Photo Library Structure – 10:49
The Lightroom Catalog Overview – 6:23
The Lightroom User Interface – 15:21
The Pro Workflow Overview – 32:50
The Lightroom Import Dialog – 14:15
The Library Module – Part 1 – 23:42
The Library Module – Part 2 – 25:21
Keywords & Metadata – 19:57
File Renaming – 18:54
Editing Methods in Lightroom 3 – 23:35
The Lightroom Filter Bar – 12:29
Virtual Copies – 9:16 (Check out the free sample movie, here.)
The Export Dialog & Publish Services – 13:35
The Lightroom to Photoshop Workflow – 17:09
Digital Photo Library Backup Strategies – 16:43
Working With Multiple Lightroom Catalogs – 20:15

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First up, create a folder called iPhone on your hard drive. Next, in Lightroom 3 Beta’s Library Module, go to the Publish Services section on the bottom of the left panel. Click on the ‘+’ beside ‘Publish Services’ and choose ‘Manage Publish Connections’. This opens a dialog box that’s remarkably similar to Export.

The left hand side has 2 panels, Connections and Post Process Actions. Click ‘Add’ at the bottom of Connections. In the Dialog box that pops up, choose ‘Hard Drive’ from Via Service. Next name the Connection ‘iPhone’. Click Create.

Now go through the settings. For Export Location, go to the folder ‘iPhone’ that you created at the start. Don’t tick a Subfolder. For the settings I recommend Jpeg, sRGB, Quality 75, 960px long edge (to allow zooming in on the iPhone), 72ppi, Sharpen for Screen. I’ve added a Watermark, that up to you, if you want one. Once the settings are done, click Save. You’ll now see a new Bar in Publish: ‘Hard Drive:iPhone’.

Right Click on this and choose ‘Create Published Folder’ to add a folder to this. Each folder will be a selectable album that you can transfer in iTunes. Repeat for all the different albums you want.

Add files to the Published Folders and then click on the folder and click the Publish button (it replaces Export). You’ll need to do this for each folder.

Now connect your iPhone. In iTunes, click on your iPhone Icon and then go to the Photos tab. Click on the ‘Sync photos from’ flyout menu. Click ‘Choose Folder..’ and then navigate to your iPhone folder and click ‘Open’. If you want to pick and choose folders, click ‘Selected Folders’.

Finally click Apply. You can now control the photos on the iPhone from Lightroom.

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Well for my recently launched music photography website Muso Foto, I wanted nice (i.e. not the normal Lightroom one) watermarks on my images. Nothing intrusive, but something that doesn’t take away from the image.

Here’s the steps I took:

1. Create the web gallery as you like. Leave the Add Copyright Watermark off. Also create a nice logo using the Identity Plate. Set the Quality high (like 95 or so).

2. Export the gallery to a folder (shortcut Cmd/Cntrl J).

3. In Library navigate to the folder you created via Import. Locate the folder with the large images. With LRB Portfolio, this is called ‘large’. In the default HTML, this may be something like ‘bin/images/large’.

4. Import this folder in to Lightroom via ‘Add to Catalog’.

5. Select all the images in the folder.

6. Click Export.

7. Using Files to Disk, I set up the export as below: Jpg, sRGB, quality 80, subfolder of original folder.

8. In the Post Process Actions section, I click on Graphical Watermark and Inner Border.

9. For the Watermark, I navigate into the Gallery folder exported earlier and find ‘logo.png’-the exported Identity Plate. I do this to keep the watermark and logo consistent. It helps create a ‘brand’. With a little calculation, I work out a size I’m happy with and enter it.

10. I also want a semi transparent bar across the bottom which encompasses the logo. With the logo being 24px high, I opt for a 25px high Inner border on the bottom. I select Black as the colour and reduce the transparency to 50%.

11. With all this set up, I hit export.

12. From there I move the images from the subfolder up a level and overwrite the original gallery images-this is in Finder/Explorer.

13. In Lightroom I remove the still selected images from the Library with the delete key and choose ‘Remove from Library’ as my dialog option. After all I don’t want to delete the image files I worked hard to create!

14. Finally I upload the Gallery.

Notes: Lightroom renames ‘-’ to ‘_’ and forces the filenames to lower case when exporting for Web Galleries. For this reason I use the actual gallery images, which will retain their correct names for the HTML files. This is the only reason why I simply don’t export the files directly from Lightroom, overwriting the original gallery files.
Also the visually astute among you will notice that my ‘Cancel’ Button in the dialog says ‘Avast’. I’m cursed with the Pirate Easter Egg from Version 1 of Lightroom :)

Continuing in the series on the Toolstrip, here’s a short movie on the Graduated Filter. This video is in Quicktime format. A player can be downloaded from apple.com.

For some  Lightroom and Camera Raw users there has  been a certain amount of confusion surrounding the White Balance Temp slider interface. In this movie I run through the basic principles of how to use the White Balance tool and explain how the Temp and Tint sliders are used to ‘assign’ a white balance setting rather than actually ‘create’ a white balance setting (which is where the confusion arises). Plus did you know that the White Balance sliders can also play a signifcant role in black and white conversions?

Please note this video is in Quicktime format. A player can be downloaded from apple.com.

Continuing with the Toolstrip, here is a short video on using the Redeye tool in the Develop Module of Lightroom. This is a Quicktime Movie and a compatible player is downloadable from Apple.com

The default Lightroom Develop panel settings don’t include an invert tone curve for converting a negative image into a positive, but it is possible to create one of your own. There are several ways you can do this and the method illustrated here in this movie is the simplest you can use to create a custom invert setting.

This tutorial came about in response to a photographer who wanted to photograph negatives with his digital SLR and process them directly in Lightroom. This is the solution I suggested, but as you will see, you do end up in a situation where all your major tone edit controls work in reverse, so you have to use the Blacks slider to control the highlight clipping point and the Exposure slider to set the black clipping point. However, the ability to create this type of setting for use in Lightroom does extend the range of Develop settings and what you can do creatively in Lightroom by applying invert tone curves to produce creative effects such as the Smoke presets creates by Sean McCormack.

Please note this video is in Quicktime format. A player can be downloaded from apple.com.

Click to view movie

Those of you who attended my sessions on Lightroom at the recent Photoshop World conference in Boston may remember me saying that some of the session content could also be found here on the Lightroom-news website.

In this movie I wanted to show a comparison between the Saturation and Vibrance sliders and in particular the damaging effect a Saturation boost have on the highlight channel clipping. I also go on to show how to restore detail through the use of targeted HSL adjustments and finally, an example of where screen preview color management may fall apart and how to relate the Vibrance adjustments you make in the Develop module to the actual final print.

Please note this video is in Quicktime format. A player can be downloaded from apple.com.

In this movie I wanted to explain the difference between using the Exposure and Brightness sliders. The first section shows a basic introduction where I use the Exposure slider first and then fine-tune the remaining Basic panel settings. I then go on to demo the use of a strong negative Exposure adjustment. This is followed by an example of why an Exposure led image adjustment will produce an image with better image detail in the midtone to highlight areas compared to a Brightness slider led adjustment.

Please note this video is in Quicktime format. A player can be downloaded from apple.com.

After much editing and an eventual rerecording, here’s the second installment in our series about the Toolstrip. Here we discuss the Spot Removal tool.
This video is in Quicktime format. A player can be downloaded from apple.com.