Lightroom 2 Tips and Tricks
Monday, February 23rd, 2009 running time 20:29
Learn how to apply localized correction to your images in the greatly improved Adobe Lightroom 2 by watching a tour of features from Frederick Johnson.
Frederick Johnson joins Bert this week to give a demonstration of the all-new features in Lightroom 2. He claims that 90% of his general photo editing can be done with this single piece of software, due to an improved localized correction process for dodging and burning, sharpness, saturation, and more, applied by painting directly on your image.  Here are some of the features discussed in this episode:
Use Gradient Tool to apply changes to a sky
Frederick uses  a photo of Death Valley to demonstrate saturation of the sky using Lightroom2's gradient tool, located in the Histogram panel, which allows you to select only the desired parts of the image. Click and drag on your image to apply settings. These will be non-destructive changes that can be removed later.
Use Auto Mask in Expert Mode to apply changes to a local area
In expert mode, which can be accessed by a switch in the Histogram panel, you're given many other options to change your image, such as exposure, brightness, contrast, saturation, clarity, and sharpness. You can pre-define these options before using the "Auto Mask" feature, which is considered magic to Frederick. This feature allows you to make intelligent decisions of where to apply the adjustment. You can see the changes as you paint directly onto the image, and the high contrast edges stay in place.
Quick Collection
This is a temporary area where you can store images that you'd like to return to for future work. Filing through hundreds of images after a photoshoot becomes an easier process.Â
Create multiple versions of images without using up disk space
Lightroom 2 allows one image to be referenced in "virtual copies", storing only instructions to change the graphic instead of storing multiple image files.
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" War."
" This episode -- pixel perfect has brought you by Netflix and godaddy.com. Welcome the Pittsburgh at the beeper wanted to show where all kinds of things can happen. And bat crazy here behind me today. I want came from mother movie check. Look at this thing. Got a little elm street thing going on we it doesn't have little elm street the action but anyway. Pretty cool thing about it before we start let's thank our sponsors Netflix and GoDaddy. Whose help continue to bring you. New episodes of pixel perfect. Kodak dot com if you want to make an impact on line code -- dot com has what you need. Dot com names as low as a dollar 99 let's -- class hosting fast and easy website builders and much more. Plus if you enter the code pixels to -- email on the screen. When you check out you'll save an additional five dollars off any order of thirty dollars some restrictions apply see the site for details. It York piece of the Internet -- code daddy dot com. Also -- the bank Netflix was sponsored pixel perfect. -- Netflix you can -- over 90000. Titles online including lots of Blu-ray titles with free shipping both ways to your home. They now have a -- forty shipping centers so almost all of the movies happening just one business day. The Netflix plans start for four dollars and 99 cents and as a new member you can get a no risk two week free trial membership. Check it out that www. Netflix.com. Forward slash. Pixel perfect and yes you do have to type in net WWW. When using this code. Now. Well that today is you remember him quite a few times a month ago my good friend Frederick. Johnson was gonna show us -- well now we have lightened to. So I'll have to applicable here and shows -- you Frederick. Beavers I don't know if you can thanks am re gonna boots -- to light --"
" And she is so there's a lot of new things in my room to -- the biggest thing that people. There that we talked about and you know we've photographers in general been talking about an application is. The localized corrections in my -- so if you -- from one you know it was sort of analogous to the dark room where. Going there you can get your images you can develop an image and getting you know getting to where you wanted to and you can do some rudimentary. Local adjustments by using the targeted adjustment tool so you want the sky to be more sex saturated. You can put the cursor on the sky and then pump up the saturation and just the -- But you have limited control because anything that shared the same hue as this guy would also be saturated so there was someone in the foreground. With a blue shirt on -- they were gets saturated along with that blue -- It's so light into what Adobe's done is create. Mechanism you can do localized correction or dodging and burning so remember in the old days when you have you marketers. And yet to go in there and -- do little dance around to burn in certain areas of the immense. You can do essentially the same thing but with the digital technology you can do much more so instead of just. Dodging and burning or controlling the amount of light that's hitting -- exposure. You can do things like dodge and burn with saturation. Or with clarity or exposure or in -- all that stuff or any combination of those increase in -- these -- is that do those things and then paint that in to select areas on the him so giving photographers. You know sort of like the dark room again but imagine a dark room that. You can you know load all those filters and different things that you were doing into one -- and then you know locally adjusting a certain areas image. So the -- Tennessee there aren't. So those so here's the issue that I did. Death valley some time ago and I'm working with on purpose I'm working with JPEG images here so legroom. Will handle JPEG images the same as it handles -- him in the difference being mad the JPEG images have less data in them so you can do you can't do campus image as far for example. You know with -- with raw images you typically have about two stops of latitude that you could bring an image back -- JPEG it's maybe around one if that depending you know. So few highlights and blown into JPEG. They're going to be blown. So so here's the images right here right so for example let's take a look at this road seen here. Banks have to bring that -- alone -- that preview just driving along in death valley pull over to this picture right. So immediately easy and it's going to be great picture a reasonably good picture but this guy is a little bit washed out and you know so how would you bring this guy back. So what I would do is go into the develop module."
" And typically what people do -- they'll do very big global adjustments first and then the going to the develop modeling get more specific friends so over here. We see these are those of the new local adjustment tools. That are added in here this one being -- gradient tool and this one being the brush that I spoke about earlier you can load those settings into them. So this brush here and and this ingredient to hear any of these tools down here. Can be preset to affect a specific area of the image so in this case for going to do this guy so if I click that tool. It gives me these settings here so I wanna say bring the exposure down on the -- a little bit so I can drag that just to an area you know this is sort of like."
" Eyeballing it -- Because I haven't actually applied to change so just brought the exposure down just over one stop so now I click. And drag -- in the image. Like that. In it applies that adjustment to just discuss some -- sky is got one point 6. Negative exposure applied to it. I can also bring up the saturation is just that area but it by clicking that. Com or read it more dramatic and bring it down a -- well actually we need to select that. Bringing them. So you have complete control. And the fact that ahead that every selected that is --"
" in effect this is these are all nondestructive edits done so it's not actually effecting any pixels in the image is not destroying anything can always go back. But wanted to delete this I can just click on it and hit the delete key those changes would be gone. Do these lines as signifying the center of the great exactly so of this this is the beginning or zero and -- are actually this is this is zero this is 100% of them effectiveness is 50% right in the middle there. So you can click and drag on this and put it exactly where you want. Poor. You know drag around and change the size of it by dragging on the ends -- You know so that's that's the the gradient tool I think in. Did you want to go further saying the adjustment -- yeah okay so this is the gradient -- a lot of people would just use that is sort of do that of the overall areas of the image like this that this guy or you know maybe a tree line or something that was you know of large swath of image that you wanna. Affect -- wouldn't want to get into something more specific you know so. You know like for example in this image you've got this this yellow in the road there but put a gradient on here it's gonna affect the entire forum area my you know these -- and change and yellow changed the the good asphalt here -- will change. But what I can do is instead of doing that I can click this tool here. Which is my brush right so now my -- is activated. And I've got all these different things that I can change down here. And women do is gonna hit the switch here. To turn on expert mode which you can also do with a gradient tool for now I have all these different. Sliders that I can increase that and change just area of them going to pain and with anchors who wanna bring it over here. So look for this I'm gonna bring the saturation -- Timberlake. Really outlandish things so bring the saturation up to start. And the cool thing here is this feature so this autumn ask check box here is but I like to call. Magic. I think it's magic and so incidentally would. An automatic so when you click on and it's gonna compare. Here is a contrasting color and color ranges between the area that you initially click and in areas around it and make some intelligent decisions about -- to apply its effect kind of the coloring engine and things heckling examines wonder whether technology -- So now I can come in here. And I can change the size of my cursor just like Photoshop and use the bracket key the left to right bracket key to change the size of my brush here. So I'm gonna click person in turn on a mask on. You know click. In just paint saturation. Right on that and it's not going outside the lines as long as my cross here's stays in there -- telling it stay in there. That's it that's like it if I hit the Okie that's secret hockey. But at the Okie it's gonna show me where my maps it's beautiful you know that's a perfect mask there it is -- you make."
" Mats like that and evaluate candidate. I had this on the blog is like and -- delete that. With that selected the little black dot here -- means that that that. Localized her experience elected again hit the delete key goes away and I can do it can this time I'll leave. Oh on -- the overly mostly can actually see the mask is drawing. So."
" You see that -- yet it's staying right in there and you for a in the that suited to just flip over into the black area -- moves in that whole -- exactly so now it's assuming that I want that area. But like like Photoshop befuddled my. Option -- My cursor changes to minus and they who -- and I can take are also using. You know just you know I -- the -- Monica. And then they'll go back into this area and stay on the yellow this and boom there we go up we hit the -- And it goes away but our effects have been applied. Right so now I can because this is nondestructive. I can go in and play with it so now I have amassed there I think going to say don't want -- with that would look like if I just dropped exposure way to now that's -- but I leave it like that if I bring it up a little. Bring my saturation way. Contrast down. Certain you know -- just basically have fun wouldn't."
" And if you get to point where you don't like -- you can always hit delete and starting to infinity cat and a non destructive -- admissions through their from the beginning exactly exactly. So that's essentially that's essentially that the local -- correction tools and light room to go like we said the beginning. The gradient tool which lets you do wide swath of area and then the more precision brush still if you go in and sort of do those those intricate. Irregular spaces that are so big. Beautiful. They got somethin' doesn't like Joan a couple of minutes yeah yeah absolutely the thing okay so if we so we're in this image right now aren't so quick though it hit the GTE. It takes us back to degree view. So this is a grant from considers are just an image -- on this image there is this plus and minus here that this indicates that some changes have been mean to that image. There's a C disease don't have any changes mean to them. So does go through here I thought what I would show you is sort of."
" A wave that. This might method of working so when -- you know I do issues like this one has is out there with my friend outshooting. You know how -- I come back once again these beckoned the mind and -- home office want to do it days. So essentially what I do my work flow is. Start from the beginning and I'll say okay these are all my images -- my selects a delete the ones that don't like keep the ones that want. But the -- the cool that I like to work is. I think he's that this quick collection. Area right here is a collection basically this is sort of a temporary area where you can. Basically you know mark the images that you like. And so for example here's a collection I'll say. You know I want to do some work on this image later that as a rule over this image I get this little circle -- here. Now when I click on that. It adds to quit collection and you'll notice that quickly in this informative about violent. So I can just go through very quickly -- my images accuracy like that -- and I'm gonna work on that later. And -- this one might have some promise them click on the done on that one or. You know save this one click on this one. -- Click begin to remove it couldn't but yeah it changes very quickly you know it's just remembering where that images. And then you know for example this one -- one. Now when I'm done here I can go over and say okay there's quick collection limbo -- images -- that I want to. These are my selects that I want to play without having copy anything I haven't drag anything any folders or collections or anything. But simply hit that button on the coast and haven't remembered as you know my memories that's -- So how I can click on this and make my changes Buick room take this from around. And and to sort of going and you might organizations and from here. These are my selects I would go and -- my crops and you know make my local adjustments on things and go from there. One cool thing now you know less industrial and this is. You know so -- that your your creating multiple versions of an image you know Sony screen image. For the web going to create one to hang on your wall as any. You know and by -- yours are probably pretty beefy attend. A pretty good. But it doesn't have different sizes of one image that you like treatment you don't use all that hard disk based to say okay save as and cropped it and save as carpet. What you can elect him because everything is nondestructive. You can go and and create multiple versions of a particular image in multiple crop versions of it all reference in the original. JPEG or raw you know fine. Taking very little this -- and not actually saving up an image of just saving instructions on how to on how to show yet so for example -- example. This image and what makes X it will do this -- We'll make some changes to it so I go to the photo menu. And dragged down to create virtual cop. And release so now I have a virtual copy of this images indicated by the -- ordered him is not its. For all intents and purposes as far as computers concern -- as far as we're concerned well. When this has been copied the image we do can command C community to create more you know you know Morse take up more space and -- this. We just created. Another view of that image if you back back up a little bit you think about how the computer is looking at these images it's not thirds of -- rendering these images. It's rendering of -- from the raw data or JPEG dated in this case it's basically saying okay here's a date on my on the disk. And this is what I'm gonna I'm gonna put together so that you war. Limited humanize can understand and that's with these images are mobilize our computers smart enough and somewhat thinner. So that's what it's doing so L I said was okay here's this image that you're displaying -- Display it twice he announced announced displaying two versions of that same raw data. But what gets me is -- going to this image and it treated just like any other image I can go into it. Double click it. -- double click it it's of this is my virtual copy looks exactly the -- the regular. I can go into my development here I can crop it was they wanted to make this line. This version I'm gonna give to somebody is a five by seven. So he's a five by seven crop. Crop it down. This really quickly like. Hit return to accept the crowd well there's my five by seven they have Digi key to go back to the grid mode. And listens crop to five by seven. But it's this information the crop is about an active. Just the information is just saying okay he wants us what crap from here to here -- you know and it's just displaying that that's it and it's all reading from the original data so it's always the best. View that you can possibly get. Then I can go back and say okay now this one I want to do the same thing again and you'll notice when I pull this photo mean you're down. The the hockey for that's command apostrophe to just quickly create one so do that this. Command. Apostrophe. There it is there's another virtual copy. My image so now I can go in and say okay now this one I'm gonna crop that I'm gonna develop mode. In this one and I need to me but it but it it. And maybe don't want this on the little bit more dramatic. A lot of black in the courtroom like. Okay hit return. -- And the cool thing about those bird is like -- beginning. All non destructive right so now but go back to the grid mode. And go back to this other image that I crop to four by six and go into the develop -- there it is is four by six click click this click the crop icon. There's all the image to."
" An elevator it just remembers everything so later you might say I like that on but I want to you know wanted to make a couple of bit wider you know and drag it wider. The room returned you've done it is beautiful. So does that get us some of the power and in my take also a lot deeper than them but that's you know that's a lot of the stuff that I use on a daily basis when -- I'll go in. You know bring my bring my collection and serving my images and go through make some quick. Selects and then take those quick selects make some adjustments. You know I mean -- to Photoshop if necessary to to. You know say there was a plane and and I want to get out I mean taken a vote -- up to take the plane out. You know but nine times out of ten usually I can get on my work done in my room."
" OS and doing some compositing suffer with some text or something like. That's got it. Announces a lot more there yet but maybe come back we actually do -- more than a penny of it I think I -- hope you saw lot of stuff there if there's anything you'd like to see on the show just email me at -- revision3.com. Policy you can check out the form that -- com forward slash font. We can join discussions about the showing that most of you thought about the -- truth -- cool stuff. And it got -- in my book online you go and look edited favorite bookstore and I like the -- once again not a good for exactly this and credible background. I'm just gonna agree which if you look at that's what to expect it's does green if you like your artwork that Phillip that green area remembered in the familiar designs -- dot com and -- back -- should be 1280 by 720 pixels and JPEG. Hope you enjoyed -- shell and the sea level headed back next week see you next week."
" War."
" This episode -- pixel perfect has brought you by Netflix and godaddy.com. Welcome the Pittsburgh at the beeper wanted to show where all kinds of things can happen. And bat crazy here behind me today. I want came from mother movie check. Look at this thing. Got a little elm street thing going on we it doesn't have little elm street the action but anyway. Pretty cool thing about it before we start let's thank our sponsors Netflix and GoDaddy. Whose help continue to bring you. New episodes of pixel perfect. Kodak dot com if you want to make an impact on line code -- dot com has what you need. Dot com names as low as a dollar 99 let's -- class hosting fast and easy website builders and much more. Plus if you enter the code pixels to -- email on the screen. When you check out you'll save an additional five dollars off any order of thirty dollars some restrictions apply see the site for details. It York piece of the Internet -- code daddy dot com. Also -- the bank Netflix was sponsored pixel perfect. -- Netflix you can -- over 90000. Titles online including lots of Blu-ray titles with free shipping both ways to your home. They now have a -- forty shipping centers so almost all of the movies happening just one business day. The Netflix plans start for four dollars and 99 cents and as a new member you can get a no risk two week free trial membership. Check it out that www. Netflix.com. Forward slash. Pixel perfect and yes you do have to type in net WWW. When using this code. Now. Well that today is you remember him quite a few times a month ago my good friend Frederick. Johnson was gonna show us -- well now we have lightened to. So I'll have to applicable here and shows -- you Frederick. Beavers I don't know if you can thanks am re gonna boots -- to light --"
" And she is so there's a lot of new things in my room to -- the biggest thing that people. There that we talked about and you know we've photographers in general been talking about an application is. The localized corrections in my -- so if you -- from one you know it was sort of analogous to the dark room where. Going there you can get your images you can develop an image and getting you know getting to where you wanted to and you can do some rudimentary. Local adjustments by using the targeted adjustment tool so you want the sky to be more sex saturated. You can put the cursor on the sky and then pump up the saturation and just the -- But you have limited control because anything that shared the same hue as this guy would also be saturated so there was someone in the foreground. With a blue shirt on -- they were gets saturated along with that blue -- It's so light into what Adobe's done is create. Mechanism you can do localized correction or dodging and burning so remember in the old days when you have you marketers. And yet to go in there and -- do little dance around to burn in certain areas of the immense. You can do essentially the same thing but with the digital technology you can do much more so instead of just. Dodging and burning or controlling the amount of light that's hitting -- exposure. You can do things like dodge and burn with saturation. Or with clarity or exposure or in -- all that stuff or any combination of those increase in -- these -- is that do those things and then paint that in to select areas on the him so giving photographers. You know sort of like the dark room again but imagine a dark room that. You can you know load all those filters and different things that you were doing into one -- and then you know locally adjusting a certain areas image. So the -- Tennessee there aren't. So those so here's the issue that I did. Death valley some time ago and I'm working with on purpose I'm working with JPEG images here so legroom. Will handle JPEG images the same as it handles -- him in the difference being mad the JPEG images have less data in them so you can do you can't do campus image as far for example. You know with -- with raw images you typically have about two stops of latitude that you could bring an image back -- JPEG it's maybe around one if that depending you know. So few highlights and blown into JPEG. They're going to be blown. So so here's the images right here right so for example let's take a look at this road seen here. Banks have to bring that -- alone -- that preview just driving along in death valley pull over to this picture right. So immediately easy and it's going to be great picture a reasonably good picture but this guy is a little bit washed out and you know so how would you bring this guy back. So what I would do is go into the develop module."
" And typically what people do -- they'll do very big global adjustments first and then the going to the develop modeling get more specific friends so over here. We see these are those of the new local adjustment tools. That are added in here this one being -- gradient tool and this one being the brush that I spoke about earlier you can load those settings into them. So this brush here and and this ingredient to hear any of these tools down here. Can be preset to affect a specific area of the image so in this case for going to do this guy so if I click that tool. It gives me these settings here so I wanna say bring the exposure down on the -- a little bit so I can drag that just to an area you know this is sort of like."
" Eyeballing it -- Because I haven't actually applied to change so just brought the exposure down just over one stop so now I click. And drag -- in the image. Like that. In it applies that adjustment to just discuss some -- sky is got one point 6. Negative exposure applied to it. I can also bring up the saturation is just that area but it by clicking that. Com or read it more dramatic and bring it down a -- well actually we need to select that. Bringing them. So you have complete control. And the fact that ahead that every selected that is --"
" in effect this is these are all nondestructive edits done so it's not actually effecting any pixels in the image is not destroying anything can always go back. But wanted to delete this I can just click on it and hit the delete key those changes would be gone. Do these lines as signifying the center of the great exactly so of this this is the beginning or zero and -- are actually this is this is zero this is 100% of them effectiveness is 50% right in the middle there. So you can click and drag on this and put it exactly where you want. Poor. You know drag around and change the size of it by dragging on the ends -- You know so that's that's the the gradient tool I think in. Did you want to go further saying the adjustment -- yeah okay so this is the gradient -- a lot of people would just use that is sort of do that of the overall areas of the image like this that this guy or you know maybe a tree line or something that was you know of large swath of image that you wanna. Affect -- wouldn't want to get into something more specific you know so. You know like for example in this image you've got this this yellow in the road there but put a gradient on here it's gonna affect the entire forum area my you know these -- and change and yellow changed the the good asphalt here -- will change. But what I can do is instead of doing that I can click this tool here. Which is my brush right so now my -- is activated. And I've got all these different things that I can change down here. And women do is gonna hit the switch here. To turn on expert mode which you can also do with a gradient tool for now I have all these different. Sliders that I can increase that and change just area of them going to pain and with anchors who wanna bring it over here. So look for this I'm gonna bring the saturation -- Timberlake. Really outlandish things so bring the saturation up to start. And the cool thing here is this feature so this autumn ask check box here is but I like to call. Magic. I think it's magic and so incidentally would. An automatic so when you click on and it's gonna compare. Here is a contrasting color and color ranges between the area that you initially click and in areas around it and make some intelligent decisions about -- to apply its effect kind of the coloring engine and things heckling examines wonder whether technology -- So now I can come in here. And I can change the size of my cursor just like Photoshop and use the bracket key the left to right bracket key to change the size of my brush here. So I'm gonna click person in turn on a mask on. You know click. In just paint saturation. Right on that and it's not going outside the lines as long as my cross here's stays in there -- telling it stay in there. That's it that's like it if I hit the Okie that's secret hockey. But at the Okie it's gonna show me where my maps it's beautiful you know that's a perfect mask there it is -- you make."
" Mats like that and evaluate candidate. I had this on the blog is like and -- delete that. With that selected the little black dot here -- means that that that. Localized her experience elected again hit the delete key goes away and I can do it can this time I'll leave. Oh on -- the overly mostly can actually see the mask is drawing. So."
" You see that -- yet it's staying right in there and you for a in the that suited to just flip over into the black area -- moves in that whole -- exactly so now it's assuming that I want that area. But like like Photoshop befuddled my. Option -- My cursor changes to minus and they who -- and I can take are also using. You know just you know I -- the -- Monica. And then they'll go back into this area and stay on the yellow this and boom there we go up we hit the -- And it goes away but our effects have been applied. Right so now I can because this is nondestructive. I can go in and play with it so now I have amassed there I think going to say don't want -- with that would look like if I just dropped exposure way to now that's -- but I leave it like that if I bring it up a little. Bring my saturation way. Contrast down. Certain you know -- just basically have fun wouldn't."
" And if you get to point where you don't like -- you can always hit delete and starting to infinity cat and a non destructive -- admissions through their from the beginning exactly exactly. So that's essentially that's essentially that the local -- correction tools and light room to go like we said the beginning. The gradient tool which lets you do wide swath of area and then the more precision brush still if you go in and sort of do those those intricate. Irregular spaces that are so big. Beautiful. They got somethin' doesn't like Joan a couple of minutes yeah yeah absolutely the thing okay so if we so we're in this image right now aren't so quick though it hit the GTE. It takes us back to degree view. So this is a grant from considers are just an image -- on this image there is this plus and minus here that this indicates that some changes have been mean to that image. There's a C disease don't have any changes mean to them. So does go through here I thought what I would show you is sort of."
" A wave that. This might method of working so when -- you know I do issues like this one has is out there with my friend outshooting. You know how -- I come back once again these beckoned the mind and -- home office want to do it days. So essentially what I do my work flow is. Start from the beginning and I'll say okay these are all my images -- my selects a delete the ones that don't like keep the ones that want. But the -- the cool that I like to work is. I think he's that this quick collection. Area right here is a collection basically this is sort of a temporary area where you can. Basically you know mark the images that you like. And so for example here's a collection I'll say. You know I want to do some work on this image later that as a rule over this image I get this little circle -- here. Now when I click on that. It adds to quit collection and you'll notice that quickly in this informative about violent. So I can just go through very quickly -- my images accuracy like that -- and I'm gonna work on that later. And -- this one might have some promise them click on the done on that one or. You know save this one click on this one. -- Click begin to remove it couldn't but yeah it changes very quickly you know it's just remembering where that images. And then you know for example this one -- one. Now when I'm done here I can go over and say okay there's quick collection limbo -- images -- that I want to. These are my selects that I want to play without having copy anything I haven't drag anything any folders or collections or anything. But simply hit that button on the coast and haven't remembered as you know my memories that's -- So how I can click on this and make my changes Buick room take this from around. And and to sort of going and you might organizations and from here. These are my selects I would go and -- my crops and you know make my local adjustments on things and go from there. One cool thing now you know less industrial and this is. You know so -- that your your creating multiple versions of an image you know Sony screen image. For the web going to create one to hang on your wall as any. You know and by -- yours are probably pretty beefy attend. A pretty good. But it doesn't have different sizes of one image that you like treatment you don't use all that hard disk based to say okay save as and cropped it and save as carpet. What you can elect him because everything is nondestructive. You can go and and create multiple versions of a particular image in multiple crop versions of it all reference in the original. JPEG or raw you know fine. Taking very little this -- and not actually saving up an image of just saving instructions on how to on how to show yet so for example -- example. This image and what makes X it will do this -- We'll make some changes to it so I go to the photo menu. And dragged down to create virtual cop. And release so now I have a virtual copy of this images indicated by the -- ordered him is not its. For all intents and purposes as far as computers concern -- as far as we're concerned well. When this has been copied the image we do can command C community to create more you know you know Morse take up more space and -- this. We just created. Another view of that image if you back back up a little bit you think about how the computer is looking at these images it's not thirds of -- rendering these images. It's rendering of -- from the raw data or JPEG dated in this case it's basically saying okay here's a date on my on the disk. And this is what I'm gonna I'm gonna put together so that you war. Limited humanize can understand and that's with these images are mobilize our computers smart enough and somewhat thinner. So that's what it's doing so L I said was okay here's this image that you're displaying -- Display it twice he announced announced displaying two versions of that same raw data. But what gets me is -- going to this image and it treated just like any other image I can go into it. Double click it. -- double click it it's of this is my virtual copy looks exactly the -- the regular. I can go into my development here I can crop it was they wanted to make this line. This version I'm gonna give to somebody is a five by seven. So he's a five by seven crop. Crop it down. This really quickly like. Hit return to accept the crowd well there's my five by seven they have Digi key to go back to the grid mode. And listens crop to five by seven. But it's this information the crop is about an active. Just the information is just saying okay he wants us what crap from here to here -- you know and it's just displaying that that's it and it's all reading from the original data so it's always the best. View that you can possibly get. Then I can go back and say okay now this one I want to do the same thing again and you'll notice when I pull this photo mean you're down. The the hockey for that's command apostrophe to just quickly create one so do that this. Command. Apostrophe. There it is there's another virtual copy. My image so now I can go in and say okay now this one I'm gonna crop that I'm gonna develop mode. In this one and I need to me but it but it it. And maybe don't want this on the little bit more dramatic. A lot of black in the courtroom like. Okay hit return. -- And the cool thing about those bird is like -- beginning. All non destructive right so now but go back to the grid mode. And go back to this other image that I crop to four by six and go into the develop -- there it is is four by six click click this click the crop icon. There's all the image to."
" An elevator it just remembers everything so later you might say I like that on but I want to you know wanted to make a couple of bit wider you know and drag it wider. The room returned you've done it is beautiful. So does that get us some of the power and in my take also a lot deeper than them but that's you know that's a lot of the stuff that I use on a daily basis when -- I'll go in. You know bring my bring my collection and serving my images and go through make some quick. Selects and then take those quick selects make some adjustments. You know I mean -- to Photoshop if necessary to to. You know say there was a plane and and I want to get out I mean taken a vote -- up to take the plane out. You know but nine times out of ten usually I can get on my work done in my room."
" OS and doing some compositing suffer with some text or something like. That's got it. Announces a lot more there yet but maybe come back we actually do -- more than a penny of it I think I -- hope you saw lot of stuff there if there's anything you'd like to see on the show just email me at -- revision3.com. Policy you can check out the form that -- com forward slash font. We can join discussions about the showing that most of you thought about the -- truth -- cool stuff. And it got -- in my book online you go and look edited favorite bookstore and I like the -- once again not a good for exactly this and credible background. I'm just gonna agree which if you look at that's what to expect it's does green if you like your artwork that Phillip that green area remembered in the familiar designs -- dot com and -- back -- should be 1280 by 720 pixels and JPEG. Hope you enjoyed -- shell and the sea level headed back next week see you next week."
mari1ee
Started discussion: February 23, 2009 @ 9:34am GMT
Episode 114 - Lightroom 2 Tips and Tricks [Discussion]
Learn how to apply localized correction to your images in the greatly improved Adobe Lightroom 2 by watching a tour of features from Frederick Johnson.
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Yvesken
9 months ago
Did you know that in the early 80's, in order to rotate a digital picture, a room-sized computer needed a whole night of processing?!
It's fascinating!!
It's fascinating!!












On the other hand, LR2 ran so poorly on my 6-year old computer a bought a new dual-core 64-bit one. It runs sweet.