any 10 minute turbocharged guide to using lightroom? capu

any 10 minute turbocharged guide to using lightroom?

I use it sporadically but a friend I work with uses photoshop to edit 2000 images and I know it takes him a long time and many images are in raw.

can anyone recommend a 10 minute turbocharged tutorial to start using it? he has the images on the desktop in one folder ready for editing.


for me though, I dont do much raw work and acdsee pro 6 (which I use) quite sucks at doing raw. I notice that the image loads nice and 2 seconds later changes, as if it goes flat profile. no contrast, colors are off, no sharpness.

what presets in lr, does one need to get nikons in camera look so one doesnt need to edit every single image for the same tweaks? some images are bang on ready but when there is no preset, it looks flat and horrible.

Im not a big lightroom fan, only because the UX needs work. way too many buttons that most dont use and the sliders are horribly small and short. I love that in acdsee pro the sliders are thick like a search engine address bar. and I can hover the cursor over it and use the scroll to adjust. lr doesnt have that and its a shame. those two things basically kill my workflow and only reason its holding me back from using it. I must have speed.

shame nikon doesnt have a software where you can go from image to image like LR without closing/opening each one. thats just a pita way. too slow.
cheers guys

I'll try...

You can apply a preset on import. You can select one of the camera profiles in the camera calibration pane (lower right). You can make any adjustments you want and save them as a new preset.

Two ways to do this...

You can import all the pics. Make adjustments to a single image, and then systematically select ALL the images and sync them with the 1st image you adjusted.

or

You can import a single image. Create/modify a preset to include the adjustments as outlined above. And then import all the rest of the images, applying the previously created/modified Preset to the import.

YouTube tutorials to view:
Creating presets in LR
Applying Presets on Import in LR
Synchronizing Presets in LR

Ill tell him what you wrote.
I have capture nx2 and nxd and I hadnt used the nxd much so I just started playing with it today and it is not bad. it does allow me to flow from one image to the next by pressing the left right button and it saves on the go which is nice. will look into it more.

anybody else use nxd as their main editor? also curious regarding capture one.

Presets are very handy in LR. I have a couple that cover 95% of what i shoot and it makes editing much quicker.

rocketman122 said:

Ill tell him what you wrote.
I have capture nx2 and nxd and I hadnt used the nxd much so I just started playing with it today and it is not bad. it does allow me to flow from one image to the next by pressing the left right button and it saves on the go which is nice. will look into it more.

anybody else use nxd as their main editor? also curious regarding capture one.

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I use NxD and have found it to be pretty quick and dirty. Once you use it for a while, you learn what settings you like and many almost become automatic in my process.

mauckcg said:

Presets are very handy in LR. I have a couple that cover 95% of what i shoot and it makes editing much quicker.

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uea, I know of the presets. all I see is jackasses in facebook spam push their presets. I have a few presets myself but I dont use lightroom.

cwgrizz said:

I use NxD and have found it to be pretty quick and dirty. Once you use it for a while, you learn what settings you like and many almost become automatic in my process.

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nice, I like nxd because its accurate to what it was in my camera at the time and with lr, it doesnt give a base look thats accurate to what the camera image is.
can the nxd use any presets?

I like LR. I like that when I import the photos I can pick the file it goes in and then separate the photos by date automatically. That is the way that I like to store them. I tend to rename them if I have a group of a specific type that I am importing otherwise I will do it after the fact based on the content.

I do not think that there is a down and dirty 10 minute training out there, but I feel like for me it was not to hard to learn. I started out using the standard LR presets on the left column as a starting point. I would click as I went and if I did not like it I would do a Control Z to erase it or make a manual adjustment. The presets impact appear in the sliders on the right. You may have to scroll to see which one is affected. That is why I did one at a time.

Sometimes if Ii have a number that appear similar in exposure and color I will select all of those photos,(they will all be highlighted), and pic one to represent them and make my adjustments to it, making sure that the auto sync is checked on the right side. Then you can go and make fine adjustments by clicking outside the photo in the gallery along the bottom and fine tune each picture. I also like HSL and for adjusting saturation and luminescence - you can actually click on the dot to the left of the column and slide it up or down in the photo to increase or decrease the values of the mix in the image.

The brushes and filters across the top require a bit more explanation, but that is what YouTube is for.

I have not invested in a lot of presets. Most of the time I am good with the LR standard ones as starting points.

Just my thoughts...

@rocketman122 I have not used or looked for presets in NX-d because of how it applies the camera settings to the photos.

Now saying that, if I have a group of photos that were taken in a similar or the same setting, I work on one photo of the group a get it how I want it. Then copy the updated adjustments from that photo and select one or a group of photos that I want to do the same to and paste the updated adjustments. In other words it is a single bulk adjustment. Sometimes after doing that one picture or two of the group may need just a little more tweaking.

Another way which I have done is just start with many photos (a group) selected and do the adjustment to the one in the window and it will do the same to all in the group.

Hope this makes sense. It is early here. Ha!

rocketman122 said:

uea, I know of the presets. all I see is jackasses in facebook spam push their presets. I have a few presets myself but I dont use lightroom.



nice, I like nxd because its accurate to what it was in my camera at the time and with lr, it doesnt give a base look thats accurate to what the camera image is.
can the nxd use any presets?

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Lightroom removes the in camera processing you see on the back screen. So you get a flat image that needs some work. I've never used nxd so i havent a clue if that will do presets.