The 'Everything Adobe Lightroom' Thread

blastman · 13 Sep 2010 at 12:30

@Mrlol; according to him he used changed the 'levels, contrast, white balance, highlights & shadows'.

.:SAmSuNG:. · 13 Sep 2010 at 13:04

blastman said:
Yeah, I would move to RAW only.

have you had the time and date set correctly on your camera from day one?

I'd move all your pictures to one folder then import to lightroom and get LT to move the images to a decent file structure.

I'd also be temped to remove all jpegs from the import so you're just dealing with RAW.

Then you should be good

Hope that helps.

How do I go about getting lr to move all the images into a decent file structure?

blastman · 13 Sep 2010 at 13:07

when you import the images you can choose where they go and how lr will sort them.

.:SAmSuNG:. · 13 Sep 2010 at 13:10

Righto I will give it a go tonight. Cheers.

blastman · 13 Sep 2010 at 13:11

might be worth a look through some of the tuts and guides linked on the 1st post.

should make things a little clearer for you

.:SAmSuNG:. · 13 Sep 2010 at 13:25

Yea I think that's a good place to start. Thanks for all the presets btw.

blastman · 13 Sep 2010 at 13:28

not a problem my dear man

panthro · 14 Sep 2010 at 03:05

Am I allowed to ask where the cheapest place is to buy LR from? I found somewhere through google that sells it for around £172.
I also have a sister going to uni this year so thinking of trying to blag a copy through her. Thoughts?

Rojin · 14 Sep 2010 at 09:07

I've been looking out to see if I can pick up a cheap copy of Lightroom 2 and then to buy the upgrade. £172 looks a good price from what I have seen. The student license only really applies if the user is a student, if you're living in the same house and "share" a computer though...

.:SAmSuNG:. · 14 Sep 2010 at 09:08

I would guess if u wanted to pay for it then a student would probably get it cheapest.

Balb0wa · 14 Sep 2010 at 09:10

Concorde Rules said:
I would, if I actually used any

I just select all --> auto tone then set sharpness to 50 and enable lens distortion correction, sync settings for sharpness and lens settings.

how do you do that? i can get select all then auto tone, but how do you do sharpness and lens correction for all the pics?

thanks

FreeStream · 14 Sep 2010 at 11:16

Balb0wa said:
how do you do that? i can get select all then auto tone, but how do you do sharpness and lens correction for all the pics?

thanks

It's a LR3 feature, there is a button at the bottom left named sync or auto-sync.

I never use auto-sync now because I left it on by accident once and the final crop in a 200 set of images went through to all of them

Nice waste of time there

Balb0wa · 14 Sep 2010 at 12:21

Concorde Rules said:
It's a LR3 feature, there is a button at the bottom left named sync or auto-sync.

I never use auto-sync now because I left it on by accident once and the final crop in a 200 set of images went through to all of them

Nice waste of time there

hmmm, had a look at those buttons, but cant seem to get it to sharpen all my pics or apply lens correction to them

Schizophonic · 14 Sep 2010 at 12:46

You need to be in the development module on the top right. Once there you need to look on the colour on the right to access those functions.

Balb0wa · 14 Sep 2010 at 16:25

Schizophonic said:
You need to be in the development module on the top right. Once there you need to look on the colour on the right to access those functions.

yes pretty much sussed it now, saves a lot of time

Amp34 · 14 Sep 2010 at 17:14

Probably a stupid question, and asked before but will those presets also work with Photoshop?

.:SAmSuNG:. · 14 Sep 2010 at 18:52

neil_g; Workflow Guide - http://fallenlightphotography.wordpr...low-explained/

OP link broken for me.

GSXRMovistar · 14 Sep 2010 at 19:16

Amp34 said:
Probably a stupid question, and asked before but will those presets also work with Photoshop?

Nope.

blastman · 14 Sep 2010 at 20:09

.:SAmSuNG:. said:
OP link broken for me.

All fixed

I'm going to have to look in to that sync button.... I likes the sound of that.

When i started this thread, I thought I knew a fair bit about LR, turns out I know next to nothing!! Just enough to do MY workflow..

So much still to learn..

Psychouk · 14 Sep 2010 at 22:43

I've been using LR since v1. There is a huge amount you can do with it so much so that I rarely use PS now-and the best thing is everything you do in it is undestructive.

Not sure if any of you have come across Scott Kelby before but I'd recommend getting hold of his book on LR3. I've learnt so much from his previous book on LR 2 and bought the LR3 one via Amazon Kindle on my iPhone - not ideal but only cost ~£15 and it's always with me!! Download a free sample to give it a try?

The book covers everything from importing to printing.

Heres a great site for LR presets and tips on using LR

http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/

This site is by one of Kelbys mates/business partners