Lesson Info
6. Building Previews
Lessons
Differences Between Lightroom Desktop and Lightroom Classic
19:42 2Hard Drives
08:06 3File Organization
08:31 430,000 Foot View of Workflow
05:36 5Importing into Lightroom
04:10 6Building Previews
07:14 7Collections and Publish Services
05:11 8Keywords
06:27Hardware for Lightroom
06:08 10Searching for Images
07:51 11Selecting Images
14:15 12Organizing Images
04:02 13Collecting Images for Use
14:56 14Develop Module Overview
10:15 15Profiles
11:34 16Basic Adjustments
11:45 17Basics Panel: Texture, Clarity, and Dehaze
05:31 18Basics Panel: Saturation and Vibrance
02:40 19Tone Curve
09:26 20HSL
04:48 21Split Tone
08:19 22Lens Corrections
08:32 23Details
09:34 24Transform Tool
05:52 25Effects Panel
10:00 26Synchronizing for Faster Editing
07:40 27Spot Tool
17:51 28Skin Softening and Brush Work
07:00 29Range Masking
13:28 30Dodge and Burn
17:36 31Working with Specific Colors
08:30 32Edit Quickly with Gradient Filters
11:22 33Making Presets
13:24 34Preparing Image in Lightroom
09:51 35Content Aware Fill
11:14 36Skin Repair
02:44 37Skin Smoothing
14:39 38Expanding a Canvas
04:30 39Liquify
10:22 40Layers and Composite Images
12:54 41Sharing via Web
17:52 42Exporting Files
10:47 43Sharing with Slideshows
08:00 44Archiving Photos and Catalogs
19:54 45Designing
13:35 46Making Prints
11:27 47Color Management and Profiles
13:00 48Archiving Photos and Catalogs
11:31 49Using Cloud Storage
04:09 50Adding Images to your Portfolio
09:23 51Collecting for Your Portfolio
18:03 52Publishing Unique Websites Per Project
19:48 53Sharing to Instagram
07:06 54HDR
15:32 55Panorama
06:41 56HDR Panorama
09:54 57Making Presets
15:39 58Creating Profiles
18:09 59Maps
07:08 60Setup for Tethered Shooting
23:21 61Sharing with the Client
05:42 62Watched Folder Process
07:04 63Second Monitor and iPad
06:09 64Backup at the Camera
03:50 65Gnar Box Disk Backup
06:45 66iPhone and iPad Review
12:52 67Importing to Lightroom on iPad
02:59 68Cloud Backup
04:39 69Adjust, Edit, and Organize
07:46 70Using Lightroom Between Devices
11:27 71Lightroom Desktop
05:27 72Removing Images from the Cloud
10:49 73Profiles
09:34 74Light
04:34 75Color
05:36 76Effects
15:22 77Details
08:33 78Optics
03:49 79Geometry
04:12 80Crop
04:39 81Adding and Using Presets and Profiles
13:41 82Local Adjustments
15:40 83Healing Tool
03:29 84Synchronizing Edits
04:57 85Editing in Photoshop
08:54 86Finding Images
07:09 87Sharing and Exporting Albums on the Web
09:18 88Posting Images to Social Media
14:01 89Overview of Lightroom Desktop
07:35 90The Workflow Overview
10:08 91Organizing Images
05:10 92Albums and Shared Albums
18:21 93Lightroom Desktop Workspace Overview
04:36 94Importing and Selecting Images
09:23 95HDR and Panoramics
22:44 96Light
07:47 97Profiles
07:23 98Tone Curves
02:57 99Color
08:35 100Effects
17:01 101Details
12:43 102Optics
04:05 103Geometry and Crop Tool
06:01 104Sync Settings
02:40 105Making and Adding Presets
03:48 106Healing Brush
02:21 107Brush Tool
03:14 108Gradient Tool
04:16 109Edit in Photoshop
02:53 110Finding Images with Sensei
06:32 111Sharing Albums on the Web
04:57 112Print through Photoshop
02:09 113Exporting Images to Files or Web Services
04:36 114Connecting with Lightroom Classic and Mobile Devices
05:24 115Archiving Images for Storage
09:55 116Review of the Workflow
07:20Lesson Info
Building Previews
so first things first is building previews. Building previews is really important based on your need at the moment. So I used to of these, therefore options. I use two of them on a regular basis. So one for one means that if you have a 6000 pixel wide file, then it's going to build a preview that it's 6000 pixels wide. So it's one for one. And that means that if I zoom into a photo or zoom out, I won't get the spinning ball that has toe have to wait for it while it's building a preview. But if I if I don't build the one for one's than when I zoom in to see if something sharper someone's eyes were open, then there's that little time out while it's building a preview for you and I have to wait for it so I never wanna wait on my computer. So I build the one for one's while I'm away from the computer or while I'm doing accounting or well, I'm sleeping or something, do something else. Let it build the one for ones and then come back and look at your photos. So the one for one, is the most e...
fficient way to look at your photos while you're looking at him, cause you can just zoom in and zoom out. But it's not the fastest way to get them in. So if I really need to see the photos right now because I'm a press photographer or because it's an event that I want to share a couple photos really quickly, I just got home from my kid's ball game and he did something awesome. And so I want to take that picture. I want to really quickly pull it in and share it out to the family. So in that case, I'm gonna go to embedded and sidecar. So the embedded and sidecar option is basically just taking whatever the camera built into the raw file, which is, there's a small embedded image, and what it's going to do is it's going to say, all right, whatever is already in the file, that's what I'll use, and so it can bring them in really fast. Some people use a program called Photo Mechanic and Photo Mechanic does just that. It uses the embedded in sidecar information to deliver the file really quickly to you. So if you're used to photo mechanic and you want to use light room for the process of importing in a and looking at your images on selecting images, use embedded inside car and you'll find that light rooms justice fast or maybe slightly slower. But it's still really, really fast, um, one for ones. It's gonna take a lot longer to build those so embedded inside car is the fastest way to look at your images really quickly and get them in. So we're gonna build. Uh, we're not gonna build any we're just going to do embedded inside car, and that's going to bring them in really quickly. The second option is building smart previews and building sparked previews Air really important, too, for several reasons. First reason Building a smart preview allows your system to be less taxed by the process of looking at photos and adjusting photos. In fact, if you go up to the light room menu and you go to the preferences inside of preferences, there is a performance option. So right here at the top of preferences, looking for purpose for performance. And then if you go into the performances area, um and scroll down here and say, Use smart previews instead of originals. Four. Image editing. If you check that, it will increase performance. So if you're using big files 30 40 50 megapixel files, those were pretty big files. And if you notice that when you're working on photos, it's just a little Laghi. I have a slower computer, and it's it's slowing everything down. This is the place to go if you turn this on and I'm not gonna turn it on right now because I think I have plenty of power to do what I'm doing. But if I was running a little slower computer or bigger files, these air 30 megapixel. If I was running megapixel files, I would certainly use the smart previews instead of the originals. So that's the first thing that Smart previews conduce for you is. It can speed up your system because it will work on those little files, and then it will just use the big files when it's time to export something really efficient. The second reason for smart previews is that if I have and remember all of my photos air, not on this computer, they're not on the computer itself. They're actually the original files Air here, right there inside of a raid. One system. And if I'm at home, I have a bigger raid. One system. And so my photos air. Never actually on the computer itself, they're always on an external drive. That is a raid, one system. So because I don't have those on my computer, if I want to just work on my photos, say, on the airplane on my laptop I can unplug all of my drives and just work on the laptop because I have the smart previews embedded inside of light room. So if I build the smart previews when I'm importing the images, then I can work on the images without the original images present. So that's the second really great reason toe have Smart previous built. There's 1/3 third. So the third reason is kind of a security thing, actually, Um, I have a friend who someone stole everything like they broke in and stole his His computer drives his cameras like the whole that they took everything, but he happened at his laptop with him on vacation, and he was actually on vacation with me at the time and he had his laptop and when he got home and discovered all of this mess and that he didn't have any of his hard drives and any of his computers. But he had his catalogue on his laptop and he called me in a panic. And he's like, I don't know what to do because I have no files and I've got these clients who need prints. And, uh and I asked him. I said, Well, look at him and see if the Smart previews were built and he said, Yeah, I was building smart previous all the time because you told me to and so he was always building him. He didn't know why, but he was building him. And I said, Well, then you're fine because you can actually print images from those smart previews, even without the original files present. In fact, I've printed a 30 inch print before, and it's not great, but it's passable. So he was able to print 2024 inch prints for the client without them ever suspecting there was a problem, because those files are actually really good files, even though they're quite compressed and they're but they're still raw. So I would actually prefer having my smart previews toe having a J peg of my images because those smart previous air really, really useful.
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Ratings and Reviews
Ira Richterman
I am truly a recreational novice in the photography world and this video is fantastic. Photography has become a very technical world both on the camera side as well as post production. Jared has great teaching skills and sure makes it look very simple. I would recommend this video for those starting out in Lightroom as this program can be overwhelming and has a daunting amount of information. I would like to know if there is a resource of location of contact to ask a question or two for clarifications as a viewer goes through the course. For example, when making a new collection and if you choose the option of making this new collection a target collection, what happens if you then make another new collection and select that new collection to be a target collection? If you click on B to add a photo to a target collection and you made two target collections then where does this virtual selection go, ie into which target collection? Thanks Ira irichterma@aol.com
Dan Clarke
This class was great. I've never used Lightroom before and now I feel comfortable in it. Massive amount of good info.
Hannah
Thorough but very easy to follow. I've noticed a significant improvement in my work since starting this course a couple weeks ago, and I'm also spending noticeably less time editing my photos. I appreciate that it's up-to-date as of October, 2020, so the info is current (I wish CL would take down some of the older courses, since software changes make some of them obsolete).