LR Hot key short cut buttons

[DCrutchfield]

Ok guys I found what I was searching for here
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/ligh ... ID=2294914 (http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom/keyboard_shortcuts.html?PID=2294914)


Just passing on the info

[Steve Paxton]

The shortcuts will save you tons and tons of time. My favs are:

Set CAPS LOCK and then rate your images using P (pick), X (reject) and U for (unrated). The CAPS LOCK automatically advances you to the next pic. Rating my images in this way is the very first thing I do after dumping them into LR.

[DCrutchfield]

Very cool to know. does LR allow you the same editing capabilities as PS? I'm really trying to read and study about it and most of what I find is about workflow issues...

[JohnB]

The shortcuts will save you tons and tons of time. My favs are:

Set CAPS LOCK and then rate your images using P (pick), X (reject) and U for (unrated). The CAPS LOCK automatically advances you to the next pic. Rating my images in this way is the very first thing I do after dumping them into LR.

That's a great idea, Steve. I don't spend enough time going through my images to rate them. That should be the first thing I do... It's a great habit and your suggestion sounds like a great way to get it taken care of.

[JohnB]

Very cool to know. does LR allow you the same editing capabilities as PS? I'm really trying to read and study about it and most of what I find is about workflow issues...

No. Not really. Consider Lightroom a digital darkroom... Think of the things you'd do in a darkroom and you probably can do them in Lightroom as well. You have a lot more tools at your disposal in Lightroom than you probably have in a darkroom and you do have some localized editing tools (there's a brush tool that you can paint fixes on and a spot removal tool).

You can adjust curves, color balance, contrast, brightness, saturation, B&W converstions, duo-tone, tri-tone, vignetting, lens correction and other things along those lines. You can easily import a photo into Photoshop for further editing, but the basics can easily and quickly be taken care of in Lightroom before you open Photoshop. You can also apply your corrections in bulk to all your images or images in sets, saving loads of time.

Lightroom also has very powerful organizational features. You can store images physically in folders by date and probably EXIF information stored in your photos, then you can rate them using up to 5 stars, classify them by color and flag photos as Picks, Unflagged or Rejected as Steve mentioned above. You are pretty much free to manage your workflow and catalog however you want with very little limitations.

It really would be worth downloading the trial version and playing with it. I switched to Windows so I can use Lightroom after playing with it for a month. I won't go back.

[Steve Paxton]

That's a great idea, Steve. I don't spend enough time going through my images to rate them. That should be the first thing I do... It's a great habit and your suggestion sounds like a great way to get it taken care of.

Just as a follow up to what I mentioned I do at the beginning of my workflow. After finishing with the rating process (using P, X and U), go to Photo -> Delete Reject Photos (from within the Library Module) to physically delete all the rejects. This is a great way to pair down the image set and dump images that you know you will never use (people blinking, misfired shots, etc.). Use the U key to designate images that you don't want to use, but also don't want to permanently delete.

When I finished the rating process and deleting the rejects, I backup everything up to my external hard drive. Now I am ready to actually start processing. To see just the Picked images, click on the Custom Filter drop down menu (located at the bottom, right corner of the screen) and select Flagged. Now, only the images you picked will show up in the Filmstrip.

Also remember that you can use the 0-5 keys to give your images a special star rating (the 2 key for 2 stars, etc.). This can help refine your images even further if necessary.

I am sure most of you have seen this, but there is a bit more to all this:

http://www.paxtonprints.com/index.php?x ... 2_column-4 (http://www.paxtonprints.com/index.php?x=lightroom-2_column-4)

[DCrutchfield]

Thanks for the feedback guys! I do own LR and then it has upgraded to 2.7 already. The quickness and ease of sorting, batch editting etc are very nice, and I've apreciated the brush- exposure- gradient exposure editing capabilities very much. Work flow stuff makes more sense in LR as well.

I know I've got a lot to learn still.... so I know there will be more questions along the way.
Thanks again guys!

BTW my new PC is humming away and it is SO nice to finally have it on turbo speed quickly flipping through photos, rather than the old style of put the slide into the projector slider rack one at a time.... Oh wait you guys aren't that old to remember those funky school projectors! :lol: :lol:

[Taallyn]

I use the Pick and Reject method as well. As a matter of fact, it is the main reason that I migrated from Bridge to LR. I find it much quicker to do it that way then the "stars" method.

[jrome]

I wish I would've known about this pick, reject and unflagged method! It would've helped out a lot recently! There's always a wealth of knowledge to learn.