Lesson Info
3. File Organization
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
File Organization
So, first off, we want to put our photos in an actual hard drive where they're going to rest. So I'm going to show you, uh, my dr and inside of that drive. So this is the This is the tough tech do of the sea. Are you? This is my raid one system. And inside that raid, one system, there's a jobs folder and inside that Jobs folder, there are jobs. Now you whether or not you're a professional photographer, that doesn't matter. You're still going to treat things as jobs or events or moments. Things that you did could be. I traveled to Italy. So there's gonna be a folder with the date and where I went or the date and my son's birthday party. So I am always naming my jobs with the date and then an underscore and then the name of the client and then an underscore, and then whatever it waas and that helps me maintain order inside of my files. So I'm not actually putting them inside a light room. So light room has the option. If you plug in a card, it'll pop up and try and import Um, for you, I'...
m not a big fan of that, because every person whoever does that, that's the same person that always loses their files. And they don't know where they went because they didn't put them there. So I'm I'm I'm a big believer in the idea of taking your images, plugging them into the computer, highlighting your, uh, that card and putting it into the actual drive where it's going to go. So simply install your card, Um, and then you're gonna actually put it You're going to get those files and put them where they go. So in this case, I have a little SD card reader here, and so I am going to use the SD card to ingest the files. If I had a CF card greeter than I would just use the C F cards because it shoots two different cards. So I'm gonna take my cards and put him into the card reader and plug him into the computer, and we're going to see those pop up right here. There's the file. Uh, here's the card. Inside the card is a bunch of photos. Now, I can make this a lot easier on myself. Instead of opening up this file. This actual card, I can actually go in to the Jobs folder, and I'm going to create a new job. We're just gonna call this 2000 20? Uh 01 And then if it's something that I've shot over a long period of time So let's say it was ah, trip or it was just random photos around the house for the last three weeks. Then I would not put an actual date on it. I would just put 00 And that would mean this is 2020 the first month and no specific date. If it was something where it was an entire year project, I would do 2020 and then And that would tell me that it's just that year. No specific month or day. Um and then I'm going to put an underscore on. Then I'm gonna put Platt because it's actually actually this were on creative life. So I'm gonna put creative live and then underscore and personal. So that gives me an idea of what it is. Where, what client I'm doing it for and what day I did it Then, inside of that folder. I'm going to create another folder and we're gonna call this raw. So this is where all of my raw images go. Now, if later on I add contracts to this job or I get shot lists from a client or I just have ah, you know, screenshots from something that I want to add to the system or I want toe remind myself something, anything that has to do with the job. I'm gonna put it in this folder. But right now, we're just gonna put these raw files into this folder. And so instead of opening it up and then clicking in here and going and and highlighting all those, I'm just going to highlight this and hold down the option key or the Olt Key. If you're on PC and grab it and dragon and there's a little plus sign that shows up on my cursor. And when I let go, that means it's gonna copy. The plus sign means that it's copying everything from that card into this folder. If, on the other hand, you grab it and you don't push that If you if you were just to grab this and dragon and like this. There's an arrow. If you see an arrow, you're not actually copying anything. All you're doing is making an alias or a short cut to it. You don't want to do that. You want to make sure you copy it. So now I've got my copy coming in. Now I know exactly where the photos are at all times there in my raid one drive, and because I've put him on the raid One drive. I actually have two copies of it now. So once I eject this, um folder or as this this card, I now have two copies here, and I have two copies on my raid One system. And then, if I ever take the rate the second drive and pull it out and put 1/3 drivin, I will now have five total copies before I ever do anything else with it. So I'm immediately backed up all the time. That's important. That is incredibly crucial, especially for professionals, because we have to protect the images that we make. But I'd say it's important for everybody, not just professionals, because who wants to lose files? So that's the first step in file management is to a name your stuff correctly be have backups of everything as often as possible in C know where your files are at all times. Now you can help yourself with this if you always do everything the same way every single time. So for me, because I'm a professional photographer and I like to take pictures of my kids. And I like to go travel and take pictures. I'm I just live photography. And so I treat everything exactly the same. So it doesn't matter if it's a birthday party or if it's a wedding that I'm shooting or traveling or just pictures that I took when we were traveling to Disneyland or something like that. They're always treated the same way. They're treated like a job, and I'm gonna put them in the same place. I'm always gonna make a folder for him. I'm always gonna make a raw file. I'm always gonna put the photos into a particular folder so that I'm completely organized. If you have more than one card on a particular shoot inside this raw folder, you can actually create MAWR files. So what I do is I go inside the raw file. Uh, and I click on the this little instead of the column view on a Mac, I go into the list view, and once I'm in the list view on a Mac, I can actually just hit. I could just create a new folder just by holding shift command. And then N and I could just make a bunch of new folders. And then I'll just put each card inside of each one of these folders, and the reason that I do that this is just really quick to grab, um, option. Click him in and then do it again. Option Click Drag, Option Cook, Drag. It's really fast to put him in, and I have four card readers that one time coming in and ingesting these things four cards at a time. So when I'm shooting a wedding, I've got a lot of cards, so it's easier to pull in a lot of cards that way. But if you're traveling most of the time, you're just bringing in one card at a time. So either way put them all inside this raw folder, and then once you're inside that raw folder, you now have everything safe, and then it's just a matter of going into light room, and that's where the fun begins, where we actually get to start working on our files.
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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).