Lightroom: Two Minute Tips

Chapter 01: Introduction
3 Lessons
01 — Course Introduction
02 — The Advantages of Using Lightroom
03 — Lightroom Do’s and Don’ts
Chapter 02: Importing
9 Lessons
01 — Why do I need to “import” photos?
02 — Quick & Dirty Import Settings
03 — Importing Existing Photos into Lightroom
04 — Importing from Another Computer or Hard Drive (Step 1)
05 — Importing from Another Computer or Hard Drive (Step 2)
06 — Import Presets
07 — Quickly Importing to Recent Destinations
08 — Importing Raw+JPEG Files
09 — The Difference Between Raw & DNG
Chapter 03: The Library Module
30 Lessons
01 — Move, Sort, and Delete Folders and Files
02 — Customizing the Workspace
03 — Toggle the Visibility of Panels and Modules
04 — Viewing Panels in Solo Mode
05 — Setting the View Options
06 — Loupe Overlay: Layout Image
07 — The Toolbar
08 — Adding Metadata to Photos
09 — Creating a Metadata Preset
10 — Converting Raw Files to DNG
11 — Saving EXIF as Side-Car Files
12 — Organizing with Collections
13 — Group Similar Files with Smart Collections
14 — Locating a Photo’s Folder in Lightroom (or on Your Computer)
15 — Using Survey mode to find your best images
16 — The Paint Can
17 — Viewing Edits Made Outside of Lightroom
18 — Renaming Photos
19 — Changing a Photo’s Timestamp
20 — Merging HDRs
21 — Merging Panoramas
22 — Copying GPS Data to Photos
23 — Using Filters to Search the Catalog
24 — Jumping to Previous Folders & Collections
25 — Stacking & Auto-Stacking
26 — Dealing with the Exclamation Mark
27 — Synchronizing Folders to Find Missing Files
28 — Facial Recognition
29 — Setting Up Publish Services
30 — Publishing to the Hard Drive
Chapter 04: The Develop Module
8 Lessons
01 — The Develop Module Overview
02 — Simple 3-Step Processing
03 — Raw vs. JPEG in the Develop Module
04 — Resetting Panel Adjustments
05 — Basic panel: White Balance
06 — Basic panel: Tone
07 — Basic panel: Presence
08 — Tone Curve panel
Chapter 05: Develop Presets
5 Lessons
01 — Importing Presets
02 — Creating a Preset
03 — Updating Existing Presets
04 — Creating a “Favorites” Preset Folder
05 — Applying Develop Presets on Import
Chapter 06: The Print Module
11 Lessons
01 – The Print Module Overview
02 — Using Collections in the Print Module
03 — Setting the Proper Page Size
04 — Picture Packages
05 — Custom Print packages
06 — Making a Custom Collage
07 – Saving User Templates
08 — Adding Text or Logos
09 — Saving a JPEG from the Print Module
10 — Color Management: Profile, Intent, and Print Adjustment
11 — Creating a saved print
Chapter 07: The Book Module
12 Lessons
01 — The Book Module Overview
02 – Book settings
03 – Auto Layout
04 — Add, Move, and Remove Pages
05 – Changing the Page Layout
06 — Working with Photos
07 — Adding Text and Image Captions
08 – Stylizing Type and Creating Style Presets
09 — Applying Type Presets to All Pages
10 — Adding Page Numbers
11 — Changing the Background Design
12 — Creating a Saved Book Project
Chapter 08: Mobile, Maps, and More
19 Lessons
01 — Open Any Catalog When Launching Lightroom
02 — Clearing the Preferences File
03 — Increase the Cache Size to Improve Speed
04 — Backing Up Your Catalog
05 – Rendering Previews
06 — Smart previews
07 — The Quick Develop Panel
08 — Using Quick Develop to Batch Process
09 — Editing Videos
10 — Creating a Custom Identity Plate
11 — Editing (and Re-editing) in Photoshop
12 — Open as a Smart Object in Photoshop
13 — Integrating Lightroom with Plugins
14 — Manually Adding GPS to Images
15 — Creating Saved GPS Locations
16 – Adding Location Data From a GPS Log
17 — Syncing with Lightroom Mobile
18 — Setting the Lightroom Mobile Settings
19 — Sharing Synced Collections
Chapter 09: Exporting
9 Lessons
01 — Exporting: Location and Filename
02 — Exporting: Videos
03 – Exporting: File Settings
04 — Exporting: Image Sizing
05 — Exporting: Sharpening and Metadata
06 — Exporting: Keywords
07 — Exporting: Watermarking and Post Processing
08 — Creating an Export Preset
09 — Quickly Export with Presets or Previous Settings
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13 — Group Similar Files with Smart Collections

Lightroom: Two Minute Tips Chapter 03: The Library Module 13 — Group Similar Files with Smart Collections

Smart Collections allow you to automatically group photos into a collection based on file type, metadata, keywords, and more! In this video, I show how to create collections that will automatically pull in HDR and panorama files as an example.

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