Learn Lightroom in 10 Minutes! Learn Lightroom in 10 Minutes! In our earlier blog post, we understood and learnt about. In this blog post we will learn lightroom and all the fundamentals of lightroom in detail. Lightroom is one such tool that fits the bill for this very purpose. Photographers were hired as professionals for an assignment because they could get good exposures. Today a professional is not paid for getting just a good exposure. Even an iPhone or any decent smartphone gives you a good exposure. Getting good exposures will take you nowhere, but creating works of ART will take you places! Lightroom is just the perfect tool to help us create amazing works of ART! Here is what we will cover in depth: 1. What makes Lightroom Unique? Can Lightroom do everything? It allows viewing, importing, organizing, filtering, culling, editing, retouching, batch processing, proofing and exporting of digital images for print and digital media. Lightroom is a Workflow based Image Management Software and editing program built specifically for photographers that need to import, organize, select, catalogue, process and export their images quickly. So if you think of Lightroom, lightroom is laid out from general to specific, from left to right, from top to bottom. We might want to search or locate the images on the Map, or even upload the photos on the web. For all of this, we would use the other modules in lightroom as per our specific needs. Lightroom is extremely powerful when it comes to improving, enhancing, or correcting our photographs quickly and easily. The key to understanding the core of lightroom is to have a sound understanding of the lightroom catalog. So… A Lightroom Catalog is a database that tracks the location of your photos and information about them. When you edit photos, rate them, add keywords to them, or do other things to photos in Lightroom, all of those changes are stored in the catalog. The photo files themselves are not touched. A catalog is a database that stores a record for each of your photos. This entire metadata of the image is also stored by the Lightroom Catalog. When you import photos into Lightroom, what happens is that you basically create a link between the photo itself and the record of the photo in the catalog. Lightroom never changes the actual photos captured by your camera. In this way, editing in Lightroom is completely non-destructive. You can always return to the original, unedited photo. In a nutshell: 1. A lightroom catalog is like the brain of Lightroom. A lightroom catalog remembers every single thing we have done to an image without overwriting the original image file. This way we can use lightroom to work on the images in a non-destructive manner. Since a lightroom catalog does not overwrite changes done to the original image, if we want to share the edited images, we need to export those images from Lightroom. Here is a very concise and extremely helpful video made by one of our friends, Dustin Kahia. It complements this blog post very well! Import: The very 1st thing you would do as a photographer is to import the images you shot inside of Adobe Lightroom. Most of the above stuff can be automated by creating consistent systems for importing your images using what are called Import Presets. Our provides a pre-made Metadata Preset which you can customise as per your taste. We also provide a video tutorial on how you can customise this preset to your requirement. Smart Collection: As photogs, we shoot thousands of images. Whether you wish to find just those images you edited in the last hour, today or yesterday you can quickly find those images using Smart Collections. If you wish to find all the images you shot this month or last month, you can find that as well. We have created the most useful set of in our Ultimate Lightroom Presets Workflow System. Filter: If you have a collection of images and you wish to find only specific images within that collection, then Filter Presets come to the rescue. In addition to , we also have filter presets in our Ultimate Lightroom Presets Workflow System. Develop: When pro photogs talk about Lightroom Presets, they are mostly talking about Lightroom Develop Presets. There are hundreds of free and premium Lightroom Develop Presets available online but what makes our unique is that they are one of a kind They are unlike any workflow lightroom presets you have seen and to get an idea of what exactly our Lightroom Develop Presets can do for you, Local Adjustment: Lightroom Brush Presets is the missing secret sauce of Professional Photographers that takes your imagery to an entirely new level. In fact, you can even add realistic light effects on road side lamps or the headlight of a car if you wish to! This will help you to build your brand visibility and also stop thieves from blatantly stealing your images and claiming them as their own. Our provides a pre-made Watermark Preset which you can customise as per your taste. We also have a video tutorial on how you can customise this preset to your requirement. Our provides a number of extremely useful Export Presets with which you can export your images for all the above purposes and lots more! We also provide a video tutorial on how you can do that. As plugins they constitute a small but a significant portion of Photoshop. Conclusion: So in a nutshell…. Lightroom does NOT replace Photoshop. Did we miss out on anything you wanted to know about understanding lightroom? Please let us know in the comments below.
