Importing and Selecting Images
Lesson 94 from: Adobe Lightroom: The Ultimate Guide BootcampJared Platt
Importing and Selecting Images
Lesson 94 from: Adobe Lightroom: The Ultimate Guide BootcampJared Platt
Lessons
Differences Between Lightroom Desktop and Lightroom Classic
19:42 2Hard Drives
08:06 3File Organization
08:31 430,000 Foot View of Workflow
05:36 5Importing into Lightroom
04:10 6Building Previews
07:14 7Collections and Publish Services
05:11 8Keywords
06:27Hardware for Lightroom
06:08 10Searching for Images
07:51 11Selecting Images
14:15 12Organizing Images
04:02 13Collecting Images for Use
14:56 14Develop Module Overview
10:15 15Profiles
11:34 16Basic Adjustments
11:45 17Basics Panel: Texture, Clarity, and Dehaze
05:31 18Basics Panel: Saturation and Vibrance
02:40 19Tone Curve
09:26 20HSL
04:48 21Split Tone
08:19 22Lens Corrections
08:32 23Details
09:34 24Transform Tool
05:52 25Effects Panel
10:00 26Synchronizing for Faster Editing
07:40 27Spot Tool
17:51 28Skin Softening and Brush Work
07:00 29Range Masking
13:28 30Dodge and Burn
17:36 31Working with Specific Colors
08:30 32Edit Quickly with Gradient Filters
11:22 33Making Presets
13:24 34Preparing Image in Lightroom
09:51 35Content Aware Fill
11:14 36Skin Repair
02:44 37Skin Smoothing
14:39 38Expanding a Canvas
04:30 39Liquify
10:22 40Layers and Composite Images
12:54 41Sharing via Web
17:52 42Exporting Files
10:47 43Sharing with Slideshows
08:00 44Archiving Photos and Catalogs
19:54 45Designing
13:35 46Making Prints
11:27 47Color Management and Profiles
13:00 48Archiving Photos and Catalogs
11:31 49Using Cloud Storage
04:09 50Adding Images to your Portfolio
09:23 51Collecting for Your Portfolio
18:03 52Publishing Unique Websites Per Project
19:48 53Sharing to Instagram
07:06 54HDR
15:32 55Panorama
06:41 56HDR Panorama
09:54 57Making Presets
15:39 58Creating Profiles
18:09 59Maps
07:08 60Setup for Tethered Shooting
23:21 61Sharing with the Client
05:42 62Watched Folder Process
07:04 63Second Monitor and iPad
06:09 64Backup at the Camera
03:50 65Gnar Box Disk Backup
06:45 66iPhone and iPad Review
12:52 67Importing to Lightroom on iPad
02:59 68Cloud Backup
04:39 69Adjust, Edit, and Organize
07:46 70Using Lightroom Between Devices
11:27 71Lightroom Desktop
05:27 72Removing Images from the Cloud
10:49 73Profiles
09:34 74Light
04:34 75Color
05:36 76Effects
15:22 77Details
08:33 78Optics
03:49 79Geometry
04:12 80Crop
04:39 81Adding and Using Presets and Profiles
13:41 82Local Adjustments
15:40 83Healing Tool
03:29 84Synchronizing Edits
04:57 85Editing in Photoshop
08:54 86Finding Images
07:09 87Sharing and Exporting Albums on the Web
09:18 88Posting Images to Social Media
14:01 89Overview of Lightroom Desktop
07:35 90The Workflow Overview
10:08 91Organizing Images
05:10 92Albums and Shared Albums
18:21 93Lightroom Desktop Workspace Overview
04:36 94Importing and Selecting Images
09:23 95HDR and Panoramics
22:44 96Light
07:47 97Profiles
07:23 98Tone Curves
02:57 99Color
08:35 100Effects
17:01 101Details
12:43 102Optics
04:05 103Geometry and Crop Tool
06:01 104Sync Settings
02:40 105Making and Adding Presets
03:48 106Healing Brush
02:21 107Brush Tool
03:14 108Gradient Tool
04:16 109Edit in Photoshop
02:53 110Finding Images with Sensei
06:32 111Sharing Albums on the Web
04:57 112Print through Photoshop
02:09 113Exporting Images to Files or Web Services
04:36 114Connecting with Lightroom Classic and Mobile Devices
05:24 115Archiving Images for Storage
09:55 116Review of the Workflow
07:20Lesson Info
Importing and Selecting Images
So we want Thio import our images and once we've imported are images and we have ourselves a collection or sorry album I'm usedto to the light room Classic mentality s Oh, this is a collection enlightened classic But here it's an album So I'm gonna click on an album This is the album we just imported We're gonna take that album and organize it into folders so that we're a little bit mawr uh, organized and able to find things faster. So I'm gonna grab that. Move it into here. Drop it. There it is. So now we have our set of images. They've been imported. Notice that because I actually stole them from light Room Classic because I wanted to have full original resolution files as though I was bringing in a new card. Um, it it exported the X and P data that came with it so that star ratings and stuff like that that I put in in light room classic actually show up here because of that X and P data. So anyway, you would have normally when you imported them, you would have actually seen these as...
, uh, no stars, so there wouldn't be any stars on them, They would look more like this. Um, when you first imported them, if they directly came from a card. So now I'm going to take a look at these files and try and, um, do a little bit of selection process and find the files that I actually want to use in light room Classic. If you have a whole bunch of images selected like this Ah, Ndure click on the frame it dese elects all the other images, but that doesn't work here inside of light room desktop. And so if everything selected and it just becomes really difficult to try an unsolicited all of the images and the Onley way to do it is to hit command D for D Select. That's the That's the only way to do. I guess you could come up to a menu somewhere and do it, too, but that's the only way to do it. So just be aware of that. If you command a select Saul command de un, select everything because otherwise you'll hunt forever trying to de select something, and it just won't happen. So de select is, uh, command D. So just just be aware of that. Okay, So I'm gonna go in, and I'm gonna select images so that we can use them later. So remember these air, all panels, uh, panoramic images. And they are hdr images because we'll and we'll use them a little bit later. In our discussion here, Um, eso I'm gonna scroll through and take a look at thes and I'm just gonna hit the space bar, which is gonna take is gonna open up our images. I'm just gonna look at him and see which ones I'm really interested in. And I really am interested in this one, especially because I get to show you the process of HDR. This is a pretty good HDR toe work on. So I'm gonna highlight all of these images and give them a two star and then I'm going to scroll through. Uh, this is fine. Um, but I think I have some other ones that are even more interesting. Oh, this one's an interesting one. Here is an HDR because it's actually it has a bird in it. So where is that bird? There's a bird that's moving across this HDR. There he is right there. There's the bird And so it'll be interesting to see what happens to an HDR when there's a bird moving around through the frame. He's just kind of sailing through the frame. So I'm gonna I'm gonna choose that one is a possible candidate. Azaz. Well, uh and then I'm going Thio. It also is interesting to see what happens when you're looking at an HDR that has motion here inside the waters, the other waters moving around in the HDR. So that's an interesting one tube. We'll give that a one star. Maybe we'll work on that one on day. Then I have some panoramic images, and so I want to do some panoramic images. But I'm gonna do a a nun conventional panoramic image, which is inside looking at the ceiling. There you go. Yeah, see that? I'm looking at the ceiling of ST Peter's Cathedral and I'm going to do a panorama going up like this and we'll see how that works out. So I'm gonna take that panorama, and I'm gonna give that a three star. So now we have our images selected, and we know those are the images that we want toe work on, and we'll work on him a little bit later and then further on down as we discussed light room desktop, we're going to show you then how to wrap up, because this is all about uh, not only about how to use light room desktop, but we're also really interested in teaching the proper workflow. So remember, at this point we have taken and either a card and directly put it into light room desktop or we've grabbed a bunch of images and we've put him on a desktop somewhere. We've put him on a hard drive somewhere, and and we've pointed to that folder with light room desktop in the import dialog box. And when we did that, remember it took those images either from the card or from the desktop or the drive somewhere, and it took them and it copied them deep inside of the reaches of light room desktops catalog it copied in in there, and it's gonna wait until I'm connected back to my drive home, and then it's gonna push them off into that drive at the same time. It sent them all to the cloud, so I'm duplicated. I have them on my hard drive right now, and I have them in the cloud later on when I attach an external hard drive to it because I've told it, that's where I prefer to put stuff. It will offload the stuff off my computer onto that drive so that it's not filling up my computer. It'll be in the cloud. It'll be on that drive. And so that's where we are now, and we've brought them in into an album. Every time you import, you make sure that you make a new album, Name it something that's either based on the date or the name of the client or the name of the place that you were going or put them in a full analgesia that already exists If you If you have AH album called Vacation Photos every time you come home from a vacation and you wanna put it in there, just put it into that vacation album. Whatever it is you, however, you want to organize them. But make sure that you're putting your images into albums when you import them so that you can find them really easily. Then we're gonna come in here on do our selections, which we just did we went through and looked at him. You don't have some of the same controls that you do inside of light room Classic. So, for instance, there's not a survey mode here. Uh, this is kind of akin to your survey mode, you see is big and images you possibly can hear, and you can increase the size of these images. So you're seeing the images decent size here. Um, you could look at him in the grid here or one by one here, but I prefer toe look at images side by side when I'm selecting him, because then I can see things in comparison to each other. Uh, that's a much better way to select images. So I would prefer to look through images and select them here in this, uh, masonry style rather than in the grid style. Just because I can see bigger images. Um, but that's just my preference. But there is no survey mode inside of light room desktop, which I really love inside of light room Classic. And remember that if you happen to have an IPad or an IPhone and you want to travel, you don't necessarily have to bring your laptop with you when you're traveling, just bring your IPhone or just bring your IPad and any image that you put into light room there is automatically gonna go up to the cloud. The full file. Even if it's a 13 megapixel raw file, it's gonna go the cloud, and then it's gonna come down, and it's gonna show up right here inside a light room desktop in a folder with the exact date that you shot it when you go up here into the by date section, so you would simply just come here and grab them by day, or if when you put them into your IPad, you actually imported them into an album. Then they'll be in the album, sitting right down here wherever you place them. So it's a beautiful workforce system. The light room ecosystem is in full display when you're working inside of light room desktop because it's 100% connected. They have built light room desktop to utilize the every aspect of the light room ecosystem. And so that's where we are. And that is how you organize an import into light room desktop
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Ratings and Reviews
Ira Richterman
I am truly a recreational novice in the photography world and this video is fantastic. Photography has become a very technical world both on the camera side as well as post production. Jared has great teaching skills and sure makes it look very simple. I would recommend this video for those starting out in Lightroom as this program can be overwhelming and has a daunting amount of information. I would like to know if there is a resource of location of contact to ask a question or two for clarifications as a viewer goes through the course. For example, when making a new collection and if you choose the option of making this new collection a target collection, what happens if you then make another new collection and select that new collection to be a target collection? If you click on B to add a photo to a target collection and you made two target collections then where does this virtual selection go, ie into which target collection? Thanks Ira irichterma@aol.com
Dan Clarke
This class was great. I've never used Lightroom before and now I feel comfortable in it. Massive amount of good info.
catherine Haggerty
Loved this class. As a beginner it really gives me working knowledge to use LR confidently. This class is older, so a few times I really had to stop and figure out how it worked in the newest version of LR... but all in all this class was amazing!