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Lightroom Killer Tips
Lightroom Killer Tips
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Exporting Your Catalog Shortcut
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Using Export Presets Without
Going to the Export Dialog
If you've created your own custom
Export presets (or you want to use the
built-in ones, as is), you can skip the
Export dialog by
Right-clicking
on the
photo, and from the pop-up menu, going
under
Export
, and you'll see both the
friends, maybe you need some new
friends), you can do that by pressing
Command-Shift-E (PC: Ctrl-Shift-E)
to bring up the Export dialog. Then, in the
list of presets on the left side, Right-click
on the preset you want to save as a file,
then choose
Export
from the pop-up
menu. When you give this Export preset
to a co-worker, have them choose
Import
from this same pop-up menu.
If, instead of just exporting a photo, you
want to export an entire catalog of
photos, press-and-hold the Option (PC:
Alt) key, and the Export button in the
Library module changes into the Export
Catalog button.
built-in and custom Export presets listed.
Choose one from there, and off it goes.
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Lightroom's Built-In Address
Book for Emailing
If you find yourself emailing from Light-
room a lot, you might want to create your
own Lightroom email Address Book. You
get to this from the main email dialog—
just click on the Address button in the
top right, and the Address Book appears.
Here, you can enter names and email
addresses, and even create groups to
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Using Your Last Export Settings
If you want to export some photos and
use the same export settings you used
the last time, you can skip the whole
Export dialog and, instead, just go under
the File menu and choose
Export with
Previous
, or use the keyboard shortcut
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My “Testing Panos” Trick
If you shoot multi-photo panoramas,
you know that once they get to Photo-
shop for stitching, it can take…well…
forever (it feels like forever, anyway).
And sometimes you wait all this time,
see your finished pano, and think, “Ah,
that's nothing special.” So, if I shot a pano
I'm not 100% sure is going to be a keeper,
organize your emails. To use an address
from your Address Book, just click on
the checkbox beside the name you want
to use.
I don't use the direct Merge to Panorama
in Photoshop command in Lightroom.
Instead, I go to the Export dialog and
use the For E-mail (Hard Drive) preset to
export the files as small, low-resolution
JPEGs, with a low Quality setting. Then,
once they're exported, I open them in
Photoshop, run the Photomerge feature,
Command-Option-Shift-E (PC:
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-E)
, and it will immedi-
ately export the photos with your last
used settings.
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Sharing Your Export Presets
If you've come up with a really useful
Export preset that you'd like to share
with co-workers or friends (by the way,
if you're sharing Export presets with
