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I need some help. I just reinstalled LR 2.7 on my PC and since I know some of you use it primarily for photo-editing (as opposed to PS), where did you learn the basics? What about any little tricks/hints??
I changed the settings on my camera to shoot in RAW + JPG...so now I need to know how to use it (properly). |
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I just googled Lightroom tutorials.
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Adobe TV has GREAT video tutorials! But I also learned a lot by simply dragging each ruler to the maximum left, then maximum right and observed what this does to my photo.
There are also lots of nice presets out there, so sometimes I use them as a starting point and then do the fine tuning from there. |
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I need to know what do I start with? What settings should I use for importing, file preferences, etc. I've played around with it before, but I've never actually gotten serious about it, so my knowledge is a total mish-mash. LOL If I search for LR tuts and/or videos, I get a gazillion. Which ones are good?
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I have all my photos stored on my computer or on my EHD. So I've installed LR...and now what? What are some of the very first things that I do when I open it for the first time?
Thanks for that Adobe TV...some of those I think will be really good! |
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I used a lot of online tutorials and just self taught..there's still tons it will do that I don't take advantage of so over a year later I'm still learning
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The best thing about LR is the actual edits are fairly easy. What you see is what you get. Even my DH can do it pretty decently in LR. |
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Another one who just googled tutorials Although when importing I just click on the image i want to import and that's it. There are a ton of presets out there but I pretty much just use WOW presets and Christian O'Dell's. Exporting I just changed the text of exported photos to "LR to use" and then a number. I don't organize my photos in LR, so when I scrap each layout gets its own folder and then I stick the edited photo in there.
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When I import, I do the following (I shoot RAW only with a Nikon):
~Convert the NEF files to DNG files. NEF is Nikon's raw file type. DNG is an open source file type (I think). Scott Kelby talks about it in his LR books, and his reasoning made sense to me, so that's what I do. You might be abe to google for more information on it. ~I import and backup at the same time. One copy goes to my EHD, another copy goes to my laptop hard drive (which I clear out randomly when the mood strikes). Everything gets copied to my 2 other EHD's eventually, and I rarely travel without one, so there's no real need for me to put them on my laptop, other than for peace of mind. I actually just deleted all of 2008 and 2009 off the laptop since they're on 3 EHD's and burned to DVD, lol. ~I have my imports set to all dump into 1 folder. I organize my photo folders by year, and then month and that's it. So everything for January 2011 is dumped into one big LR folder. (I export to a JPG folder within the January 2011 folder when I'm done in LR, and there's a web folder within the JPG folder. All files stay inside their respective month folders.) I like the catalog better having everything in 1 folder, than having 43920 folders for every time I imported that month. That's probably personal preference though. ~I set up a basic copyright (also from Kelby's book) and everything imported has that attached to it. That's about it, I think. Pretty easy. One of these days I'll get better about keyword tagging and setting up special collections for my favorite photos, but I'm just not there yet. LR does SO MUCH that I haven't touched. I don't even really play with presets very much. I mostly do basic editing and then move to PS and use my TRA actions.
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Re-attempting a creative life after far too long! |
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I can't learn from video tutorials, I need written words, so I got Kelby's book from the library and read up on teh Adobe site as well as www.lightroomkillertips.com
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Well I've started importing, flag for keeping, tagging and adding some collections. That's it though.
Colleen...are you adding a copyright to your metadata? I just added my name to the "creator"...?? |
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