Today, I have a video that I want to share with you.
In today’s video you’re going to learn how to export images from Lightroom with watermarks to protect them. I’ll guide you step by step through the entire process.
Enjoy!
Posts Tagged ‘Lightroom’
Export images with Watermarks in Lightroom 3
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
Fill Light etc in Lightroom
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
Good day to you. Thank you for coming, let’s talk about some light adjustments in Lightroom (or Camera Raw in Photoshop).
Do you find it confusing with all these sliders in Lightroom, in the Develop module? Do you know what they all do?
What about the Basic tab, where you make some adjustments to the image? Let’s have a look at a few.
Quite often I get asked about the Fill Light and Brightness sliders and any differences between them. So, are there any differences between these sliders? Let’s see what they do.
Fill Light adjusts shadows and dark tones within an image;
Brightness adjusts mid-tones within an image.
There is one more slider here – Exposure – just to make a bit more confusing for some people.
Exposure adjusts the brighter parts of an image.
Here you go! 
I hope you enjoyed it. Don’t worry, I remember I promised another post on HDR, I will post it soon.
How do I relink folders in Lightroom?
Monday, September 5th, 2011
Good day to you! 
If you have been working in Lightroom for a bit, you know that when working with your images, you should do everything in Lightroom, meaning you should avoid making any changes outside of Lightroom, i.e. renaming folders or images, deleting images etc.
If you decide that you want to remove any image or rename it, do it in Lightroom instead of using your file browser in your operating system.
However, if you do that, here’s what you’re going to see – a question mark as an indication of a missing folder in this case:
So, what’s the solution to this issue? It’s actually quite simple (providing you know what happened). If it is a matter of a folder that’s been moved somewhere else, you right-click on the folder name and choose Find Missing Folder… in the drop-down menu as shown on the screenshot below:
Once you’ve clicked on Find Missing Folder, you just point Lightroom to the folder on your hard drive with the images that were imported into Lightroom Catalogue and you’re done!
I hope you enjoyed this “quick tutorial”
Merging Lightroom Catalogues
Monday, July 25th, 2011
Hello everyone, I hope you had a fabulous weekend and enjoyed it as much as you could.
Today, we’ll talk about merging catalogues in Lightroom. As you already know if you are a Lightroom user, you can only work on one catalogue at the time in Lightroom. If you want to access images from another catalogue, you need to close the catalogue you’re working on and open another catalogue.
So what do you do to access images from other catalogues (if you work on many catalogues of course)?
You can merge catalogues in Lightroom! And it’s actually really easy to do. Julieanne Kost has a video on the topic so I am just going to share it with you right now. I hope you will learn a lot from this video tutorial. So without further ado, let’s jump into the video.
Here you go:
In this Episode of The Complete Picture Julieanne Kost demonstrates how to combine individual Lightroom catalogs into a single, “Master” Lightroom catalog to simplify a photographers workflow and enable multi-shoot searching.
Here’s a link for you:
Target Collection in Lightroom
Friday, July 1st, 2011
Good Friday to you!
I know you are familiar with Collections in Lightroom, especially if you were following my blog as I had posts about Collections and Quick Collections in Lightroom before. But have you ever heard about the Target Collection in Lightroom? It’s not a new feature in Lightroom 3, not really.
A Target Collection is a Collection that allows you to override the temporary Quick Collection. You can use Target Collection to take one of your existing Collections and turn it into a default Quick Collection. You can use a Target Collection to group images that you’re going to process further.
One word of warning: You cannot use a Collection Set as a Target Collection.
Here’s how it works:
1. Go to your Collections panel and select a Collection that you want to use as a Target Collection.
2. Right-click on the Collection and choose Set as Target Collection.
A white plus (+) icon will appear next to the Collection to let you know that from now on this Collection will be used as your Target Collection.
3. To add an image to your new Target Collection, select an image and press B on your keyboard.
And that’s it! If you want to remove the image from the Target Collection, just select it and press B again.
If you don’t want this collection to be a Target Collection anymore, select it, right-click on it and deselect Set as Target Collection.
Episode 49 of Photoshop Lightroom TV
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
Hello hello! Welcome again or welcome for the first time!
Today, a reminder for you about the latest episode of Photoshop Lightroom TV.
This is Episode 49, so it’s been almost a year since it started! It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost a year…
This week I have an exciting tutorial in Lightroom on keywords, and I’m sharing with you a number of different techniques on working with keywords in Lightroom. Then, I follow up with a tutorial in Photoshop on exporting and optimising images for the web using Save for Web & Devices. Fantastic feature in Photoshop that’s been around for quite a while.
So without further ado, here’s a link for you:
Photoshop Lightroom TV – Episode 49.
I hope you’ll have as much fun watching it as I had recording it! Enjoy!
Do I really need the Lightroom Previews?
Monday, May 30th, 2011
Good morning!
Have you noticed, that when you import the images into Lightroom, it gives you an option for Previews?
It appears in the File Handling panel as a drop-down menu. When you shoot raw, the camera registers raw data, and then the software “translates” the raw data to generate the image preview. That’s when this drop-down menu comes in very useful. The screenshot here shows the Previews option within the Import dialog box (Lightroom 3).
When you start, Lightroom displays the embedded Jpeg previews from the camera, and after a moment it generates the previews. What previews it generates depends on your settings, there are four options to choose from and I have covered it before in one of the posts. Here’s a link for you:
Differences between Previews in Lightroom?
Basically, make sure you think it through and decide what previews you want to generate. This decision will affect how you work in Lightroom, and time it takes to get your 100% previews of the images. I usually go for Standard, as I don’t work with all the images on 100% view, so I don’t mind waiting for a second or two, when I want to zoom in to 100% view.
I’m not going to cover the differences between the previews as you will find it in the post I added a link to above. My goal here is to remind you how important this option is.
The common question I get about the previews (in addition to the one about which option I should use) is:
” What if I want to recreate a different kind of previews? Would I need to re-import them?”
No, of course not. You can tell Lightroom to render any size previews later on if you decide you want to use a higher setting as an example. Here’s how to do it:
- Select all the images in Grid view.
- Choose Library > Previews > Render Standard Size previews or 1:1 previews.
Enjoy!
Lightroom Targeted Adjustment Tool for Quick Saturation and Contrast Boost
Thursday, May 12th, 2011
Good morning to everyone,
It’s Lightroom day again! I hope you enjoyed the yesterday’s post. Let me know if you have any questions, I’ll be happy to answer any Lightroom/Photoshop/Bridge questions.
If you want to send me an email, go to my website:
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and send me an emial from the website by navigating to the contact page.
Here’s an interesting article I have found online. It’s an article about Lightroom Targeted Adjustment Tool for Quick Saturation and Contrast Boost. It even comes with a video, which is great!
In this article the author, ariana, explains the choice of lenses for a trip and the reasons behind the choice. Of course, there is a Lightroom tutorial as well so I hope you will enjoy it.
Here’s the link for you:
Lightroom Targeted Adjustment Tool for Quick Saturation and Contrast Boost.
Enjoy as usual!
IPTC rules in Lightroom!
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
You may have heard about the importance of metadata before. I have had some posts on metadata in the past. You may have heard about IPTC as well if you have done some photography in the past (this is a post for photographers as we’re talking about Lightroom here).
Metadata allows you to add important information to your images, “tag” them so to say. By they way, IPTC stands for International Press Telecommunications Council, and it is a standard in the photography/journalism world.
Lightroom allows you to quickly apply Metadata Presets to many photographs at the same time. For example, you may have a number of images from the same location and you may want to quickly apply the same copyright, location, keywords to all of them. That’s when you would create a Metadata Preset. Here’s how you do it:
In the Library Module, navigate to Metadata section and select IPTC from the Metadata drop-down menu.
In the first drop-down menu at the top of the Metadata Panel, choose Edit Presets.
In the dialog box that appear, fill in the fields that will apply to all your images (all the images you want to apply metadata to). As you start adding values in the fields, the check boxes next to the items will be selected automatically. Once you finished filling all the fields you need, click the Preset drop-down menu at the top of the dialog box, and choose Save Current Settings as New Preset. Give it a name and click Create. Once you’ve created a preset, you can easily apply it to any number of images. But, we’ll talk about it tomorrow.
Have a fabulous day!
Slideshow Module Tour with Gene McCullagh
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011It’s usually the Library Module or the Develop Module that get most attention. So surprisingly, this time we’ll talk about the Slideshow Module which I find very interesting.
If you followed my blog for quite a while, you know about all the big changes in Lightroom 3 (it’s been around for quite a while now) and that I’ve been excited with some of these features. I am not going to deep into all these features right now as I want to share with you an article by Gene McCullagh from Lightroom Secrets.
In his article, Gene guides you through the step-by-step tour of the Slideshow Module and then follows with some tips and tricks.
Have a look at his article here:
Slideshow Module Tour with Gene McCullagh.
I’m sure you’ll enjoy it Have fun, I’m off to working on this week’s episode of Photoshop Lightroom TV!
