Lessons
Storing Your Photos
06:03 2Understanding the Catalog
10:18 3Organizing and Naming Your Folders of Images
06:20 4First-Time Import
19:43 5Maximizing the Import and Flag Ratings
05:53 6Color Labels and Star Ratings
08:12 7Assigning Keywords
03:41 8Updating Metadata
02:21Lesson Info
Intro to GPS Metadata in LR
Another option, which I think is really amazingly cool, is the ability to plot our photos on the map, so I'm going to switch to the map module. I'm actually going to switch back to that folder so here's, our map module and let's zoom out. This does require internet access, and so if I zoom out a little bit oh, look, there's a picture on the map a look it's me! Wow, how that happened. Amazing! Look, it knew exactly where I took the picture, how easy this picture was taken with an iphone and iphone has gps receiver built in. So as long as it's, not an airplane road, the iphone knows where the picture was taken. This picture was taken in the exact same place with a digital slr that does not have a gps receiver, so I have no idea where the picture was taken, except I do because I knew that my camera, my slr, didn't have a gps receiver and that I could just use an iphone to take an image that would be plotted on the map automatically in light room. How cool is that? And so now I can use thi...
s what I refer to as a location snapshot to plot my photo on the map. I'll go ahead and click a little push pin on this photo so I can see the location on the map, and then I'm going to drag this other photo taken at the exact same location I'll drag and drop it right onto the map and now, although in enable that geo encoding now you can see gps coordinates have been added for this image automatically. Is that just amazing or what? I could also record a track logs. I'm not going to go into significant detail here, but we will load a track log, so I recorded a track log using my phone. There it is, I forgot to change the time on my phone, and therefore I have to apply an offset to correct the time for that track log, but now I can select all of my images and tell light room that I want to auto tag those selected images apps, and I didn't correct this the right way, and so it doesn't work, but it's gonna work, we're gonna make it work so let's love that track log again and make sure that the right off said, oh, because now we're probably offset by jill wrote, sometimes on offset plus I believe it was six hours I hope it was six hours if not gonna fly right past this, so auto tag no matching photos, I don't know what happened, probably I changed the date and time on these pictures of some point, but anyway, had that worked the way it was supposed to have work, all of these photos would magically appear on the map so that, for example, this photo would appear right there on the map, so you would know where you could buy those doughnuts in gratz in southern austria. So always fun when the permitted in this match doesn't work the way it's supposed to, but the point is, it is completely possible, and even if you had photos where you did not record a track log, so I've got these photos down here and I'm going to zoom in on the map and you could probably tell if you look at those thumbnails, you can see those air, some graffiti photos if you're familiar with karatz and so in austria, you probably recognize them as having been captured on neeson burger, gaza and so there is neeson burger, gaza right by the hospital. All drag and drop lots of photos. What is this? Twenty four photos all at once or harmony that is eight selected photos drag and drop onto the map. And there are all of those photos positioned on the map and what I find really cool about this is that then I can navigate around the map on this case I just have a handful of images of course that have been added to the map because I didn't add the others correctly and I haven't I'm using just a very small subset of my overall catalog, but you can imagine that if I've got lots and lots of pictures captured and lots of lots of places I can actually use the map is a way to remind myself of certain photos I'm looking for a picture oh how about austria? Oh yes the one captured near hall start above the lake, etcetera so that part's kind of cool but also then aiken search based on specific location information now that works wonderfully well for me I think it's tremendously incredibly awesome but that's because I tend to think about location information a lot for my photos so if you're not keyed on location, then what will you do? Well, a couple of different things first off remember we've got the folder structure so might navigate to a specific folder in order to find a particular image let's go ahead and go to the alaska folder, for example and now I want to filter down my images well, I mentioned that on this trip I actually captured about ten thousand photos and then once I went through a sign star ratings, I was left with on ly four hundred. Photos. Still a lot of images. But now I filter based on my star ratings. And I'm down to four hundred images in a single klicks. I went from three hundred thousand images in my catalog to ten thousand images in my alaska folder to just four hundred images. That's, reasonably manageable. And I still have all sorts of other meditative.
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Ratings and Reviews
Michael Griffith
I've been using Lightroom for a number of years, but thought it might be helpful to review the program. Tim Grey does is an expert in the program and does a wonderful job of explaining the intricacies of the program. He uses a lot of self deprecating humor and his examples stick with you. The map feature is one LR tab I've never before used. Having updated some of the metadata tags, I can easily find my pictures of Costa Rica or Taos, NM. (plus its fun to see my travels plotted on a map)
Gary Hook
Tim has a great style and a wealth of knowledge. I appreciate that he not only talks about a technique, but takes the time to actually demonstrate the 'how' and the results. Although I've been using LR for some time, I came away with some great tips and insights in some areas such as using the Maps function as a search tool
jen
I have discovered a new teacher I LOVE. I love the pace of Tim's teaching as well as his linear pratical advise. He stays on task as he teaches and is thorough. He even adds a little humor. This is a great to the point course!