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Today we're talking about 10 Lightroom hacks you probably didn't know. These are the hacks,
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shortcuts and tricks I use to be more efficient when using Lightroom. Each one of these I
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practically use every time I'm processing photos in Lightroom. Here's the list. These
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are the ones I use every single time I'm in Lightroom. I know there are plenty more
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but these are the ones that really speed up my workflow and just help me get around the application
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in a much more efficient way. So, let's get started.
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Here are 10 Lightroom Tips That You Should Know!
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Tip #1: Keyboard Shortcuts - Press E and D to get between the Library Module and the
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Develop Module.
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Command L - That's a great one to turn off your filters if you're looking at photos
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with filters on. So, if you have some flags on certain photos and you have two starred
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photos and you have some flags on you're just looking at a filtered view. So, if you press Command 'L'
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you can turn off your filters and you can see all of your photos and see the one that's
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lost somewhere in between and go and do that edit. Press Command L again and turn back on the
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filters with that new photo in your collection.
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SHIFT + COMMAND + E that brings up the export panel and avoids you having to click around
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to export the photo. I use it every single time I'm in Lightroom.
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If you hit SHIFT + COMMAND + S to synchronize the settings from your current photo across all the others
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photos you've also selected. Now, the cool thing about this is it will pop up with the
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synchronization settings and you can deselect the things that you don't want to bring across
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to the new photo. I use this all the time as I do spot removal or do local adjustments
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in the one photo and I like how it looks but I but obviously I don't want everything to
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go across to the others so I'm just going to take the basic settings, the curves the
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colour adjustments and synchronize that across but not the graduated filters and so on.
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Tip #2: Auto Tone Don't be afraid of the auto tone button.
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It's a great help and this is a good way to give your edit a kickstart. What I've
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noticed is that It usually pulls the highlights down and pulls the shadows up. It's a good
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starting place in your editing workflow, using the power of Lightroom - computers and science
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- but you're still doing your own edit.
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Tip #3: Resetting Your Edits
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At the very bottom right you can hit the reset button and that completely resets all of your edits. But maybe you made
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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
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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.
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I just double click it and bam, it's back to zero.
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Now, another cool extra tip is if you double click on the category of the panel
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it will reset every single setting in that panel.
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So, if I double click on the hue or saturation panel it will reset all of the other settings in that panel.
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Tip #4: Straighten the Horizon Hit “R” on your keyboard; click on crop
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and straighten tool This is a more precise way of making sure your horizon is perfectly straight.
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It's a lot easier actually and you can straighten your photos a lot easier by using
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this tool other than just trying to eyeball it. So, it's way more precise. How do you do it?
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It's really simple. Just click on the angle. Click and drag to match the horizon on your image.
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Draw a line across the horizon, let go, and it will level it
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off completely. That's all there is to it.
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Tip #5: Before and After Use the comparison view after editing to see
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how far your edits have come. There are two main ways of doing this. You can either Click “Y” to get a
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side by side comparison or alternatively you can hit the backwards slash button
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without seeing two images on your screen and you can just
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see the edits that you've made so far.
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Tip #6: Clipping.This might seem like a really simple one but might it's super important if you want
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to make sure you're doing a really good edit on your photo.
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It's really easy to use the clipping tool. All you have to do is hit the letter J.
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If you want to see where your exposure is blown out or where your shadows aren't working for you
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just simply choose any photo and take the exposure slider and just crank it up
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or crank it down. You can either see the red for the overexposed or the blue for the underexposed.
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Tip #7: Crop Overlays I want to show you an amazing trick that you
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probably didn't know existed. Let's do it. You can access Crop Overlays by clicking
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R. This will bring up the crop tool. If you know this wait for it… press O. It turns
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out that Lightroom has several overlays. The rule of thirds, but there are others like
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diagonal lines or the golden rule, or previewing different crops.
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If you press SHIFT O you can change the layout of these grid overlays. How have I never noticed
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this?
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There is also one called a Golden Spiral which, if you want to get really technical is based
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on Fibonacci Number. It works on leading lines and bringing you into into the image. This
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is particularly good for architecture and simply for images where you want to really
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draw the viewer's eyes to a specific person or object.
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So, with all of these options you can use crop overlays to get more creative with your
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crops.
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Tip #8: Lights Out L and Shift L - are a great way to turn off
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the lights and remove all the distractions, if you want to look at your photo with nothing
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around it.
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“L” will isolate the photo you're working on
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No distraction Hit “L” again and it will black out everything
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except the photo
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Bonus Tip:
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TAB - remove side panels SHIFT + TAB - get rid of the film strip at
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the bottom
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Tip #9: Virtual Copies
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People often avoid it because they don't know how it works
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That's virtual copies. I'm going to show you the basics behind this because it's
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kind of awesome
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There are 3 ways that I create a virtual copy: Go up to the PHOTO menu and select “Create
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Virtual Copy” You also right click and select “Create
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Virtual Copy” And the quickest way is to select any photo
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and click APPLE and APOSTROPHE
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When you create a virtual copy you'll see that you now have 2
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On the hard drive, you still only have one - because it's virtual - it's a copy
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Why would you want to do this? Make different edits for a client or for special
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edits made specifically for Instagram Go back to the library module and you see
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all the virtual copies. This is one of the most powerful things that
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exist in Lightroom.
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Tip 10: Rating System
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When you're in the library module, if you look near the bottom of the screen you should
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see the controls for flags, stars, and colours.
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An image can be given a star rating ranging from 0-5, with 0 being the worst and 5 being
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the best.This will speed up your work-flow and stop things becoming confusing when you're
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looking back through your images.
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Tip 1: You can select photos and press ] to increase the rating or press [ to decrease
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the rating.
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The second tip I have for organizing and rating your photos is that you may find the
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Compare View useful when applying stars as this will allow you
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to compare two similar shots side-by-side so you can decide which one deserves the higher score.
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So you're probably wondering how to flag photos in Lightroom. The main purpose of flagging photos is to help you
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know which ones to keep and which ones to reject. When it comes to flags each photo
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will be in one of three states: it can be marked to keep, marked to reject, or unmarked.
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The quickest way to pick or reject an image is to use the keyboard shortcuts:
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P - to pick an image.
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X - to reject an image.
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U - to mark an image as unflagged.
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Remember that marking a photo as Rejected won't remove it from the Library. They will
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simply be grouped as rejected photographs.
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And that is the 10th and final tip. I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you got something out
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of it.
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So, I am really excited about these tips. If it was helpful hit the like button and
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subscribe If there is a shortcut or trick that you couldn't
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live without, let me know in the comments. I'll see you in the next video. Take care.