5 Tools You Might Not Be Using in Lightroom

FastGlass

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I use all the above. When I purchased lightroom, I also bought the Phil Steele training program. The only tutorial I found that explains why you choose this or that rather than just show what it does. So many videos on diff things explain what certain features do but very few explain why you would choose to use them. Also there is one I'm surprised is not listed. It's the auto sync and sync settings. Very usefull if your using the exposure pallet for corrections to a bunch of images that share the same issue.
 
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Pretzel

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From the folks at Photography Life. I read the title and figure, "I've been using LR for years, there's nothing I haven't used!!" Then I read #4.

5 Tools You Might Not Be Using in Lightroom

I was using a tool that Jake WASN'T using!? I may faint...

I've done that with Photoshop many times, but didn't realize it was available in LR. I've seen the Color bar in that dialog but never bothered to explore it.

If I remember correctly (without being home to look and be 100% sure instead of just 99.9%), it has an auto-masking feature as well, so you can hit the spots you want without having to be quite as precise as some other tools.

Then again, I've never used #5, so we're even. I've done similar things in Perfect Effects 8, but never thought to look in LR. Cool link!
 
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RocketCowboy

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I use all the above. When I purchased lightroom, I also bought the Phil Steele training program. The only tutorial I found that explains why you choose this or that rather than just show what it does. So many videos on diff things explain what certain features do but very few explain why you would choose to use them. Also there is one I'm surprised is not listed. It's the auto sync and sync settings. Very usefull if your using the exposure pallet for corrections to a bunch of images that share the same issue.

Thanks for the referral to Phil Steele, FG! I grabbed his training program too since Aperture is dead and I gotta move to something.
 

BackdoorArts

Senior Member
I was using a tool that Jake WASN'T using!? I may faint...

If I remember correctly (without being home to look and be 100% sure instead of just 99.9%), it has an auto-masking feature as well, so you can hit the spots you want without having to be quite as precise as some other tools.

Then again, I've never used #5, so we're even. I've done similar things in Perfect Effects 8, but never thought to look in LR. Cool link!

Hey, when we're not learning we're dying, right? Someone turned me on to the automask when I did a video about how to do something in LR that I'd previously shown in PS. I stopped using LR as my primary editor right around the time LR5 came out, and hadn't really explored it completely. The push came when the methods required to do the Nik stuff in LR became too cumbersome (every invocation created a new file), so I bit the bullet and bought Photoshop. All that said, I've always stood by my position that if I had to ditch every piece of software but one then I'd stick with Lightroom, and this shows you why.
 
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