Identity Plate in Lightroom 2.3.... Why?

Why..... Must it be so customized?

I have found it odd how much you can tweak in Lightroom 2.3; when I first started using the software I thought it was overkill.

Over time I have come to rely on the flexibility Lightroom can do to personlize your experience.

One of the main tweaks I use it changing the Identity Plate

By Default in the upper left corner:


Why change it? I use multiple catalogs for my weddings, commerical, personal work. This allows me to see what catalog I am currently using. Also when I am using Slideshow or Web modules it allows me to inlcude the identity plate on the slideshow or on the web page. Which is especially useful when I use the couples names as the identity plate.

So How do you change it:

Edit> identity plate setup...



You can either type in a text or use a graphic that you created. There is plenty of little nuances that I could go into but I thought keeping it simple is good!

update images....

So I knew about this feature but had forgotten....

If you are working in Lightroom, export the file, set up the post-processing to open in Photoshop it will open up in Photoshop. Which is great! Especially when I am working on an album.

But what happens when you are working on an image and realize you wanted to make a few more changes in Lightroom?

Without closing the file in Photoshop, you can go into Lightroom make additional changes and export again. What happens then amazed me the first time, I thought Photoshop would crash or open 2 files that were the same, but instead it told me that the image had been updated and if I wanted to update the current file with the changes.

This is really helpful if I have multiple files open , for example, realize I had the wrong color temp and need to change them all. It seems to make my workflow smoother and I seem to screw up less.


Paul Weinrauch
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parent folders in Lightroom....

Lightroom is a great way to keep all your photos organized.
But the downfall of Lightroom doing such a good is that it can become very disorganized! VERY!

So today I was importing some photos of a headshot from this weekend and realized I imported it in such a way that it screwed up my "flow."

The way I organize:
I keep my main catalog simple; 4 main folders and then have sub-folders inside of that for different jobs. This way my folder tree stays simple and I can expand just the folder(s) I need.


I imported images in a way that it created a folder outside of my main folder even though on the hard drive it was in the same folder as the rest. OOPS!


I wasn't able to re-create the problem. But there is a solution:


You can right click the folder that ended up outside of the main folder and click on "add Parent Folder" and it will automatically add it to the parent folder.











Not only does this keep things organized but if by accident Lightroom loses track of all you images you can just re-link the main folders.

The back slash in the Library Module

In my last post I was talking about using the \ key to toggle between before/after in the Develop module.....

Today I sat down and found that my library filter bar was gone!!!! When you hit the \ key when your in the Library module it closes and opens your Libray filter bar....

Photoshop Lightroom 2.3 readme files

I am a little late getting this on my blog but better late than never... there are a few important details in the document.

http://www.adobe.com/support/photoshoplightroom/ts/documents/kb408844/Lightroom_23_ReadMe.pdf

before.... after....before....after....

SO up until now before/after has eluded me. It is a feature in Lightroom that I just didn't understand. Not that's it complicated, just new and scary....

Situation:

I am working on a photo and I want to see what it looked like from the start I would just go to my history panel and click on the the first history state. Until I realized all needed to do is press \ in Develop module and tada! I could toggle between before and after....

But what if I didn't want the before to go to the original history state but the 2nd or 3rd. I would go over to the history panel and right click on the last history state that I wanted to include, and click the "copy history step settings to before" now when ever I click on \ it will take me to that time in history to compare with my present version. This is useful when I have synchronized settings with multiple images and want to keep those changes when I am looking at before/after views of an individual image. This is on way to do it and have found this to be the quickest one for me.

You can do the before/after with 2up with the shortcut Y. But that is another post.

Paul Weinrauch
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