Importing and Selecting Images

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94. Importing and Selecting Images

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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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Jared Platt is an international wedding, lifestyle, and portrait photographer and photographic lecturer.  Jared began his studies in photography in documentary and landscapes, but today you will find his images are a perfect blend of the three genres.

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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

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!

Dan Clarke

This class was great. I've never used Lightroom before and now I feel comfortable in it. Massive amount of good info.

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Importing and Selecting Images

Importing and Selecting Images

Lesson Info

94. Importing and Selecting Images

Lessons

Differences Between Lightroom Desktop and Lightroom Classic

Hard Drives

File Organization

30,000 Foot View of Workflow

Importing into Lightroom

Building Previews

Collections and Publish Services

Keywords

Hardware for Lightroom

Searching for Images

Selecting Images

Organizing Images

Collecting Images for Use

Develop Module Overview

Profiles

Basic Adjustments

Basics Panel: Texture, Clarity, and Dehaze

Basics Panel: Saturation and Vibrance

Tone Curve

HSL

Split Tone

Lens Corrections

Details

Transform Tool

Effects Panel

Synchronizing for Faster Editing

Spot Tool

Skin Softening and Brush Work

Range Masking

Dodge and Burn

Working with Specific Colors

Edit Quickly with Gradient Filters

Making Presets

Preparing Image in Lightroom

Content Aware Fill

Skin Repair

Skin Smoothing

Expanding a Canvas

Liquify

Layers and Composite Images

Sharing via Web

Exporting Files

Sharing with Slideshows

Archiving Photos and Catalogs

Designing

Making Prints

Color Management and Profiles

Archiving Photos and Catalogs

Using Cloud Storage

Adding Images to your Portfolio

Collecting for Your Portfolio

Publishing Unique Websites Per Project

Sharing to Instagram

HDR

Panorama

HDR Panorama

Making Presets

Creating Profiles

Maps

Setup for Tethered Shooting

Sharing with the Client

Watched Folder Process

Second Monitor and iPad

Backup at the Camera

Gnar Box Disk Backup

iPhone and iPad Review

Importing to Lightroom on iPad

Cloud Backup

Adjust, Edit, and Organize

Using Lightroom Between Devices

Lightroom Desktop

Removing Images from the Cloud

Profiles

Light