What does it do?

• Photoediting
• Curation and archiving

First Steps:

• Import files with the import button
• Locate files
• To develop, click on develop mode
• To search for images, click library mode

Important Information

• Click reset to reset the entire image settings to the original
• Use the YY settings at the bottom to see the before and after
• It’s all about what you want your image to look like
• Cropping is accessed by the grid on the side
  • You NEVER lose the cropped image in lightroom
• Some pictures are beyond editing abilities, know when you have to let it go

Organisation

• Flagging
  • Click F or U
• Starring
  • Go to the bottom or click 0-5
• Colour coding
  • Click 6-9
  • Useful for categorizing
• Looking at them
  • There is a bar you can use to filter all of them
  • Library filter

Smart Previews

• Usually, if you unlink the two images, all you’re left with is metadata and unedited pictures
• If you create smart preview, it allows you to temporarily store pictures without the raw files
• Useful for travel, when you don’t want to take gigantic amounts of photographs with you
• When you relink the library and your files, your pictures are updated
• First way
  • Click smart previews on the right hand side while you import your pictures
• Second way
  • Select images
  • Library
  • Preview
  • Build smart preview
• You can get rid of it any time

The Lightroom Catalogue

• Most important thing
• Contains all edits within your work until export
• Whatever you do in lightroom stays in lightroom
• Saving is not an option in lightroom
  • Like google docs
• If you leave without saving the catalogue, you just leave and your images stay exactly the same

White Balancing

• If you take a tinted picture
• Use the colour picker to find neutral colours
  • 18% greys or so, not too light, not too dark
• You can adjust with temperature setting
• Models
  • You will usually get a model to hold up a colour sheet for colour balancing
• You can use the same settings on another picture, by clicking previous
  • Will only apply to the picture directly afterwards
• Sometimes, neutral colours are not what you want, so you can adjust manually
• Use your primary subject as your guide for colour picking

Batch Processing

• When you do a lot of work on a series, the first image you edit is called the active picture, it is your frame of reference
• Very useful for images taken in the same place
• Click on your reference picture and then shift or command and click the remaining ones
• Click sync to apply effect

Lens Correction

• Correcting perspectives
• Go down to transform and you can change the perspectives
• Auto or full usually works
• If not, edit manually

Noise Cancellation

• Noise
  • Little particles in your photograph that occur when you underlight imagery
  • Grainy
• Not so good in PSD because there may not even be enough information to cancel noise
• Go to detail menu
• Alter luminescence and detail together, they go hand in hand

Editing in PSD

• Right click on the image
• Edit in PSD
• Click Edit with Lightroom adjustments to preserve work across softwares
  • Fun fact: remember to use content awareness at the top when using the patch tool
• If you want to move back to lightroom, just save the image and lightroom will automatically update
• The one you’ve worked on in photoshop will usually have an “edit” in the file name so you know which one you are working on

The Sliders

• Exposure and contrast aren’t that great
• Highlight is to make whites stronger
• Shadows are to make blacks stronger

Shortcuts

• Click tab to hide panels
• Shift and tab is hide all panels
• E is individual view
• G is grid view
• L is light view
  • Three views
  • Objective view of colour
  • Desktop, dim, dark
• F is fullscreen
• N is look at more than one picture at once
  • If you click shift, the pictures will be added to the grid
• Command A is select all
• F for flag
• U for unflag
• Command shift E is Export

Metadata

• Information about photoshop
• Un-Edited
  • How the picture was take, etc.
  • Unchangeable information
• Edited
  • The information you give the photograph
  • Keywords
• Copywriting
  • Go to metadata panel
  • Put your name in
  • Change status from unknown to copywritten
• Public Domain
  • You still claim ownership, but you give it to people to use
• Only put as much information as you need in your metadata
  • Be careful with what you put
• To create a preset
  • Preset
  • Edit presets
  • Create new presets
  • Apply to all images
• Or
  • Edit
  • Metadata
  • Presets

Exporting

• Export two things:
  • Lightroom catalogue
  • Pictures
• Good to keep a copy of lightroom catalogue for future work
• You need to tell lightroom how many pictures you want to export
• Always make sure you are exporting the correct amount of photos
• Always label and create meaningful folder names
• You can change colour mode, resolution, etc.
• Copyright settings
  • If you leave the metadata in, people can figure out how to take your pictures

Export as Catalogue

• Unclick export selected pictures only
• Unclick export negative files
  • Negative files are unedited pictures
• Click build smart previews
  • Will create a seperate file of smart previews
• Components
  • You will have three files
  • .lrcat
    • Your original editing files

Quitting

• There is no saving
• If you quit the program and no one has touched it, it will be the same
• You can set automatic saving, but it isn’t recommended

Restarting

• File
• New catalog
• Any new catalog is a new working space