It's over ten years since Adobe's Lightroom emerged from beta, and it's evolved a lot since then. The company's 'Coffee break' series of videos introduces features you might not know. For a minute of your time, these tips can help speed your workflow.
For instance, the video above (as highlighted on PetaPixel) shows you how to set the default processing applied to all your files. You can set it to a different preset per camera or even per ISO setting, if you have a preferred noise reduction and sharpening system.
In this video, Lightroom team member Benjamin Warde explains (in 46 seconds) how to define a new starting point for when you work with new files. That's got to be worth a moment of your time, hasn't it?
I turn of LR sharpening for my Fuji X-T2 that's my default, and do the sharpening in another program of choice as LR just not good enough were Fuji cameras and foliage is concerned wonderful just my opinion
Brilliant! I've learnt so much. Now if I can only remember it. The intuitive nature of LR never ceases to amaze me. If only Microsoft and Google could emulate this (no experience with Apple).
If LR was always intuitive, you wouldn't be learning so much from watching other people using it, and wouldn't need to worry about how to remember things you just watched.
BobT3218 I was going to ask you the same question: you are not a lawyer by any chance are you? The way you first presented factual evidence from observation, then poker-faced presented a conclusion that goes diametrically opposite of your same observational evidence.....you must be specialized in criminal law :-)
I've watched the whole series (even the Ansel Adams), and I think it's terrific. Thanks, DPR, for the link. A lot of it I knew, a lot I didn't, and some was refresher. I'm old enough to know that I will never know it all about anything, so tutorials like this never hurt.
Didn't you get the memo ๐? Automatic everything .... simple, fast and cheap. That's what the sheeple ๐ want. No thinking, creativity nor pre-planning required in the new order.
As Bob said: it's not about "default processing", it's about having your own specific starting point. Therefore, Mark, you can set it to go against the herd if that is your liking. Beware: being a rebel is quite trendy now and will end up being the mindset of the majority.
Not sure if the smiley at the end means sarcasm in this case, but in case it doesn't...
...you're ALWAYS default processing your files. It's only a question of whether your style starts with the camera's defaults, Adobe's defaults, or your own. This way, you can have your own.
And it's great because you can make different defaults for cameras etc. You can set it so that all your ISO 100 photos get default Noise Reduction of 10 while your ISO 3200 images get default Noise Reduction of 40.
Well stated graybalanced. Some people simply have to complain about any feature (from Adobe) without understanding why it was implemented. For some of us shooting for optimal raw exposure (what is unfortunately called ETTR), we need a new default rendering just to โnormalizeโ that proper brightness based on that proper exposure for raw. So this is a very, very useful feature.
Seems like a commercial, a bit weird seeing this here like that. I guess Adobe needs it, as the many alternatives are faster and mostly better (LR still has some unique traits, but the falls short because of all the things that don't work). A raw comparison between lr, c1, Picktorial (the underdog), on1 and luminar would be much appreciated and more valuable.
@User9362470513: OP wasn't talking about Photoshop, he was talking about Lightroom, which has a reasonable cost. And Adobe, if you're reading these, I too say PLEASE O PLEASE keep LR as a standalone product!!!
For me in Australia, it's a matter of bandwidth. Bandwidth is abysmal here so we are essentially locked into LR standalone. Actually it suits me fine. It's much faster and much cheaper. OK, one misses out on some new bells and whistles but I can live with that. If Adobe makes LR standalone unaffordable I'll be switching to the camera manufacturer's PP software which is not that bad anyway.
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