Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips

The TipHere’s something that you’ll run into often - deleting photos. Assuming that not every photo you take is a keeper (hey, it could just be me that takes bad photos sometimes) you’ll inevitably need to delete photos. There’s two ways in Lightroom: 1) Deleting from your catalog but leaving them on your computer 2) Removing them from your computer all together. For option 1, to delete from only your catalog but leave them on your computer just press Alt-Backspace (Mac: Option-Delete). If you want to delete them from your computer though just press the Delete key and then press the Delete From Disk button. That removes them totally from your computer.

Black and White TutorialIn other news, I just saw a tutorial from Scott Kelby for Lexar.com on converting to black and white in Camera Raw. Being some one that loves free stuff I figured I pass it along. Check it out here.

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Just the other day I paid a visit to John Lehet’s website and enjoyed it so much I wanted to pass it along. John has some really nice landscape, panorama, and close up work. I think you’ll immediately see his point of view on things is somewhat different then you’ll typically find out there and I enjoyed it a lot. I think of it this way… whenever I leave some one’s site and it psyches me up enough to want to go out and shoot something because now I have new ideas, then it’s a site worth passing along. I think John Lehet’s site is just that so stop by and check it out. (Photo Credit: John Lehet)

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I’m veering off the normal “tips” video this week and doing something a little different. This time around I’m taking a photo thru the Develop module from start to finish. Basically, I’ll show you what I would do for a properly exposed photo, for the most part. I’ll go through what settings I would use and what settings I typically ignore. In the coming weeks I’ll take a look at problem photos, as well as some of the things that we’d have to do in Photoshop vs. Lightroom.

Oh yeah, if you like this week’s video but want to dig deeper into some of the settings then check out my Lightroom Online Training course over at Photoshoptraining.com.

Click here to watch the video. (13 Mb)
Click here to download the presets I mentioned in the video.

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One of the issues that I’ve found (along with many others) is that there is no way to link to your website’s home page from a web gallery created by Lightroom. Now, if you’re the HTML savvy type then you can probably figure it out, but if you’re not then try this (only works in 1.1 by the way). Go to the Web module and turn on the Identity Plate option. Here you can do one of two things a) Type in the word “Home” or something like that. b) Create a graphic that reads “Home” or whatever it is you want to send them to. Right under the Identity Plate option you’ll see the Web or Mail Link. Enter in the link that you want your ID Plate to follow and you’re golden. Now whenever some one clicks on it they’ll be taken to the home page, or where ever you sent them. Have a great weekend everyone!

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I’m really psyched about the topic of this week’s video. Wanna know why? Because my email inbox was filled with people asking how to move their library (now called a catalog) in Lightroom 1.0 from a laptop to a desktop. More importantly, folks wanted to know how to merge the library on your laptop (while in the field) with the one back at the studio so you could work between both. It was by far the most popular question I ever got with Lightroom. Unfortunately the reason no one was teaching this was because it simply wasn’t possible. Well, now with 1.1 you can do it.
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