shortcuts and tricks I use to be more efficient when using Lightroom. Each one of these I

practically use every time I'm processing photos in Lightroom. Here's the list. These

are the ones I use every single time I'm in Lightroom. I know there are plenty more

but these are the ones that really speed up my workflow and just help me get around the application

in a much more efficient way. So, let's get started.

Here are 10 Lightroom Tips That You Should Know!

Tip #1: Keyboard Shortcuts - Press E and D to get between the Library Module and the

Develop Module.

Command L - That's a great one to turn off your filters if you're looking at photos

with filters on. So, if you have some flags on certain photos and you have two starred

photos and you have some flags on you're just looking at a filtered view. So, if you press Command 'L'

you can turn off your filters and you can see all of your photos and see the one that's

lost somewhere in between and go and do that edit. Press Command L again and turn back on the

filters with that new photo in your collection.

SHIFT + COMMAND + E that brings up the export panel and avoids you having to click around

to export the photo. I use it every single time I'm in Lightroom.

If you hit SHIFT + COMMAND + S to synchronize the settings from your current photo across all the others

photos you've also selected. Now, the cool thing about this is it will pop up with the

synchronization settings and you can deselect the things that you don't want to bring across

to the new photo. I use this all the time as I do spot removal or do local adjustments

in the one photo and I like how it looks but I but obviously I don't want everything to

go across to the others so I'm just going to take the basic settings, the curves the

colour adjustments and synchronize that across but not the graduated filters and so on.

Tip #2: Auto Tone Don't be afraid of the auto tone button.

It's a great help and this is a good way to give your edit a kickstart. What I've

noticed is that It usually pulls the highlights down and pulls the shadows up. It's a good

starting place in your editing workflow, using the power of Lightroom - computers and science

- but you're still doing your own edit.

Tip #3: Resetting Your Edits

At the very bottom right you can hit the reset button and that completely resets all of your edits. But maybe you made

tons of edits and you're hitting the slider back and forth and having a good old time and you don't want to hit the reset button

and wipe out all of them. Then try changing up your individual adjustments. You can simply do this by double tapping to reset a particular slider. I do this all the time if I'm not happy with my sliders.

I just double click it and bam, it's back to zero.

Now, another cool extra tip is if you double click on the category of the panel

it will reset every single setting in that panel.

So, if I double click on the hue or saturation panel it will reset all of the other settings in that panel.

Tip #4: Straighten the Horizon Hit “R” on your keyboard; click on crop

and straighten tool This is a more precise way of making sure your horizon is perfectly straight.

It's a lot easier actually and you can straighten your photos a lot easier by using

this tool other than just trying to eyeball it. So, it's way more precise. How do you do it?

It's really simple. Just click on the angle. Click and drag to match the horizon on your image.

Draw a line across the horizon, let go, and it will level it

off completely. That's all there is to it.

Tip #5: Before and After Use the comparison view after editing to see

how far your edits have come. There are two main ways of doing this. You can either Click “Y” to get a

side by side comparison or alternatively you can hit the backwards slash button

without seeing two images on your screen and you can just

see the edits that you've made so far.

Tip #6: Clipping.This might seem like a really simple one but might it's super important if you want

to make sure you're doing a really good edit on your photo.

It's really easy to use the clipping tool. All you have to do is hit the letter J.

If you want to see where your exposure is blown out or where your shadows aren't working for you

just simply choose any photo and take the exposure slider and just crank it up

or crank it down. You can either see the red for the overexposed or the blue for the underexposed.

Tip #7: Crop Overlays I want to show you an amazing trick that you

probably didn't know existed. Let's do it. You can access Crop Overlays by clicking

R. This will bring up the crop tool. If you know this wait for it… press O. It turns

out that Lightroom has several overlays. The rule of thirds, but there are others like

diagonal lines or the golden rule, or previewing different crops.

If you press SHIFT O you can change the layout of these grid overlays. How have I never noticed

this?

There is also one called a Golden Spiral which, if you want to get really technical is based

on Fibonacci Number. It works on leading lines and bringing you into into the image. This

is particularly good for architecture and simply for images where you want to really

draw the viewer's eyes to a specific person or object.

So, with all of these options you can use crop overlays to get more creative with your

crops.

Tip #8: Lights Out L and Shift L - are a great way to turn off

the lights and remove all the distractions, if you want to look at your photo with nothing

around it.

“L” will isolate the photo you're working on

No distraction Hit “L” again and it will black out everything

except the photo

Bonus Tip:

TAB - remove side panels SHIFT + TAB - get rid of the film strip at

the bottom

Tip #9: Virtual Copies

People often avoid it because they don't know how it works

That's virtual copies. I'm going to show you the basics behind this because it's

kind of awesome

There are 3 ways that I create a virtual copy: Go up to the PHOTO menu and select “Create

Virtual Copy” You also right click and select “Create

Virtual Copy” And the quickest way is to select any photo

and click APPLE and APOSTROPHE

When you create a virtual copy you'll see that you now have 2

On the hard drive, you still only have one - because it's virtual - it's a copy

Why would you want to do this? Make different edits for a client or for special

edits made specifically for Instagram Go back to the library module and you see

all the virtual copies. This is one of the most powerful things that

exist in Lightroom.

Tip 10: Rating System

When you're in the library module, if you look near the bottom of the screen you should

see the controls for flags, stars, and colours.

An image can be given a star rating ranging from 0-5, with 0 being the worst and 5 being

the best.This will speed up your work-flow and stop things becoming confusing when you're

looking back through your images.

Tip 1: You can select photos and press ] to increase the rating or press [ to decrease

the rating.

The second tip I have for organizing and rating your photos is that you may find the

Compare View useful when applying stars as this will allow you

to compare two similar shots side-by-side so you can decide which one deserves the higher score.

So you're probably wondering how to flag photos in Lightroom. The main purpose of flagging photos is to help you

know which ones to keep and which ones to reject. When it comes to flags each photo

will be in one of three states: it can be marked to keep, marked to reject, or unmarked.

The quickest way to pick or reject an image is to use the keyboard shortcuts:

P - to pick an image.

X - to reject an image.

U - to mark an image as unflagged.

Remember that marking a photo as Rejected won't remove it from the Library. They will

simply be grouped as rejected photographs.

And that is the 10th and final tip. I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you got something out

of it.

So, I am really excited about these tips. If it was helpful hit the like button and

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live without, let me know in the comments. I'll see you in the next video. Take care.