how did you learn lightroom?

[iUma]

Thanks for that link Tracy. Lots of info there.

[audrey97]

Scott Kelby's book (the best ever!) and trial & error.

[AbbyG]

Originally Posted by katrinak

oh Debbie you will love how much easier it makes work flow. Mine has become:

1. import from card to LR by date
2. tag photos with star rating and keep or not
3. create collections for things I think I will scrap
4. edit as I want unless I'm working on someone else's

keep us posted on your progress!

I've been trying to use it for work flow and tagging more and so far I love it! I do as Katrina mentioned, and it helps so much in sorting through the hundreds of photos I take, that way I only view 3* and above, but I'm just not willing to delete that many.

I was wondering how you can apply 2 presets on one photo?

I just bought it too, so I'm working on learning it...

[anke]

I just started reading Scott Kelby's book and from the get go I realize how much I messed up with my photos, using different EHDs etc. I was wondering if it would be beneficial to uninstall the program and reinstall it and start over? would there be any drawback to that? I really want to organize the way he recommends and right now I have such a mess of folders, I can't find my pictures anymore, at least with LR. They are still there, but I can't find them, who knows what's going on there

[bluelemur01]

OK, now I want to try the free trial! (and I wish *I* could visit Erin and Debbie, too!)
I've always felt sort of a)intimidated by Lightroom and b)unsure whether I should spend the $$ on it since I already spent a ton on CS3. But you girls are MAKING ME CRAZY with your preset conversations and photo effects. I might get brave and do the free trial and see how it goes!

[Kayleigh]

Go for it Jennifer! It is such a fun program to use

[katrinak]

Originally Posted by anke

I was wondering if it would be beneficial to uninstall the program and reinstall it and start over? would there be any drawback to that? I really want to organize the way he recommends and right now I have such a mess of folders, I can't find my pictures anymore, at least with LR. They are still there, but I can't find them, who knows what's going on there

I am much more of a fan of go forward with the better system from this day forward. Life is too short to spend it all organizing when I could be taking more

[katrinak]

Originally Posted by AbbyG

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I was wondering how you can apply 2 presets on one photo?

A couple ways to do this I think. Once you've applied a preset you can click on the next one you'd like. Sometimes this will result in getting rid of critical adjustments for the first since a preset is just a quick way of messing with all of the develop settings.

I believe if you saved the first copy as a psd or jpg and then ran your second preset you'd get the adjustments from your second preset.

It really comes down to the preset you are working with though, and what it is doing.

KWIM?

[DebbieHodge]

so . . . i gave up on lightroom . . . i think i'd need a good chunk of time to get moved into that rhythm and . . . it was too big and too much . . . and I couldn't coordinate between the two computers I work on since you can't save your stuff on a network drive.

so i'm back to using my stand-by tricks plus Pioneer Woman's free actions and some that I bought from Mindy Bush.

[anke]

Debbie, I don't know if you have CS4, but a lot of the editing is available with that, you can get some really great results. I know you have all your pics organized really well already, so you wouldn't need it for that anyway. The presets are nice, but I usually use the same one all the time anyway

[cheska99]

I too have played around in Lightroom and must say I love the interface--very seductive. But here's what I don't understand: what do I want to do in Lightroom and what do I want to do in Photoshop? So far it seems that most of what I want to do is in Photoshop--selections, masks, dodging and burning, tweaking in raw, etc. Should I be doing more of that in Lightroom? And I use Bridge to organize my photos and my embellishments. It ain't perfect, but at least it's only one program (instead of say, what Jessica Sprague does, which is organize photos in Bridge and embellies in ACDSee. I'm still trying to figure out why. I even asked Jessica but the answer I think she gave me, which is "then I know I'm dealing wiht photos because I'm in Bridge and embellies because I'm in ACDSee," doesn't make too much sense to me since I can look and see instantly whether I'm looking at a photo or an embellie. Any thoughts?