressing the E key.
| | 00:44 | Next, I want to make sure that you have
the toolbar visible; press the T key to
| | 00:49 | show or hide the Toolbar.
| | 00:50 | Then I want to make sure that you can
see the icons for flags, stars and labels.
| | 00:55 | If you're not seeing those, click on
this icon here, and then you can turn those
| | 01:00 | on and off by simply
clicking on these fields here.
| | 01:03 | Well let's take a look at how we
can work with these three different
| | 01:06 | additive metadata criteria.
| | 01:09 | And what I mean by that is, this is
metadata that we can add to our file.
| | 01:13 | We can select to give a particular star rating,
or label, or flag to one of our photographs.
| | 01:19 | To work with flags, we'll use three
different shortcuts: it's either P, U, or X.
| | 01:25 | P for Pick, U for Unpick, or
remove flag, and then X for Reject.
| | 01:30 | So here I'll go ahead and press the P key.
You can see it's flagged as pick, and
| | 01:34 | it's showing me the icon
here in the toolbar.
| | 01:36 | Press the U key, and you can remove
the flag, or I like to think of that one
| | 01:41 | as Unpick, and then you can press the X key
in order to flag this photograph as rejected.
| | 01:46 | Again, if you want to remove either the
rejected flag, or the picked flag, just
| | 01:51 | press the U key, and that
will then remove that flag.
| | 01:54 | All right, well what about
the star rating?
| | 01:56 | Well, in order to add a star rating to
our photographs, we can use the shortcut
| | 02:01 | keys of 0 to 5.
| | 02:03 | If we press the 1 key, we can add a one
star, two, so on, and so forth, and you can
| | 02:08 | see how we can add these different star ratings.
| | 02:10 | 1 through 5 adds a number star rating.
| | 02:13 | Here I have a five star
rating for this photograph;
| | 02:17 | I could change this to a three
star rating by pressing the 3 key.
| | 02:20 | Yet, if we want to remove the stars
altogether, we will press the 0 key.
| | 02:25 | That will then set that rating to zero.
| | 02:27 | Next we have some color labels. For the
labels, we can use our keys six through nine.
| | 02:33 | We'll press 6 for a red label, 7 for a yellow
label, and then 8 for a green label, and so on.
| | 02:39 | So what we can start to do is we can
add these different criteria to kind of
| | 02:44 | earmark or set apart some of our photographs.
| | 02:47 | To remove labels, like to remove this
green label, we will go ahead and just
| | 02:52 | press the key again.
| | 02:53 | So if I press that 8 key, I can
either add or remove that label.
| | 02:58 | Well let's go through these photographs
in a little bit more of a realistic way,
| | 03:01 | now that we know a bit about these shortcuts.
| | 03:04 | Again, for flags it's P, U, or X. Stars, 0
through 5, and then labels, 6 through 9.
| | 03:11 | Here with this first photograph, what I
want to do is give this a star rating.
| | 03:15 | I like this image, so I'll go ahead and
press the 4 key to give this a four star rating.
| | 03:20 | Then I'll press my right arrow
key to move to the next image.
| | 03:23 | I like this one as well, so I'll press
4 to give this a four star rating, and
| | 03:27 | then I'll move to the next image.
| | 03:29 | Now, this particular image, I don't like
it as much, so I am going to give it a
| | 03:34 | lower star rating; here I'll press the 2 key.
| | 03:36 | Then I'll press the right arrow key
again to move through my photographs.
| | 03:40 | And as you can see here, I can click
through these pictures, and I can add
| | 03:44 | different star ratings.
| | 03:45 | As we click back through the photographs, you
can see that it will show us these star
| | 03:49 | ratings here in this toolbar.
| | 03:51 | All right, well now that we've done this,
let's talk a little bit about how we
| | 03:55 | might want to use these different criteria.
| | 03:57 | You know, there isn't one
technique which is best.
| | 04:00 | In other words, flags aren't better
than stars, or labels, or vice versa.
| | 04:05 | Really, this is just a
matter of personal preference.
| | 04:07 | But what you can do eventually is you
can add these different types of criteria,
| | 04:12 | and then take advantage of it by
filtering what you're seeing inside of your
| | 04:16 | different folders, so that you can
then separate the keepers from those
| | 04:20 | photographs that aren't.
| | 04:21 | We'll be talking about that a little bit later.
| | 04:24 | Yet, before we get to that, the
last thing that I want to highlight is
| | 04:28 | that sometimes what you'll do is
you may want to use a combination of
| | 04:31 | different criteria.
| | 04:32 | For example, this image, it has a three
star rating, but let's say that I also
| | 04:37 | want to post this photograph on my blog.
| | 04:40 | Well, the label that I like to use for
images which I'm going to post to my
| | 04:44 | blog is the red label.
| | 04:46 | So here I'll press the 6 key.
| | 04:48 | So this image not only has a three star
rating, but it also has this red label,
| | 04:53 | which I can then use and take
advantage of at a later time.
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| Deleting images quickly with flags| 00:00 | Now that we know quite a bit about how
we can add flags, stars, or labels by way
| | 00:04 | of a shortcut, here what I want to do
is share with you an advanced tip that I
| | 00:09 | use literally every time that I'm
working on organizing my images, especially
| | 00:14 | after a photo shoot, when I'm
looking to separate the keepers from those
| | 00:18 | photographs which aren't. You know,
what always happens is there are those
| | 00:22 | photographs which I definitely know
that I want to delete. I want to get rid of
| | 00:26 | them, because they're not working at all.
| | 00:28 | And I've decided that this image is one
of those, because after having looked at
| | 00:33 | it, I've realized it isn't sharp.
| | 00:34 | So this image isn't going to work for me.
| | 00:37 | I want to delete it; I want to trash it.
| | 00:39 | Well here what you can do is press the X
key in order to set this image as rejected.
| | 00:44 | You could then go through all of your
photographs, and set all of the pictures
| | 00:48 | as rejected, and then after you've done that,
you can press this shortcut key command:
| | 00:54 | on a Mac you press Command+Delete, on
Windows you press Control+Backspace, and this
| | 01:00 | will open up this dialog.
| | 01:01 | It says, hey, do you want to delete the
rejected master photo from your disk, or
| | 01:05 | just remove it from Lightroom?
| | 01:08 | Delete moves the files to the
Finder's Trash, or to the Recycling can, and it
| | 01:13 | removes it from Lightroom.
| | 01:14 | In other words, this is like getting
rid of this file completely; is that
| | 01:17 | what we want to do? Well, definitely.
| | 01:20 | And if that was the case with this photograph,
we'd simply click on Delete from Disk.
| | 01:24 | And what's great about this is if you
go through your photographs, and if you
| | 01:29 | press that X key to add that set as
rejected rating on those photographs, you
| | 01:33 | can have a whole set of pictures which
you can get rid of really quickly, because
| | 01:38 | what can happen is, in digital
capture we shoot too much, right?
| | 01:42 | Yet we have all of these images that
were hanging onto which we don't need to
| | 01:45 | keep, but those files are taking up
a lot of space on our hard drives.
| | 01:50 | By using this shortcut combination it
allows us to get rid of these files really
| | 01:55 | quickly in order to free up
some space on our hard drives.
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| Changing labels, stars, or flags| 00:00 | Now that we know the basics of how we
can add flags, stars, or labels by way of a
| | 00:04 | few shortcuts, let's talk about how
we can more effectively work with these
| | 00:09 | three different criteria,
and let's start off with stars.
| | 00:12 | Here you can see with this photograph
that in the previous movie I added a 3-
| | 00:16 | star rating to it. I did
so by pressing the 3 key.
| | 00:19 | Well now I want to change the star rating.
| | 00:21 | I've decided that like this photograph
a little bit more, so I want to increase
| | 00:26 | the rating to 4 stars.
| | 00:28 | To do that on your keyboard,
you can use the bracket keys.
| | 00:31 | If you press the right bracket key that
will increase the star rating, and you
| | 00:36 | can press the right bracket key to
increase it all the way up to 5 or press the
| | 00:40 | left bracket key in order
to decrease that rating.
| | 00:43 | You can do this with images which already
have a star rating or with those which don't.
| | 00:49 | Like with this photograph here, to add a
1-star rating. I'll just press the right
| | 00:53 | bracket key and then I'll continue
to press that in order to increase the
| | 00:56 | overall star rating.
| | 00:58 | Now, another thing that we've talked about
is how we can add flags to our photographs.
| | 01:02 | We can press the P key in order to flag
an image as a picked photograph or we can
| | 01:07 | press the U key to unpick or to remove the flag.
| | 01:11 | Yet there are two other shortcuts
that we can use when working with flags.
| | 01:15 | If you look at your keyboard, or at least
in my keyboard, I have this key which is
| | 01:20 | located in the top left-hand
corner, right beneath the Escape key.
| | 01:24 | This key allows me to change my flag rating.
| | 01:27 | If you press this key, you can flag an
image as picked. Press it again and then you
| | 01:32 | can remove the flag.
| | 01:33 | This key is called the back quote key
or the accent key and again, you can use
| | 01:38 | this key to either add or remove flags.
| | 01:41 | Another way that you can do that is on
a Mac, press Command, on Windows press
| | 01:45 | Ctrl, and then use your up and down arrow keys.
| | 01:49 | Press the up key in order to flag
that image; press the down key in order
| | 01:54 | to remove the flag.
| | 01:56 | So again, there are just
multiple ways to do this.
| | 01:59 | It's not that one technique is best;
ratherm you want to learn all of these
| | 02:03 | different techniques and then select
the method which works best for you.
| | 02:07 | Next, I want to take a look at how we can
more quickly add flags, stars, or labels.
| | 02:13 | If you press the Shift key and then if
you press 1 through 9, you can go ahead
| | 02:18 | and add a star or a label rating
and then advance to the next image.
| | 02:23 | So press and hold the Shift key, then
press, say, the 4 key. That will add a 4-star
| | 02:29 | rating and then it will
automatically jump to the next photograph.
| | 02:32 | With this next photograph, I'll add a
2-star rating so I'll press Shift+2 and
| | 02:37 | then it will then move to the next picture.
| | 02:39 | With this picture here, I want to add a
label, so I'll press Shift and then the 6
| | 02:44 | key and you can see how I added this
label to this photograph here and then it
| | 02:48 | jumped to the next picture.
| | 02:50 | Sometimes that can be a helpful way
to kind of commit to a rating, whether
| | 02:55 | that's a star or a label, and then to just
move on, to make your way to the next picture.
| | 03:01 | We can also do this with our flag shortcuts.
| | 03:04 | So here, if we want to flag this image
as a keeper, as a pick, hold down the
| | 03:08 | Shift key and then press the P key,
and it will add that flag and then
| | 03:12 | automatically advance to
the next image or video file.
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| Filtering based on labels, stars, or flags| 00:00 | After having added a flag, star, or
label to our photographs and media
| | 00:04 | files, next we want to take a look at
how we can enable filtering, so that we
| | 00:09 | can separate those photographs which
are keepers from those which aren't. So
| | 00:13 | here in the Library module, we'll
press the backslash key; that's the slash
| | 00:17 | which leans to the left, and in pressing that,
that will open up our Library Filter options.
| | 00:23 | Next I'll click on the Attribute tab.
| | 00:26 | Underneath the Attribute tab, we can
filter or sort our images based on their
| | 00:30 | flag, star, or color label.
| | 00:33 | In this case, what I want to do is I
want to see the images which have a 3
| | 00:38 | star or greater rating.
| | 00:40 | Here we can click on this icon, and it
will show us these four photographs that
| | 00:44 | have a rating which is 3 stars or higher.
| | 00:47 | Next, I also want to add some
more criteria to the filtering.
| | 00:51 | I want to see which images out
of these also have a red label.
| | 00:57 | To add that to the criteria of our
filtering, we can simply click on this icon here.
| | 01:02 | Now you can see that we have this one photo
selected which meets both of these criteria.
| | 01:08 | To remove any option here, just click
on it, and here you can see how we can
| | 01:12 | remove the criteria for this filtering.
| | 01:15 | We can also access this filtering down below.
| | 01:18 | Here I can click on the criteria, say, for
a 3 stars, and in doing that, you can see,
| | 01:22 | again, I have these four images.
| | 01:24 | Down below, you'll notice
that you have this little switch.
| | 01:28 | Well, this toggle switch allows us to
turn Filtering on and off, and there is a
| | 01:34 | great shortcut that we can use rather
than having to click on this switch.
| | 01:39 | The shortcut is to press Command on the
Mac, or Control on Windows, then the L key;
| | 01:45 | think L for the Library filters.
| | 01:47 | So go ahead and press Command+L or Control
+L and here you can see, we can toggle
| | 01:52 | off the Library filtering, or press
Command+L or Control+L again, and then we can
| | 01:57 | toggle back on whatever Library
filtering criteria we've used most recently.
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| Finding images quickly| 00:00 | In this brief movie, I want to share
with you a shortcut which you can use in
| | 00:04 | order to find your photographs more quickly,
| | 00:06 | because eventually, as you use
Lightroom more and more, your image library will
| | 00:11 | get really big, and it will become more
difficult to find specific photographs.
| | 00:17 | One easy way to take care of that
problem is to use this shortcut.
| | 00:21 | On a Mac, press Command+F. On Windows,
press Control+F. This will open up our Library
| | 00:27 | filtering options, and it
will open up our Search field.
| | 00:30 | In this case, I want to find a couple of
photographs that I captured of Rodney Smith.
| | 00:35 | So here I'll go ahead and just start to
type out that name, Rodney, and you can
| | 00:39 | see that it's showing me
these three images here.
| | 00:42 | In order to view these images larger,
I'll just double-click on one, and here you
| | 00:46 | can see we now have this
photograph in this Loupe View.
| | 00:49 | After having found this photograph,
I've decided that I want to search for
| | 00:54 | another image as well.
| | 00:55 | Once again, press Command+F on a Mac,
or Control+F on Windows. I want to find a
| | 01:00 | photograph that was taken of an oak tree.
| | 01:03 | So here I'll type out the word oak,
and then again, you can see that we've
| | 01:06 | found that picture.
| | 01:08 | So as you can see, you can kind of jump
back and forth to that Search field by
| | 01:12 | pressing that shortcut, Command+F
on the Mac, or Control+F on Windows.
| | 01:17 | Also, I should point out that when
you're searching for things, you can search
| | 01:21 | under any searchable field, or file name,
or title, or caption, so on, and so forth.
| | 01:26 | You can also further specify how you
want the search to be performed by clicking
| | 01:31 | on one of these options that you can find
here in this pulldown dialog. All right.
| | 01:35 | Well last, but not least, if you want to
turn off this Filtering option, or remove
| | 01:39 | this field, you can just click on this
button here, and then it will show you all
| | 01:43 | of your photographs.
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| Working with stacks| 00:00 | Another way that we can organize or
group our photographs together in the
| | 00:03 | Library module is by working with Stacks.
| | 00:07 | Stacks allow us to
combine similar images together.
| | 00:10 | This can be helpful in a situation like
this: here is this People folder, you can
| | 00:15 | notice that I have a couple of
photographs of one subject, a couple of another
| | 00:19 | or, three of this subject,
and so on, and so forth.
| | 00:22 | And let's say that rather than viewing
all of these similar images, I want to
| | 00:27 | stack these together.
| | 00:28 | Well, to stack two or more images
together, hold down the Command key on a Mac,
| | 00:32 | or Control Key on Windows, and then click on the
images which you want to stack or group together.
| | 00:38 | Next, on a Mac press Command+G, on
Windows press Control+G; that will then group
| | 00:44 | those images together.
| | 00:46 | To expand the stack, to see the photograph
that is part of the stack, here we can
| | 00:51 | click on this little icon to expand it.
| | 00:54 | You can also expand or
collapse a stack by way of a shortcut.
| | 00:58 | If you press the S key -- think S for
stack -- you can expand or collapse that
| | 01:03 | stack, as I'm doing here.
| | 01:06 | Next let's take a look at how we can
do this with a few more photographs.
| | 01:09 | Here I'll click on this one, hold down
Command or Control, click on another, then
| | 01:14 | press Command+G to group those into a stack.
| | 01:17 | And let's also do that with these images.
| | 01:20 | The first two are black and
white; the third is color.
| | 01:23 | Hold down the Command key on a Mac, Control
key on Windows, select those images, and
| | 01:28 | then press Command+G to group.
| | 01:30 | Well, once I've grouped those photographs
together, I've decided that with this set,
| | 01:35 | I actually want a different
photograph to be up top; to be first.
| | 01:40 | So let's take a look at
how we can change this.
| | 01:43 | Here I'm going to click on my thumbnail
slider to increase the size of that, so
| | 01:47 | that we can really focus
in on what we have here.
| | 01:50 | I'll go ahead and decrease that just
a little bit here, so we can see that.
| | 01:54 | Next, let's expand the stack by
pressing the S key. In doing that, we can now
| | 01:58 | see that we have these three images.
| | 02:01 | This one is first, this one is
second, and then we have this image third.
| | 02:05 | Let's click into the third image of this stack.
| | 02:08 | Well, what I want to do is I want to
move this image up in the stack, so that
| | 02:12 | it's closer to the front.
| | 02:14 | To do that, we'll press the
Shift key, and then the bracket keys.
| | 02:18 | If you press Shift+Left bracket,
| | 02:21 | you can see how you can move that image to the
left in the stack. Press Shift+Right bracket,
| | 02:26 | and you can see how you
can move that to the right.
| | 02:28 | Now, if you have a photograph that you
know that you want to move straight up to
| | 02:32 | the top of the stack, well
just hold down the Shift key,
| | 02:35 | then press the S key.
| | 02:37 | That will then move that to the top position.
| | 02:40 | Why does that matter?
| | 02:41 | Well that matters because if we
collapse the stack by pressing S, now this is
| | 02:47 | the photograph which we'll view.
| | 02:49 | Well now that we've modified that stack,
let's say that we've decided that we
| | 02:53 | want to unstack photographs.
| | 02:55 | Let's click here in these two pictures.
| | 02:57 | If we press the S key, we can see that we
have these two photographs stacked together.
| | 03:02 | Well how can you unstack pictures?
| | 03:04 | Well what you can do is, go ahead and
click into the stack, and then you can
| | 03:08 | press are really handy shortcut.
| | 03:10 | The shortcut is Shift+Command+G on
a Mac, or Shift+Control+G on Windows.
| | 03:15 | Now you can see that these two pictures,
they're no longer stacked; they are just
| | 03:20 | standing alone by themselves.
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| Working with collections and target collections| 00:00 | In the Lightroom community people go
crazy over Collections, because Collections
| | 00:05 | give you the ability to organize or
group your images and media files in a way
| | 00:10 | that isn't dependent upon the file,
folder, or hard drive location.
| | 00:15 | Collections give you a lot of flexibility
and efficiency when it comes to organization.
| | 00:20 | So if you're not familiar with
collections, you definitely want to get
| | 00:23 | familiar with them.
| | 00:24 | Well, here what I want to do is share
with you just a couple of shortcuts which
| | 00:29 | will help you to work more
efficiently with Collections.
| | 00:31 | I've selected this People folder,
and inside of this folder, I've noticed
| | 00:36 | that I have a number of
photographs of people who ride waves.
| | 00:39 | You know, I do a lot of portraits
of surfers, so I want to create a
| | 00:44 | Collection which is called Surfer, and
then I want to add a few photographs
| | 00:47 | to that Collection.
| | 00:48 | Well, how can we do that
by way of a shortcut?
| | 00:52 | To create a new Collection by way of a
shortcut, we first want to select one
| | 00:56 | or more photographs.
| | 00:57 | Here I'll click on this image here
than hold down the Command key on a Mac, or
| | 01:01 | Control key on Windows,
and click on this image.
| | 01:04 | Next to create the new Collection;
| | 01:07 | press Command+N on a Mac,
or Control+N on Windows.
| | 01:11 | I'll name this Collection Surfer.
| | 01:13 | Next I'll place this at the top level,
| | 01:15 | I'll include those selected
photos, then I'll click Create.
| | 01:19 | Well now that I've created this
collection, I've realized that there are other
| | 01:23 | photos that I want to add to it as well.
| | 01:26 | To add images really easily to a
Collection, what you can do is right-click or
| | 01:31 | Control+click the collection name.
| | 01:33 | Next, set the Collection as your
Target Collection. You'll see a little plus
| | 01:38 | icon will show up
next to the Collection name.
| | 01:41 | Then go back to your image library.
| | 01:43 | In this case, I'll go to this
folder, People, than I'll select another
| | 01:47 | photograph; this one here.
| | 01:49 | And to add it to the Surfer Collection,
I don't need to click and drag this to
| | 01:53 | the Surfer Collection. Rather, you
can press a key on your keyboard.
| | 01:57 | The key is the B key. By pressing that, you
can see it was added to that Surfer Collection.
| | 02:03 | Here I'll go ahead and click on a few
more images, and press the B key, and by
| | 02:08 | doing that, you can see that I'm adding
all of these images to these Collections.
| | 02:12 | And next I'm just scrolling down to see
if there are any others which I want to
| | 02:16 | add here, and I've now added all of
those photographs to that Collection.
| | 02:20 | Next, we can go ahead and click on
this Collection here, and see that we have
| | 02:24 | these images set apart,
or grouped together.
| | 02:28 | And what's great about Collections is
that we can group images together in a way
| | 02:32 | like this that isn't
dependent upon where they're saved.
| | 02:35 | For example, if we click on a different
folder -- I'll go ahead and click on
| | 02:40 | this Sunrise folder.
| | 02:41 | Inside of this folder, I have two pictures
of surfers: this one here, as well as this one.
| | 02:47 | So I'll hold down the Command key and
click on both of those images, hold down
| | 02:51 | the Control key on Windows, and
then I'll press the B key.
| | 02:54 | By doing that, it will add both of
these images to our Collection, so that if we
| | 03:00 | click on the Surfer Collection, now
we can see all of those photographs.
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| Using and showing Quick Collections| 00:00 | Now that we know a little bit about Collections,
next I want to talk about Quick Collections.
| | 00:05 | By defaul,t your Quick Collection
will be the targeted Collection.
| | 00:09 | If you target another collection, say
like our Collection Surfer here -- you can do
| | 00:14 | so by right-clicking or Control+
clicking, and setting that as target --
| | 00:18 | notice that the little plus icon moves
to that collection. Yet, if we right-click
| | 00:23 | or Control+Click, and then deselect that
option, so that this isn't set as a target
| | 00:28 | Collection, well, by default the
Quick Collection will be targeted.
| | 00:31 | Well, what is a Quick Collection?
| | 00:33 | This is a temporary way
to group images together.
| | 00:37 | So let's say, for example, that we're
working in this folder here, Daisy. We go
| | 00:41 | ahead and double-click one of
these images in order to view it.
| | 00:44 | We've decided that we want to try to
figure out which images are the keepers
| | 00:48 | here; which images we want to work on.
| | 00:50 | Here I'll press the B Key to add this
first photograph to the Quick Collection.
| | 00:55 | Then press the right arrow key
to move to the other pictures.
| | 00:59 | Here, I'll press the B key to Add
this one to the Collection, and then press
| | 01:03 | the right arrow key.
| | 01:04 | If you want to add an image to the
Quick Collection, and then automatically
| | 01:08 | advance to the next image, press
Shift+B key, and that will then add the
| | 01:13 | photograph to the Quick Collection, and then
it'll move to the next picture, as I'm doing here.
| | 01:18 | We'll now that I've added a few
pictures to the Quick Collection, what I want to
| | 01:22 | do is show the Quick Collection.
| | 01:25 | To do that, go ahead and press
Command+B on a Mac, or Control+B on Windows.
| | 01:30 | That will then jump to this Quick
Collection, and just show us that these images
| | 01:34 | here which we've added to this Quick Collection.
| | 01:37 | Well, Quick Collections are temporary.
| | 01:40 | In other words, if we close and quit
Lightroom, and reopen it, Lightroom won't
| | 01:45 | remember the selection of photographs.
| | 01:47 | So typically after you've created a
Quick Collection, you will want to turn it
| | 01:52 | into a real and permanent Collection.
| | 01:54 | To do that, we can use a few shortcut keys.
| | 01:57 | Press Option+Command+B on a
Mac, or Alt+Control+B on Windows.
| | 02:01 | This will open up our
Save Quick Collection dialog,
| | 02:04 | and here I'll go a head and just
name this Quick Collection Daisy.
| | 02:08 | This will then save this Quick
Collection as a permanent Collection down below,
| | 02:13 | and it'll clear the Quick
Collection after saving.
| | 02:16 | Here we'll click Save, and as you can see,
it'll then save that down below here in
| | 02:21 | our Collections panel.
| | 02:23 | So just to reiterate, we have a few
shortcuts which we can use with Quick Collections.
| | 02:28 | We can press the B key to add images to
those collections, press Shift+B just to
| | 02:33 | view the Quick Collection itself,
and then finally, to convert the Quick
| | 02:38 | Collection into a permanent Collection,
you can press Option+Command+B on a Mac,
| | 02:43 | or Alt+Control+B on Windows.
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| Creating, using, renaming, and moving folders| 00:00 | Here I want to take a look at how we
can work with folders, and in particular,
| | 00:04 | I want to highlight how we can rename and
also create new folders by way of a shortcut.
| | 00:09 | You know, the great thing about
folders is that they match or mirror exactly
| | 00:14 | what's on the hard drive,
| | 00:15 | whereas Collections, they
only exist in Lightroom.
| | 00:18 | So when we are making a change to a
folder, we need to be thinking about how we
| | 00:23 | are also making a change to
that folder name on the hard drive.
| | 00:26 | To change the name of a folder, like
this particular folder here, we can
| | 00:30 | right-click or Control+click on the
folder. Next, we can choose Rename.
| | 00:34 | What I want to rename this folder as is
People-Portraits, because really, all of
| | 00:39 | these people photographs
inside of this folder are portraits.
| | 00:42 | I'll go ahead and click Save, and you
can see how it's going to then rename
| | 00:46 | that particular folder.
| | 00:47 | Well, what about creating a subfolder?
| | 00:50 | To do that, we can once again right-click,
or Control+click, and here, choose Create a
| | 00:55 | Folder Inside of "People-Portraits". In
doing that, I can give this a new name.
| | 01:00 | I'm going to name this Photographers. I
have a few portraits of people who are
| | 01:05 | photographers themselves, so I'll go
ahead and include this selected photograph,
| | 01:09 | because this guy here is a
photographer, and then I'll click Create.
| | 01:13 | You can see that I now have
one image inside of this folder.
| | 01:17 | If we press the G key to go to the Grid
View, we can see that we're also seeing
| | 01:22 | this image in this view.
| | 01:24 | That's because we're seeing
this folder, and also its subfolder.
| | 01:29 | Let's add a few more images to the subfolder,
so that we can talk about how this works.
| | 01:33 | Here it's telling me that I'm moving
this file; I definitely want to do that, so
| | 01:37 | I'll go ahead and click on these other
portraits of photographers in order to
| | 01:41 | move these files to that location.
| | 01:43 | All right, well in doing that, this
time what I want to do is change the way
| | 01:49 | that Lightroom is showing me these images.
| | 01:51 | Rather than showing me all of these images --
this folder, and also this folder -- I
| | 01:56 | just want to see my People-Portraits
main folder; not the subfolder.
| | 02:01 | To change that functionality, you can go
to the Library pulldown menu, and then
| | 02:05 | choose Show Photos in Subfolders, and
turn that off. Notice it now only displays
| | 02:10 | 25 photographs, versus
previously, when it displayed 29.
| | 02:15 | To show both the folder, and subfolder,
go back to Library, and then select Show
| | 02:20 | Photos in Subfolders.
| | 02:22 | Next, in order to move a folder, if you
want to move it to a new location, you
| | 02:27 | can simply click and drag,
and then drop.
| | 02:29 | This is telling me that I'm actually
moving these files on a disk; that's
| | 02:33 | okay. We'll go ahead and click Move,
and you can see how that's now in a
| | 02:37 | different location.
| | 02:38 | To bring this back to where it was previously,
just click, and drag, and drop, and
| | 02:43 | then you can move it back.
| | 02:44 | So as you're making changes to your
folders, you want to keep in mind that these
| | 02:48 | are mirroring or matching
exactly what's on the hard drive,
| | 02:52 | so the changes that we'll make inside
of our folders panel will also be made
| | 02:57 | on our hard drive.
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| Removing and deleting with shortcuts| 00:00 | Here I want to talk about a few options
that we have when it comes to deleting
| | 00:04 | or removing our images or
media files from Lightroom,
| | 00:07 | and I also want to talk about how we can
deal with deleting or removing files by
| | 00:12 | way of some shortcuts.
| | 00:13 | Well, here you can see in my Library
that I have a few photographs that I
| | 00:16 | captured of my daughter Annika. I captured
these one morning when we're going for a hike.
| | 00:21 | We have this photograph here,
hammock06, and then also this one, hammock05.
| | 00:26 | Well, I've decided that I want
to get rid of this photograph.
| | 00:29 | Well, what are my options?
| | 00:31 | Well if we press the Delete on a Mac, or
Backspace on Windows, it'll open up this
| | 00:35 | dialog asking us a question: do we want
to delete this from disk, or do we just
| | 00:40 | want to remove it from Lightroom?
| | 00:43 | Now, if we choose Remove, what will
happen is, is it will remove this image from
| | 00:47 | our Lightroom catalog, yet the
image will still be on our hard drive.
| | 00:52 | We can find that photograph by right-clicking
or Control+Clicking on this folder,
| | 00:57 | and then by choosing Show in
Finder, or Show in Explorer.
| | 01:00 | Then if we go to that particular location --
in this case, this People folder -- you
| | 01:05 | can see that we still have
hammock05 there on the hard drive.
| | 01:08 | Well let's say that after having
removed this image, we've decided that we
| | 01:14 | actually want to re-import this into
Lightroom. How can we bring this photograph back?
| | 01:18 | Well we can do that by going to the
folder, and then by right-clicking or
| | 01:22 | Control+clicking,
and choosing Synchronize Folder.
| | 01:25 | Here it will tell us that there is
one folder which is missing. We'll click
| | 01:29 | Synchronize.
It will bring that image back,
| | 01:32 | so that if we click on our
People folder, we can see, here it is.
| | 01:36 | Well, how can we remove our
images, perhaps, even more quickly?
| | 01:40 | Well to remove our images more quickly,
you can hold down the Option key on a
| | 01:45 | Mac, or Alt key on Windows,
and then press the Delete key.
| | 01:49 | What that will do is automatically
remove that image from the Lightroom Catalog
| | 01:54 | without showing you that dialog.
| | 01:57 | Again, that's Option+Delete on a
Mac, or Alt+Backspace on Windows.
| | 02:01 | All right, so we've removed that here
from the Library, but let's say that we've
| | 02:05 | decided we want to bring it back. Again,
we can right-click or Control+click, choose
| | 02:10 | Synchronize Folder, and then Synchronize
to bring the image back, and then click
| | 02:15 | on People to show that image again.
| | 02:17 | All right, well so far we've looked at a
couple of techniques that we can use for
| | 02:21 | removing an image from Lightroom.
| | 02:24 | Well what about deleting the image so
that it's gone forever, so that we can
| | 02:27 | move it to the Recycling Bin on Windows, or
the Trash Can on the Mac operating system.?
| | 02:32 | Well to do that, we can press
Delete, or Backspace, and then click on the
| | 02:37 | option Delete from Disk.
| | 02:40 | Or we can use a shortcut
to do this as well.
| | 02:43 | Here let's go ahead and click Cancel,
and let's take a look at the shortcut for
| | 02:47 | deleting an image, and moving it to
the Recycling Bin or the Trash Can.
| | 02:51 | On Mac, you'll press Command+Option+
Shift+Delete. On Windows you'll press
| | 02:57 | Control+Alt+Shift+Backspace.
| | 03:00 | So let's go ahead and press that shortcut.
| | 03:02 | Here I'll press Command+Option+Shift+
Delete. That will then not only remove that
| | 03:08 | image from the Lightroom Catalog, but
it also will delete it, and move it to the
| | 03:12 | Recycling Bin, or the Trash Can.
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5. Library Module: Working with MetadataAdding and editing keywords quickly| 00:00 | In the next few movies, I want to
share with you some valuable and helpful
| | 00:03 | keyboard shortcuts that you can use when
you're interested in adding keywords to
| | 00:08 | your photographs inside of the
Library module.
| | 00:11 | We'll start off with this picture here,
which is a portrait of one of my all time
| | 00:15 | favorite people. This is Lynda of
lynda.com, and what I want to do is I want to
| | 00:20 | add some Keywords to this
photograph, by way of a shortcut.
| | 00:23 | The shortcut to start to add keywords is
Command+K on a Mac, or Control+K on Windows.
| | 00:29 | That will open up our Keywording panel,
and highlight this field, where we can start
| | 00:33 | to type out some Keywords.
| | 00:35 | Well this portrait was captured in
California, so I'll go ahead and type that
| | 00:39 | out, then press Enter or
Return to apply that Keyword.
| | 00:42 | Next I'm going to go ahead and add
Lynda's name here, then press Enter or
| | 00:46 | Return. And then finally, I'll type out
the keyword portrait as well, and then
| | 00:50 | press Enter or Return.
| | 00:52 | Well, after having added these keywords,
what I want to do next is modify or edit
| | 00:58 | one of the keywords.
| | 01:00 | In order to do that by way of a
shortcut, we'll go ahead and press
| | 01:03 | Shift+Command+K on a Mac,
or Shift+Control+K on Windows.
| | 01:07 | And that's pretty easy to remember, right?
Because you press Command+K or Control+K
| | 01:11 | to add Keywords, then you press Shift+Command+K
or Shift+Control+K in order to edit
| | 01:17 | those same keywords.
| | 01:18 | Here I'll press the left arrow key to
tab over to Lynda's name. I'm just going
| | 01:23 | to add her last name there,
and then press Enter or Return.
| | 01:26 | All right, well now that we've added
those Kkeywords, let's take a look at how we
| | 01:31 | can work with Keyword Sets in order to
take advantage of Keyword Sets that we've
| | 01:34 | created, or to take advantage of
keywords which we've used recently.
| | 01:39 | In the Keywording panel, if we click to
expand the Keyword Sets here, you notice
| | 01:43 | that we can choose different
Keyword Sets from this pulldown menu.
| | 01:47 | If we've created custom Keyword Sets,
as I've created here, we can scroll
| | 01:51 | through those by pressing the Option
key on a Mac, or Alt key on Windows, then
| | 01:56 | by pressing the 0 key.
| | 01:58 | Here, you can see it's scrolling
through these various Keyword Sets.
| | 02:01 | That can be really helpful if you
have some custom Keyword Sets that you've
| | 02:05 | created which are relevant
for your type of photography.
| | 02:09 | Well, in this case, what I want to do is
I want to click on this pulldown menu,
| | 02:13 | and choose Recent Keywords, because I
want to take advantage of these few Recent
| | 02:17 | Keywords, which I just added to this
portrait, because I want to add those to
| | 02:21 | another portrait of Lynda;
this one right here.
| | 02:24 | Well, to take advantage of those, once
again, we'll press and hold Option on a
| | 02:29 | Mac, or Alt on Windows.
| | 02:31 | Now, you may have noticed that each of
these keywords is associated with a number,
| | 02:36 | so that if I want to add the keyword
Lynda Weinman, I can go ahead and press
| | 02:40 | Option or Alt, and then the number 7 key.
| | 02:43 | If I want to add the keyword portrait,
again, press Option on a Mac, Alt on
| | 02:48 | Windows, and then tap the 8 key, or
whatever number key it is for the keyword
| | 02:53 | that you want to add.
| | 02:54 | In this way, it can really speed
up our overall Keywording workflow.
| | 02:59 | All right, well there are a couple more
advanced Keywording shortcuts that I want
| | 03:03 | to share with you, and we'll
talk about those in the next movie.
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| Using keyword shortcuts and enabling keyword painting| 00:00 | Here I want to take a look at two more
techniques that we can use in order to
| | 00:04 | quickly and effectively add
keywords to our photographs.
| | 00:06 | We will be looking at how we can create
and use keyword shortcuts, and also how
| | 00:11 | we can enable keyword painting.
| | 00:13 | Let's start off by setting a keyword shortcut.
| | 00:17 | To do that on a Mac, press Shift+
Option+Command+K, on Windows press,
| | 00:21 | Shift+Alt+Control+K, and the keyword
shortcut that I'm going to type out is lynda.com.
| | 00:27 | After you've typed out your
keyword shortcut, simply click Set.
| | 00:31 | Now, at this point, nothing has happened.
All that we've done is set a keyword, and
| | 00:37 | associated that with our
general or generic keyword shortcut.
| | 00:42 | In order to take advantage of that,
now what we do is press Shift+K key.
| | 00:47 | In doing that, you can see it
added that keyword to this photograph.
| | 00:51 | To click on another photograph, we can
press Shift+K, and here you can see it's
| | 00:55 | added that keyword as well.
| | 00:57 | In other words, what you may want to
do is set a keyword shortcut for those
| | 01:01 | keywords that you want to
use really frequently,
| | 01:04 | so you can take advantage of that
shortcut, and being able to add those
| | 01:08 | photographs by simply
using that Shift+K shortcut.
| | 01:12 | All right, well let's also take a look at
how we can enable keyword painting.
| | 01:17 | In order to do that, we need to press a
keyboard shortcut combination. On a Mac,
| | 01:22 | press Command+Option+K; on Windows,
press Control+Alt+K. This will take us to the
| | 01:28 | Grid View inside of the Library module.
| | 01:31 | Here, you can see that we can paint
keywords; it remembered the last
| | 01:35 | keyword that we used.
| | 01:36 | If I want to add this to another
photograph, well we can just hover over that
| | 01:40 | image, and then click on it to assign
or to add that keyword to that picture.
| | 01:45 | When we're ready to exit out of this
keyword painting, what you can do is press
| | 01:50 | that same shortcut. On a Mac, press
Command+Option+K; on Windows, press
| | 01:55 | Control+Alt+K in order to
exit out of keyword painting.
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| Using keyword lists and saving metadata| 00:00 | In this brief movie, I want to
highlight just a few more metadata keyboard
| | 00:04 | shortcuts that we can use.
| | 00:05 | The first one has to do with working
with keyword lists, and the second one
| | 00:09 | has to do with saving the metadata that we've
applied to our images to the files themselves.
| | 00:15 | All right, well here you can see I have
the Keyword List panel open, and the top
| | 00:20 | keyword that I have is annika, and
this is a photograph of my daughter annika
| | 00:25 | holding our youngest daughter
when she was one day old.
| | 00:28 | Well I want to add that
keyword to this photograph.
| | 00:31 | To do that we can right-click or Control+
click on any of the keywords that we have
| | 00:36 | here in our Keyword List.
| | 00:38 | Then, in this contextual menu, we can
choose the option to Add this Keyword to
| | 00:43 | the Selected Photo.
| | 00:44 | When we do that, we will see that
the keyword has been added here in
| | 00:48 | the Keywording panel.
| | 00:49 | All right, well we can do a lot of different
type of metadata work on our photographs.
| | 00:54 | We can add keywords, we can
add copyright information,
| | 00:57 | we can also process our
images in the Develop module.
| | 01:00 | We can process them by changing the
color, and tone, or cropping, or whatever.
| | 01:04 | And typically all of this metadata information,
well it's stored in the Lightroom catalog.
| | 01:11 | I've talked at length about the
Lightroom Catalog in my course on digital asset
| | 01:15 | management and Lightroom Catalogs,
| | 01:17 | so I'm not going to go
into all of the details here.
| | 01:20 | Yet, here what I want to
highlight is that we can save all of that
| | 01:24 | information as a sidecar file, or we
can save this to the file itself by using
| | 01:30 | a keyboard shortcut.
| | 01:31 | The keyboard shortcut to do this, to save
to file, is Command+S on a Mac, or Control+S
| | 01:37 | on Windows. What this dialogue tells
us is that for proprietary camera raw
| | 01:42 | files, metadata will be saved to sidecar files.
| | 01:46 | For all other file formats -- JPEG,
TIFF, PSD, and DNG -- well, the metadata
| | 01:52 | information, it will be written
into the original file itself.
| | 01:56 | In order to apply that, or to save the
metadata to file, simply click Continue,
| | 02:02 | and all of the information will not
only be saved in the Lightroom Catalog, but
| | 02:06 | it will also be saved to the file itself.
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6. Library Module: Using a Second MonitorWorking with a second monitor| 00:00 | Here I want to highlight some really
valuable shortcuts that you can use
| | 00:03 | when you're working with Lightroom on
two different monitors. You can see that
| | 00:07 | I've resized Lightroom here, and I've
done that just so that I can have both
| | 00:12 | views open in one window, so that I can
simulate working on multiple monitors.
| | 00:17 | Well, if you have the luxury of having
two monitors, the way that you can open
| | 00:22 | or launch that second window is by pressing
Command+F11 on a Mac, or just F11 on Windows.
| | 00:29 | What that will do is it will open
up another version of Lightroom on
| | 00:33 | your secondary display.
| | 00:35 | Now that you have that visible, let's
take a look at how we can navigate between
| | 00:40 | our different view modes. We can
obviously click on these different options
| | 00:44 | here, yet when you have two monitors,
that's going to be pretty far away to
| | 00:48 | reach to move your mouse all the way
over there to click on those titles.
| | 00:52 | So let's say that on the second
display, we just want to take our image to
| | 00:57 | this Loupe View mode.
| | 00:59 | How can we do that?
| | 01:00 | Well the shortcut, fortunately, is
really easy to memorize; you just press Shift,
| | 01:05 | plus the E key. Shift+E
takes you to that Loupe view.
| | 01:09 | To go back to the Grid View,
press Shift+G key.
| | 01:14 | Now, if we press the G key by itself,
that will change the Grid View here in
| | 01:19 | the Library module, and it will give us the
Loupe View over here in the secondary module.
| | 01:24 | Now, if we want to change the secondary
display, we know how to do that, right?
| | 01:29 | Just press Shift+G, and it will take it
to that Grid View, and you can see how
| | 01:33 | it alternates between these two,
so that we can have these different
| | 01:37 | perspectives of our photographs.
| | 01:38 | Well next, let's say that we decided
that we want to compare a few photographs.
| | 01:43 | Let's select a few photographs to compare.
| | 01:46 | In this case, I'm going to click on both
of these images here, while holding down
| | 01:50 | the Command key in order to
select both of the photographs.
| | 01:53 | I can click on them either on my
secondary display in the Grid View, or in the
| | 01:58 | filmstrip down below.
| | 02:00 | Next, to enter into the Compare View,
again, the shortcut is really easy to memorize.
| | 02:05 | Whereas in the Library module, it's the C
key, in the secondary display, its Shift
| | 02:11 | plus the C key, and here we can
then compare these two pictures.
| | 02:15 | All right, well let's say that we actually
want to survey, or compare, or view more
| | 02:20 | than two photographs.
| | 02:21 | Well to add more pictures, here we'll
hold down the Command key on a Mac, or
| | 02:25 | Control key on Windows.
| | 02:26 | Then to navigate to the Survey View,
press Shift+N key. That then allows you to
| | 02:33 | have this Survey view
on your second monitor.
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| Exploring advanced dual-monitor shortcuts| 00:00 | Here I want to share with you a few
more shortcuts that you may find to be
| | 00:03 | helpful when you're working with
multiple monitors in Lightroom.
| | 00:07 | You can see that I've resized my main
Lightroom window, just so that I can also
| | 00:12 | fit this Secondary Display Window so
that I can simulate working with multiple
| | 00:17 | monitors here in one movie.
| | 00:19 | All right, well we've already talked
about how we can work with these different
| | 00:22 | view modes; how we can have
the Grid and the Loupe View mode,
| | 00:26 | and how if we change, say, our
Library view, that can also change your
| | 00:30 | secondary display view.
| | 00:32 | So here if I press the G key, that will
change my Library to the Grid View, and
| | 00:38 | that will change my image over here to the
Loupe View; this as the Loupe View in Normal mode.
| | 00:43 | Yet if you want to lock down that
Loupe View, you can press a shortcut
| | 00:47 | key combination. On a Mac, press Shift+Command+
Return; on Windows, press Shift+Control+Enter.
| | 00:54 | That will then lock down that Loupe window,
| | 00:57 | so that if we select other images here,
and even take these other images to the
| | 01:02 | Loupe View, say, by double-clicking
them, this Loupe View will stay locked.
| | 01:07 | In order to unlock this, we can either
press the Shift+E key to go to that Normal
| | 01:12 | view, or we can go ahead and press
Shift+Command+Return on a Mac, or
| | 01:17 | Shift+Control+Enter on Windows
to exit out of a Locked View.
| | 01:21 | There are other things that you can
do as well here. You can show or hide
| | 01:25 | your filter bar by pressing the Shift
plus the backslash key; this allows
| | 01:30 | you to turn that filtering on and off,
and to filter different ways here in
| | 01:33 | the secondary display.
| | 01:35 | And you can also zoom in and zoom out
on your photographs by way of a shortcut.
| | 01:40 | Here let's go ahead and click on one
of these images. I'll click on this
| | 01:44 | photograph here, then I'll press the
Shift+E key to go to that Loupe View.
| | 01:49 | Here, I can obviously click on the
image in order to zoom in, so that I can see
| | 01:53 | the detail in the photograph. Click
again to zoom out, or you could use some
| | 01:58 | handy keyboard shortcuts to do that as well.
| | 02:00 | On a Mac, press Shift+Command+Plus; on Windows
press Shift+Control+Plus. Shift+Command+Plus or
| | 02:07 | Shift+Control+Plus allows you to
zoom in, and then Shift+Command+Minus or
| | 02:11 | Shift+Control+Minus,
it allows you to zoom out.
| | 02:14 | In this way, you can use this
secondary display to evaluate and to view your
| | 02:18 | photographs at different zoom rates,
which sometimes might be helpful if you need
| | 02:22 | to check for detail or focus.
| | 02:25 | And then last, but not least, there's a
shortcut which allows you to enter Full
| | 02:29 | Screen mode on your second
monitor. I can't simulate that here,
| | 02:33 | because really I'm only using one
monitor, yet in order to enter Full Screen
| | 02:37 | mode, you can press Command+Shift+F11
on a Mac, or Shift+F11 on Windows.
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7. Library Module: Exporting and PublishingExporting a photograph| 00:00 | Here I want to highlight a shortcut for
exporting our photographs from Lightroom.
| | 00:04 | This is a picture that we worked on
previously in the course, and what I want to
| | 00:08 | do is I want to export this
out of Lightroom as a JPEG.
| | 00:12 | In order to do that, let's go and press
the shortcut key combination for export.
| | 00:17 | To do that, press Shift+Command+E on a
Mac, or Shift+Control+E on Windows, and this
| | 00:22 | will open up our Export dialog.
| | 00:24 | Currently, I'm going to
export this file to a hard drive,
| | 00:27 | although we have other options as well;
we could e-mail this, or we could export
| | 00:31 | this to be burned to a CD or DVD as well.
| | 00:35 | Well next you can see that I
have these different panels.
| | 00:38 | You know, some of the panels
there are opened; some are closed.
| | 00:42 | You know, what I want to do, is I
want to open up all of those panels,
| | 00:46 | so I can dial this in
exactly as I want it.
| | 00:48 | To do that hold down the Command key on
a Mac, or Control key on Windows, then click
| | 00:53 | on one of the triangle icons.
| | 00:55 | When you Command+click or Control+click on
those icons, it allows you to expand or
| | 01:00 | collapse all of those different panels.
| | 01:03 | Next, I'm going to specify
where to save this image.
| | 01:06 | I'm going to save this to a
subfolder on my Desktop titled Portfolio.
| | 01:09 | I need to rename this file,
because right now it is titled crop_28.
| | 01:14 | So here I'll go ahead and choose Custom
Name, and I'll name this one Baja_Swing.
| | 01:20 | Next, we'll scroll down;
| | 01:22 | if we had a video file, we could choose
Video Format and Quality settings here.
| | 01:26 | I don't, so in this case, I'll close
that panel. Then, for my Image Format, I'm
| | 01:31 | going to choose JPEG. In regards to its
overall quality, I can determine the
| | 01:35 | Quality setting, the Color Space, and I
can choose to resize this to fit within
| | 01:40 | certain dimensions.
| | 01:41 | Next, in regards to my overall output
sharpening, I'll select some sharpening
| | 01:46 | specifications here. I'll sharpen this
for screen, and typically for your Amount,
| | 01:50 | Standard works best.
| | 01:52 | I'll include my metadata information;
no need to include a watermark.
| | 01:57 | After I've exported this file, what I want
to do is show this file in my Finder window.
| | 02:02 | So here we'll go ahead and click Export.
It will then export that file, and save
| | 02:07 | it to that location, and here you can
see it brought open my Finder or my Explorer
| | 02:11 | window, showing me that it's
exported this image.
| | 02:14 | And you know, after having exported
this file, I've decided that I also want to
| | 02:19 | export another image with
those same exact settings.
| | 02:23 | Well to do that I'll go back to Lightroom,
and here I'll click on the photograph
| | 02:27 | that I want to export.
| | 02:29 | Now, previously we opened up that Export
dialog by pressing Shift+Command+E on a
| | 02:34 | Mac, or Shift+Control+E on Windows.
| | 02:37 | Yet, if we modify that
shortcut a little bit by pressing
| | 02:41 | Shift+Option+Command+E on a Mac, or
Shift+Alt+Control+E on Windows, we can export
| | 02:47 | our file with the same exact settings.
| | 02:50 | The only problem here, of course, is that
this file exists with this particular name.
| | 02:55 | So what I need to do is
to choose Use Unique Names.
| | 02:58 | In doing that, it will then save this
file out as a different name; here you can
| | 03:03 | see it named it Baja_Swing-2.
| | 03:06 | If that name isn't acceptable, I can
just go ahead and click into this field, and
| | 03:11 | I'll name this particular file Oak_Tree.
But you can see that what you can do is
| | 03:16 | you can take advantage of
these export settings that you use,
| | 03:19 | you can dial in all of those settings, and
then you can reuse them by way of a shortcut.
| | 03:24 | And just to highlight those two
shortcuts, to export you press Shift+Command+E
| | 03:29 | or Shift+Control+E. To export with
the previous settings, you press
| | 03:33 | Shift+Option+Command+E on a Mac,
or Shift+Alt+Contrl+E on Windows.
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| Editing in Photoshop| 00:00 | Lightroom is an incredibly powerful
application, and there's so much that we can
| | 00:04 | do with our images here,
| | 00:06 | yet many times, in order to finish off
our photographs, or in order to apply
| | 00:10 | creative effects to our pictures, we
need to bring them into Photoshop; we need
| | 00:15 | to edit our pictures in Photoshop.
| | 00:17 | So here I want to highlight a few
shortcuts that we can use in Lightroom and
| | 00:21 | Photoshop when we're interested
in editing our photos in Photoshop.
| | 00:25 | We'll take a look at two different file types.
| | 00:28 | The first one is a TIFF file, and what
we'll do here is we'll look at how we can
| | 00:33 | edit this file in Photoshop, and as
we're working on this, keep in mind that this
| | 00:37 | will be the same workflow for
TIFF, PSD, or JPEG file types.
| | 00:41 | Here, let's go ahead and press our
shortcut key combination to edit and open
| | 00:45 | this file in Photoshop.
| | 00:47 | To do that, press Command+E
on a Mac, or Control+E on Windows.
| | 00:51 | This will open up the edit photo in
Photoshop dialog, and this dialog will open
| | 00:56 | up regardless of the version of
Photoshop that you're working on.
| | 01:00 | Here we have a few options.
| | 01:02 | We can either edit the original file, a
copy of the file, or if we've worked on
| | 01:07 | the file in Lightroom, we can open
up a copy with Lightroom adjustments.
| | 01:11 | In this case, I haven't worked on this
image in Lightroom, so I just want to
| | 01:15 | open the original file.
| | 01:17 | Here, I'll click Edit; that will then
send this file to Photoshop. I'm going to
| | 01:22 | use the embedded profile,
and then just click OK.
| | 01:25 | Next I want to make a few minor
adjustments to this photograph.
| | 01:29 | Here, we'll click on our Black & White
adjustment layer, and then I'm going to
| | 01:33 | change my layer blending
mode to Soft Light.
| | 01:35 | Now, the point here isn't using adjustment
layers, or creating this particular effect.
| | 01:40 | Rather, I'm just highlighting that you can
make any kind of a change in Photoshop.
| | 01:44 | Here's our change before,
and then now after.
| | 01:48 | Next, I'll click on the
Color Balance adjustment layer.
| | 01:50 | What I'm going to do is I'm going to go
to my Midtones, and add a little bit of
| | 01:55 | blue and cyan there, and then go to the
Highlights, and just add a little bit of
| | 01:59 | yellow to change the overall
look and feel of the photograph.
| | 02:02 | Here it is before, and then now after.
| | 02:05 | Again, I'm just trying to highlight that
you can do really anything in Photoshop.
| | 02:09 | After you've edited your photo in
Photoshop, how can you go back to Lightroom
| | 02:14 | effectively by way of using shortcuts?
| | 02:17 | Well here you can press Command+S
on a Mac, or Control+S on Windows in order
| | 02:22 | to save the document.
| | 02:24 | Next, in order to close it, press
Command+W on a Mac, or Control+W on Windows.
| | 02:31 | Then you can go ahead and
navigate back to Lightroom.
| | 02:34 | Here in Lightroom, you can see the
photograph with those adjustments which
| | 02:38 | we made in Photoshop. All right.
| | 02:39 | Well, what about working on images
which aren't TIFF, JPEG, or PSD files?
| | 02:44 | What about working on RAW files?
| | 02:47 | Well, let's take a look at how we can do that.
| | 02:49 | Here we have a file.
| | 02:51 | It's photographer.dng.
| | 02:52 | Let's say that we've worked on this
image in Lightroom, and we're ready to send
| | 02:55 | it off to Photoshop.
| | 02:57 | Again, we'll press that
same shortcut key combination.
| | 03:01 | Press Command+E on the Mac,
or Control+E on Windows.
| | 03:04 | That will send the file
directly to Photoshop.
| | 03:07 | Here I'll zoom in on the image a little
bit, so that we can see the details that
| | 03:10 | we have to work with.
| | 03:12 | With this photograph, what I want
to do is I want to convert this to
| | 03:16 | black and white, and I want to add a
little bit of some sepia tone into the picture.
| | 03:20 | To do that, I'll click on my
Black & White adjustment layer.
| | 03:24 | Here we can brighten up our reds and
our yellows a little bit, and then I'll
| | 03:27 | click on my Color Balance adjustment
layer again. Add a little bit of red, and
| | 03:32 | also just a touch of yellow.
| | 03:34 | Again, the point here isn't that this
is the greatest effect ever in Photoshop,
| | 03:38 | but rather, I'm trying to highlight how
you can work in Photoshop, and integrate
| | 03:43 | that work back into the Lightroom.
| | 03:45 | In order to save this file out press
Command+S on a Mac, or Control+S on Windows.
| | 03:51 | That will then save the file.
| | 03:53 | Once the saving has been completed, we
can then go ahead and press our other
| | 03:57 | shortcut key, which was Command+W
on a Mac, or Control+W on Windows.
| | 04:03 | Then we can select Lightroom in
order to go back to Lightroom.
| | 04:07 | Here in Lightroom, with this RAW file,
you can see we have the original RAW file
| | 04:12 | as it was, and also that file which we
worked on, saved and then closed inside
| | 04:17 | of Photoshop.
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| Emailing a photograph| 00:00 | In this quick movie, I want to talk
about how we can use a shortcut in order to
| | 00:04 | e-mail our photographs from
Lightroom to someone else.
| | 00:08 | In the filmstrip below, I want to click
on these two images, because these are
| | 00:12 | the two photographs that I want to e-mail.
| | 00:14 | After having evaluated the photographs,
hold down the Command key on the Mac, or
| | 00:18 | Control key and Windows, and then click
on the images that you want to e-mail.
| | 00:23 | Next, you can press a
keyboard shortcut combination.
| | 00:26 | On a Mac press Shift+Command+M, on
Windows press Shift+Control+M: think M for mail.
| | 00:33 | Now, if you have already set up your e-mail
client here, all that you'll need to
| | 00:37 | do is go ahead and type out the e-mail address.
| | 00:40 | I will send this out as a Test.
| | 00:42 | And then next, to send the e-mail, all
that we need to do is to click Send,
| | 00:47 | and what Lightroom will do is it will
optimize these images based on the size
| | 00:52 | preset which we've determined here.
| | 00:54 | It will then generate and create
this e-mail, and send it for us.
| | 00:58 | All right, well just to reiterate, in
order to do that, the shortcut key that
| | 01:02 | you want to write down is Shift+Command+M
on a Mac, or Shift+Control+M on Windows.
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8. Library Module: Working with VideoViewing video| 00:00 | In this chapter, I'm going to share
with you a few brief movies which will
| | 00:04 | highlight a couple of shortcuts that
we can use when working with video files
| | 00:07 | inside of Lightroom.
| | 00:08 | For starters, I want to take a look at
how we can playback our video, and also how
| | 00:13 | we can customize the interface, so
that we can open up some more screen real
| | 00:17 | estate for the video file.
| | 00:19 | Well, here we have a video clip, its
titled sculptor.mov, and to play this back,
| | 00:24 | we can either click on the Play
button here -- I'll go ahead and do that now.
| | 00:28 | (Video playing)
| | 00:29 | Or we can press the Spacebar key.
| | 00:31 | If we press the Spacebar key once, the
video clip will start; press it a second
| | 00:36 | time, and that video clip will stop.
| | 00:37 | Let me show you what I mean.
| | 00:39 | (Video playing) All right.
| | 00:39 | Well, now that we've seen that,
| | 00:44 | let's also talk about how we can open up
some more screen real estate so that we
| | 00:48 | can dedicate more space to viewing our clip.
| | 00:51 | Here, we're going to press the Shift+Tab key.
That will hide almost all of the interface.
| | 00:56 | Next, press the T key to hide the toolbar below.
| | 01:00 | Then, if we press the L key, what will
happen is it will hide that playback
| | 01:05 | component completely, and it
will also dim the interface.
| | 01:08 | Press the L key one more time, and
it will just show us this video file.
| | 01:13 | Often, this is a great way to kind of
appreciate or evaluate your video clip.
| | 01:17 | Now here, in order to play this back,
we need to use that shortcut which we
| | 01:21 | learned previously, and that
shortcut is the spacebar key.
| | 01:25 | So I'll go ahead and press the
spacebar key to play another short segment
| | 01:29 | of this video file.
| | 01:32 | (Video playing)
| | 01:33 | Press the spacebar key again in order
to stop the clip, and then what we can do
| | 01:37 | is go ahead and bring back the rest of
the interface by pressing Shift+Tab, and
| | 01:42 | then by pressing the L key
to turn the lights back on.
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| Setting in and out points| 00:00 | Next I want to take a look at how we
can trim or edit our video clips, and in
| | 00:04 | particular, how we can set the
in the out point for our clips.
| | 00:08 | Well, here you can see that we have the
playback component, and with this playback
| | 00:12 | component, we can click and drag on
this in order to view the video file.
| | 00:16 | I'm going to go ahead and do that
just to preview this clip a little bit.
| | 00:19 | (Video playing)
| | 00:20 | In doing that, I've decided that, let's
say I'd like to create a starting point
| | 00:24 | right about here for this video clip.
| | 00:26 | Well here we can go ahead and click
on this gear icon, and there's two ways
| | 00:30 | that we can do this.
| | 00:31 | We can either click and drag this
handle up to this point, or we can press a
| | 00:36 | shortcut key. The shortcut key is Shift+I key.
That sets our trim's start point, or our in point.
| | 00:43 | Then in order to create the out point,
what we'll need to do is scrub down the
| | 00:48 | line here. Because this
video clip has some audio in it,
| | 00:51 | I'll stop talking for a moment, and
just click and drag this to where I want
| | 00:54 | this video clip to end.
| | 00:56 | Here we'll go ahead and do that.
| | 00:58 | (Video playing)
| | 00:59 | Let's say that we want our clip to
end at that point. Again, just press the
| | 01:03 | shortcut key; this time its Shift+O
key in order to set that out point.
| | 01:08 | Now if we want to further modify the
in and the out point, we can always just
| | 01:12 | click and drag on these little handles
here, and in doing that, we can then change
| | 01:17 | the in point, and also the out point.
| | 01:19 | And the great thing about this is that
once you know the shortcuts, you actually
| | 01:23 | don't even need to have that dialogue
open. We can close that by clicking on this
| | 01:28 | icon here, and we can still
use those shortcuts.
| | 01:31 | That being said, it may be helpful to
have that visualization of your clips, so
| | 01:35 | that you can see where you are in this
clip, in order to accurately determine
| | 01:39 | where you want to clip to start, and
also where you want it to end. All right.
| | 01:43 | Well, just to reiterate, you can use the
shortcut keys Shift+I to create your in
| | 01:48 | point, and then Shift+O
to create your out point.
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| Exporting video| 00:00 | All right, well after having viewed our video
clip, and then set the in and the out points,
| | 00:04 | next let's take a look at how
we can export this video file.
| | 00:08 | In order to do that, we'll press our
shortcut key combination to open up the
| | 00:12 | export dialog, and that's Shift+Command+
E on the Mac, or Shift+Control+E on Windows.
| | 00:17 | Then here, what's critical is that we
just focus in on this Video panel.
| | 00:22 | In this case, we want to make sure to check
on the option for including our video files.
| | 00:26 | The Video Format, we can
select from this pulldown menu.
| | 00:30 | Then, in regards to our Quality, if we
click on this pulldown menu, we can choose
| | 00:34 | different Quality settings.
| | 00:35 | Here we can go ahead and make a selection
here which is suitable, say, for sharing
| | 00:39 | this video clip on the Web,
or on higher-end tablets.
| | 00:43 | And then eventually, once we're ready
to export this video clip, all that we
| | 00:47 | would need to do would be
to click the Export button.
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9. Develop Module: Making AdjustmentsCorrecting tone and white balance automatically| 00:00 | Here we're going to start to take a
look at how we can get started using
| | 00:04 | the Develop module.
| | 00:05 | And in particular, we'll focus in on
how we can apply some auto tone and auto
| | 00:09 | white balance adjustments
to our photographs.
| | 00:12 | Well in the Develop module, let's open
up the Basic panel. To do that, press
| | 00:16 | Command+1 on a Mac,
or Control+1 on Windows.
| | 00:20 | Next, you'll notice in the Basic panel
that we have some controls for White
| | 00:24 | Balance, and also for Exposure, and Tone.
| | 00:27 | Here we can apply an auto adjustment
by clicking on this icon here, or we can
| | 00:32 | press a great shortcut; its Command+U
on a Mac, or Control+U on Windows.
| | 00:37 | If I zoom in on this image -- and here I'll
zoom in, say, to 1:4 perspective -- you can
| | 00:43 | see that we now have
better detail on the subject.
| | 00:46 | Press the backslash key, and you can
see here's the before, and now here's the
| | 00:50 | after with this Auto Tone
adjustment applied.
| | 00:53 | Well what about Auto White Balance?
| | 00:56 | Well this particular photograph doesn't
need Auto White Balance, because it was
| | 01:00 | shot right at sunrise, and I
like all of these warm tones.
| | 01:04 | So let's take a look at a different
photograph. Here I'll click on this one,
| | 01:07 | which is woodshop_O1, and then I'll go ahead
and zoom out, so we can see all of the photograph.
| | 01:14 | Here we can see that there's a bit
of a way blue cast on this image,
| | 01:18 | so in order to auto color correct this
photograph, we will press Shift+Command+U
| | 01:22 | on a Mac, or
Shift+Control+U on Windows.
| | 01:26 | Now that the color is correct,
| | 01:28 | next I'm also going to apply
some auto tonal adjustments.
| | 01:32 | To do that, press a shortcut which we
just learned; that was Command+U on a Mac,
| | 01:37 | or Control+U on Windows.
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| Correcting white balance| 00:00 | Now that we know a little bit about
Auto Tone, and Auto White Balance, let's
| | 00:03 | take a look at a few shortcuts that we
can use when we are interested in white
| | 00:07 | balancing our image by using the White
Balance tool, which you can find inside
| | 00:11 | of the Basic panel.
| | 00:13 | Now, you can either click on that tool, or
you can press the W key in order to select it.
| | 00:18 | The one I want to highlight here is
that if you press the W key once, you can
| | 00:23 | select the tool; press it
again, and then you can deselect it.
| | 00:26 | Also, if you're in another module, say,
like the Library module, and you come
| | 00:30 | across a photograph like this which
looks like it has a little bit of a
| | 00:35 | color cast, well here we can press the
W key; that will take us to the Develop
| | 00:39 | module, it will select the White Balance
tool, then we can hover over the image.
| | 00:43 | As we hover over the image, you
can see that we have this Loupe View.
| | 00:47 | At the base of the Loupe
View, we have RGB values.
| | 00:51 | Now, we know that equal amounts of Red,
Green, and Blue equal a neutral tone.
| | 00:55 | So here, obviously, there is
some sort of a color shift,
| | 00:58 | and as we look at this Loupe view, we can actually
scale this Loupe view by way of a shortcut.
| | 01:04 | So here, if you have a three-button mouse,
you can go ahead and use that scroll
| | 01:07 | wheel, and you can see how we can
zoom in on these different colors.
| | 01:11 | Sometimes that can help you to select
an accurate color as you're trying to
| | 01:15 | determine where to click in the image.
| | 01:17 | In this case, I just want to click
on the background, because I know that
| | 01:20 | background was neutral.
| | 01:22 | So go ahead click on that.
| | 01:23 | In doing that, we can now see that
we have successfully color-corrected
| | 01:27 | this photograph.
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| Making adjustments in the Basic panel| 00:00 | The Develop module is where you're
going to spend the majority of your time in
| | 00:03 | Lightroom. This is where
the magic really happens.
| | 00:06 | In particular, we do a lot of work on our images
using the Histogram, and also the Basic panel.
| | 00:12 | So here I want to share with you some
shortcuts that I think you'll find to
| | 00:16 | be really helpful in regards to making custom
tone and color adjustments to your photographs.
| | 00:20 | Well, let's start off with the Histogram.
| | 00:23 | To go ahead and open up the Histogram press
Command+0 on a Mac, or Control+0 on Windows.
| | 00:28 | Next, you notice that you have this
visual display of the different tones here,
| | 00:32 | and as you hover over it, it
will highlight different fields.
| | 00:35 | For example, if I want to brighten up
the shadows, I can hover over this area, and
| | 00:40 | then just click and drag in
order to increase the Shadows value.
| | 00:43 | Notice how that's dragging this
slider down below, so it's as if there's a
| | 00:48 | connection between the Histogram,
and between these controls here,
| | 00:51 | and as we move along, you can see
how we can make different types of
| | 00:54 | adjustments to our photograph.
| | 00:55 | All right, well now that we've looked out the
Histogram, let's focus in on the Basic panel.
| | 01:00 | So here press Command+0 on
a Mac, or Control+0 on Windows.
| | 01:04 | We know with the Basic panel that
we can click and drag these different
| | 01:08 | sliders to make changes,
| | 01:10 | yet there are two different sets
of shortcuts that we can use as well
| | 01:13 | which might help you out.
| | 01:14 | Let's say that we want
to modify the temperature.
| | 01:17 | Here we could hover over this, and as
we do, notice that it's highlighted.
| | 01:22 | Once it is highlighted, you can use
your arrow keys to make really subtle and
| | 01:26 | small incremental changes to your photograph.
| | 01:29 | Here I'll press the up arrow key; in
doing that you can see I'm increasing the
| | 01:33 | color temperature.
| | 01:35 | Now, if I tried to do that with the
slider, it just would move too quickly,
| | 01:39 | yet when you use that up or that down
arrow key, you can make those really small
| | 01:43 | incremental changes, and you can
do this with any of these sliders.
| | 01:47 | For example, if we want a modify the
clarity, well, we can go down, and just
| | 01:51 | hover over that field there, and then
press the up arrow in order to increase
| | 01:55 | that Clarity value.
| | 01:56 | Well, how else can we navigate through
these different controls, and how else
| | 02:00 | can we change them?
| | 02:02 | Well, this next shortcut that I want
to share with you is really helpful,
| | 02:05 | especially, say, if you're working on
your images on a laptop, on a plane, and you
| | 02:10 | can't really control the mouse very well.
| | 02:12 | Well, what you can do is press
the Comma or the Period key
| | 02:16 | in order to toggle through all of these
different controls. Then you can use the
| | 02:20 | Plus and Minus keys. Let
me show you what I mean.
| | 02:23 | Well, here I'll press the Period key.
| | 02:25 | Notice that it's highlighting Contrast.
Press it again; now its Highlights, and
| | 02:29 | then Shadows, and then Whites, and Blacks.
| | 02:31 | So the Period key moves forward
through all of these different controls.
| | 02:35 | The Comma key, that's moving backwards,
as you can see here, so now I'm back
| | 02:39 | up to my temperature slider.
| | 02:41 | Well, once I've targeted that, I can
then press the Plus key on the keyboard
| | 02:45 | in order to increase the temperature.
| | 02:47 | If I want to move down, say, to increase the
Contrast, I'll just press the Period key
| | 02:52 | a few times until I've gotten to
Contrast, and I'll press the Plus key in
| | 02:55 | order to increase the contrast.
| | 02:57 | If I want to boost the overall
exposure, I'll press the Comma key to
| | 03:02 | move backwards, so to speak, to that
Exposure slider, and here I'll brighten up
| | 03:06 | my overall exposure.
| | 03:08 | So here, you can see from these
different shortcuts, we have a number
| | 03:11 | of different ways that we can customize the
overall color and tone of our photographs.
| | 03:16 | Let me review these, because I think
these are so foundational or integral to
| | 03:20 | your overall workflow.
| | 03:22 | Let's start off by opening up the Histogram;
press Command+0 or Control+0 to do so.
| | 03:27 | With the Histogram, we can just hover over it,
and then we can click and drag to make changes.
| | 03:32 | Next, to close the Histogram, press
Command+0 or Control+0. To open or close the
| | 03:37 | Basic panel, press Command+1 or Control+1.
| | 03:40 | And in the Basic panel, we can either
hover over one of these fields, and by doing
| | 03:45 | that, we can then activate that field.
| | 03:47 | Next, we can use the up and
down arrow keys to make changes.
| | 03:52 | Another way to select one of these
fields or controls is with the Period
| | 03:56 | and Comma keys.
| | 03:57 | The Period moves forward through
these different controls, then if you're
| | 04:02 | using Period and Comma, you have to use
the Plus or the Minus keys in order to
| | 04:07 | make those adjustments.
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| Navigating between basic panels| 00:00 | Now that we know a little bit about how
we can make adjustments, and also how we
| | 00:04 | can reset some of our sliders.
| | 00:05 | What I want to do here is focus in on
how we can walk through the different
| | 00:10 | panels, how we can make adjustments,
and how we can reset those adjustments,
| | 00:14 | and also how we can reset the image
all the way back to its default settings.
| | 00:18 | In one of the previous movies, we
made some adjustments to this photograph
| | 00:22 | here in the Basic panel.
| | 00:24 | Next what I want to do is I want to add
a little bit of a vignette, so I want go
| | 00:30 | all the way down to the Effects panel.
| | 00:32 | Well to do that by way of a shortcut,
you're going to press Command on the Mac,
| | 00:36 | Control on Windows, and you're going to
start tapping on your numbers key.
| | 00:39 | You may try Command+6 or Control+6. Well
that got us to there Lens Corrections
| | 00:43 | panel; I was just one off.
| | 00:45 | Well, to get down to the Effects panel,
or to kind of walk down to that, just
| | 00:50 | hold down Command on the Mac, Control on Windows,
then press the 7 key to get to the Effects panel.
| | 00:55 | Well with this panel, I want to go ahead
and add a brightening effect around the
| | 00:59 | borders or edges of this photograph.
| | 01:02 | Next I've decided that I want to add
some Split Toning to this image, so let's
| | 01:06 | go ahead and walk backwards
to the Split Toning panel.
| | 01:09 | One way to do that, to kind of learn
these different shortcuts, is to hold down
| | 01:13 | Command on a Mac, or Control on Windows,
| | 01:16 | and then to remember that you started
with Command+7 or Control+7 for Effects.
| | 01:20 | Well then we could try 6, and then 5, and then
eventually 4 in order to get to Split Toning.
| | 01:26 | Again, that's Command+4 or Control+4, and
that takes us to the Split Toning panel.
| | 01:31 | Here I want to add some
yellows to the Highlights;
| | 01:34 | I also want to add some
blue tones to the Shadows.
| | 01:37 | Well, in making those adjustments, I
realized they just don't look good at all.
| | 01:41 | Well how can I reset these controls?
| | 01:44 | Well, as we have seen previously, what we
can do is we can double-click one of the
| | 01:48 | sliders, or the slider name, in order to
reset that slider, or to reset a group of
| | 01:55 | sliders, like let's say the Shadows here,
| | 01:57 | we can just double-click on this word
Shadows, and it'll reset or remove the
| | 02:02 | Split Toning effect there in the Shadows.
| | 02:04 | All right, well that's great; we can
modify these controls one at a time, or as
| | 02:08 | groups, as we've seen in the Basic panel,
| | 02:11 | but let's say that we've decided that we
want to reset the image all the way back
| | 02:16 | to its default settings.
| | 02:17 | We want to remove each and
every adjustment that we've made.
| | 02:21 | We'll do that on a Mac, press Shift+Command+R;
on Windows, press Shift+Control+R. What
| | 02:27 | that will do is it will reset all of the
adjustments that you've made in any and every panel.
| | 02:33 | So just to reiterate that shortcut --
you'll want to write that one down -- it's
| | 02:37 | Shift+Command+R on a Mac, or Shift+Control+R
on Windows; that allows you to reset
| | 02:42 | your photograph to its default settings.
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| Resetting the image to its default settings| 00:00 | Here, we're going to take a look at how
we can reset the different adjustments
| | 00:03 | that we made on our photographs.
| | 00:05 | So here with this photograph, let's go
ahead and zoom in a little bit on it by
| | 00:08 | pressing Command+Plus on a
Mac, or Control+Plus on Windows.
| | 00:12 | Next, we can see that we have
different groups of sliders.
| | 00:15 | We have sliders which allow us to control
Color, Tone, and also Presence, which is
| | 00:20 | Clarity, Vibrant, and Saturation.
| | 00:23 | So here I'm going to make
just a few minor adjustments.
| | 00:25 | I'll modify my temperature,
and my Tint.
| | 00:28 | Then I'll go ahead and
modify the Exposure, the Contrast.
| | 00:31 | I'll change my sliders here,
| | 00:33 | one at a time, simply modifying the
overall look and feel of this image by
| | 00:38 | modifying each and every
one of these sliders.
| | 00:41 | Well after having done that, I've
decided that you know what I don't really
| | 00:45 | like what I've done.
| | 00:46 | Well how can we reset
one of these sliders?
| | 00:50 | Well to do that, you can either double-click
on the name of the slider, or on
| | 00:56 | the little icon which we used
in order to make the adjustment.
| | 00:59 | Let me exaggerate for a moment.
| | 01:01 | Here I'm going to go
ahead and modify my Exposure.
| | 01:03 | I'm going to over-expose the image.
| | 01:05 | This adjustment, it isn't very good.
| | 01:08 | Well, how can we reset that?
| | 01:10 | If we double-click on this little icon,
it will take that Exposure back to its
| | 01:14 | default setting. Or -- let me under-expose,
just to illustrate this as well -- we
| | 01:19 | can also double-click on that slider name.
In doing that, it'll also reset that slider.
| | 01:25 | Well here let's say that we have decided
that, you know what? I want to reset each
| | 01:29 | and every tonal adjustment that I've made.
| | 01:32 | Well we could double-click each of
these and go through the whole list, or you
| | 01:37 | can double-click the name
at the top of the group.
| | 01:40 | Here we'll double-click the word Tone;
that will then reset all of these sliders
| | 01:45 | here. Double-click the word Presence,
and it'll reset Clarity, Vibrance, and
| | 01:49 | Saturation, and then the same thing is
true up here with White Balance; we can
| | 01:53 | double-click that to set that
back to those default settings.
| | 01:57 | And these shortcuts, I find, are really
helpful, especially as you're starting to
| | 02:01 | get to work with the Develop
module, and as you're experimenting.
| | 02:05 | This type of flexibility gives you some
freedom to make adjustments that you're
| | 02:09 | not quite sure about, because you
can always double-click that slider, or
| | 02:13 | double-click the name of the adjustment
in order to reset it back to the default
| | 02:18 | settings, or of course, as we've seen,
you can double-click the name of the
| | 02:22 | entire group in order to reset
the entire group of adjustments.
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| Understanding how to show and correct clipping| 00:00 | In digital imaging, clipping refers
to areas of your photograph where you
| | 00:04 | have loss of detail.
| | 00:05 | Perhaps your highlights are too
bright, or your shadows are too dark.
| | 00:09 | And the reason why clipping matters
is because if you have clipping in your
| | 00:13 | photograph, well, then you may
not be able to create a very good or
| | 00:17 | high-quality print of that image, because you
don't have detail in certain areas of the photograph.
| | 00:23 | Well here, I want to look at a few
shortcuts that we can use in order to
| | 00:27 | identify areas where we have clipping,
and also I want to look at how we can
| | 00:30 | correct those issues.
| | 00:32 | Well for starters, let's go ahead and
open up the Histogram, and the Basic panels.
| | 00:36 | Press Command+0 and Command+1 on a
Mac, or Control+0 and Control+1 on Windows.
| | 00:43 | In the Histogram, you will notice that
you have these little triangle icons in
| | 00:47 | the top left and right-hand corner.
| | 00:48 | Those icons allow you to turn on
what's called the clipping indicator.
| | 00:52 | You can either click on the icon, or
you can press the J key to turn on
| | 00:57 | the clipping indicator.
| | 00:58 | Here, if we go ahead and zoom in on
this photograph, what we'll see is that we
| | 01:03 | have some loss of detail
on this side of the image.
| | 01:05 | We have some highlights
where we have no detail.
| | 01:08 | That red color is showing us the problem.
| | 01:10 | Well this is really helpful,
because what may happen is we may make an
| | 01:14 | adjustment, say, like we may increase
the exposure, and not realize that we are
| | 01:19 | actually introducing a problem into our
photograph, but this clipping indicator
| | 01:24 | helps us to see that we have that problem.
| | 01:26 | So here I don't want to
increase my exposure,
| | 01:29 | so I will go ahead and double-click
the slider to reset that Exposure setting.
| | 01:34 | What I really want to do is to darken
the Highlights to try to recover some
| | 01:38 | of that detail here.
| | 01:39 | In doing that, you can see how
we've recovered some of the detail in
| | 01:42 | those highlight areas.
| | 01:44 | Well, let's say that I haven't quite
gotten all of those details back by using
| | 01:49 | this Highlights slider.
| | 01:50 | How can I get more of those details back?
| | 01:53 | Well what we can do is we can go down
to the Tone Curve panel, and in the Tone
| | 01:58 | Curve panel, if we are viewing this
curve as a Linear curve here, and if we
| | 02:02 | click on the icon which allows us to
view this in this Linear curve where we
| | 02:07 | have these adjustments with this curve,
we can then click on the top point, and
| | 02:12 | just drag down a little bit.
| | 02:13 | In doing that, you can see that we're
darkening those brightest white tones
| | 02:17 | there, and we are correcting
this photograph.
| | 02:20 | Now, it would have been near impossible
to make those corrections had we not
| | 02:24 | turned on the clipping indicator.
| | 02:27 | Again, you can press the J key to
turn that clipping indicator on and off.
| | 02:32 | Let's go back to the Basic panel, and
let's talk about another way that we can
| | 02:35 | identify and find these problem areas.
| | 02:38 | Here what I want to do is
reset the photograph,
| | 02:41 | so let's use the shortcut which we've
learned previously to reset our image to
| | 02:45 | its default setting;
| | 02:47 | that's Shift+Command+R on a
Mac, or Shift+Control+R on Windows.
| | 02:51 | Next, let's press the J key to turn off
these clipping indicators, so press the
| | 02:56 | J key once,
and then let's close the Histogram.
| | 03:00 | Here in the Basic panel, we have
different controls, and if we hold down the
| | 03:05 | Option key on a Mac, Alt on Windows,
and drag these controls, we can also get
| | 03:10 | another view of this clipping.
| | 03:12 | Here you can see we have
different types of clipping.
| | 03:15 | If I move that Exposure slider, we can see
that we have these issues in these areas,
| | 03:20 | so if we go down to the Highlights
control, here I can click and drag to left
| | 03:24 | to try to remove that issue.
| | 03:26 | The same thing can be done
with other controls as well.
| | 03:29 | For example, as we work with our other
sliders, say, like our Blacks slider. If
| | 03:33 | you hold down the Option key on a
Mac, or Alt key on Windows, we can
| | 03:37 | click and drag in order to do this.
| | 03:39 | In doing that, you can see those
black areas; that's showing us where we've
| | 03:43 | introduced clipping in these darker tones.
| | 03:46 | If we press the J key as well,
you can see another view of that,
| | 03:50 | and sometimes what you'll do is use
these two shortcuts together to figure out,
| | 03:54 | say, how dark you can make those tones,
or how high you can increase your
| | 03:58 | contrast before you're
introducing different types of clipping.
| | 04:02 | And by doing this, you can ensure that
your image will not only look good on
| | 04:07 | your monitor, but also it will look
good in its final form if it's going to be
| | 04:11 | printed, say, in a publication, like a
magazine, or a book, or if you're just
| | 04:15 | creating a print for your portfolio.
| | 04:17 | So again, let's reset this photograph,
and let's review a few of these shortcuts.
| | 04:22 | Press Shift+Command+R on a Mac,
or Shift+Control+R on Windows.
| | 04:26 | Next, let's remember that we can
press the J key to toggle on and off
| | 04:30 | that clipping indicator.
| | 04:32 | If we have the clipping indicator on,
it's pretty easy to make adjustments, so
| | 04:35 | that we can see the
clipping area disappear.
| | 04:39 | Press the J key to turn
that clipping indicator off.
| | 04:42 | Another way to do the same thing is to
hold down the Option key on a Mac, or Alt
| | 04:47 | key on a Windows, and
then to make the adjustment.
| | 04:49 | After you've made the adjustment, to see
how it looks, just let go of the Option
| | 04:53 | or the Alt key, and then it will take
it back to the regular view, so that you
| | 04:58 | can evaluate the
overall look in the photograph.
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| Synchronizing and copying settings| 00:00 | One of the advantages of working with
Lightroom is that it allows you to make
| | 00:04 | adjustments which you can
then use on multiple images.
| | 00:07 | This can be especially helpful when you
have a high volume of photographs which
| | 00:11 | were captured in a similar
lighting situation.
| | 00:14 | So here I want to take a look at how
we can copy and paste settings on the
| | 00:19 | different images, how we can work with
synchronize, and also auto sync, in order
| | 00:23 | to apply settings to multiple photographs.
| | 00:25 | Well here you can see I have a photograph
that I captured of my daughter Annie
| | 00:29 | jumping off of this wall down at
our local beach here in Santa Barbara.
| | 00:32 | Then I have another photograph
of her kind of flying in the air.
| | 00:36 | Well what I want to do is I want to make
some adjustments to one of these pictures.
| | 00:40 | So click into one of your photographs,
then go ahead and make some adjustments.
| | 00:44 | Here I will just increase my Shadows,
increase the overall Exposure a little
| | 00:48 | bit, and add just a touch of Contrast,
and maybe modify the overall color
| | 00:52 | temperature as well,
and increase the Vibrance;
| | 00:55 | some basic and pretty
simple adjustments.
| | 00:57 | Well, to copy and paste those onto
another file, what you can do is press
| | 01:02 | Command+C on a Mac,
or Control+C on Windows.
| | 01:05 | Here we can choose to apply all of
the settings that we have here in the
| | 01:08 | Develop module, or you can choose Check
None, and then just select the settings
| | 01:13 | which you want to apply to the
other photographs. Next, click Copy.
| | 01:18 | Then move to another image, like this
one here, which was captured in a similar
| | 01:23 | lighting scenario, then press Command+V
on a Mac, or Control+V on Windows in order
| | 01:28 | to paste those settings onto this file.
| | 01:31 | Another way that we can do this is we
can go ahead and click on one photograph,
| | 01:35 | then hold down the Command or Control
key -- that's Command on a Mac, Control on
| | 01:39 | Windows -- and click on one or more
photographs. And here we have a photograph of
| | 01:44 | my daughter Sophie working hard on an
art project, and I just like lens flare of
| | 01:49 | the light kind of coming through
the window here with this picture.
| | 01:52 | But I want to make a few adjustments
to this photograph, and also to the one
| | 01:56 | right next to it, because they were
captured in the same lighting situation.
| | 02:00 | Well here what I want to do is
I want to work with Synchronize.
| | 02:04 | So if we go ahead and make some adjustments
with both of these selected -- in
| | 02:08 | this case, I will increase my Exposure,
increase the Contrast, and a little bit
| | 02:12 | of Clarity and Vibrance just
to bring up some of the color;
| | 02:15 | I am also going to bring a little
bit of light there into the Shadows --
| | 02:19 | I can then synchronize these settings
by pressing this button, which is Sync...
| | 02:24 | When you press Sync, and when you see
anything where there are dots, it tells
| | 02:28 | you, you are going to see a new dialog.
Well what do we want to synchronize here?
| | 02:32 | Well, we could synchronize, perhaps,
everything by choosing Check All, or again,
| | 02:36 | we could just select specific adjustments.
| | 02:39 | Well here, actually, rather than
synchronizing by way of clicking, I want to do
| | 02:44 | this by way of a shortcut.
| | 02:46 | So I am going to go ahead
and click Cancel here.
| | 02:49 | If I want to synchronize two images
by way of a shortcut, you can press
| | 02:52 | Shift+Command+S on a Mac,
or Shift+Control+S on Windows.
| | 02:57 | This will open up our
Synchronize Settings dialog.
| | 03:00 | Now here you can see that we can
customize what we have in this dialog.
| | 03:04 | Yet, if you want to synchronize
without ever seeing this dialog, you can
| | 03:09 | use another shortcut.
| | 03:10 | So let's go ahead and click Cancel here.
| | 03:13 | If we want to synchronize, and bypass
the Synchronize Settings dialog, what you
| | 03:18 | are going to do is press Command+Option+S
on a Mac, or Control+Alt+S on Windows.
| | 03:24 | In doing that, as we look at both of
these images here, you can see that now
| | 03:28 | both of these files have the
same exact settings. All right.
| | 03:32 | Well, rather than synchronizing these
settings, let's say that we want to apply
| | 03:36 | the adjustments, so that they affect all
of the images that we've selected as we
| | 03:41 | are making the adjustments.
| | 03:42 | Well, to do that, what we need to do
is to turn on what's called Auto Sync.
| | 03:48 | Now, you can turn on Auto Sync by Command
on a Mac, or Control on Windows, clicking
| | 03:53 | on the synchronize button.
| | 03:55 | In doing that, that will turn on,
or flip the switch for Auto Sync.
| | 04:00 | You can also enable or disable
Auto Sync by way of a shortcut.
| | 04:05 | On a Mac, press Shift+Option+Command+A;
on Windows, that's Shift+Alt+Control+A.
| | 04:11 | Well either way, once you have Auto
Sync turned on, if you make an adjustment
| | 04:16 | here, just to demonstrate, like
desaturating, you can see that it will then
| | 04:21 | desaturate both of these photographs. Or
if you want to increase the saturation,
| | 04:25 | whatever value you've adjusted, it
will then apply that adjustment to both
| | 04:30 | images if you have Auto Sync turned on.
| | 04:33 | Now, if you've decided that you want
to turn Auto Sync off, well you can use
| | 04:37 | that shortcut that we learned
to toggle Auto Sync on or off.
| | 04:40 | Here it is once again.
| | 04:42 | On a Mac, press Shift+Option+Command+A;
on Windows, press Shift+Alt+Control+A, and
| | 04:49 | that will toggle off Auto Sync, so that
you could then just make an adjustment to
| | 04:53 | the image that was targeted, and that wouldn't
apply to the other photograph. All right.
| | 04:58 | Well here in this movie, I shared
with you some really valuable shortcuts.
| | 05:03 | We looked at how we can copy and paste
settings by pressing Command+C or Control+C,
| | 05:07 | and Command+C or Control+V. We looked at
how we could synchronize settings by way
| | 05:12 | of different shortcuts.
| | 05:14 | We can open up that Synchronize dialog
by pressing Shift+Command+S, and then
| | 05:19 | clicking on the Synchronize button, or
that would be Shift+Control+S on Windows.
| | 05:23 | We also looked at how we could
bypass this dialog by pressing
| | 05:28 | Command+Option+S, or Control+Alt+S on
Windows. And then finally, we looked at how
| | 05:33 | we can work with Auto Sync.
| | 05:36 | With Auto Sync, you can hold down the
Command key or the Control key to click on
| | 05:40 | this button to enable Auto Sync, and
then, you can toggle this on or off by
| | 05:46 | pressing Shift+Option+Command+A or Shift
+Alt+Control+A. Now, I am aware that there
| | 05:52 | are a lot of shortcuts here, yet
these shortcuts are incredibly valuable.
| | 05:56 | That's why I wanted to
reiterate them, or say them twice.
| | 05:59 | What I recommend you do is probably
watch this movie a second time, and take
| | 06:05 | really good notes, and then try to use
these shortcuts yourself, because these
| | 06:09 | are some of the shortcuts that you want
to just know instantly, because when it
| | 06:13 | comes to working in Lightroom, being
able to process or work on multiple images
| | 06:18 | at once, it can just really open up
whole new ways of thinking about how you
| | 06:23 | work on your images.
| | 06:24 | It can make you more effective,
which ultimately can help you to be more
| | 06:28 | creative, so that you can create more
compelling and interesting photographs.
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| Viewing before and after | 00:00 | In the previous movie, we processed
this photograph here of my daughter Sophie,
| | 00:04 | and in this movie, I want to share with
you a few shortcuts that you can use in
| | 00:09 | order to view the before and
after perspective of your photographs.
| | 00:13 | The first shortcut that I want to highlight
is, in my opinion, the best shortcut.
| | 00:17 | It's the backslash key.
| | 00:18 | This is the key which leans to the left,
and it's easy to remember the shortcut
| | 00:23 | key, because you think, go back in time.
| | 00:26 | How was this image before I
processed it? What did it look like?
| | 00:30 | Well here, if we press the backslash key,
you can see it's now the before. Press
| | 00:34 | that key again, and then
now you can see the after.
| | 00:38 | Another great shortcut key you can use
to see the before and after is the Y key.
| | 00:43 | This one also is easy to remember,
because you can ask yourself, why did I
| | 00:47 | make these adjustments?
| | 00:48 | So go ahead and press the Y key, and
you can see this split view, where we have
| | 00:52 | that before, and then the after.
| | 00:55 | Now, we can modify the split
screen a couple of different ways.
| | 00:58 | You can either press Option on a Mac, or
Alt on Windows, and then the Y key, and
| | 01:03 | you can see how it's alternating
between these different views.
| | 01:06 | Press that again, and it will remove
that perspective. Or we can press the
| | 01:11 | Shift+Y key, and we can see a side by side
perspective of that before, and then after.
| | 01:17 | Press Shift+Y again, and then it will
toggle through those different views,
| | 01:21 | as you can see here.
| | 01:23 | So when we press the Y key, it gives
us this insight to see this side by side
| | 01:27 | perspective of the before and after.
All right.
| | 01:30 | Well let's reiterate those shortcuts.
| | 01:32 | For starters, we have the backslash key.
| | 01:34 | That shows us the whole image
before; press it again, then after.
| | 01:39 | Then we have the Y key, which
shows us this before and after.
| | 01:42 | Then we can press Shift+Y, and continue
to press Shift+Y to toggle through these
| | 01:47 | different before and after views. Or,
if we want an alternate before and after
| | 01:52 | view, press Option on a Mac, Alt on
Windows, and then press the Y key, and you
| | 01:57 | can see this split top to
bottom before and after view.
| | 02:01 | Press that shortcut key again in order
to remove that before and after View.
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| Quickly converting to black and white| 00:00 | Here I want to take a look at how we can
start to combine a few of our skills together,
| | 00:04 | and in particular, I want to focus in on
converting our images to black and white.
| | 00:09 | Now, the fastest way to convert your photograph
to black and white is to press the V key.
| | 00:15 | When you press the V key, you'll notice
in the Basic panel that all of a sudden
| | 00:19 | you're Vibrance and your Saturation sliders
are grayed out; you can no longer use those.
| | 00:25 | That's because it has converted the
image to black and white using the
| | 00:28 | Black & White panel.
| | 00:30 | After you press the V key, you will want
to go to the Black & White panel
| | 00:34 | to further customize the
black and white conversion.
| | 00:36 | To do that, press Command+3
on a Mac, or Control+3 on Windows.
| | 00:41 | Next here we can go ahead and modify
these different values, in order to change
| | 00:45 | the type of the black and
white conversion that we have here.
| | 00:48 | Next, after having customized that here
in this panel, you almost always want to
| | 00:53 | go back to the Basic panel to make
any other further needed adjustments.
| | 00:58 | To do that, press Command+1
on a Mac, or Control+1 on Windows.
| | 01:03 | Here we could increase the Contrast a
little bit, or maybe add just a bit of
| | 01:07 | Clarity. We can bring some lights into
the shadows there, so kind of brighten
| | 01:11 | up a little bit of the Shadows, and maybe
darken down some of those deeper tones.
| | 01:15 | And again, the sky is the limit here.
The whole point here is looking at how we
| | 01:19 | can press the V key to quickly convert
to black and white, then how we press
| | 01:25 | Command+3 or Control+3 to
navigate he Black & White panel,
| | 01:28 | and then finally, how we go back to
the Basic panel at by pressing Command+1
| | 01:34 | or Control+1.
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| Showing information overlays| 00:00 | In this brief movie, I want to talk
about how we can change how we can display
| | 00:04 | information on top of our image
which describes our photograph.
| | 00:08 | We've talked about how we can
do this in a Library module,
| | 00:12 | yet here in the Develop module, what you can
do is press Command+J on a Mac, or Control+J
| | 00:17 | on Windows, and this will open
up our Develop View Options.
| | 00:21 | Here we have two different views:
Loupe Info 1, and also Loupe Info 2.
| | 00:25 | In this case, we can display information,
like File Name, or we can choose other
| | 00:30 | criteria here as we'll,
| | 00:31 | as you can see these other menus; Exposure
and ISO, and Focal Length, or Megapixels,
| | 00:36 | and Cropped Dimensions. This allows
you to set up this information overlay.
| | 00:41 | Next, in order to display information
like that, we'll just press in the I key;
| | 00:46 | think I for information.
| | 00:48 | Here can see the first Loupe View, and
then the second Loupe view, where we have
| | 00:52 | this different information.
| | 00:53 | And as you press the I key, you can
toggle through these different views, so
| | 00:58 | that you can have quick access to
valuable and sometimes helpful information
| | 01:02 | about your photographs.
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10. Develop Module: Going Beyond the BasicsCreating virtual copies| 00:00 | Now that we've learned a lot of the
foundational shortcuts with the Develop
| | 00:03 | module, let's dig a little bit deeper.
| | 00:05 | And here, I want to talk about how we
can create Collections, and also how we
| | 00:10 | can create virtual copies, because
virtual copies give us a lot of creative
| | 00:15 | flexibility when it comes to
processing our photographs.
| | 00:18 | So Lightroom will assume that you are
going to do all of your organizational
| | 00:22 | work in the Library module.
| | 00:23 | So here, let's go back to the Library
module, and let's use our shortcut key
| | 00:28 | combination to create a new collection,
so that we can kind of clear things out,
| | 00:32 | so we can really focus in
on creating virtual copies.
| | 00:36 | Well, to do that, here I will press the
E key to go to the Library module, then
| | 00:40 | press Command+N on a Mac,
or Control+N on Windows.
| | 00:44 | I am just going to name this Collection
Chris, because we're working with this
| | 00:48 | image which is titled chris.dmg.
| | 00:49 | Well here, when you create a Collection,
you can actually create a Collection
| | 00:54 | using virtual copies.
| | 00:56 | Well, I don't want to do that here
just yet, but I do want to highlight that
| | 01:00 | that's possible, and what a virtual
copy is, is just another version of your
| | 01:04 | image, without any extra file size.
| | 01:08 | So it's just a new set of instructions,
which is saved in your catalog.
| | 01:12 | So here, let's simply click Create, so
that we can work with this main or master
| | 01:16 | photograph here in this Collection.
| | 01:18 | Next press the D key to
go to the Develop module.
| | 01:22 | Now, it's in the Develop module where
virtual copies are really going to be
| | 01:26 | helpful, because let's say, for example,
that we have this portrait, but that we
| | 01:30 | also want to try out a couple of
different versions of this image;
| | 01:34 | one which is black and white, another one
which is black and white, with some split toning.
| | 01:39 | So here, to create a virtual copy,
we can use a keyboard shortcut;
| | 01:43 | press Command+Apostrophe on a Mac,
or Control+Apostrophe on Windows.
| | 01:48 | You can see down in the filmstrip below
that I now have a virtual copy of this image.
| | 01:53 | This is Copy 1.
| | 01:55 | Next I can make some adjustments to this
photograph, and let's do that in the Basic panel.
| | 02:00 | To open up the Basic panel, press
Command+1 on a Mac, or Control+1 on Windows.
| | 02:05 | Next we will go ahead and press the
V key in order to convert this image
| | 02:09 | to black and white.
| | 02:11 | Then we will increase our Contrast
here a little bit, increase the Exposure,
| | 02:15 | and then we may also decide that we
want to go down to the Black & White panel.
| | 02:20 | To do that, we can press Command+3 on
a Mac, or Control+3 on Windows, and here
| | 02:25 | we can further customize the way
that this particular black and white
| | 02:28 | conversion will appear.
| | 02:29 | And again, what we're starting
to do here is combine a lot of our
| | 02:33 | different shortcuts together.
| | 02:35 | This is definitely more advanced.
All right.
| | 02:37 | Well let's say that we want to create
another virtual copy, because we want to
| | 02:41 | have another version of our image.
| | 02:43 | Well, we could do that either by pressing Command+
Apostrophe or Control+Apotrophe, or what you can do
| | 02:50 | is you can right-click or
Control+click over the image here.
| | 02:54 | Then you can select this option,
which is to create a virtual copy.
| | 02:59 | Either technique will do the
exact same thing.
| | 03:02 | Now, with this virtual copy, I want
to apply some Split Toning color to it.
| | 03:07 | So let's open up that panel by way
of our handy panel navigation shortcut.
| | 03:13 | Press Command+4 on a Mac,
or Control+4 on Windows.
| | 03:17 | Here we will go ahead and bring some
color into the Highlights, perhaps a
| | 03:20 | little bit of some yellows there, and
then we'll bring some blues into our
| | 03:24 | Shadows, and by doing that, you can
see how we now have this different look
| | 03:28 | with this photograph.
| | 03:29 | In the filmstrip below, we can click
through these different images, and in
| | 03:34 | a sense, I almost like to think of virtual
copies kind of like new layers in Photoshop.
| | 03:39 | We have this new version, or this new
way of processing our photograph, and the
| | 03:44 | great thing about this is that
it's completely nondestructive.
| | 03:47 | We can always edit this, or undo this,
and this gives us a lot of flexibility.
| | 03:52 | And what else is interesting about
virtual copies is that if we look at our
| | 03:56 | before and after view, it will go
back to the original state of where the
| | 04:02 | virtual copy was when it was created.
| | 04:04 | So here, if we press the backslash
key, you can see it goes all the way back
| | 04:09 | to the color version of the image.
| | 04:10 | Press backslash again; here's the after.
| | 04:13 | Yet, if we go to our third image here,
this virtual copy, and if we press the
| | 04:18 | backslash key, we are going to see
this image in the state where it started;
| | 04:22 | that was in the state of
this black and white conversion.
| | 04:25 | So here is before,
and then now here is after.
| | 04:29 | So in other words, by creating virtual
copies, it allows you to step back in the
| | 04:33 | time to when that image was created, and
that's its, quote, original state. All right.
| | 04:39 | Well let's review a
couple of shortcuts here.
| | 04:42 | Most important, the one shortcut that I want you to
learn here is Command+Apostrophe or Control+Apostrophe;
| | 04:48 | that's Command+Apostrophe on a Mac,
or Control+Apostrophe on Windows.
| | 04:53 | Then I also think it's helpful to note
that when you make changes, say, when you
| | 04:58 | make changes to the overall color and
tone, or whatever you do, that when you
| | 05:02 | press the backslash key, it's going
to go back to the original state, or the
| | 05:07 | first state when that
virtual copy was created.
| | 05:10 | Here is our before, and
then now here's our after.
| | 05:13 | The reason why I want to highlight
that is because it helps us to kind of
| | 05:17 | evaluate the different ways that
we're processing our image, so that we can
| | 05:21 | kind of see this step by step approach
in order to determine which version of
| | 05:26 | our photograph is best. All right,
| | 05:28 | well now that we know a little bit
about how we can create virtual copies,
| | 05:32 | let's talk just a little bit more about
how we can work with virtual copies, and
| | 05:36 | let's do that in the next movie.
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| Working with virtual copies| 00:00 | In a previous movie, we created a new
Collection, and then we looked at how we
| | 00:04 | could create multiple virtual copies.
| | 00:06 | Now, you don't have to create virtual
copies when using Collections; it's just kind
| | 00:11 | of a helpful way to be able to see
just the virtual copies without having all
| | 00:16 | the clutter of all of the other images.
| | 00:18 | But since we've created this Collection,
what I want to do now is talk a little
| | 00:23 | bit about how we can work with these
virtual copies, whether or not they're in a
| | 00:27 | collection, or in the main folder.
| | 00:29 | In order to do that, we're actually going
to step out of the Develop module for a
| | 00:33 | moment, and jump back to the Library module.
| | 00:35 | So here let's go ahead and press the
E key in order to go to the Library
| | 00:39 | module in the Loupe View mode.
| | 00:41 | You can see that I'm
working from this Collection here.
| | 00:44 | Well if I want to see where these
files are located in their folders, we
| | 00:48 | can right-click or Control+click on an image,
and then choose Go to Folder in Library.
| | 00:54 | By doing that, it will then show us that
folder, and it will show us this image here.
| | 00:59 | Well, currently I have the main
photograph, and then these three virtual copies.
| | 01:03 | Well, if we go back to the Collection
for a moment -- we can do that by clicking
| | 01:08 | on the Collection name -- we can remove a
photograph from a collection by simply
| | 01:13 | pressing the Delete or the Backspace key.
That image is now gone, or out of this collection,
| | 01:19 | yet it doesn't mean that that
photograph has been deleted or removed from our
| | 01:24 | hard drive, because remember, Collections,
they're virtual. They're just saved in
| | 01:28 | the Lightroom catalog;
they don't really exist.
| | 01:32 | If we go back to our folder by right-clicking
or Control+clicking, here we can
| | 01:36 | choose Go to Folder in Library.
| | 01:39 | We can see in the Library that we still
have all three of these virtual copies.
| | 01:44 | So I just wanted to highlight that.
| | 01:45 | Well how, then, can we find these virtual
copies admidst the rest of our photographs?
| | 01:50 | Well, in the Library module, if you press
the backslash key, that will turn on
| | 01:54 | your filtering options.
Then we can go to Attribute.
| | 01:58 | Underneath the Attribute criteria, on
the far right-hand side, we have a few
| | 02:02 | options. We can either choose to just
see the photographs which are the Master
| | 02:07 | Photos, or we can choose just to see the
Virtual Copies, or we can click on both
| | 02:12 | of these in order to see both.
| | 02:13 | For example, if we click on this
icon here, it will just show us these
| | 02:17 | three virtual copies.
| | 02:19 | If we click on both icons, we can see we
now have Master Photos, and the Virtual
| | 02:24 | Copies, or if we want to remove the
virtual Copies from this view, we can click
| | 02:29 | off this icon, and click
on the Master Photo icon.
| | 02:32 | So in this case, we'll just
see this one photograph here.
| | 02:35 | So again, these icons help us to
see these images really clearly.
| | 02:40 | All right, well let's go ahead and
turn off the filtering for a moment.
| | 02:43 | To do that, I'll click on this icon here,
and then I'll scroll back down to where
| | 02:48 | we can see this image, and
these other virtual copies.
| | 02:51 | Well, how can you delete or
get rid of virtual copies?
| | 02:55 | Well you can do that by clicking on the
image, then by pressing Delete, or Backspace.
| | 03:00 | Now, when you press Delete, or Backspace,
and when you're in the Folders panel,
| | 03:04 | this will get rid of this file forever,
so you won't be able to bring it back.
| | 03:09 | So here, we'll go ahead and click
Remove; that virtual copy is now gone.
| | 03:14 | It obviously will also be
gone from our Collection as well.
| | 03:18 | So just keep that in mind, that when
you're in your Collections panel, if you
| | 03:22 | press Delete, or Backspace, that's just
removing an image, whether it's a virtual
| | 03:27 | copy or not, from the Collection, yet
when you're in the folder, if you hit the
| | 03:32 | Delete, or Backspace key, that will then
remove the virtual copy or the master
| | 03:37 | photo in a more permanent way.
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| Using Snapshots to save settings| 00:00 | In the previous movie, we looked at how
we could use virtual copies in order to
| | 00:04 | creatively process our photographs.
| | 00:06 | Well here in this movie, I want to
take a look at how we can use snapshots to
| | 00:10 | do something kind of similar.
| | 00:12 | In the Develop module, I have this
photograph, and what I want to do is process
| | 00:16 | this image in a creative way.
| | 00:17 | So I'm going to start out by
going to the Split Toning panel.
| | 00:21 | Here, I'll just click on the Split
Toning panel name, and I'm going to increase
| | 00:24 | the yellows in the Highlights, bring
in a little bit of that color there, and
| | 00:28 | then I'll bring in some
blues into the Shadows as well.
| | 00:31 | Now, I want to remember this stage of my
workflow, so I want to create a new Snapshot.
| | 00:35 | To do that, press Command+N
on a Mac, or Control+N on Windows.
| | 00:40 | Now, the Snapshot name, by
default, is the date and the time.
| | 00:44 | I'm going to go ahead and change that.
| | 00:45 | I'm just going to call this v1, for
version one, and then click Create.
| | 00:50 | Next, I want to add some
more adjustments here.
| | 00:53 | So I'm going to go to my Lens Corrections
panel, and here I'm going to go ahead
| | 00:57 | and add a little bit of
vignetting to darken those corners up.
| | 01:00 | Next I'll go to the Basic panel, and
in the Basic panel, I'm going to change
| | 01:04 | the overall color of the image, increase
the Contrast, increase some Clarity, and
| | 01:08 | decrease my Saturation;
| | 01:10 | again, just processing the
image in a creative way.
| | 01:13 | Then press Command+N on a Mac, or Control+N
on Windows, and let's name the Snapshot
| | 01:18 | v2, and then click Enter or Return
in order to create that Snapshot.
| | 01:24 | Well, once I've done that, I've
decided that I want to go back to my Split
| | 01:28 | Toning controls in order to
make some further adjustments.
| | 01:31 | Here in Split Toning, I'm going to
increase the color Saturation for those yellows.
| | 01:36 | I want to bring the yellows up a little bit.
| | 01:39 | Next, after having done that, I also want
to modify my Shadows a little bit as well,
| | 01:43 | so here I'm just going to modify those
Shadows too, and then finally, I want to
| | 01:47 | create another Snapshot.
| | 01:48 | Press Command+N or Control+N to do that,
and we'll name this Snapshot v3.
| | 01:53 | In doing that, you can see that we now
have these three Snapshots of our picture.
| | 01:58 | What's great about this is we can
click into these Snapshots, and in doing
| | 02:02 | that, it will show us our image with
the settings which we've applied at that
| | 02:07 | stage of our workflow.
| | 02:08 | Click into v2, you can see how we
changed that photograph here, and then we can
| | 02:13 | click into v3 in order to see how we
modified the photograph in this way.
| | 02:17 | And by using Snapshots, what you're
doing, in a sense, is saving the history of
| | 02:23 | the way that you've processed the file.
| | 02:25 | This can be really helpful, because
sometimes you may arrive at a point, say
| | 02:29 | like this, where you think, this is perfect!
| | 02:31 | This is everything,
| | 02:32 | but I want to try an idea out.
| | 02:35 | You can try the idea out, save that as
a Snapshot, and then if you don't like
| | 02:39 | it, well, you can always go back to
that previous version, or the previous way
| | 02:43 | that you processed the image.
| | 02:45 | Furthermore, once you've clicked on the
Snapshot, you can go ahead and modify this.
| | 02:50 | Here I could increase the Clarity a
little bit more, or perhaps change the
| | 02:54 | overall color temperature, or
modify the Saturation Slider.
| | 02:58 | In doing that, you can see how we
have a lot of flexibility as we work with
| | 03:03 | Snapshots, and so you want to know
that shortcut to create snapshots.
| | 03:07 | To reiterate that one, it's Command+N
on a Mac, or Control+N on Windows.
| | 03:13 | And last, but not least, I need to
highlight that when you press Command+N or
| | 03:17 | Control+N in the Develop module,
it creates a new Snapshot.
| | 03:21 | When you press Command+N or Control+N in the
Library module, it creates a new Collection.
| | 03:26 | So just be sure not to get
confused about that.
| | 03:29 | It's the same shortcut, yet when you're
in the two different modules, it allows
| | 03:34 | you to do two different things.
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| Creating custom presets| 00:00 | In the previous movie, we talked about
how we can create Snapshots by way of
| | 00:04 | a shortcut, and that's a perfect
segue into talking about presets, because
| | 00:09 | when you create a Snapshot by way of
a shortcut, you press Command+N on a
| | 00:13 | Mac, or Control+N on Windows.
| | 00:15 | To create new preset by way of a shortcut,
on a Mac you press Shift+Command+N; on
| | 00:21 | Windows, you press Shift+Control+N.
| | 00:24 | Now, before you create a preset,
you'll want to customize your image.
| | 00:28 | In other words, you want apply some
settings to one photograph; you can then
| | 00:32 | save those settings as a preset, so that
they can be applied to another picture.
| | 00:36 | Well, here at this picture, I've applied
some settings using the Basic panel, the
| | 00:40 | Split Toning panel,
and also the Effects panel.
| | 00:42 | I'm going to save these
settings out as a preset,
| | 00:45 | so I'll use that shortcut key
combination which I just mentioned. That's
| | 00:49 | Shift+Command+N on a Mac,
or Shift+Control+N on Windows.
| | 00:54 | Here I am going to go
ahead and choose Check All.
| | 00:56 | I'm going to name this
custom preset as CO - 1.
| | 01:00 | Next, I'll go ahead and click Create.
| | 01:02 | In doing that, you can see that I now have
this User Preset here in my Presets panel.
| | 01:07 | Well, if I select a new photograph, like
this one here, I can apply those settings
| | 01:13 | by simply clicking on this preset.
| | 01:15 | In doing that, we can see how it's
applied those settings to this picture here.
| | 01:20 | This can be an interesting way to kind of
jump start your overall creative process.
| | 01:25 | Now, with this photograph, I don't
think the settings work as well,
| | 01:28 | so I want to make a few
more customizations to them.
| | 01:31 | Here I am going to increase my
Exposure a little bit, and perhaps increase a
| | 01:35 | little bit more of the color Saturation.
| | 01:36 | Okay, I think that's better.
| | 01:38 | And the whole point here is that with
presets, they won't always work perfectly
| | 01:43 | for all images, but they can really jump
start, or help you kind of leapfrog into
| | 01:48 | creating a more creative or
interesting way to process your photograph.
| | 01:51 | Well, what about creating a new preset folder?
| | 01:54 | Well, you can do that by pressing Command+
Option+N on a Mac, or Control+Alt+N on Windows.
| | 02:01 | So if we press that shortcut, here I'm
going to go ahead and just name this out,
| | 02:05 | Chris Orwig Presets.
| | 02:06 | Next I'll click Create, and here you
can see I have my own preset folder.
| | 02:11 | If I want to bring a preset into that
folder, well here I can just click on it,
| | 02:15 | and drag and drop that into that
folder, so that I can then save all of my
| | 02:19 | presets in my own
predefined and customized folder.
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| Using the Targeted Adjustment tool | 00:00 | Here I want to take a look at how we
can make targeted adjustments by using
| | 00:04 | the Targeted Adjustment tool with our
Tone Curve, our HSL panel, and also our
| | 00:09 | Black & White panel.
| | 00:10 | In order to work with this tool,
we're going to use a keyboard shortcut
| | 00:14 | combination, which is going to be
very similar, except for one letter.
| | 00:19 | To work with the Targeted Adjustment
tool with the Tone Curve, we'll press
| | 00:23 | Shift+Option+Command+T on a Mac,
or Shift+Alt+Control+T on Windows.
| | 00:28 | To work with Hue/Saturation, we'll use
Shift+Option+Command+H on a Mac, or
| | 00:33 | Shift+Alt+Control+H. In other words, these
shortcuts will always begin with those
| | 00:38 | first three keys: Shift+Option+Command, or
Shift+Alt+Control; the only difference will
| | 00:43 | be that final letter.
| | 00:45 | Well, now that we know that, let's take
a look at how we can use this tool in
| | 00:49 | real life; in action.
| | 00:50 | Well, here with this photograph I'm going
to press the J key in order to turn on
| | 00:55 | my clipping indicator.
| | 00:56 | In doing that, I can see that I have
some loss of detail in the front area
| | 00:59 | of this photograph.
| | 01:00 | I want to correct that.
| | 01:02 | To correct that, I'll press
Shift+Option+Command+T on a Mac, or
| | 01:06 | Shift+Alt+Control+T Windows.
| | 01:09 | This will give me access to my Tone
Curve, and we can alternate between our two
| | 01:13 | different tone curves by clicking on this
icon here, and I want to work on this point curve.
| | 01:18 | With this tool, I can just hover over
that area, then click and drag down in
| | 01:22 | order to make that correction.
| | 01:23 | I can also hover over other areas in
the image, and click and drag to, say, darken
| | 01:28 | those areas of our
photograph, or to brighten them.
| | 01:32 | So as you can see, the Tone Curve, a
Targeted Adjustment tool, gives us precise
| | 01:36 | control over making tonal adjustments.
| | 01:39 | Well, what about a situation like this?
| | 01:42 | Here I have these vibrant, beautiful colors.
| | 01:45 | Well, I'll press the J key to turn off
the clipping indicator, because that
| | 01:49 | isn't really an issue.
| | 01:50 | Rather, I want to work with color. I want
to work with changing color, saturating
| | 01:55 | color, or changing the brightness of
different colors in this photograph.
| | 01:58 | To do that, we'll use our
same shortcut key combination,
| | 02:02 | except this time we'll press
Shift+Option+Command+H on the Mac, or
| | 02:07 | Shift+Alt+Control+H on Windows.
| | 02:09 | That will then select the Targeted
Adjustment tool for the hue adjustments.
| | 02:14 | Here, if I click and drag up or down, I
can change the overall color of that tent.
| | 02:19 | I just want to change that
yellow, so it's a bit more yellow.
| | 02:22 | We could also click and drag over the
sky to really change the characteristics
| | 02:25 | or the color of the sky there as well.
| | 02:28 | After having made those
adjustments, let's now make some saturation
| | 02:32 | adjustments as well.
| | 02:34 | Press Shift+Option+Command+S on the
Mac, or Shift+Alt+Control+S on Windows.
| | 02:39 | Here we can click and drag up or down
to increase or decrease the saturation in
| | 02:44 | those areas of our photograph.
| | 02:46 | Next, to work with the
luminance, or the brightness value, press
| | 02:50 | Shift+Option+Command+L on a Mac, or Shift
+Alt+Control+L on Windows, and here we can
| | 02:55 | darken or brighten that part of our picture.
| | 02:58 | So as you can see, once you learn one
of these shortcuts, really you'll know
| | 03:02 | all of these shortcuts.
| | 03:03 | All right, well before we wrap this movie up,
let's take a look at our before and after here.
| | 03:08 | If we press the backslash key, here you
can see our before, and then now our after.
| | 03:13 | So as you can see, knowing how to
use this Targeted Adjustment tool can
| | 03:17 | really help you out.
| | 03:19 | Now that we've looked at how we can
work with the Tone Curve, and how we can
| | 03:22 | modify Hue, Saturation and Luminance,
let's apply what we've learned to working
| | 03:27 | on a black and white photograph, and
let's explore how we can create a more
| | 03:30 | compelling or interesting black and
white image by using these techniques, and
| | 03:35 | let's do that in the next movie.
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| Creating strong black-and-white conversions| 00:00 | In my opinion, the best way to convert
your images to black and white is by using
| | 00:04 | the Targeted Adjustment tool, and we
can use this tool to create a quick
| | 00:08 | black and white conversion that we can
start to modify in order to create more
| | 00:13 | compelling or interesting
black and white photographs.
| | 00:16 | Like with this landscape
photograph here that I captured;
| | 00:19 | I want to convert this
image to black and white,
| | 00:21 | so we'll press our shortcut key to
use the Targeted Adjustment tool.
| | 00:25 | Press Shift+Option+Command+G,
think G for grayscale, on a Mac, or press
| | 00:30 | Shift+Alt+Control+G on Windows.
| | 00:33 | This will open up our
Black & White adjustment panel.
| | 00:36 | Here we can go ahead hover over the image,
and if we want to darken up the sky, we
| | 00:41 | can just click and drag over
the different areas of the sky.
| | 00:44 | If we want to change the brightness
of the hills, here we can do that by
| | 00:48 | simply clicking and dragging in order
to change, or make adjustments to those
| | 00:52 | areas of our photograph.
| | 00:53 | And by doing this, we have a
more interesting or compelling
| | 00:57 | black and white image.
| | 00:58 | Here I'll make even a few more adjustments,
and here you can see, with a few
| | 01:02 | simple clicks, we now have a pretty
interesting black and white photograph.
| | 01:06 | After having use the Targeted Adjustment
tool, what I like to do is to go back
| | 01:11 | to the Basic panel.
| | 01:13 | To do that, press Command+1
on a Mac, or Control+1 on Windows.
| | 01:17 | Here it may be helpful to increase the
Clarity a little bit, or perhaps to bring a
| | 01:21 | touch of light into the Shadows, or
maybe to add a little bit Contrast or
| | 01:25 | brightening with the Exposure,
or to modify the Highlights.
| | 01:29 | Oftentimes, it's a combination of these
two panels together, and in particular, of
| | 01:35 | using that Targeted Adjustment tool,
that will help you create interesting
| | 01:39 | black and white photographs.
| | 01:40 | So, to reiterate that shortcut that we
used, it's Shift+Option+Command+G on a Mac,
| | 01:46 | that Shift+Alt+Control+G on Windows;
that allows you to select the Targeted
| | 01:51 | Adjustment tool in the
Black & White panel.
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| Making better split-toning adjustments| 00:00 | In the previous movie, we talked
about how we could create a dynamic
| | 00:03 | black and white photograph.
| | 00:04 | Well here I want to talk about how we
can more effectively add a Split Toning
| | 00:08 | effect to our images.
| | 00:10 | So let's go and navigate to the Split
Toning panel, and let's do that by way of
| | 00:15 | our handy shortcut. Press Command+4 on
a Mac, or Control+4 on Windows to open up
| | 00:20 | the Split Toning panel.
| | 00:22 | Next, here we can modify the tone by
adding a color to the Highlights or Shadows.
| | 00:28 | If we click and drag the Hue, we can
select a Hue, we can increase our color
| | 00:32 | Saturation, and then we can try to find
just the right hue for our photograph.
| | 00:36 | Yet, it's really tricky to find the right
color when we have a low Saturation value.
| | 00:42 | Yet, you can use a really helpful and
handy shortcut key modifier, which will
| | 00:48 | change the way that you
work with the Hue slider.
| | 00:50 | Press Option on a Mac, Alt on
Windows, then click on the Hue slider.
| | 00:55 | Here, we can now see the
Hue at 100% Saturation.
| | 00:59 | This will help us find just the
right color that we want to work with.
| | 01:03 | Then let go of Option or Alt, and you
can see it now at the Saturation level
| | 01:08 | which you have defined with this slider.
| | 01:10 | The same thing can be said for our Shadows.
| | 01:12 | Hold down Option on a Mac, Alt on
Windows, find just the right blue that you
| | 01:16 | want to bring into the shadows, and then
go ahead and increase your Saturation,
| | 01:20 | so that you can bring that color up,
so that you can create an interesting
| | 01:25 | split toned photograph.
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| Sharpening and improving the details in your photos| 00:00 | As we make our way down the different
panels, in the Develop module, the
| | 00:03 | Detail panel comes next.
| | 00:05 | Let's take a look at how we can use the
Detail panel, and how we can use a few
| | 00:09 | shortcut keys in order to improve the
way that we sharpen our photographs.
| | 00:14 | Let's open up the Detail panel by pressing
Command+5 on a Mac, or Control+5 on Windows.
| | 00:20 | You notice that there is a
little warning icon right here.
| | 00:23 | That warning icon is telling me that I'm
zoomed too far out in order to evaluate
| | 00:27 | the detail in this picture.
| | 00:29 | So here, let's go ahead and click on this
icon in order to zoom in to 100 percent.
| | 00:33 | Next, we can use these different sliders to
either reduce noise, or to sharpen the image.
| | 00:39 | When it comes to Sharpening we can
increase the overall Amount, but sometimes
| | 00:43 | it's hard to see what's actually happening here.
| | 00:46 | Well if you press the Option key
on a Mac, or Alt on Windows, and you
| | 00:49 | click and drag on these sliders here, we
can see the Sharpening now is in grayscale.
| | 00:54 | That can help us to determine
just the right amount of Sharpening.
| | 00:58 | Now what about the Radius slider?
| | 01:00 | Hold down Option on a Mac, Alt on
Windows, and you can see how that Radius
| | 01:04 | determines how much those
edges are going to glow.
| | 01:07 | As I increase this, you can see the
edges are really glowing in a way that
| | 01:11 | doesn't look very good.
| | 01:12 | As I decrease this, I can find just
the right amount for that overall Radius.
| | 01:17 | Next, the Detail slider.
| | 01:19 | If you hold down the Option key on a Mac,
or Alt key on windows, you can see that
| | 01:23 | this will sharpen those small details.
Or if we want to have a little bit more
| | 01:28 | of a smooth texture, we can
decrease that Detail amount.
| | 01:32 | And again, this is all about
holding down Option or Alt, and then
| | 01:35 | clicking and dragging on these sliders.
| | 01:37 | Last, but not least, the Masking
slider gives us a great preview when we
| | 01:42 | hold down Option or Alt.
| | 01:43 | Press Option on a Mac, Alt on Windows,
and click and drag this to the right.
| | 01:47 | Here, it's creating a Mask for us.
| | 01:50 | Whatever is black will not be sharpened.
| | 01:53 | Whatever is white we'll be sharpened.
| | 01:55 | By increasing the Masking value, we
can limit the areas that are sharpened.
| | 02:00 | In this case, I don't
necessarily want to sharpen the sky.
| | 02:03 | So if we hold down Option or Alt, we can
create a mask, so that the sky area will
| | 02:08 | not be sharpened, yet so that we'll
have some nice details of this oak tree
| | 02:13 | here, which will be sharpened.
| | 02:16 | Well now that we have sharpened that
photograph, here I am just going to click
| | 02:19 | zoom out, so that we can see entire
picture, and that looks really good.
| | 02:23 | So you can zoom in and zoom out by
clicking on this triangle icon here,
| | 02:28 | click and drag to pan around the image
to a evaluate it, and then finally, hold
| | 02:32 | down the Option or Alt key when
working with these different sliders to get
| | 02:36 | these unique previews, which can help
you to set just the right amount of
| | 02:40 | sharpening in the Detail panel.
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| Soft proofing shortcuts| 00:00 | After we've spent some time in the Develop
module processing our photograph, let's
| | 00:04 | say that we're ready to send this
image to the Print module, so that we can
| | 00:08 | create a print of this picture.
| | 00:10 | Yet let's say that we want to have a
version of our image, so that we can view
| | 00:15 | this onscreen, perhaps on a
mobile device, or a tablet.
| | 00:18 | Well, before we send this to the Print
module to create the print, what we will
| | 00:23 | want to do is to view a
soft proof preview.
| | 00:26 | To enable the soft proof
preview, press the S key.
| | 00:30 | In doing that, you can see that the
Proof preview is now on. It's also showing me
| | 00:34 | a gamut warning indicator.
| | 00:37 | We can toggle that gamut warning indicator
on and off by pressing Shift+S. Here
| | 00:43 | you can see the Proof
preview without that gamut warning.
| | 00:46 | Press Shift+S again, and now
you can see the gamut warning.
| | 00:50 | In other words, this is showing me
that I have some problems in my photograph.
| | 00:55 | This yellow color, it's too
bright, and it's too saturated,
| | 00:58 | so it won't print very well.
| | 01:00 | You also may notice that it
changed the background color here.
| | 01:03 | If we right-click or Control+Click on
that, we can see that it's selecting this
| | 01:08 | paper white based on our preview for
our printer and paper type that we've
| | 01:12 | defined in the Print module.
| | 01:14 | Here we could select something different,
like a gray background, or we can use
| | 01:18 | this one, which will simulate how this
image might appear if it were printed on
| | 01:23 | this particular printer,
with this paper type.
| | 01:25 | Well now that I've seen this print
preview, I've realized that I need to make
| | 01:30 | some changes to this photograph.
| | 01:31 | I need to make some corrections, and I want
to correct another version of this image.
| | 01:36 | Well, to do that, we will jump straight
to the HSL panel, and here we'll go to
| | 01:41 | the Luminance tab. Then grab the
Targeted Adjustment tool, and we'll click to
| | 01:46 | the drag an adjustment.
| | 01:47 | As we do that, a dialog will open up, and
the dialog will say, hey, do you want to
| | 01:52 | create a virtual copy for
soft proofing? Definitely,
| | 01:56 | because this will allow us to save the
previous settings, so we could use that
| | 02:01 | image, say, on a tablet, or mobile device,
or to view it on a screen, or monitor, and
| | 02:06 | then we could have a virtual copy, or
another version that we will print from.
| | 02:10 | So here we'll go ahead
and Create Proof Copy.
| | 02:13 | Next, we can further modify this
area by clicking and dragging this down.
| | 02:18 | Next, I'll go to my Saturation
controls with the Targeted Adjustment tool.
| | 02:22 | I'll hover over those areas, and
I'll just desaturate that a little bit,
| | 02:26 | and I can bring that down,
| | 02:27 | so I have less of an area
where I have problems.
| | 02:30 | In doing that, we're correcting this image, so
that it will look better in the final print.
| | 02:35 | We could also go to the Basic panel
here, and I could desaturate this a little
| | 02:39 | bit. By desaturating the overall image,
you can see how that helped to correct
| | 02:43 | this part of the photograph.
| | 02:45 | Now a proof preview is just that;
| | 02:48 | it's trying to simulate how this
image might be able to be printed with a
| | 02:52 | specific printer and paper type, and
this perspective can help us to make any
| | 02:57 | needed corrections, so that
our prints look their best.
| | 03:01 | Well let's reiterate the
shortcuts for soft proofing.
| | 03:04 | Press the S Key to toggle the soft
proof preview on and off. Press Shift+S key
| | 03:11 | in order to toggle the gamut
warning indicator on or off.
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11. Develop Module: Tool StripExploring tool strip shortcuts| 00:00 | So far, we've spent some time covering
some really valuable and helpful shortcuts
| | 00:04 | in the Develop module,
| | 00:05 | yet one part of the Develop module
which we haven't covered is the tool strip.
| | 00:10 | So here in this chapter, we're going
to focus in on the tool strip, and the
| | 00:14 | tool strip shortcuts.
| | 00:15 | We'll be talking about each of these
tools individually, yet in order to get
| | 00:19 | the conversation going, I wanted to
highlight the shortcuts for the various
| | 00:23 | tools that we have here.
| | 00:24 | You can press the R key in
order to select the Crop tool.
| | 00:28 | Press the Q key to access Spot
Healing. Press M to work with the
| | 00:32 | Graduated Filter, and then finally, you can
press the K key to select the Adjustment Brush.
| | 00:38 | I recommend that you take some time
to write these shortcuts down, because
| | 00:43 | these really are some essential shortcuts,
because you'll be using these tools quite a bit.
| | 00:48 | All right!
| | 00:48 | Well let's dive into working with
these different tools, and let's do that in
| | 00:52 | the next few movies.
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| Cropping and resetting a crop| 00:00 | In the next few movies, you're going to
learn everything that you need to know
| | 00:03 | in regards to using shortcuts
when you're interested in cropping or
| | 00:07 | recomposing your photographs.
| | 00:09 | For starters, let's press the R
in order to access the Crop tool.
| | 00:13 | First, I want to take a look at how
we can lock down the aspect ratio.
| | 00:18 | If you press the A key, you notice that
| | 00:20 | that either unlocks or
locks the aspect ratio.
| | 00:24 | With it locked, if we click and drag on
one of these corner points, we can then
| | 00:28 | create a crop which matches
the original file's aspect ratio.
| | 00:32 | Press the A key again to unlock, and
here we can create an aspect ratio which is
| | 00:37 | a bit more of a free-form crop.
| | 00:40 | Next, let's go ahead and press Enter or
Return in order to apply the crop, or
| | 00:45 | double-click inside of the crop
area, or click on the Done button.
| | 00:49 | What I like to do is to simply double-
click inside of the crop area in order
| | 00:52 | to apply that crop.
| | 00:54 | Well, let's say that we've
decided that we want to reset the crop.
| | 00:58 | We want to remove it completely.
| | 01:00 | To do that, press Command+Option,
then the R key on a Mac, or press
| | 01:06 | Control+Alt+R key on Windows.
| | 01:09 | Next, let's look at how we could use
a Crop tool in order to straighten our
| | 01:13 | images, whether vertically or horizontally.
| | 01:16 | So here, press the R key
to access the Crop tool.
| | 01:20 | Notice in the Crop panel
that we also have an Angle tool.
| | 01:24 | Well, you can access that temporarily
by pressing Command on a Mac, or Control on
| | 01:30 | Windows, and then hovering
over the crop area.
| | 01:33 | Next, you can click and drag along
something that should be straight.
| | 01:37 | In this case, I know that this wall
here should be straight, and you can
| | 01:40 | click and drag across vertical or
horizontal items in your photograph.
| | 01:45 | Next, let's double-click
in order to apply that crop.
| | 01:49 | Just to show you one more example with
this, let's click on the next image here.
| | 01:53 | Press the R key to access the Crop tool,
hold down Command on a Mac, Control on
| | 01:58 | Windows, and then click and drag across
something that should be level, in this
| | 02:02 | case, something which is horizontal, and
then double-click in the crop area in
| | 02:06 | order to apply the correction.
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| Changing the crop overlay| 00:00 | You may have noticed that as we were
working with the Crop tool, we had an
| | 00:03 | overlay, or these lines
on top of our photograph.
| | 00:07 | If we press the R key, you can see that the
overlay currently is the rule of thirds overlay.
| | 00:12 | Well there are actually are six
different overlays that you can use.
| | 00:16 | If we click on this image here, and
then go ahead and click Done to exit the
| | 00:21 | Crop tool for a moment, you can see
that I've included screen grabs of these
| | 00:25 | different overlays.
| | 00:26 | Well how we can access these?
| | 00:29 | If we go back to our image, then if we
press the R key to access the Crop tool,
| | 00:34 | you can press the O key to toggle
through these different crop overlays.
| | 00:39 | Now, if there is a crop overlay which has
a specific kind of orientation, you can
| | 00:44 | flip that by pressing Shift+O key,
and here you can see I can flip that.
| | 00:49 | Go ahead and press the O key to select
a different overlay, then press Shift+O,
| | 00:54 | and you can see how we
can change that orientation.
| | 00:57 | Press the O key, and this
allows you to toggle through these
| | 01:00 | different orientations.
| | 01:02 | Sometimes by using these overlays, they
can help you determine a nice way to
| | 01:07 | crop your photograph.
| | 01:08 | Like in this picture here, I am going to
go ahead and make sure the aspect ratio
| | 01:13 | is locked by pressing the A key.
| | 01:14 | Then I'll click and drag this up, and
I'm also going to rotate this a little bit,
| | 01:18 | and with this overlay, I just want to
have the subject near this point, and the
| | 01:22 | surfboard near the other point.
| | 01:24 | Well, if you find that the crop
overlay is a little bit distracting, you
| | 01:28 | can press the H key.
| | 01:30 | What that will do is it'll toggle this, so
that you will not see it. Think H for Hide.
| | 01:35 | Press the H key again, and it
will turn the visibility back on.
| | 01:39 | In the toolbar, you can also
choose an option for Auto.
| | 01:42 | With Auto, the overlay will disappear
until you click on one of the corner points,
| | 01:47 | and choose to resize the image.
| | 01:50 | In this way, that crop overlay will
only be visible when you need it.
| | 01:53 | Press the H key again, and that
will bring that back to always.
| | 01:58 | So once you've selected that, you can
see how you can toggle through those
| | 02:01 | different modes by using the H key.
| | 02:04 | To apply this crop, which we've come to
by way of using that overlay, what we can
| | 02:10 | do is go ahead and double-click
in order to apply that.
| | 02:13 | Next, if we want to re-crop the image,
because we're not satisfied with it, like
| | 02:18 | I'm not very satisfied with this here;
it looks like the subject is kind of
| | 02:22 | leaning over a little bit, just
press the R key again. That will give you
| | 02:25 | access to the Crop tool.
| | 02:27 | We can go ahead and click and drag to
reposition that, and then double-click in
| | 02:31 | order to apply the crop.
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| Switching the crop orientation| 00:00 | Here, we are going to look at two
more shortcuts that we can use when
| | 00:03 | working with the Crop tool.
| | 00:05 | In particular, we'll look at how we
can crop from the center of the image.
| | 00:08 | We'll also look at how we can switch
our Crop Orientation from Portrait to
| | 00:13 | Landscape, or from vertical to horizontal.
| | 00:16 | Let's go ahead and access the
Crop tool by pressing the R key.
| | 00:20 | Next, if we want to crop from the
center of our image, what you can do is hold
| | 00:24 | down the Option key on a Mac, or Alt key
on Windows, and then just click and drag.
| | 00:28 | By doing that, you can see that this
crop area is anchored off of the center
| | 00:33 | of where I clicked.
| | 00:34 | Now, if we don't like the crop, we can go ahead
and press the Escape key to exit out of that.
| | 00:40 | Press the R key again to access the Crop tool.
| | 00:42 | Again, if you want to choose that
starting point, just hold down the Option key
| | 00:46 | on a Mac, or Alt key on Windows, and then
click and drag from that point, and here
| | 00:51 | you can see I can create this crop.
| | 00:53 | Well, next let's say that we
want to change the Crop Orientation.
| | 00:57 | Rather than keeping this vertical, or portrait,
we want to make it horizontal, or landscape.
| | 01:03 | To do that, it's as
simple as pressing the X key.
| | 01:06 | Here you can see, when we press the X
key, we can toggle back and forth between
| | 01:10 | these different orientations.
| | 01:12 | Next we could go ahead and drag
these points around in order to crop or
| | 01:16 | recompose our photograph in a way that
fits what we are trying to accomplish
| | 01:20 | here, and so I will go ahead and do that
just a little bit. Then double click in
| | 01:24 | order to apply that crop to our photograph.
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| Retouching with the Spot Removal tool| 00:00 | Here we are going to take a look at
how we can use this Spot Removal tool
| | 00:04 | in order to clean up small blemishes, in
order to retouch or improve our photographs.
| | 00:08 | Let's go ahead and click on this image
in order to zoom in, so that we can focus
| | 00:12 | in on some of these small details.
| | 00:14 | Then let's select the Spot
Removal tool by pressing the Q key.
| | 00:18 | Once you have this tool selected,
you can hover over your image.
| | 00:22 | You can see that you
have a little brush there.
| | 00:24 | You can change the brush size by
using the bracket keys, Press the
| | 00:28 | right bracket key; it'll make your brush bigger. Press
the left bracket key, and it'll make your brush smaller.
| | 00:34 | Next you can posiion your cursor over
a little variation, or blemish that you
| | 00:38 | want to reduce or remove.
| | 00:40 | Then simply click; in doing that,
this tool will select the area that you
| | 00:45 | clicked on, and choose a source area
in order to retouch or remove that.
| | 00:50 | Now you can click and drag these different
circles around in order to change that spot.
| | 00:55 | Another way that you can work with
this is to hold down the Command key on a
| | 00:59 | Mac, or Control key on Windows. Then
position your cursor right next to the blemish,
| | 01:04 | and then go ahead and click and drag out from
that area where you clicked, and then let go.
| | 01:08 | In this way, you can determine where
you want that shape to be, and again, you
| | 01:12 | can always move these little circles around.
| | 01:15 | All right, well now that we've looked
at how we can add these little points in
| | 01:18 | order to clean up our photographs, next
I want to look at how we can change the
| | 01:24 | view of the overlay,
| | 01:25 | because eventually you'll have a
lot of these little circles here.
| | 01:28 | How can you hide those?
| | 01:30 | Well, you can do that by
pressing the H key.
| | 01:33 | When you press the H key, it
changes your Tool Overlay options.
| | 01:37 | If you press the H key again, you
can see it toggles this back to this
| | 01:40 | Always perspective.
| | 01:42 | You can also choose different
options, like Auto, or Selected.
| | 01:46 | When we go to Auto, all of those will
hide or disappear when we position our
| | 01:50 | cursor off of the image.
| | 01:51 | When you position your cursor on the
image, you can then go ahead and click over
| | 01:55 | those different points,
| | 01:56 | and then move your cursor off
in order to see them disappear.
| | 02:00 | Again, regardless of the Overlay mode
that you're using, you can always press
| | 02:05 | the H key to go to the
Always or the Never view.
| | 02:09 | Sometimes that's just a really quick way
to hide those overlays, so that you can
| | 02:13 | actually see if the retouching
that you've done looks any good.
| | 02:17 | All right, well there you have it;
a few shortcuts that you can use when
| | 02:21 | working with your Spot Removal tool.
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| Making corrections with the Adjustment Brush| 00:00 | The Adjustment Brush in Lightroom is
phenomenal because it allows us to paint
| | 00:03 | adjustments into specific
areas of our photograph.
| | 00:07 | We are going to talk about how we can
use the Adjustment Brush and also how
| | 00:11 | we can use some really helpful shortcuts so
that we can be more effective with this tool.
| | 00:15 | Now with this tool, I find it's
helpful to learn how to use it in context.
| | 00:19 | So let's go through a bit of a workflow.
| | 00:21 | With this image I will press the V
key to convert it to black and white.
| | 00:25 | Next, in the Black & White panel,
let's click and drag our Aqua and our Blue
| | 00:30 | sliders down to create a bit more of
a dynamic black-and-white conversion.
| | 00:34 | Next, what I want to do is use the
Adjustment Brush in order to paint in
| | 00:39 | brightness into a
specific area of our photograph.
| | 00:42 | To do that, press the K key
to select the Adjustment Brush.
| | 00:45 | Now here with the Adjustment Brush,
what we can do is we can determine in an
| | 00:50 | effect or exposure or contrast. We can
increase one of these values and then
| | 00:54 | paint that in into our picture.
| | 00:56 | Here let's go ahead and increase our
overall exposure and perhaps a bit of contrast.
| | 01:01 | Next, if we scroll down, you will notice
that you have some options for our brush.
| | 01:05 | Here if we position the cursor or the
brush over the image, you can see that we
| | 01:10 | have these different concentric circles.
| | 01:13 | Well, the inner circle is our brush size.
The outer circle, that's the brush feather.
| | 01:19 | To change those values by way of a
shortcut, just press the bracket keys.
| | 01:23 | Right bracket key
increases the overall brush size;
| | 01:26 | left bracket key decreases the brush size.
| | 01:29 | Press Shift+Left Bracket key and that
will decrease the Feather amount; press
| | 01:34 | Shift+Right Bracket key--that
will increase the Feather amount.
| | 01:38 | Well, what about Flow?
| | 01:40 | Well, to change the Flow, you just
need to type a number on your keyboard.
| | 01:44 | If you type 2, it will take the Flow to 20.
| | 01:48 | Press 5, it will go to 50
or 8, and it will go to 80.
| | 01:52 | Next we have an option
which is called Auto Mask.
| | 01:55 | We can turn that on or
off by pressing the A key.
| | 01:58 | Press the A key to turn it off
or the A key to bring this back.
| | 02:02 | Let's go and turn the Auto Mask off
for a moment and just talk about how we
| | 02:06 | can make an adjustment.
| | 02:07 | Here I'm going to go ahead and click and
paint over this part of the picture, and
| | 02:11 | I am just painting in a way that's really
affecting a large area of the photograph.
| | 02:14 | Well in this case, you can see that we
have this little pin which is showing me
| | 02:19 | the area that I've adjusted.
| | 02:21 | If we hover over it, all of a sudden
we'll see what's called a mask overlay.
| | 02:25 | Now you can change that mask overlay
by way of a few handy shortcuts.
| | 02:30 | Position your cursor off of that
little pin and then press the O key;
| | 02:34 | that will toggle the overlay on or off.
| | 02:37 | If you want to change its color, press
Shift+O and here you can see I can toggle
| | 02:43 | through different overlay colors.
| | 02:45 | Sometimes it's helpful to choose an
overlay color so that you can kind of see
| | 02:49 | how you're adjusting the image.
| | 02:51 | In this case, I adjusted the photograph
in a way that didn't really work for me.
| | 02:56 | So to delete the adjustment, here we
will go ahead and simply click on this pin
| | 03:00 | and then press Delete or Backspace.
| | 03:03 | Next, press the A key to turn on Auto
Mask and here press the left bracket key to
| | 03:08 | make our brush a little bit smaller, and
if we click and paint, we will start to
| | 03:12 | see this in red, because the overlay is on.
| | 03:15 | Here you can see how the
adjustment is just affecting this area.
| | 03:19 | Auto Mask allows us to limit how we mask
in certain things, and in many ways this
| | 03:25 | can help us to make more precise
adjustments, and sometimes to make more
| | 03:28 | interesting adjustments as well.
| | 03:30 | If the overlay is distracting,
just use a shortcut to hide it.
| | 03:35 | Remember, it's the O key. That then
allows you to hide that. And here if we flip
| | 03:39 | this switch, you can see our
before and then now the after.
| | 03:43 | I will go ahead and paint over these
areas a little bit more in order to add a
| | 03:47 | bit more to the selection.
| | 03:49 | Next, if we want to make another
adjustment, what I like to do is rather than
| | 03:53 | going to the top and pressing New,
I like to press the K key twice.
| | 03:59 | Press it once to exit the adjustment
brush; press it a second time to re-enter
| | 04:04 | it with a new adjustment.
| | 04:06 | Here I will go ahead and increase my exposure
and then I'll click and paint over the image.
| | 04:11 | In doing that, I've realized that I've
made an adjustment which I don't really like.
| | 04:16 | Well, how can we undo that?
| | 04:17 | Well, you can do that by clicking on
Erase or you can hold down the Option
| | 04:23 | key on the Mac, Alt key on Windows, and
that will give you access to your Erase brush.
| | 04:28 | Here you can see my Erase brush is
really small, so I will press the right
| | 04:31 | bracket key to make that bigger.
| | 04:34 | In doing that, now with this Erase
brush, I can erase this adjustment away.
| | 04:39 | Another way that you can do that is by
letting go of Option or Alt, and then you
| | 04:44 | can just click on that little pin, and
then of course press the Delete key.
| | 04:48 | Yet sometimes you may not want to
delete that altogether, so it's helpful
| | 04:52 | to know that shortcut.
| | 04:53 | Press Option or Alt to quickly
toggle or to choose the Erase brush.
| | 04:58 | All right, well, last but not least,
let's talk about how we can change the
| | 05:02 | view of these pins.
| | 05:03 | Here you can see that we have this little pin.
| | 05:06 | It's showing me that I've
made an adjustment there.
| | 05:09 | If that pin becomes distracting,
we can hide it, and you can hide it by
| | 05:14 | pressing the H key.
| | 05:15 | This now will hide that pin; press the
H again and you can see how it brings
| | 05:20 | that back. And you can see that that can be
helpful to sometimes identify what you've done.
| | 05:25 | Also, if you hover over it, it gives
you this quick overlay of your mask so
| | 05:30 | that you can see that.
| | 05:31 | All right, well there were a handful of
shortcuts there. What I recommend you do
| | 05:35 | with this movie is probably watch it
maybe two or even three times, because the
| | 05:40 | Adjustment Brush is an incredibly
powerful tool and the better you can get at
| | 05:45 | making adjustments in specific areas of
your photographs, well, the better your
| | 05:49 | photographs will become, as you
can see here with this picture.
| | 05:53 | With a few brief brushstrokes, we were
able to really improve that and kind of
| | 05:57 | draw the viewer into this road which
leads into this landscape photograph, and
| | 06:02 | so I recommend that perhaps you watch
this movie a couple of times, take down
| | 06:06 | some notes, and then of course
experiment with these shortcuts and use them so
| | 06:10 | that you can then integrate
them into your own workflow.
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| Using the Graduated Filter| 00:00 | The last tool that we're going to
highlight here in the tool strip is
| | 00:03 | the Graduated Filter.
| | 00:04 | We can select a Graduated
Filter by pressing the M key.
| | 00:08 | Once we've opened the Graduated
Filter, you'll notice that you have the
| | 00:11 | ability to bring in different effects,
whether color, or temperature, or work
| | 00:15 | with Exposure, etcetera.
| | 00:17 | Then if we scroll down, we can also
add a little bit of color as well.
| | 00:21 | Well, here what I want to do
is I want to darken the sky.
| | 00:24 | So I'll go ahead and click and drag my
Exposure slider down, and then I'll click
| | 00:28 | and drag across this part of the image.
| | 00:30 | Well, in doing that, I've
realized that I've gone too far.
| | 00:33 | Well, how can we change that?
| | 00:34 | We could change this either by clicking
on this pin, and dragging it to move it
| | 00:38 | up a little bit, or we could use this
slider to change the overall value here,
| | 00:43 | or you can use a really handy shortcut.
| | 00:45 | The shortcut that I like to use is to
press Option on the Mac, Alt on Windows,
| | 00:50 | and then hover over this little pin.
| | 00:52 | When you do that, you
notice that the cursor changes.
| | 00:55 | It has a line with two arrows.
| | 00:57 | Well, if you Option+Click or Alt+Click
on the pin -- that's Option on a Mac, Alt on
| | 01:03 | Windows -- you can then click and drag.
| | 01:05 | And in doing this, I can
then reset this Exposure amount.
| | 01:08 | I can bring it all the way back to
where it started off here, and I can also
| | 01:11 | bring that further if I wanted to.
| | 01:13 | In this case, I just want to find just the
right spot for how I can then bring that in.
| | 01:18 | All right, well that looks pretty good.
| | 01:19 | Next, I want to talk about,
how we can hide these overlays.
| | 01:22 | We can do that by pressing the H key,
as we've seen before with other tools.
| | 01:26 | Press the H key again, and then it'll
bring back the overlay icons here that we
| | 01:31 | have with this adjustment.
| | 01:33 | In order to create a new adjustment,
what I like to do is to press the M
| | 01:37 | key once to exit out of that adjustment,
then press the M key a second time
| | 01:42 | to re-enter into it.
| | 01:43 | This time, what I'm going to do is go
ahead and use a little bit less here,
| | 01:48 | and then click and drag from the
bottom up in order to darken this part of
| | 01:52 | the photograph as well.
| | 01:53 | Once again, just to reiterate the
shortcut that we learned, hold down Option on
| | 01:56 | a Mac, Alt on Windows, hover over the
pin, and then you can click and drag on
| | 02:01 | that adjustment in order to
change whatever adjustment you've made.
| | 02:05 | I should point out too that if you've
increased the Contrast, or Clarity, or
| | 02:08 | worked with the Saturation, or whatever it is,
| | 02:11 | when you Option+Click or Alt+Click, and
drag over that, you can see how it brings
| | 02:16 | all of those values back to their
default, or back to the neutral setting here,
| | 02:20 | so that we can then lessen all
of those adjustments at once.
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12. Map ModuleZooming in on the map and changing the map style| 00:00 | In this chapter, we're going to focus in
on a few shortcuts that we can use when
| | 00:04 | working with the Map module.
| | 00:05 | And in this movie, I want to highlight
a few shortcuts that you can use for
| | 00:09 | zooming in and out on the map, and
also for changing the overall map style.
| | 00:13 | Well, one of the ways that you can zoom
in and out on the map is by pressing the
| | 00:18 | Plus and Minus keys on your keyboard.
| | 00:20 | Press the Plus key, and you can zoom in;
press the Minus key, and you can zoom out.
| | 00:25 | Another method that you can use is, on
a Mac, press and hold the Option key, on
| | 00:30 | Windows, press and hold the Alt key,
then go ahead and click and drag over an
| | 00:34 | area of the map; that will
then zoom into that area.
| | 00:38 | By doing this, we can click and drag
over small or large areas in order to zoom
| | 00:43 | into different areas on the map.
| | 00:45 | Well in this case, I zoomed in too far,
so I'll press the Minus key on the
| | 00:49 | keyboard to zoom out, so I
can see where I want to go.
| | 00:52 | I want to go to New York, so then hold
down Option or Alt; Option on a Mac, Alt
| | 00:57 | on Windows, and then click and drag
over that area, and you can see how we can
| | 01:01 | zoom in straight to that area.
| | 01:03 | What about changing the different map styles?
| | 01:06 | Well you can do that by pressing Command
on a Mac, Control on Windows, 1 through 6.
| | 01:11 | If you press Command or Control+1, you can
see we have the hybrid view. Command+2 or
| | 01:16 | Control+2, that's roadmap,
and so on, and so forth.
| | 01:19 | And here, all that you need to do is
just to press and hold Command or Control, and
| | 01:24 | then to press those different
number keys 1 through 6 until you've
| | 01:27 | selected the map style
that you want to work with.
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| Finding a location and adding images| 00:00 | Here we're going to take a look at
some more shortcuts that we can use when
| | 00:04 | working with the Map module.
| | 00:05 | Let's start off by looking at how we
can show or hide what's called the map
| | 00:09 | information overlay.
| | 00:10 | Press the I key once, you can see that
this will show us the area that we're
| | 00:14 | looking at; in this case, New York, New York.
Press the I key again in order to hide that.
| | 00:20 | Next what I want to do is want to find
a location, and then add the images to
| | 00:25 | that location, and
save that in the Map module.
| | 00:28 | To do that, we're going to use that
Location Filter bar that we can see at top.
| | 00:32 | You know, you can show or hide that by
pressing the backslash key; press it again,
| | 00:37 | and you can show that.
| | 00:38 | That's the same shortcut that we used
to toggle the visibility of the filtering
| | 00:42 | that we have in the Library module,
so that's pretty easy to remember.
| | 00:46 | Well, next should I want to do is
highlight the Search Map field here.
| | 00:50 | To do that by way of a shortcut, you
can press Command+F on a Mac, or Control+F on
| | 00:55 | Windows, and the location that I want to
find is the Brooklyn Bridge, because
| | 00:59 | that's where all of these
photographs were captured.
| | 01:02 | Press Enter or Return after you typed
out your search, and then click on the
| | 01:06 | option which best relates to the
search that you're doing; in this case,
| | 01:10 | the Brooklyn Bridge.
| | 01:11 | Here I want to add all of these
photographs to that location, so click on one
| | 01:16 | image, hold down the Shift key, click
on another, then drag and drop these
| | 01:21 | photographs to this location.
| | 01:23 | Now we have this little marker that we
can click on, and then click through the
| | 01:26 | photographs that we've
added to this location.
| | 01:29 | Next, you can click off of
that in order to close it.
| | 01:32 | Well, if I want to save this as a
Location, we can click on the plus icon,
| | 01:37 | save this out as a Location of
Brooklyn Bridge; next, click Create.
| | 01:42 | Well, in doing that, you can see that
my saved location is too big. Here we'll
| | 01:46 | go ahead and click on this icon in the
location overlay, and then click and drag
| | 01:51 | down, and by clicking and dragging down,
I can make this smaller, and reposition
| | 01:55 | this, so that it's just
covering the Brooklyn Bridge.
| | 01:58 | To zoom in, press the Plus key.
All right,
| | 02:01 | well now that we've zoomed in, what I
want to do is take a look at how we can
| | 02:05 | work with this little location
here, in regards to the overlay.
| | 02:08 | Sometimes it's nice to see the overlay;
other times it's a little bit distracting.
| | 02:13 | You can press the O key to toggle the
visibility of that location overlay icon,
| | 02:19 | which allows you to resize or reposition
where this saved location actually is. All right.
| | 02:25 | What about the little marker there
that we searched for when we searched for
| | 02:28 | the Brooklyn Bridge?
| | 02:29 | To hide that, just click on the little X
icon in that Search Map field, and that
| | 02:34 | will then hide that icon.
| | 02:36 | Next, with the marker, we've seen
how we can click on this to view the
| | 02:40 | photographs, but we can also hold
down the Control key, and click on that,
| | 02:44 | to look at a few options. Here he can
zoom in on that location to get really
| | 02:48 | close to where this is, or if we Control+
click or right-click on that, we can
| | 02:53 | select the photos from that location
or delete the GPS coordinates that were
| | 02:57 | added to these particular pictures.
| | 03:00 | Another way that we can delete
coordinates is by working with the
| | 03:03 | pictures themselves.
| | 03:04 | Here I'll go and press the Minus
key a few times to zoom out, just so that
| | 03:09 | we can start to look at that.
| | 03:10 | Well here, if we select the photographs
that we have by clicking, holding the
| | 03:14 | Shift key, and clicking, we can delete
the GPS information, or we can delete all
| | 03:20 | of the location metadata.
| | 03:22 | To do that, press the Delete, or the
Backspace key, and that will allow you to
| | 03:26 | delete just the GPS information.
| | 03:28 | To delete all of the location metadata,
press Command+Delete on a Mac, or
| | 03:33 | Control+Backspace on Windows, and here you
can see, you can delete all the location
| | 03:37 | metadata from all the selected
photos, or just the active photo.
| | 03:41 | In this case, let's say that we want to
delete everything. Here we'll go ahead
| | 03:45 | and click on Delete All Selected, and
you can see how that will then delete all
| | 03:49 | of that information
from these photographs.
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| Adding GPS information and moving markers| 00:00 | Next I want to take a look at how we
can add GPS to one or more photographs, and
| | 00:04 | also how we can move the
little markers around.
| | 00:07 | Well, here I'm going to click on an
image down in the filmstrip, and then if you
| | 00:11 | hover over the map, you can right-click
or Control+click to Add GPS Coordinates to
| | 00:15 | the Selected Photos.
| | 00:16 | And the GPS coordinates that you'll
be adding is right where you have
| | 00:19 | right-clicked or Control+clicked.
| | 00:21 | Here I'll choose another image that
was captured a little bit further down on
| | 00:24 | the bridg, and then I'll right-click
or Control+click, and again, add the GPS
| | 00:28 | coordinates to that location.
| | 00:30 | Well, you may have noticed
that there is a Lock icon.
| | 00:33 | Well, you can click on this icon to
either lock or unlock these markers.
| | 00:38 | If they're unlocked, what we can do is
click and drag these around, so that we
| | 00:41 | can reposition them.
| | 00:43 | If you prefer to lock or unlock these by
way of a shortcut, press Command+K on a
| | 00:48 | Mac, or Control+K on Windows to
either lock or to unlock those markers.
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13. Book ModuleViewing the book project| 00:00 | Here we're going to looking at a few
shortcuts that we can use in the Book module.
| | 00:04 | In order work with the Book module, I've
selected a book which I created in one
| | 00:08 | of my other training courses; it's
Concert_Hall_Book, and here this is a shorter
| | 00:12 | version of this book project.
| | 00:14 | And what I want to look at in this
movie is how we can change the different
| | 00:19 | view modes; how we can
zoom in and out on the pages.
| | 00:22 | In order to do that, we can go ahead and
click, say, on one of the pages right here.
| | 00:26 | Then we can click on these icons down
below in order to zoom in, say, to that
| | 00:31 | spread, or zoom in to that single page,
or we can use some handy shortcut keys.
| | 00:35 | The shortcut keys are Command on a
Mac, Control on Windows, then E, R, T. If
| | 00:40 | you look at those keys in your
keyboard, you'll notice that they are located
| | 00:43 | right next to each other.
| | 00:44 | So press Command+E or Control+E in order
look at the multiple spread layout.
| | 00:49 | Then press Command+R or Control+R
to just look at one spread.
| | 00:52 | Then finally, press Command+T or Control+T
in order to zoom in to a single page.
| | 00:58 | Another way that you can zoom in and
out on these different layouts is by
| | 01:02 | pressing Command on a Mac, Control
on Windows, Plus or Minus.
| | 01:07 | Here if we press Command+Minus or Control+Minus,
you can see how we can zoom out, then
| | 01:11 | press Command+Plus or Control+Plus, and you
can see how you can zoom in. All right,
| | 01:15 | well let's zoom out to the View
where we can see the entire spread.
| | 01:19 | To do that, we can either press Command+Minus,
or Control+Minus, or we could press Command+R
| | 01:25 | or Control+R. Either way, it will take us
to this view where we can see the spread.
| | 01:30 | Now how can we flip
through the pages, so to speak?
| | 01:33 | Well, you can do that by pressing
the arrow keys. Here, as we press the
| | 01:36 | arrow keys, you can see that we're
flipping through this, and we're viewing
| | 01:40 | these different spreads, so that we can then
evaluate, and kind of enjoy this book project.
| | 01:45 | Press the left arrow key to move
backward; press the right arrow key to
| | 01:49 | move forward.
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| Toggling the visibility of guides| 00:00 | When you're designing a custom book
project, it's helpful to be able to turn on
| | 00:04 | and off the visibility of different
guides, and there's a panel which is
| | 00:07 | dedicated to the Guides.
| | 00:09 | We can open or close this panel by
way of a shortcut which we've learned
| | 00:13 | previously, and that is to press Command
on a Mac, or Control on Windows, and
| | 00:17 | then press a number.
| | 00:19 | So let's go ahead and press Command+4
or Contfrol+4 to open up our Guides panel.
| | 00:23 | Here, you can see that we can toggle
the visibility of these guides on and off.
| | 00:27 | Before we actually start to do that,
let's go ahead and click into one of the
| | 00:31 | layouts here, then press Command+R
or Control+R to zoom in on that layout.
| | 00:36 | In this way, we'll be able to see
the guides a little bit more clearly.
| | 00:40 | Next, I'm going to click off of the page,
just so that we can see this layout by itself.
| | 00:44 | Well, the great thing about the
Guides shortcut is that they all start with
| | 00:48 | Shift+Command on a Mac, or Shift+Control
on Windows. Then we'll be using
| | 00:52 | different letters, and the letters
that we'll be using are G, J, U, K, and H.
| | 00:58 | Let me show you what I mean.
| | 01:00 | Well, here if we want to toggle on or
off the visibility of all of the guides,
| | 01:04 | you can press Shift+Command+G or Shift+
Control+G. In doing that, you can see that
| | 01:08 | it would either show or
hide all of those guides.
| | 01:12 | Then if we want to toggle on or off
just one of the guides, we can use some
| | 01:16 | other shortcuts as well.
| | 01:17 | Well, let's turn on the
visibility of all of the guides.
| | 01:21 | Press Shift+Command+G on a
Mac, or Shift+Control+G on Windows.
| | 01:25 | Next, to work with Page Bleed, what we can
do is press Shift+Command+J on a Mac, or
| | 01:31 | Shift+Control+J on Windows, and you can
see how you can toggle that on or off.
| | 01:36 | To work with that Text Safe Area, press
Shift+Command+U, or Shift+Control+U. Next, to
| | 01:42 | work with the Photo Cells there, press
Shift+Command+K or Shift+Control+K. And then
| | 01:46 | finally, to show or hide the Filler
Text guide, we can press Shift+Command+H or
| | 01:52 | Shift+Control+H. So as you can see, it's
pretty easy to remember those shortcuts,
| | 01:57 | because they're pretty similar.
| | 01:58 | It just revolves around
memorizing those different letters.
| | 02:02 | So what I recommend you do is write
those down, so that you can use those,
| | 02:06 | because as I mentioned, it's really
helpful to be able to toggle those on and
| | 02:10 | off when you're designing a custom book,
and if you only memorize one shortcut, I
| | 02:15 | recommend that you memorize Shift+Command+G
on a Mac, or Shift+Control+G on Windows,
| | 02:20 | which allows you to toggle on and off
the visibility of all of the guides.
| | 02:25 | So here it is one more time: Shift+Command+G
on a Mac; Shift+Control+G on Windows.
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| Working with type| 00:00 | Here we are going to look at a few more
shortcuts that we can use when working
| | 00:04 | with the Book module.
| | 00:05 | In particular, I want to look at a
shortcut that we can use in order to navigate
| | 00:09 | to the beginning or the end of our
book project, and I also want to talk about
| | 00:13 | how we can work with type, and how we
can use the Targeted Adjustment tool in
| | 00:17 | order to change type in
our book project. All right.
| | 00:20 | Well, let's go ahead and hover over our
image here, or our layout, and I want to
| | 00:24 | work in this layout where
we can see multiple spreads.
| | 00:27 | To navigate to that, press Command+E
or Control+E. Then, if you have a
| | 00:30 | three-button mouse, hover over this, and
use the scroll wheel in order to scroll,
| | 00:34 | or just click on the scroll bar.
| | 00:36 | Next, let's click on one of these layouts.
| | 00:38 | Then press Command+R in a
Mac, or Control+R on Windows.
| | 00:41 | Well, here we are almost at the end of
our book project, and I actually want to
| | 00:46 | be at the beginning.
| | 00:47 | To navigate all the way to the
beginning of our project, press
| | 00:51 | Shift+Command+left arrow on a Mac,
or Shift+Control+left arrow on Windows.
| | 00:56 | What this allows us to do
is to jump to the beginning.
| | 00:59 | To jump to the end of the project,
press Shift+Command+right arrow, or
| | 01:04 | Shift+Control+right arrow.
| | 01:05 | Well, here you can see that we have some
typography on the cover, and also on the
| | 01:10 | back page of this project.
| | 01:11 | Let's look at how we can modify that.
| | 01:13 | So let's open up the Type panel,
and let's use a shortcut that we have
| | 01:17 | learned which allows us to open or close the
panels on the right in each and every module.
| | 01:22 | In this case, the Type panel
is panel number 7,
| | 01:25 | so press Command+7 or Control+7
to open up the Type panel.
| | 01:29 | Next what I want you to do is to
click on the title of the book here,
| | 01:33 | and then to activate what's called the
Targeted Adjustment tool. If you have
| | 01:37 | that tool active, you can click and drag
over some text; in this case, over the title.
| | 01:43 | Next, we can use this tool in order to
change the Size of the text, or to increase
| | 01:48 | or decrease the Leading, the
Baseline shift, or the Tracking.
| | 01:51 | To work with Size, we highlight the text.
| | 01:54 | Then we hover over this, and we click
and drag to the left or to the right to
| | 01:59 | either increase or decrease the
size of that text field. All right.
| | 02:03 | Well let's take a look at how we
can do this, say, with another text area.
| | 02:07 | Let's click into the text
that we have on the Back Cover.
| | 02:10 | It just says Demo Text, and if we
click and drag to hover over that, we can
| | 02:14 | position our cursor over it.
| | 02:16 | Now if we click and drag up or down,
you can see how we can increase or
| | 02:20 | decrease the Leading.
| | 02:21 | Well, what else can we do with this?
| | 02:24 | Another way that we can modify this is
by holding down the Command key on a Mac,
| | 02:28 | or Control key on Windows.
| | 02:29 | Now when we click up or down, you can
see that it's changing the Baseline; that
| | 02:33 | it's moving this text higher
or lower as an entire group.
| | 02:38 | Next, the last shortcut that we have
here is, if you hold down Command on a Mac,
| | 02:43 | or Control on Windows, and then click and
drag to the left or right, you can see
| | 02:48 | that we can change our Tracking as well,
so that we can have this text space in
| | 02:52 | a way that fits well on
the back area of the book.
| | 02:55 | So again, when working with the Targeted
Adjustment tool, you can highlight the
| | 02:59 | text, and simply hover over and drag to
the left and the right to change Size;
| | 03:04 | let go. Drag up and down in order to
change the Leading. Then if you hold down
| | 03:10 | Command or Control, you can go ahead and
drag up and down in order to change the
| | 03:14 | Baseline shift, or if you hold down the
Command key, you can drag to the left or
| | 03:19 | the right in order to
modify the Tracking.
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| Making selections| 00:00 | Here we are going to take a look at how we
can make selections of typography, or of images.
| | 00:05 | I'm working with the cover,
| | 00:06 | and what I want to do is I want to select
all of the text cells in order to change
| | 00:11 | the color, or the font that we have here.
| | 00:13 | In order to do that, we
can use a handy shortcut.
| | 00:16 | On a Mac, press Command+Option+A; on Windows,
press Control+Alt+A. Next, we could go
| | 00:22 | ahead and make a change.
| | 00:23 | For example, let's say that we want all
of the copy to be black. Here I'll click
| | 00:27 | into the color chip, and
then I'll make that change.
| | 00:30 | If we want to undo that change, you can
just press Command+Z or Control+Z multiple
| | 00:35 | times in order to step backwards,
in order to undo those changes.
| | 00:39 | Next, let's move to a new spread.
| | 00:41 | Here, to do that, we'll press the right
arrow key until we come to a spread where
| | 00:45 | we have a couple of images.
| | 00:47 | Now I want to show you a shortcut that
you can use in order to select all of the
| | 00:52 | photos that you have on a page.
| | 00:53 | In this case, the shortcut is
Shift+Option+Command+A on a Mac, or
| | 00:58 | Shift+Alt+Control+A on Windows.
| | 01:00 | Here, you can see that we've
selected all of these photos.
| | 01:03 | Well, what I want to do with these
photos is I want to click on one, and then
| | 01:07 | change the zoom. Because both photos
are selected, I'll go ahead and click and
| | 01:12 | drag, and you can see how we can
change the zoom of these photos.
| | 01:15 | We can also click and move these
around in order to change the layout,
| | 01:19 | and customize this.
| | 01:20 | In this way, many times we
can make changes more quickly.
| | 01:24 | If ever you want to undo changes
like this, well, just click off, and then
| | 01:28 | press Command+Z or Control+Z multiple
times in order to step back through these
| | 01:32 | changes that you've made, in order to
bring the photographs back to the way
| | 01:35 | that they were originally.
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14. Slideshow ModulePlaying an impromptu slideshow| 00:00 | Here we are going to take a look at few
shortcuts that we can use when working
| | 00:04 | with the Slideshow module.
| | 00:05 | In particular, I want to focus in
on how we can launch what's called an
| | 00:09 | impromptu slideshow, and how we can launch
that from any of our different modules.
| | 00:13 | To do that, you can either target a
folder of images, or a Collection of images,
| | 00:18 | and then you can press
this shortcut key combination:
| | 00:21 | on a Mac, press Command+Return;
on Windows press Control+Enter.
| | 00:26 | Well, here you can see that it's showing
me this slideshow of photographs, and
| | 00:30 | it's going to go through these pictures,
| | 00:32 | but let's say that
I don't like this slideshow.
| | 00:34 | How can we change this?
| | 00:35 | How can we select something
different for our impromptu slideshow?
| | 00:40 | Well, go ahead and press the
Escape key to exit out of the slideshow.
| | 00:43 | Next, we'll go to the Slideshow module by
clicking on the module picker here at the top.
| | 00:49 | Then, if you go to your Template
Browser, you can use one of the Lightroom
| | 00:53 | Templates, or if you've created a
custom template, then you can use that as the
| | 00:58 | target slideshow when you launch
or create this impromptu slideshow.
| | 01:02 | To do that, simply select it,
like I want to select this one here.
| | 01:06 | I'll go ahead and click on my first
image as well, and then I'm going to
| | 01:10 | right-click or Control+click, and
choose Use for Impromptu Slideshow.
| | 01:14 | So again, it's all about
right-clicking or Control+clicking.
| | 01:17 | You'll notice that that little plus
icon will go to the one which you'll use
| | 01:21 | when you use this keyboard combination,
which is Command+Return on a Mac, or
| | 01:26 | Control+Enter on Windows.
| | 01:28 | Well, now that I am seeing my images
full screen, I like this one much better.
| | 01:33 | I think this one works better with
these photographs, and also I like the
| | 01:36 | overall pacing of it.
| | 01:38 | So, as you can see, you can customize
this, and it's a great way to be able to
| | 01:42 | appreciate and enjoy your images, to
kind of push yourself away from your
| | 01:46 | computer, and to take a look at your
photographs, and also to share your work
| | 01:50 | with others.
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| Playing and viewing a slideshow| 00:00 | Next I want to take a look at how we
can preview and play back our slideshows
| | 00:04 | when we're in the Slideshow module.
| | 00:06 | So here we are inside of the
Slideshow module.
| | 00:08 | I have selected my template that I
want to use, which is Crop To Fill, and I
| | 00:13 | want to preview this,
| | 00:14 | yet I don't want the slideshow to take
over my entire screen. Rather, I want to
| | 00:18 | see it inside of this area
of the Lightroom interface.
| | 00:22 | In order to preview your slideshow
in that area, what you do is press
| | 00:26 | Option+Return on a Mac,
or Alt+Enter on Windows.
| | 00:30 | And here, you can see that it will play
back the slideshow inside of this area.
| | 00:34 | When you're ready to exit out of that
preview, just go ahead and click, and then
| | 00:38 | it will exit, or stop that preview.
All right,
| | 00:40 | well what about playing a slideshow?
| | 00:43 | Let's say that you're ready to see the
slideshow, and you want to see it full screen.
| | 00:47 | Well, if you're inside of the Slideshow
module, you can just press Enter or Return.
| | 00:52 | What it will do is then launch the slideshow.
| | 00:55 | As the slideshow is playing, you may
decide that you want to pause on a photograph.
| | 01:00 | To do that, press the spacebar key.
| | 01:02 | You'll notice there's a little Pause
icon in the lower left-hand corner.
| | 01:06 | To replay the slideshow, or to keep it
going, just press Pause again, and then it
| | 01:10 | will start playing that slideshow.
| | 01:12 | If ever you decide that you want to
click through the slideshow yourself, if
| | 01:16 | it's going too slow, as it is here,
well, just press the Spacebar key to pause,
| | 01:20 | then you can use your arrow keys. Press
the right arrow key to navigate forward
| | 01:24 | through the slideshow; press the left
arrow key in order to navigate backwards
| | 01:29 | through the slideshow.
| | 01:30 | Once you've decided that you want to
end or exit the slideshow, just press the
| | 01:34 | Escape key, as we did before, in order
to exit that slideshow, and to go back to
| | 01:40 | the Slideshow module.
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| Creating a custom template and saving the slideshow| 00:00 | Next let's take a look at how we can
customize our slideshows, and also how we
| | 00:04 | can save these customizations out as a
new slideshow template, and how we can
| | 00:08 | save our slideshow as well. All right.
| | 00:10 | Well here in the Template Browser,
I'm going to choose a different template.
| | 00:14 | In this case, I'm going to
select the Default template.
| | 00:16 | You may notice that there are
some guides which are visible.
| | 00:19 | You can show or hide those guides by
pressing Shift+Command+H on a Mac, or
| | 00:24 | Shift+Control+H on Windows.
| | 00:26 | Now, those guides are actually really
important, because you can hover over them,
| | 00:30 | and you can click and drag in order
to change the overall size that you're
| | 00:33 | dedicating to your photographs.
| | 00:35 | Let's say that we want a slideshow
where we have more negative space.
| | 00:38 | Well, we can customize
that by using those guides.
| | 00:41 | So again, to reiterate that shortcut, it's
Shift+Command+H on a Mac, Shift+Control+H
| | 00:47 | on Windows to show or hide the guides.
| | 00:50 | Next, I notice that my Identity Plate
is showing up here in the top left-hand
| | 00:54 | corner, so I'm going to go to
Overlays, and then I want to turn that off.
| | 00:59 | I'm going to turn off my Identity
Plate, as well as Ratings, and Text Overlays.
| | 01:03 | I want a really simple or
a minimalistic slideshow.
| | 01:06 | After having made that customization,
I'm going to close Overlays, and I want to
| | 01:11 | go down to Playback.
| | 01:12 | For Playback, what I want to do is I
want to make this a little bit quicker.
| | 01:17 | To do that, I'll decrease my Fade time,
and also my Slide time, so I'll have a
| | 01:22 | pretty snappy slideshow. All right.
| | 01:23 | Well now that I've customized all of
these settings, what I might want to do is
| | 01:28 | create a new slideshow template
folder, and then save this out as a new
| | 01:32 | slideshow template.
| | 01:34 | To create a new slideshow template folder,
you press Shift+Command+N on a Mac, or
| | 01:40 | Shift+Control+N on Windows.
| | 01:42 | I'll name this CO, my initials,
and I'll just name this Templates.
| | 01:45 | Next, click Create.
| | 01:47 | You can see that I now
have my own template folder.
| | 01:50 | Next, to save these settings, what you
can do is press another shortcut key to
| | 01:55 | save this out as a template, and that is
Command+N on a Mac, or Control+N on Windows.
| | 02:01 | I'll name this new template Simple, and
I'll save this one inside of my folder
| | 02:06 | CO - Templates, and then I'll click
Create, and you can see that that is now
| | 02:10 | saved in this location.
| | 02:12 | Now, all that I've saved is the settings
that I've dialed in. I haven't saved
| | 02:17 | these images as part of this slideshow.
| | 02:20 | If I want to save these images as part
of this template, I need to save that out.
| | 02:26 | To save the slideshow, what we can do
is either click on this button up here, or
| | 02:31 | you can press a shortcut key combination.
| | 02:33 | On a Mac, press Command+S, on Windows
press Control+S. I'll name this one Simple
| | 02:39 | again, and what this will do is it
will save this in our Collections panel.
| | 02:44 | You can see that down here, and by
saving it as a Collection, it will remember
| | 02:49 | all of the settings, and all of the
images that we've used for this slideshow.
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| Exporting as PDF, JPEG, and video| 00:00 | After you've finished creating your
slideshow, you may want to export it, and
| | 00:03 | there are three different ways
that you can export your slideshow;
| | 00:06 | you can export it as a PDF file, as a
Video slideshow, or as a JPEG slideshow.
| | 00:12 | You can see that there are some buttons
which allow us to access menus, where we
| | 00:16 | can export our slideshows in that way,
| | 00:18 | but you may notice that
there are only two buttons.
| | 00:21 | Well, what about the JPEG option?
| | 00:23 | To access that, hold down the Option
key on a Mac, or Alt key on Windows, and you
| | 00:27 | can see that you can change
that Export PDF to Export JPEG.
| | 00:32 | You can also use some keyboard
shortcuts to do this as well.
| | 00:35 | Fortunately, these keyboard
shortcuts are pretty similar,
| | 00:38 | so they're not that
difficult to memorize.
| | 00:41 | To export as a PDF slideshow, press Command
on a Mac, Control on Windows, plus the
| | 00:46 | J key.
| | 00:48 | This will then open up a dialogue,
which allows us to export this to PDF.
| | 00:52 | Here we can dial in the settings that we
want to use, and then simply click Export.
| | 00:56 | Here I'll click Cancel, because I
want to show you the other options.
| | 01:00 | To export this as a JPEG slideshow,
press Shift+Command+J on a Mac, or
| | 01:05 | Shift+Control+J on Windows.
| | 01:06 | Here you can see that you can export
this slideshow to individual JPEGs.
| | 01:11 | Again, we have some settings options
as well, and then last, but not least, and
| | 01:15 | perhaps the most exciting option, is
to export this to a Video slideshow.
| | 01:20 | On a Mac, press Command+Option+J, on
Windows, press Control+Alt+J, and again, you
| | 01:26 | can see that we can export this to video,
and we can choose a few Video Presets as well.
| | 01:32 | So just to reiterate those shortcuts,
to make sure that we have them, press
| | 01:35 | Command+J or Control+J to export to PDF,
press Shift+Command+J or Shift+Control+J to
| | 01:41 | export to JPEG, and then press Command+
Option+J on a Mac, or Control+Alt+J on Windows
| | 01:47 | in order to export your
slideshow to a video file.
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15. Print ModuleChoosing the Print module and changing the page settings| 00:00 | Let's take a look at a few shortcuts that we
can use when working with the Print module.
| | 00:04 | In particular, I will
highlight two different shortcuts;
| | 00:07 | one which allows us to navigate to the
Print module, another one which allows us
| | 00:12 | to open up our Page Setup options.
All right,
| | 00:15 | well here you can see I have
selected a photograph that I'm interested in
| | 00:19 | printing, and you can view your image
in any of the modules. Then you can press
| | 00:24 | this handy shortcut key combination;
| | 00:26 | press Command+P on a Mac, or Control+P on
Windows, and that will take you to the
| | 00:31 | Print module, with the
image which you had selected.
| | 00:34 | Well, obviously here my
page setup is off;
| | 00:37 | I need to change the
overall orientation.
| | 00:40 | To do that, we can use
another shortcut key.
| | 00:43 | Remember, Command+P or Control+P
brought us to the Print module.
| | 00:47 | Well, if we add one more modifier key to
that, we can open up our Page Setup options.
| | 00:53 | Press Shift+Command+P on the
Mac, or Shift+Control+P on Windows.
| | 00:57 | Here I am going to change my
Page Orientation to Vertical.
| | 01:01 | Simply click OK in order to accept
that, and now this page is set up much more
| | 01:06 | appropriately for this print.
| | 01:08 | So to reiterate those shortcuts, you can
press Command+P or Control+P to access the
| | 01:13 | Print module, then press Shift+Command+
P or Shift+Control+P in order to open up
| | 01:18 | your Page Setup options.
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| Customizing the layout and viewing the guides| 00:00 | Next let's take a look at how we can
customize the print layout by working
| | 00:04 | with guides, and let's also talk about how
we can quickly send our image to the printer.
| | 00:09 | All right, well here we're
going to open up the Guides panel.
| | 00:12 | To do that, let's use the shortcut
which we've learned previously, which allows
| | 00:16 | us to open or close those
panels on the right.
| | 00:18 | Well, the Guides panel is
sitting in position number 4.
| | 00:22 | So press Command+4 or Control+4 in
order to open up the Guides panel.
| | 00:27 | Next, what I want to do
is show all of the guides.
| | 00:30 | To do that, you can press Shift+Command+G
on a Mac, or Shift+Control+G on Windows.
| | 00:37 | This now shows us these guides
which we can use.
| | 00:40 | If we want the image to be a little bit
higher here, I can click and drag that
| | 00:44 | up, and then I can also click and
drag up this bottom guide here in order
| | 00:48 | position that up a little bit higher.
| | 00:50 | In doing that, you can see how we can
change where this image is located on the page.
| | 00:55 | To hide all of the guides at once, press
Shift+Command+G or Shift+Control+G. Next
| | 01:01 | let's press that shortcut key again, so
that we can learn a few other shortcuts,
| | 01:05 | which will help us to show or
hide these different elements.
| | 01:09 | When it comes to Page Bleed, you can
press Shift+Command+J or Shift+Control+J.
| | 01:14 | Margins and Gutters; Shift+Command+H or
Shift+Control+H. Next we have Image Cells;
| | 01:20 | that's Shift+Command+K or Shift+Control+K.
And then next we have Dimensions, which is
| | 01:25 | Shift+Command+U or Shift+Control+U. All
right, well what about the Rulers?
| | 01:29 | How can we show or hide those?
| | 01:31 | Well I've saved those for last, because
this shortcut is a little bit different.
| | 01:35 | Rather than pressing Shift+Command or
Shift+Control, what we're going to do is just
| | 01:39 | press Command on a Mac, Control on Windows,
and then the R key. That allows us to
| | 01:45 | toggle the visibility of
those guides on or off.
| | 01:48 | Now, that being said, there are a lot of
shortcuts associated with these guides.
| | 01:53 | You may want to memorize just a few
which are relevant to you, or perhaps even
| | 01:57 | most importantly, what you'll want to
know how to do is to turn all of those
| | 02:01 | guides on and off at once.
| | 02:03 | So let me reiterate that shortcut.
| | 02:05 | That's Shift+Command+G on a
Mac, or Shift+Control+G on Windows.
| | 02:09 | All right, well now that we've worked
with guides, and we've changed the layout
| | 02:13 | just a little bit, I'm ready to
send this image to the printer.
| | 02:16 | To do that quickly, we can click on
the Print One button, or we can press a
| | 02:21 | shortcut key combination to do that as well.
| | 02:24 | On a Mac, press Command+Option+P, on
Windows, press Control+Alt+P, and here you can
| | 02:30 | see it's sending that file to
the printer in order to be printed.
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| Modifying the print settings| 00:00 | In this brief movie, I want to share
with you two shortcuts that you can use in
| | 00:04 | order to open up and to
customize the Print Settings dialog box.
| | 00:08 | And if you're going to get good at
printing, you really need to customize these
| | 00:11 | settings to ensure that
your print looks its best.
| | 00:15 | The first shortcut that we can use
is Shift+Option+Command+P on a Mac, or
| | 00:20 | Shift+Alt+Control+P on Windows.
| | 00:22 | This will open up the Print Settings
dialog, and what I need to do is to select
| | 00:26 | my Printer, and then, of course, we need
to go down to our Printer Settings, and
| | 00:30 | we need to customize these settings.
| | 00:32 | Here I'm simply going to click Save
in order to save those settings out.
| | 00:35 | Well, how else can we
access those print settings?
| | 00:39 | Another way that we can do that is by pressing
Command+P on a Mac, or Control+P on a Windows.
| | 00:45 | Before we can send our images to the
printer, we need to dial in these settings.
| | 00:50 | Again, we can go down to our Printer
Settings, and customize the settings here.
| | 00:55 | Yet, when we press Command+P or
Control+P, notice that it doesn't say save.
| | 00:59 | Rather, it says Print.
| | 01:00 | It's assuming that we're
ready to send this to the printer.
| | 01:04 | Well, rather than clicking Print here,
I want to highlight one more shortcut.
| | 01:08 | Here I'll click Cancel.
| | 01:10 | Notice that the Print button says
Print... If we were to click on that, that
| | 01:16 | would open up his dialog.
| | 01:17 | Wherever you see dots in Lightroom, that
means that you're about to see a dialog,
| | 01:22 | yet let's say that we
want to skip this dialogue.
| | 01:25 | Well one way to be able to do that is
to use a shortcut which we talked about
| | 01:29 | in the previous movie, and that is to
print one copy, and what that will do is it
| | 01:34 | will use the print settings that we've
defined, and it will then send our image
| | 01:38 | directly to the printer, skipping the
Print Settings dialog, so that we don't
| | 01:42 | need to see that. And the shortcut to do
that, again, is Command+Option+P on a Mac,
| | 01:47 | or Control+Alt+P on Windows.
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| Creating a custom template and saving the print| 00:00 | After you have customized your print
layout, you may want to save it as a
| | 00:04 | custom print template.
| | 00:05 | So here we're going to take
a look at three shortcuts.
| | 00:08 | We'll look at how we can create a new
print template folder, how we can create a
| | 00:12 | new print template, and also how we can
save our print settings as a Collection.
| | 00:16 | All right, well first let's
create a new print template folder.
| | 00:20 | To do that, press Shift+Command+N
on a Mac, or Shift+Control+N on Windows,
| | 00:24 | and I'll go ahead and just name this
CO - Templates. Next click Create.
| | 00:29 | Here in the Template Browser you can
see that I now have my own custom folder.
| | 00:33 | Next, in order to save this particular
layout as a print template, we can do that
| | 00:38 | by pressing the shortcut Command+N
on a Mac, or Control+N on Windows.
| | 00:43 | I'm just going to name this one Simple,
and I want to save this inside of the
| | 00:48 | folder, my folder there that we just
created, and then we'll click Create.
| | 00:51 | So now we have this custom template
which we could then use with other
| | 00:55 | photographs as well.
| | 00:57 | Now, whenever you're creating custom
templates, and you're working with images,
| | 01:00 | it may be a good idea to save all of
these settings out; in other words, to save
| | 01:05 | not just the template, but to save the
image or images that you used for that template.
| | 01:11 | To do that, we can go ahead and click on
this button here, Create Saved Print, or
| | 01:16 | you can press Command+S on a Mac, or
Control+S on Windows; think S for saved.
| | 01:22 | And I'll go ahead and just save this
one out as Simple-New, and then I'll
| | 01:26 | include the used photos
here, and then click Create.
| | 01:30 | In doing that, you can see that I now
have a print Collection, with all of these
| | 01:34 | settings which we've customized, and
also with the photograph or photographs
| | 01:38 | that have been selected.
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16. Web Gallery ModuleExporting and reloading| 00:00 | In this brief movie, I want to share
with you two shortcuts that you can use,
| | 00:04 | which will help you as you're
working with the Web module.
| | 00:06 | You can see that I've selected in my
Layout Style the Airtight PostcardViewer.
| | 00:12 | This is kind of an
interesting, or fun Web gallery.
| | 00:15 | And one of the things that's
fascinating about it is that each time the
| | 00:18 | viewer visits this site, if you have
it live, they'll see the images arranged
| | 00:23 | in a different way.
| | 00:24 | To get a preview into that, you can use a
shortcut in order to reload the gallery.
| | 00:30 | Press Command+R on a Mac,
or Control+R on Windows,
| | 00:33 | and here you can see the
arrangement is different.
| | 00:36 | And sometimes this can be helpful if
you've made customizations to a Web gallery.
| | 00:40 | For example, I'll go ahead and select
one image in my filmstrip, hold down the
| | 00:45 | Shift key, then select another.
| | 00:47 | Next I am going to select, rather than
using all the filmstrip photos, I'll use
| | 00:51 | these selected photos.
| | 00:53 | This will then update the gallery.
| | 00:54 | Well, if I want to view this, or reload
this, can once again press Command+R or
| | 01:00 | Control+R in order to do so.
| | 01:02 | Well let's say that we've customized
the gallery, we've reloaded it in order to
| | 01:06 | see how it works, and how it looks,
and we are ready to export this gallery,
| | 01:10 | and we want to export it to
a folder on our hard drive.
| | 01:13 | To do that, we can either click on
the Export button, or you can press the
| | 01:17 | shortcut key combination Command+J on a
Mac, or Control+J on Windows, and this would
| | 01:23 | open up our Save As dialog, which would
allow us to save our Web gallery to a
| | 01:27 | folder on our hard drive.
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| Previewing in a browser and saving your web gallery| 00:00 | All right, well after you've
customized your Web gallery, you may want to
| | 00:03 | preview it in a browser.
| | 00:05 | Let's take a look at how we can do that
by way of a shortcut, and also let's take
| | 00:09 | a look at how we can create a new
template folder, and then save our customized
| | 00:13 | Web gallery out as a new template.
| | 00:16 | All right, well in order to preview our
Web gallery in a browser, in order to view
| | 00:20 | how it looks and works inside of our
browser, you can press Command+Option+P on
| | 00:25 | a Mac, or Control+Alt+P on Windows.
| | 00:28 | Here I'll go ahead and press that shortcut,
and here you can see we have this Web
| | 00:32 | gallery, we can click on the images,
| | 00:34 | as we click on the images, they zoom in,
| | 00:36 | and we can use the arrow keys
to move around in this gallery.
| | 00:40 | In this way, we're just
getting a little bit of a preview.
| | 00:43 | Now, this preview is local; in other
words, it's pulling this off of our hard
| | 00:47 | drive. This isn't online yet,
| | 00:50 | but it's a nice preview to see
how this particular gallery works.
| | 00:53 | Next, after we've done that, we may
want to create a custom template folder.
| | 00:58 | To do that, as we've seen before, you
can press Shift+Command+N on a Mac, or
| | 01:02 | Shift+Control+N on Windows. I'll name
this CO - Templates and then click Create.
| | 01:08 | Next, if we want to save a particular
gallery as a custom template, just press
| | 01:13 | Command+N on a Mac, or Control+N on Windows.
| | 01:16 | Here I'll go ahead and save this into my folder,
and I'm going to name this one CO - Postcard.
| | 01:23 | Next, click Create.
| | 01:25 | Well here you can see we now have
this custom template, which we could use
| | 01:28 | with other photographs.
| | 01:30 | Yet if we want to save this particular
Web gallery with these photographs, we
| | 01:34 | need to create what's
called a saved Web gallery.
| | 01:37 | We can save this as a Collection.
| | 01:39 | To do that, we can either click on this
button here, or you can press Command+S on
| | 01:44 | a Mac, or Control+S on Windows.
| | 01:46 | Again, I'll go ahead and name this one
CO - Postcard - JM, for Jared Mason, who is
| | 01:53 | the subject of these photographs. Then
we'll click Create including the used
| | 01:58 | photos, and then in doing that, we'll see
in our Collections panel, we now have a
| | 02:03 | Collection that has saved all of these
settings, and also which photos I've used
| | 02:07 | for this particular Web gallery.
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ConclusionGoodbye| 00:00 | Congratulations on
making it through this course,
| | 00:02 | and I hope that you've picked up some
valuable tips and shortcuts that you can
| | 00:06 | integrate into your own workflow.
| | 00:09 | Before we wrap things up, I have a
couple of ideas for you that I think might
| | 00:13 | help you to maintain or to keep all
of these things that you've learned.
| | 00:17 | One of the ways that you can really
learn something is by teaching someone else.
| | 00:21 | So with these shortcuts, I recommend
that you pass them on, that you share
| | 00:25 | these with others, because it will help you,
again, to maintain or to keep this information.
| | 00:29 | Another thing that you might want to
do is, in a few months, revisit those
| | 00:33 | chapters which were most important to
you, just to brush up on those skills.
| | 00:38 | Well thanks for joining me in this course;
| | 00:39 | I look forward to seeing you in another one.
| | 00:42 | Bye for now.
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