enjamin Warde posted a tutorial about using the Page Down key to inspect images on Adobe’s Lightroom Coffee Break. Although he aims this at removing sensor dust, for underwater photographers, the technique works equally as well at removing backscatter within Lightroom. (Hint: Use the “Visualize Spots” function within the Spot Removal Tool).
Adobe’s Benjamin Warde offers a short tutorial on the use of the Metadata Painter in Lightroom Classic CC in his Coffee Break tutorial series. In it, he shows how to use the painter to add keywords rapidly to a series of images in the Lightroom grid view.
Adobe’s Benjamin Warde offers a short video tutorial of a technique that allows for fine control of Lightroom’s sliders in his Lightroom Coffee Break. Clicking and dragging in the text field on the slider will give much finer control. He highlights using this with the temperature slider, particularly relevant for color correcting underwater imagery.
In this week’s episode of Adobe’s Lightroom Coffee Break, Benjamin Ward discuses one way of dealing with the sometimes slow loading of images in Lightroom’s Loupe view. By forcing the app to create 1:1 previews on import, this speeds up any rendering required in the Library module. It is important to note that if you open the images in the edit module, they will need to render again.
Benjamin Ward in this week’s Lightroom Coffee Break shows how the Before/After view can be customized. By right clicking on the entries within the History menu, there is an option to “Copy History Step settings to Before.” Clicking the backslash key (/) will then cycle between the current view and the history step selected.
Lightroom’s Coffee Break this week focuses on using the app’s crop guide overlays. Long time Lightroom team member Benjamin Warde outlines the various guides available in the Tools menu. Did you know that Shift + o cycles through the various orientation options for a given overlay?
Adobe’s Lightroom Coffee Break’s latest episode is entitled “Using Keyword Sets.” In it, Adobe’s Benjamin Warde explains why Keyword Sets are limited to 9 keywords. In doing so, he reveals a tip that may well make key wording faster. In addition, Julieanne Kost offers more suggestion for speeding up keywording workflow.
The Lightroom Coffee Break this week is about using the spot removal tool to remove larger objects. Using the Tool Overlay option: Never” rather than the default “Tool Overlay: Always,” option, you can make more accurate small brush strokes.