How To Get Started With Lightroom 5 - 10 Things Beginners Want To Know How To Do

hello and welcome to a new episode of adobe creative cloud TV my name is teri white and in this episode we're going to take a look at how to get started with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 the ten things beginners want to know how to do so if you're brand new to Lightroom if you got lightroom as part of Creative Cloud or you got it standalone doesn't matter same lightroom now you're going to get to learn how not only how to get started but the ten things people ask me the most so let's jump right in first thing is I have Lightroom 5 open and I have it set to open where they basically have a brand new catalog this Lightroom getting started catalog I just created right before this video it has no pictures in it it's basically starting where you would be starting if you just launched Lightroom for the first time now speaking of which let's get a little terminology out of the way right off the bat what's a catalog well think of the catalog as your a library of photos the easiest analogy I can make is if you think of iTunes you have an iTunes library for all your music all your media all your movies and then you have these things called playlists that organize your certain songs in the order you want to listen to just the ones you want so if you think of the catalog and Lightroom as your library and iTunes for music but this would be for photos of course and then you think of this area over here that we're going to come to call collections as the actual playlist now just like iTunes your music is somewhere on your hard drive probably in an iTunes Music folder and your pictures and Lightroom are on your hard drive in a folder or in multiple folders so nothing is actually being stored inside of Lightroom or inside that catalog itself except for metadata which is the information about the photos the keywords the develop settings that you do and all the things you do to the photos that is stored in a catalog but the actual photos themselves are in the folders wherever you put them on what drive you put them on so speaking of which number one importing your photos how do I get my images to be recognized by Lightroom well that's either going to happen one of two ways either a you're going to take a memory card out of your camera like I've got this SD memory card here from my Nikon d600 and I'm going to pop it into my computer and then it will show up in Lightroom or B you've already copied the images to your hard drive and you just want Lightroom to see them we're going to do both so let's first start with the memory card and pop the memory card in my computer and after a couple of seconds since Lightroom is already open it'll pop up just like it just did and said hey you put in a memory card I'm going to let you bring in images from that memory card so I'm going to go ahead and there's 202 photos in this memory card I do not want all of these photos so I'm going to uncheck the all photos I'm going to scroll all the way to the bottom and I can go ahead and make my thumbnail smaller so I can decide see more images at a glance to maybe decide which ones I want to bring in scroll up a little bit and I'm going to go ahead and start grabbing some of these images so I want let's say from here to here so I'm just holding that I clicked on the first one held down my shift key and clicked on the last one now I'm going to enable the checkbox for one of those images since they're all selected all of them are now checked so I'm saying bring in all of those images so far and I can keep adding more to it so I can say hey a few of these I want as well so for example I can take a couple of these are upside down for some reason and I can go ahead bring those in and check those as well so I can go through this whole car picking and choosing which images I want to bring in if I don't want to bring them all in and now that I've got it decided which ones I'm going to bring in the next big question is how and where so on the left hand side this goes from left to right on the left hand side it's saying hey I'm going to bring these in from your Nikon d600 memory card that's what called and I'm going to eject that card after it's imported now the middle section is you've decided which photos you want to bring in and now you're going to tell it either copy them or copy them as D&G so let me explain the difference copy is the most common one you'll use and it is the one you'll use if you're shooting in JPEG there is no other choice you're just going to copy the photos because you don't want to reference them on the card because that card is eventually going to get erased so you want to copy them to your hard drive in a specific folder the next one which is the one that I like to use the most when I'm shooting in RAW is copy as DNG now let's say you got raw and JPEG on that card still use the copy as DNG because that will only apply to the RAW files and the JPEGs will still get copied as normal but what is this DNG thing what will that do it's going to do one extra step it's going to take my proprietary raw Nikon Canon Olympus Fuji whatever they are and it's going to convert them into a non proprietary format called digital negative or DNG for short I always always always convert my RAW files in the DNG and I've been doing it for years there are many advantages one of which being there's enough they're not proprietary number two they're usually a little bit smaller than the raw file so you don't lose inequality and they're also you don't have this whole sidecar file thing going on when you make adjustments so if that confuses you just no copy as dmg is a good thing if it scares you just copy either way will work now last but not least on the right hand side here we're going to tell it most importantly where to put them in other words after it's copied them from the card converted them to D and G where were those D and G is B so I'm going to scroll down a little bit and go to destination this is the most important part here so now right now if I don't do anything it's going to put them in my pictures folder loose in my pictures folder I don't want that to happen I do want them into a subfolder and into normally Lightroom will default that subfolder by date and I personally do not like that I do not like my images organized by date because that doesn't mean anything to me I want my images organized by event an event would mean I'm going to say not by date but into one folder and I'm going to call that folder whatever I want so in this case these would be my photos of Amanda and it could be my family reunion it could be my soccer game it could be whatever but I'm naming that event and putting them all into that one subfolder in the pictures folder on my main hard drive you can put them in anywhere you want so your photos are your photos you store them wherever it's most convenient for you if you want to store them on an external hard drive you want to store them on an ass a file server wherever your photos can be wherever you want but the catalog itself should not be on a network drive it should be on one of your local hard drives but the photos can be anywhere and again you want to put them somewhere safe now let's go back up a couple couple more options here secondly I'm going to enable a new Lightroom 5 feature called build smart previews and what that will do is it will of course build a preview that we can see in Lightroom but it's going to build a higher resolution preview that isn't as high as the original file size but will allow me to do everything I could potentially do in Lightroom if I for some reason didn't have the files with me so for example let's say I import these onto a second hard drive and then I take my laptop off somewhere and I didn't bring the second hard drive well because I built those smart previews I'd still be able to work on these images I'd be able to apply keywords and metadata and adjustments I'd be able to you know work on them in the develop module I'd be able to output small low resolution versions of them so smart previews is the next best thing to having the original photos with you so smart previews new Lightroom 5 feature definitely going to use that and then last but not least this is an option I don't use personally but it is one that you need to know about and that is make a second copy - meaning this is your one shot Lightroom will do a backup for you of those images to another folder maybe on another Drive so if you're out in the field you're on vacation you're somewhere where you're not in your normal backup environment in your studio or in your home or in your office then you might want to go ahead and make that second copy to another Drive just so you'll have the backup and basically all you would do is just enable this box and tell it where to put the backup what drive to put it on what folder to put it on and it's just a one-time shot upon import now once you've decided where are they coming from which ones how to copy them and more importantly where to put them you have the option and of course how to build your smart previews and to make a backup you have the option of putting in some keywords so if you want to just go ahead and say hey these are all of Amanda and this is Michigan and this is in the studio I could put any kind of keywords like that that are that apply to all the photos and last but not least I have a metadata template set up again because I've used Lightroom before but this would be none on in your case and I can go in and I can say either create a new one or edit an existing one so if I say create a new one it basically lets me go in and put in all the information inside my photos about me or about the photos themselves so I can say copyright Terry white creator Terry white city Troy Michigan so forth and so on I put my website in all that information will be stored inside the photos themselves or in the metadata of the photos so that whenever I output them export them put them online whatever anyone that goes to look at that information it would be there and it's just one one of those things you can do import that saves you the time so you don't have to think about doing it later alright so I've already got one set up I'm just going to go ahead and choose it and now that I've got it set up I'm going to go ahead and do the import so now it's importing those files and it took me out of the import dialog box and now it's in the Lightroom catalog now you'll notice a couple of things it's going to take a little bit longer than a regular copy because it's doing the conversion to DNG on the fly and you'll notice that under folders the hard drive is now here the hard disk and a folder called Amanda where those actual images are being stored so that's the drive that they're on and whatever the name of your drive is that's what would appear here and so it's just going ahead and doing its thing doing the copy and doing the conversion to digital negative as well now once that's done you'll see a second progress bar that we'll go through as it's doing the smart previews that one you do not have to wait for it will build those in the background and it builds those pretty quickly so you don't have to wait now you'll also notice in this case it this little video icon Lightroom can bring in both your still images and any videos that you shot in the process of your creativity or your shoot so it brought in that video and that clip will be there alright and it just gave me a warning hey non RAW files were not converted to DNG specifically it's referring to the video and I'm ok with that because it can't convert a videos to DNG and then it ejected the card and away we go so that was number one importing your images number two getting rid of your rejects getting rid of the ones you don't want now that you've brought in are the ones from your card so I'm here with my images and now I want to go through my selection process so to do that thumbnails not big enough I need to see them larger and I see in this case I've got down six photos in the row that look exact the same so I probably only need one of those maybe two of those I don't need all of them and I pretty much assure I shot these during a demonstration so they are probably all identical shot from a tripod maybe with different focus points but let's go ahead and take a look closer look so I need to see them larger I hit the letter E on my keyboard he is an echo to bring them up into loop mode once I bring it up in the loop mode I can then go through my selection process by just using my left and right arrow keys so I can arrow over to the next photo and guess what it didn't change it change the number eight zero zero seven versus eight zero zero six because they're identical so no visual change so guess what I have six seven looks just like it I don't need seven so I'm going to hit the letter X on my keyboard to set it as a reject because I don't need it I don't need two or three or four of the exact same photo number eight looks a little darker but again I already have it and at the X number nine same thing X number ten X like I said these were shot on the tripod sequentially so they're pretty much going to be identical now the only difference here is the focus point is now instead of on the top bud it's on the bottom right hand bud and that one I'll keep because that one is different than the first one which is number six so I won't mark that as a reject I'll just keep going now we get to the video well that's a video so I only have the one I'm not going to reject that and then we have this one with Amanda with our eyes closed don't need that one never going to use it so I hit the letter X and then we have this one where she's smiling good shot we'll keep that one and then she's holding a white balance card which we'll get into in a moment we definitely need that one and these are the ones that we would white balance or correct afterwards and they're all slightly different so we'll keep all of those we might narrow it down to our favorite after the fact but we'll keep those for now all right so now I've gone through the 15 photos or 15 things I brought in because one of them and now I want to eliminate the ones that I said I don't need the ones are marked as X so we hit the letter G to go back to the grid view so that we can see what I did and you can see the little reject flags that's every time I hit the letter X and it kind of dims out the photos letting you know which ones you're going to reject and then the ones that aren't rejected look fun so now I want to tell Lightroom get rid of those ones I don't need so this is a keyboard shortcut on the Mac it would be command delete on PC ctrl backspace would say delete whichever number of photos you reject it from your disk or just remove them from Lightroom now this is where we separate the saying goes the men from the boys or the women from the girls this is where we decide as a photographer those images that I reject it I rejected them for a reason it means I'm never going to use them I don't need five copies of that same photo with the flower I don't need a copy of Amanda with our eyes closed I'm going to now delete them from my hard drive so instead of removed from Lightroom which is the wimpy way to do it we're going to say delete from disk that will move them to your system trash or recycle bin whatever operating system you're on but they're now out of Lightroom they're now out of that folder they're gone and well once you empty your trash they're gone okay so now I'm left with my potential pix or my potential favorites so that was number two getting rid of your rejects getting rid of the ones that you don't want now number three number three is making collections in other words putting our favorites together so I'm going to say that I like both of these flowers because they're kind of you know both the same I mean both same flower but different focus points I like the video which I could scrub through it just by hovering over it great we're going to keep the video we're going to keep this first picture of Amanda and we're probably going to keep the one worse smiling here and maybe here at the end so those are the ones that are my favorites and I want to put them in a collection remember iTunes playlist lightroom collection for your photos so we're going to put them in a collection and we have the collections area here I'm just going to click the plus sign with those photos selected and create collection when I say create collection it will ask me whatever I want to name these I'm going to say Amanda favorites spell and now that I have my favorites notice it automatically checked include the selected photos meaning hey you went through the process of clicking on these you probably want them in the collection so yes I do create collection and now I have two things I have the amanda photo folder with all ten things in it and I have the Amanda favorites collection with just the six things in it that I want the six photos slash movie so that is how collections work you can and by the way you can move them around after the fact so I can say hey there's one more photo I want in that collection I can drag and drop after the fact and put it in there I go to the collection and say I changed my mind I don't really want the one where she's not smiling hit my delete key and it's gone from the collection so I'm never deleting the photo unless I'm actually deleting it from the folder collections or like playlist rearrange the songs in the order you want so if I want the smiling picture first put the smiling picture first but I want to out put them in a certain way put them in that order if I want to remove add delete whatever change that's what collections are for the folder contains the EPS the folder contains the actual photos / videos so that was number three making collections number four using the develop module alright so we've got some photos that need some help first of all these are all to blue that's because the white balance was off on the camera based on the light source that was used so I want to correct these all why I had her hold this white balance card so I'd be able to collect them now Lightroom as great as it is also lets me do this really wonderful thing it lets me collect correct more than one photo at a time so I can start with the first one hold down my shift key click on the last one so that they're all selected and then I can go to my develop module just by clicking develop or hitting the letter D and the first one will be highlighted but they're all still selected now if you turn on auto sync that means when you see auto sync display down here that means that if you make changes to one photo it makes them to all the selected photos if you don't have auto sync turned on it will only make the change to the first photo and you'll have to manually sync it to the other ones so I like auto sync turned on we click our little white balance eyedropper and we click and it adjusts the white balance for all the photos now to me that's a little still too warm so luckily with white balance you can cool it off yourself manually I can make baby make the flesh tones look a little bit more natural and I can make my own adjustments to that's those photos let's say that I want to also adjust the exposure I can pump up the exposure a little bit more on those photos so I can do any adjustments I want and it will happen to all of the photos that were selected because I have auto sync turned on so now if i deselect click on any one photo those photos have now all been adjusted based on that white balance that I did now if I go back hit the letter G I did all of that in the folder guess what since they're the same images it did it in the collections too because the collection is not a duplicate it's just referencing a segment or certain set of photos or videos from the main folders and yes your collection can have photos from different folders in it just like your iTunes playlist can have different songs from different albums or different artists so same concept alright so now that we've done a little bit of dub developing let's do a little bit more so for example let's select this one photo and we'll hit the letter D to take it over to the develop module and the first thing I want to do is crop it so I'm going to click on the cropping here and it's locked for the aspect ratio so I can just go ahead and pull down and it will go ahead and crop this photo I can move it around in the crop area and recompose that photo based on the cropping alright when I deselect or get off the crop tool it then shows me the newly cropped photo now here's the beauty of the develop module just so that you know first of all the develop module is exactly the same as Adobe Camera Raw so if you used to photoshop in Camera Raw you have the exact same thing here it's just dark grey versus light gray the next thing is the develop module gives you a preview so if I were to grab the white balance eyedropper and hover over different spots it shows me in the preview what I would get if I were to click and none of these would be good places so I can go to put it back but that's the other advantage of doing it here versus in Camera Raw the next thing is that anything you do in the develop module is non-destructive so that means that you can always undo it or change it so if I didn't like the crop guess what I'm going to the crop tool and uncropped I can come back tomorrow the next day ten years from now whenever I want and uncropped because it didn't really throw anything away it didn't really change any pixels it didn't really do anything to the actual photo it's doing it to the metadata in the Lightroom catalog that references that photo that's on your hard drive so that is the develop module we could spend all day on the develop module there's all kinds of adjustments we can do luckily there are sliders so that you can always kind of see what you're going to get just by dragging a slider left or right to kind of see what the change would be so if I want to enhance the blocks it kind of like that and I want to enhance the highlights maybe you like the highlights a little brighter I can make any adjustments I want I can even adjust on the histogram itself so if my shadows were too dark and bring the shadows back out if my overall exposure was too low or too dark I can adjust the overall exposure I can also work into highlights shadows blacks and whites now again we spend more time on develop but that's develop in a nutshell quickly making adjustments inside lightroom now let's say that you need to do something that lightroom can't do like i want to maybe use a filter i want to liquefy i want to composite i want to add text i want to do things that lightroom is really not suited for lightroom is great for making adjustments and using the adjustment brush and making specific adjustments but it's not Photoshop Photoshop does way more for editing so let's go back to the grid and let's say that I now want to work on this photo in Photoshop which would be number 5 how do I add it my images inside Photoshop well if I select the image I can go to my edit menu I'm sorry if I select the image I can right click on it and go to my edit menu that's what I meant to say and say edit in Photoshop I normally do this with a keyboard shortcut command E and that will take a copy of that or actually it will take the original in this case because it's a raw file it'll take it with your Lightroom adjustments and it will open it in Photoshop so now I'm in Photoshop CC and I can go ahead and make any adjustments I want and this kind of this little bulge here and the sweater is kind of bothering me so this is something Lightroom can't do I can go to my filter menu I can come down to liquify I can go in and just kind of liquify that shoulder a little bit push it down push that bulge down that was bothering me and she's got muscles it's just cool but that was more of a bulge in the sweatshirt itself and I'm just going to go ahead and kind of sort out some of these wrinkles sort out some of these things that are bothering me in the actual photo now again we can go in and we can once we get out of the filter we can go in and we could do a whole retouch here we could go in and kind of just start here go to my spot healing tool you can kind of remove some moles and pimples and things and maybe kind of adjust a little bit under the eyes here make this a little bit better instead of maybe one two lines over the eyes we'll leave it with one and we can do all kinds of cool adjustments here but that's what Photoshop does so now again it's not a Photoshop lesson but just know you go into Photoshop do the things that Photoshop does best when you're done you're going to go ahead and close this photo and save your changes now when you close your photo and save your changes it's going to close the photo eventually and then when you head back over to Lightroom you're going to have two copies you're going to have the original D and G or jpg or whatever you start it with and you're now going to have the PSD or TIFF depending on how you have your settings and your um catalog set to so basically it brought back a PSD of the edited version which I could always go back and re-edit and continue working on and I always have the original so again non-destructive because I can always get back to the original now I'm going to delete the original from the collection and then we're going to take a look at converting photos to D and G which would be number six and smart previews which is also number six if you didn't do it upon import so we're going to do two things first we're going to import another set of photos this time that are already on the hard drive and we're not going to do the conversion we're going to do it after the fact so here we go click our import button and it's going to say hey where do you want to get your photos from and I'm going to say not from the external hard drive I'm going to say there in my user folder in my on my desktop and they're in my Seattle folder so here we go so now I'm just going to say go ahead and bring all of those in except this one and this one which is blurry I can see it's blurry that's a duplicate and I probably like that one better and I probably don't need that one but don't build smart previews just go ahead and add the photos in now notice it says add versus copy or copy as DNG because it says hey these are already on his hard drive he probably just wants to add in Lightroom he doesn't need to copy them anymore because they're already on our drive they're not on a memory card so we're going to go ahead and just import and that will import much faster because it didn't have to do anything just reference them in Lightroom it didn't have to convert anything didn't have to do anything so it brought in the original Ralph's files which Lightroom can work with you don't have to convert to D and G it will work with your Canon Nikon and so forth and so on RAW files now that I'm here let's say I do want to do the conversion well I can go ahead and select these photos and I can convert to D and G by just going to my library menu and say convert to dmg and delete the original any F files or C or two files after it's done so go ahead and that's where we will get the progress bar as its converting each one to a dmg and then throwing away the original net file so it's basically replacing what was there even if you made adjustments to it alright next what if I want to build smart previews library previews build smart previews so yes you can build smart previews you can convert to dmg after the images are already in lightroom you don't have to do it upon import if you're using tether capture you can't do it during import anyway so you will have to do it after the fact because tether is going to capture them or bring them in from your camera as soon as you take the pictures which by the way that's a bonus of the top ten even though we covered it last time in Lightroom 4 we didn't we're not going to cover today but just so you know you can connect your camera up if it's supported via the USB cable and shoot directly into Lightroom using the tether capture feature so that's a bonus of the 10 we're not going to do it alright so now we've got this folder call Seattle we've got this folder called Amanda if I want to take one of the Seattle folders folder photos and move it into the Amanda collection I can so that means I can mix and match as I said before now the next one which is number seven is creating a watermark so a lot of times when people export their photos out or put them online that love a visible watermark that says don't copy or studio logo or photo buy or whatever you want well Lightroom has a watermarking feature built in we can go in under the Lightroom menu and we can say edit watermarks and it will usually come in with your user name of your computer so or user account so and this one's called Adobe so it says copyright Adobe but I could say no no copyright teri white and that will be a very basic simple text watermark but I would prefer to use my actual logo so if you have a PNG version of your logo or JPEG version of your logo which you could easily go create in Photoshop you can say no no give me a graphic one and then you can go find that logo and bring it in and now that's my actual logo that's going to be at the bottom left right center of my photos wherever I want and you decide the wherever you want by scrolling down left right top right wherever you want how much inset you want from the left and from the bottom and it will proportionally size the logo based on the size of the photo so trying to always keeping it looking like this no matter what resolution to photo is so now that I've got this custom watermark I can save it it's going to ask me what do I want to call it Oh bummer thing cancel I want to do one more thing and I just lower the opacity of it I don't want to be a hundred percent how about 70 percent so now I can save it and I can call it TWP terry white photography stamp seventy percent i already had a 70 so we'll make that one 70 percent so now that watermark is there for any exporting saving printing anything I want to do from here on out and we're about to do that next because number eight is exporting and sharing so now let's say we take this PSD we'll move it into collection and now we want to export that one out for some reason and maybe email it or give it to someone or put it on Facebook or put it online or do what everyone to do with it so that is getting the photo out of Lightroom via the export module and actually I kind of like this one better let's take a look at it closer oh it kind of needs us a little bit more cropping actually this is a better photo because it's lit better alright so forget that one let's do this one all right so now I'd love to export that one out maybe put it online or put it somewhere or give it to someone on a drive so I don't want to give them the original raw file they wouldn't be able to do wouldn't know what to do with the DNG anyway and I want to post it online can't post D NGS online anyway so I need a JPEG file export now I have tons of presets because I've used Lightroom before yours are going to be empty but that's ok because you're going to we're going to build one from scratch so where do I want this to export pick a folder wherever you want on whatever drive you want so I'm going to leave it on the desktop then I'm going to put it in a subfolder called we'll call this one for client or how about for web now after it exports it do you want to add it back into the catalog absolutely not because I have the original do I want to rename it nope it can use whatever name it is do I want to include videos in this case I'm not selecting the videos not a problem what format do I want it in yes I wanted in JPEG because that's the most common for the web what color space do you want srgb Adobe RGB srgb is the most common for the web what quality do you want this is up to you whatever so whatever quality you want to do to make your photos look better online or not look as good online but maybe take up less space resize this is a big one because you've got this huge raw file that's you know 4,000 5,000 6,000 pixels wide by so many pixels tall and of course it's probably too big for the web so I normally for the web these days go with 1024 on the longest dimension so I just type in 1024 by 1024 you can type in whatever you want 800 by 800 1200 by 1200 whenever you want and I say done and large in other words if it's smaller than that leave it smaller but if its larger go ahead and size it down to this at a resolution of whatever you want 72 pixels per inch 96 pixels per inch whatever you want and then metadata I usually leave all that metadata in that we talked about before my copyright my studio name my website information and then the watermark I want to use that new one we just built the TW stamp at 70% and then when it's done I want it to show it to me so now I could click export and it'll do it but just so just for kicks we're going to go ahead and add it as a preset called for web that way we'll we won't have to ever recreate this we'll just click on for web next time and it will be set and ready to go because that names already taken so we can't use for web let's use for web the Lightroom 5 there we go so now that we've done that we'll go ahead and click export and there it is it made a JPEG of that file with the exact same name and if I preview it real quick it shows my little watermark in the lower left hand corner as it should and this is a photo that's only 143 K that I could give someone or put online or do whatever I wanted to do with it so that is how to export your images for sharing now there's one more thing Lightroom does have the ability to email a photo now so you can email a photo directly out of Lightroom you could use a preset there's some presets already built in here so I could say use full size for example or 800 pixels long or you can make your own preset you can tell it where to go what's subject and what email program to use or um however you configure it Lightroom to send your emails it will attach it and then launch my email program and let me go ahead and address it if I want to or add more to the body or whatever I want and yes you can select more than one image so you can email ten images at a time 20 at a time whatever it takes then I hit Send it would launch my email program and I would finish the email off and send it so that is exporting and sending your photos number nine printing so let's say that I want to print this photo this photo and this photo so I've just held down my command key or ctrl key on Windows and select a three discontiguous or non-contiguous photos so now hit print and I can say use the selected photos and this these are the three that would print as I selected them and now you get to do the great thing in Lightroom which is decide how it's going to print you can do single image you can do picture package you can do custom package you can decide anything about it the margin it will auto scale auto size do whatever you want based on any of the settings that you do here so if you want to print in multiple rows multiple columns you can do all of these cool things now once you once you have your print settings set up you can save those as templates and I've got a few here just so you can kind of see what some of the things I've done so 3 square large 3 up tall and yes you can move them around inside the little frames here so all kinds of cool things that you could do with your photos so if you want to 8 by 10 gallery print 7 by 5 10 by 8 11 by 14 these are all settings that I set up once and saved as a preset just like we did for the exporting alright so once you're done setting this up the way you want kind of like the three tall but I wouldn't use the Adobe one I would use my other one so identity plates are identity plates you can make your own we can do an edit here and we can use a graphic one and we can locate that same file there we go and we can scale that down and put the logo there I real make that much smaller though alright but once you've got it all set up you can either print to your printer if you're a printer kind of person you got a printer connected to your computer you can print it directly to your printer or if you're going to send it to a lab which is what I do to have things print it then you can say do all of this but do it to a JPEG file and then it will basically let you print to file save the JPEG out then you can upload it to your lab and have it professionally printed on whatever you want it print it on and again you can go and create your own paper sizes and all that using your printer setup just like you normally would so that is how to print from Lightroom whether you're printing directly to your own printer or exporting and printing to a lab last but not least and this is the biggest one that I get now all the time this is the one where people get messed up the most - so this we're gonna spend a couple minutes on this and that is how do I move my photos in other words I'm done with the Amandla folder I don't need the Amandla folder on my laptop hard drive anymore I want to put it on an external how do I do that alright so I have an external hard drive right here I'm going to plug in that drive it's a USB 3 drive here and somewhere I've got a USB 3 cable waiting for me and I'm just going to plug the drive end and that drive is going to spin up and Lightroom's not going to do a darn thing about it because lightroom only cares about hard drives that you've used in lightroom so just adding a drive to your computer or turning a drive on or plug in the drive in Lightroom has no interest in it until you tell it to have some interest in it and the way we're going to tell it is you have to use the drive at least once in Lightroom then from that point on moving things is easy so we have to set it up one time and here's how we do it we're going to add a folder to that drive we're going to add a pictures folder to it now it could already have one but and then you could just choose it but in this case I'm going to go ahead and tell it to create one so I'm just going to go ahead and say create a new folder add a folder and it's going to say where it brings up a normal operating system thing hey I've got a hard drive called stuff as an external USB Drive create a new folder on that hard drive called pictures create choose done so now there is a pictures folder on a stuff hard drive that Lightroom now knows about that's all you had to do once you tell Lightroom there's a folder and it knows to keep track of that folder from that point on you can move anything you want from one hard drive to the other in Lightroom so I'm going to say take the Amandla folder that we're done with and move it to the pictures folder just by dragging it it's going to say hey you're moving this are you sure you want to do this there you know blah blah blah yeah I am don't show me that again and now it's basically one by one you're going to see them disappear from the Amandla folder here and that videos taking a moment to copy but once it's done you're going to see them disappear from here and they will now be on the stuff hard drive so that's how that works it basically does all the movement and tracking for you where people get messed up is they go outside Lightroom and start moving stuff around and it's better if you let Lightroom do it because it now knows where everything is now if you've screwed up and you've done it on your own and things are disconnected you can fix it so for example I'm going to do it the hard way I'm going to quit and I'm going to go take the Seattle folder which is on my desktop Desktop there we are take the Seattle folder and I'm going to move it to the stuff hard drive now manually so I'm doing it outside of Lightroom Lightroom doesn't know anything about what I'm doing right now and so I just moved that stuff folder using the operating system I'll move the Seattle folder to the stuff drive in the pictures folder using the operating system now when I launch lightroom again lightroom is going to say it's not gonna say anything but when i go look at that folder it's going to say i don't know where these images are anymore and there it is question mark it doesn't know where these five images are anymore because I did something outside of Lightroom Lightroom didn't know anything about it so how do I now tell it where these are well first of all I'd still be able to work on these that's still better we're going to develop module and I'd still be able to do anything I wanted to do because I built a smart preview so if I wanted to crank up the saturation in this photo falling to crank up the vibrance a little too much saturation forward to change the exposure notice it's letting me do all these things even though the photo is technically missing because it has a smart preview now if I really want to reconnect it to the high-res version so I can do everything like export it open it in Photoshop all of that then I really need to reconnect it and I do that by clicking any one of these on this little icon in the upper right hand corner that icon will either be the smart preview icon it will be an exclamation point depending on if it doesn't have a smart preview or not and once I tell it to locate this photo because it says hey it's not here anymore it's not where you told it told me it was you got to show me where it is now so we're going to go here in the Seattle folder and locate seven nine eight one and there it is and then it fixed all the rest so now in the pictures folder it now knows about the seattle images it left this orphan seattle folder that used to be there that now has zero images in it I can right-click on it and remove it because that folder is now in the stuff hard drive so I hope you learn something about Lightroom I hope you learn how to get started and that last thing believe it or not is where people trip up the most because your photos are work in progress you're always shooting working and then archiving or moving off to a bigger storage area so that last part was actually the one of the most important things of these top ten because that's the thing where people just they do it the wrong way outside of Lightroom and then they have to worry about trying to fix it versus just moving things around in Lightroom and letting Lightroom fix itself and because it knows what it's doing so that's it for this how to get started with Lightroom 5 my name is teri white thanks for watching and we'll catch you on the next one you

Channel: Terry White

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Length: 47min 22sec (2842 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 26 2013