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Lightroom Questions: Import, Storage, Renders and New Features

Monday, December 24th, 2007 – running time 09:20
You fired off a ton of Lightroom questions for Bert, so Adobe's Frederick Johnson is back to talk about where can store files in Lightroom, how it keeps track of your adjustments, and new features in version 1.3

You had a lot of new Lightroom questions after watching Episode 57: Lightroom which featured Frederick Johnson, Adobe's Senior Product Marketing Manager.

So Frederick's back to help Bert Monroy answer a big stack of Photoshop Lightroom questions!

Where does Lightroom store the libraries? Frederick shows you how to store 'em anywhere. You can import them and leave 'em at their current location or you can import them and place them into a specific library to, say, move them off a CF card.

Frederick also walks thru the Import Photos... and differences between how Lightroom's catalog model differs from Photoshop Bridge's file system model.

Does Lightroom render out a new preview every time you make an adjustment? Nope, says, Frederick, it stores the states, a mathematical equation for each tweak you make. Those mathematical formulas don't take up much space!

New features? Lightroom 1.3 should be out by the time you watch this... it adds support for 3rd party development of export modules, so Flickr, Yahoo and other photo sites can create tools to 'pump the images directly to their servers."

Lightroom 1.3 also adds support for RAW camera formats from the new Nikon D3, along with a number of additional cameras. (Adobe wants to keep the early hardware adopters happy!)

You can download Lightroom and play around with yourself.

There are some fundamental differences between Lightroom and Bridge! Check out Episode 57: Lightroom and Episode 58: Lightroom 2. to learn more!

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Highlights
Maltese ( 5:20, 5:20 ) firewire ( 3:18, 5:07, 5:14, 5:34, 3:18, 5:07, 5:14, 5:34 ) Yahoo! ( 7:53, 7:53 ) modules ( 7:50, 7:50 ) Maltese ( 5:20, 5:20 ) firewire ( 3:18, 5:07, 5:14, 5:34, 3:18, 5:07, 5:14, 5:34 ) Yahoo! ( 7:53, 7:53 ) modules ( 7:50, 7:50 )

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" Roddick marketing manager it's that are that a set of Adobe. -- How light and yeah community that you know senior product marketing manager of all he surveys and so we gotta make nobody's gonna show. Laura Elena that'll play it. That'll be great. Make a lot smaller card for sure. So actually a couple of questions came up. Like the one thing where it is. -- stored libraries at increasing its its stores."

" Images. Realist so you go to file import eruption heated dialogue box. Files are gonna artwork and this is auto import. Products from disk. Yet so right here what you're looking at is on my firework rival on the light than the left side and you see light room -- well -- actually about that. So there's a disk and here's some images are these are some folders that a you know sort of arranged -- folders with with camera images -- or. Canon raw images so important ones telescope to its open. Models use. My options are so these are all the folders of different models use them -- so we'll go into one and -- And not the Playboy model one let's go into that where -- a little. Theater where yet. -- that went through. So in this in this dialogue box import photo. So basically easily you can very simple you can do a number of things you can import the photos of the current location which is what that means is -- those images live on -- firewire drive that I brought with me. I can import and it's gonna do -- you're talking about a couple weeks ago. The bridge verses light room model -- the bridge file system versus light room catalogue model."

" What what recipient bridges basically you've -- pointing -- at folder and looking at images that live in that directory. -- it with light room it's gonna look at that directory but it's also going to build previews. And store those in its catalogue and -- it gives you a couple things the main thing that gives users the ability to. Major elaborate portable but without having a necessity to have all of those gigantic raw files with you all the time -- still slide shows and stuff like that. But you don't necessarily need to have -- that make a library with you so if you import them at the current location. And at the bottom here you see the renders standard sized previews but that's gonna do is render. Previews that you'll -- you like to do activities in the background there those actually previews. It will render those on importantly -- can unplug my drive later. And still -- my library. Changes and you re ordering that animate in my library it remembers those that want to plug the drive back and it rearrange everything accordingly. The -- it doesn't do is allow him to do editing and color correction and answered -- like we're talking about four to do that you need is -- answer for -- you definitely do some of the basic things like create folders and -- key wording in metadata and -- I think -- can do all that stuff -- really small. It's on a little drive library making -- even a thumb drive and then later. Reconnect it to your main library and you massive work -- we're talking about where these images so where they where they're stored. When you import them -- the current location. You know and click import. Was gonna do is pull those images and from that firewire drive. And it's not importing them -- is just saying okay those images live and that folder for a firewire drive and it's gonna generate. If we tell it to females phone or preview images from Maltese. So leave them. The second thing that you can do is you can actually important have light room placed them. Into its own library in the reason that you want to do that is if you're importing from compact flash card c.s without issue. These weren't these weren't a firewire -- minority arranged nicely you don't want to to smear it you want to bring those things -- you -- compact flash card the negotiating. Same dialogue box but instead of that pulled -- where it says important location. Import intellect and library and then tell it where you one which. Would probably be back and firework harder to say. Okay just -- refute you know and I mean and in the older Bergman Roy. Stick it in my model -- folder. Bring all the images into little import from the card. -- Indeed. There doesn't automatically erase the card does not know you can tell it you -- I was just you know most -- Most photographers you know depending on depending on the photographer -- in my particular. Preference is to allow the camera to always format you know I don't typically -- software format for me because the camera manufacturing knows how to drive should be formatted better than -- or blurry you know there -- suffers. You know -- back in the camera and when you're ready you know if you got enough -- Then don't format that part for the --"

" For now it's saving to previews. It also they have different preview of economies of kind of adjustment I was it's storing let's say I've got some forty history states that you have forty little previews. No no it doesn't so those states charges. Mathematical equations about -- rated image. Internet rendering out different preview for each one of -- it's just -- it will then do it on the fly once as a rule represented saying you know one plus one equals to play that it does it preview here if that's going to preview to steal information. To provide exactly exactly yet yet yet you can stored locally you know and have have -- where you're ago or. You can let them live wherever they worry -- This is yet. Program -- it's better better I've gotten some emails from people who. -- right after that less -- Iran and their very excited about it it's gonna."

" Good yeah to great application is going places. We're -- this is one that you -- in the top there one -- three by the time this airs it will have been out already there like we -- seeing about some interesting features in there and most notably. Is it adds support for. Third party development of export modules from the application so -- parties like Flickr you know Yahoo! can create. The an app that will pump the images directly to their servers. But it also adds support for raw camera formats of cameras like in the united -- three. And a number of -- cameras that are like oblivious Mercury from -- as well so it's. We're like right on the heels of those cameras and as they come out support is dropped into the application so photographers. -- early adopters that hardware they won't have to skip -- beat away."

" Correct yeah. I hope you guys have downloaded it then remember you can download this and -- with -- on your own and via web site is right here. In front Adobe dot com forward slash blatantly. And that there -- it. Hopefully it -- something from this -- is something you. And that's pretty deep little program -- supposed to be simple I see so many things going on here so that's a fun little application. Popular something I'll see you guys next week and it's Fazio. Hopefully in the near future -- version to come back and I showed what -- again it's like. Okay take care theater actually."

" Pixel perfect is brought to you -- and godaddy.com. -- Hi and welcome to another episode pixel perfect would be -- on our show where I show you -- that. Let's take -- paperwork stuff. -- thanks Mike sponsored GoDaddy that come the guys that dubbed you can get your domain name from all kinds of things that affect them. You get 96 dollars in free extras -- domain name from godaddy.com. Each domain name. Includes free hosting with a web site builder. A free blog and complete email and so much more. And as special if you enter pixels six when you check out right if you -- screen. You save an additional 20%. On any twelve or 24 month hosting plans. Some restrictions apply these usual -- I can't through online it wouldn't bother reading it. So few weeks ago I have my friend -- from Adobe over here talk about light room at some questions came up so I've asked them to come back. So -- be seen here."

" Roddick marketing manager it's that are that a set of Adobe. -- How light and yeah community that you know senior product marketing manager of all he surveys and so we gotta make nobody's gonna show. Laura Elena that'll play it. That'll be great. Make a lot smaller card for sure. So actually a couple of questions came up. Like the one thing where it is. -- stored libraries at increasing its its stores."

" Images. Realist so you go to file import eruption heated dialogue box. Files are gonna artwork and this is auto import. Products from disk. Yet so right here what you're looking at is on my firework rival on the light than the left side and you see light room -- well -- actually about that. So there's a disk and here's some images are these are some folders that a you know sort of arranged -- folders with with camera images -- or. Canon raw images so important ones telescope to its open. Models use. My options are so these are all the folders of different models use them -- so we'll go into one and -- And not the Playboy model one let's go into that where -- a little. Theater where yet. -- that went through. So in this in this dialogue box import photo. So basically easily you can very simple you can do a number of things you can import the photos of the current location which is what that means is -- those images live on -- firewire drive that I brought with me. I can import and it's gonna do -- you're talking about a couple weeks ago. The bridge verses light room model -- the bridge file system versus light room catalogue model."

" What what recipient bridges basically you've -- pointing -- at folder and looking at images that live in that directory. -- it with light room it's gonna look at that directory but it's also going to build previews. And store those in its catalogue and -- it gives you a couple things the main thing that gives users the ability to. Major elaborate portable but without having a necessity to have all of those gigantic raw files with you all the time -- still slide shows and stuff like that. But you don't necessarily need to have -- that make a library with you so if you import them at the current location. And at the bottom here you see the renders standard sized previews but that's gonna do is render. Previews that you'll -- you like to do activities in the background there those actually previews. It will render those on importantly -- can unplug my drive later. And still -- my library. Changes and you re ordering that animate in my library it remembers those that want to plug the drive back and it rearrange everything accordingly. The -- it doesn't do is allow him to do editing and color correction and answered -- like we're talking about four to do that you need is -- answer for -- you definitely do some of the basic things like create folders and -- key wording in metadata and -- I think -- can do all that stuff -- really small. It's on a little drive library making -- even a thumb drive and then later. Reconnect it to your main library and you massive work -- we're talking about where these images so where they where they're stored. When you import them -- the current location. You know and click import. Was gonna do is pull those images and from that firewire drive. And it's not importing them -- is just saying okay those images live and that folder for a firewire drive and it's gonna generate. If we tell it to females phone or preview images from Maltese. So leave them. The second thing that you can do is you can actually important have light room placed them. Into its own library in the reason that you want to do that is if you're importing from compact flash card c.s without issue. These weren't these weren't a firewire -- minority arranged nicely you don't want to to smear it you want to bring those things -- you -- compact flash card the negotiating. Same dialogue box but instead of that pulled -- where it says important location. Import intellect and library and then tell it where you one which. Would probably be back and firework harder to say. Okay just -- refute you know and I mean and in the older Bergman Roy. Stick it in my model -- folder. Bring all the images into little import from the card. -- Indeed. There doesn't automatically erase the card does not know you can tell it you -- I was just you know most -- Most photographers you know depending on depending on the photographer -- in my particular. Preference is to allow the camera to always format you know I don't typically -- software format for me because the camera manufacturing knows how to drive should be formatted better than -- or blurry you know there -- suffers. You know -- back in the camera and when you're ready you know if you got enough -- Then don't format that part for the --"

" For now it's saving to previews. It also they have different preview of economies of kind of adjustment I was it's storing let's say I've got some forty history states that you have forty little previews. No no it doesn't so those states charges. Mathematical equations about -- rated image. Internet rendering out different preview for each one of -- it's just -- it will then do it on the fly once as a rule represented saying you know one plus one equals to play that it does it preview here if that's going to preview to steal information. To provide exactly exactly yet yet yet you can stored locally you know and have have -- where you're ago or. You can let them live wherever they worry -- This is yet. Program -- it's better better I've gotten some emails from people who. -- right after that less -- Iran and their very excited about it it's gonna."

" Good yeah to great application is going places. We're -- this is one that you -- in the top there one -- three by the time this airs it will have been out already there like we -- seeing about some interesting features in there and most notably. Is it adds support for. Third party development of export modules from the application so -- parties like Flickr you know Yahoo! can create. The an app that will pump the images directly to their servers. But it also adds support for raw camera formats of cameras like in the united -- three. And a number of -- cameras that are like oblivious Mercury from -- as well so it's. We're like right on the heels of those cameras and as they come out support is dropped into the application so photographers. -- early adopters that hardware they won't have to skip -- beat away."

" Correct yeah. I hope you guys have downloaded it then remember you can download this and -- with -- on your own and via web site is right here. In front Adobe dot com forward slash blatantly. And that there -- it. Hopefully it -- something from this -- is something you. And that's pretty deep little program -- supposed to be simple I see so many things going on here so that's a fun little application. Popular something I'll see you guys next week and it's Fazio. Hopefully in the near future -- version to come back and I showed what -- again it's like. Okay take care theater actually."