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08/05/2008 07:48:19 PM · #1 |
What if we start a thread containing nothing but Lightroom tips (mostly 2.0, but really, anything tip is welcome).
If you find a useful link, feel free to share. If you have personal experience you want to share, so much the better! I'd love to see and cultivate home grown DPC expertise in Lightroom.
Here are a couple of video tutorial links for Lightroom 2.0 that might help get the ball rolling:
What's New in Lightroom 2.0:
Part 1 - The Library Module
Part 2 - The Develop Module
Part 3 - Exporting, Photoshop Integration, Output Modules
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08/05/2008 07:58:46 PM · #2 |
Great idea Terry! I'm going to post in here what I did in another thread:
Just a tip I noticed in lightroom 2.0. A lot of people, including myself, have had an issue with lightroom bogging down when using the brushes. I have 4G of memory and I have heard of others who have much more than that with the same issue. I found that I get no slow down or hanging if I paint the area first with no adjustments and then after I have applied the mask, make the changes to area via the sliders. It has made it a lot less frustrating and less time consuming. Hopefully this is something Adobe will be addressing. All that said I really like 2.0 so far, the new Clarify slider is very cool b/c you can go negative values with it creating a blur like effect.
I will also note that while using the brush you can see where you have painted by hovering over the marker and it turns the masked area red. While hovering you can change the color of the mask by pushing shift/O, there are three different mask colors. Even better you can leave the mask on while painting so you can see where the mask is as you go, just hover over the marker and press O and it leaves it on.
hope to add a few more and gain some knowledge in this thread. |
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08/05/2008 08:05:09 PM · #3 |
Awesome!
Here is a previous similar thread with LR 1.x tips. The voice recognition is still mighty cool, and works just fine with LR 2.x of course, too.
I've mentioned this video before, but I think it's worth mentioning again here, since it is shows a lot of cool tricks with the new selective editing tools: Use Lightroom 2 for Basic Portrait Retouching
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08/05/2008 08:12:54 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by trevytrev:
A lot of people, including myself, have had an issue with lightroom bogging down when using the brushes. I have 4G of memory and I have heard of others who have much more than that with the same issue. |
This brings to mind another question -- how is Lightroom 2.0 working with Vista? I have XP, and have resisted switching to Vista in part because of a lot of reports of incompatability issues between LR 1.4 and Vista.
(Trevy's post reminded me of it, because I installed 8G of RAM in my box when I got LR, only to find that XP only supports a max of 4G of RAM! I want to upgrade to Vista to take advantage of that extra speed, though LR seems to work fine with the 4G that are recognized) |
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08/05/2008 08:47:50 PM · #5 |
| You can download Lightroom Presets from the internet. First,download them into a folder on your desktop. Copy it to your Develop Presets area. The location for this file is usually C\:Documents and Settings\User Name\Application Data\Adobe\Lightroom\Develop Presets.Go back to Lightroom and on the left-hand side of your monitor will be a drop-down menu. Find your preset and click on a photo. The effect will automatically be applied to your photo/ |
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08/05/2008 09:17:45 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by EstimatedEyes:
This brings to mind another question -- how is Lightroom 2.0 working with Vista? I have XP, and have resisted switching to Vista in part because of a lot of reports of incompatability issues between LR 1.4 and Vista.
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I have vista and I just dowloaded Lightroom a couple of days ago, no problems with it so far.
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08/05/2008 09:39:49 PM · #7 |
Great idea!
While not entirely about tips / tricks and more about plugins, Jeffrey Friedl does some great work.
There is some great info put out by NAPP
My feeble attempt to discuss the different Adobe Profiles
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08/05/2008 09:47:30 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by dfstevenson:
You can download Lightroom Presets from the internet. First,download them into a folder on your desktop. Copy it to your Develop Presets area. The location for this file is usually C\:Documents and Settings\User Name\Application Data\Adobe\Lightroom\Develop Presets.Go back to Lightroom and on the left-hand side of your monitor will be a drop-down menu. Find your preset and click on a photo. The effect will automatically be applied to your photo/ |
Couple links for presets:
//www.lightroomkillertips.com/archives/presets/
Great site with lots of tips and tricks and some great presets
//inside-lightroom.com/misc.php
This site has a ton of presets as well, including some new ones for new features in 2.0
//www.flickr.com/groups/presets/
Flickr group that shares presets, inluding some cool Lomo and Cross process presets.
//regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/
This site has plugins for lightroom and lightroom 2 that exports photos directly to your Flickr, Zenfolio, Smugmug, Picassa Webb and Facebook accounts. Save yourself some time.
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08/06/2008 04:12:46 AM · #9 |
Originally posted by EstimatedEyes:
(Trevy's post reminded me of it, because I installed 8G of RAM in my box when I got LR, only to find that XP only supports a max of 4G of RAM! I want to upgrade to Vista to take advantage of that extra speed, though LR seems to work fine with the 4G that are recognized) |
That limitation isn't an "XP" thang, it's an operating-system-bitness-thang. With an OS kernel built with 32-bit memory address space, you'll only be able to address "something just less than" 4GB -- usually more like 3-3.5GB in Winblows XP.
Upgrading to Vista will not fix that, unless you install a 64-bit build of Vista (and you could just as well upgrade to a 64-bit build of XP, or 64-bit linux and run Winblows or Vista in a virtual machine like I do, but that becomes another story altogether...) ;)
Anyway, the short version is, if you want to see more than 3-4GB of RAM, you'll need a 64-bit OS, not matter what flavor it is.
Now, to tie this back to our regularly scheduled Lightroom tips... LR 2.0 is built with 64-bit support, so if you run it on a 64-bit OS, you'll have very happy performance and memory footprint.
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08/06/2008 09:38:59 AM · #10 |
| can someone tell me if you can keyword an entire folder in 2.0? and how? |
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08/06/2008 10:07:39 AM · #11 |
Originally posted by rider:
can someone tell me if you can keyword an entire folder in 2.0? and how? |
I believe it's done through synchronizing the metadata from the library module.
Add the keywords you want to the first image.
Select the all the images
Click Sync Metadata in the bottom right
Choose the Metadata you want to be the same
Message edited by author 2008-08-06 10:07:52. |
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08/06/2008 10:12:23 AM · #12 |
Originally posted by rider:
can someone tell me if you can keyword an entire folder in 2.0? and how? |
In Library mode, click on the folder (left panel). Add the keyword by typing it into the keyword panel on the right and clicking add.
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08/06/2008 10:46:17 AM · #13 |
You can also go to grid view and press CTRL+A (Option+A for us cool Mac people) and select all of them. Then just drag keywords on to the selections. I do this all the time when I import a whole card that has different things on it. Just drag the keywords from the keyword panel over to the appropriate selected images!
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08/06/2008 12:03:09 PM · #14 |
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08/06/2008 01:01:08 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by mjwood0:
You can also go to grid view and press CTRL+A (Option+A for us cool Mac people) and select all of them. Then just drag keywords on to the selections. |
Or click the checkbox to the left of the keyword. |
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08/07/2008 04:09:23 PM · #16 |
Just to give this a little bump, I've been reviewing these for a bit, and these videos ROCK. Each is rather long (~20+ minutes each), but they are full of content, and I've picked up several tricks I had missed on my own.
Very, very good find, David-man!
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08/07/2008 04:12:46 PM · #17 |
| If you download or make your own Lightroom presets, they can be transferred over to Camera Raw for use there. |
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08/07/2008 05:14:11 PM · #18 |
| Just in case some people don't already know, one thing I use a lot is in the adjustment sliders. Sometimes you need to be a little more precise than the sliders allow, and typing in a value every time just seems tedious. But if you click in the value box and just drag right or left you can make more precise adjustments. I usually use the regular sliders first, but if I need just a tad bit more or less (useful in the white balance) I switch to this. |
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08/09/2008 12:08:54 PM · #19 |
Hi guys!
I have 2 video tutorials up on Yanik's Photo School. Have a look!
The New Adjustment Brush
Soften Skin Brush
Enjoy! I just love the new Lightroom! I'm saving soooooo much post processing time!
Message edited by author 2008-08-09 12:24:52.
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08/09/2008 01:03:43 PM · #20 |
Yanik,
That's great. I reviewed a couple of the tutorials Terry posted earlier. This is a great addition to those.
Well done.
And LR 2.0 is 1000% improved over LR 1.0. Faster, more features etc. etc. etc.....
For the brush and the graduated filter, just click the square on the right to gain access to all adjustments. You can even save your own presets as was done with the soften skin.
Message edited by author 2008-08-09 13:14:43.
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08/09/2008 05:40:10 PM · #21 |
Originally posted by cpanaioti:
Yanik,
That's great. I reviewed a couple of the tutorials Terry posted earlier. This is a great addition to those.
Well done.
And LR 2.0 is 1000% improved over LR 1.0. Faster, more features etc. etc. etc.....
For the brush and the graduated filter, just click the square on the right to gain access to all adjustments. You can even save your own presets as was done with the soften skin. |
Ya I figured those out after playing with it a bit more! :) Soooooo many hidden treasures! :)
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08/14/2008 04:30:21 PM · #22 |
| has anyone noticed that their images were sharper in digital photo pro than in lightroom when viewed at 100% or am i doing something wrong? |
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