At this year’s CAPS- Chicago Area Photographic School sessions, we’re going to have a
lot of fun going through all kinds of tips, techniques and tricks in LR to help
you work faster and get more out of it including all those new features.
I hope everyone has had the chance to begin using
the newest versions of Lightroom. I say
versions in plural because as you are probably aware, already there is a
difference between Lightroom 6 and Lightroom CC 2015. Here is a link to a feature comparison run
down between Lightroom CC, Lightroom 6 and Lightroom 5 on Adobe’s website: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-lightroom/versions.html
While it’s always fun to talk about the newest
features, today I want to drop back a bit to something basic in LR that even
those of you running older versions can take advantage of. In LR, we can spend a lot of time reviewing,
inspecting and looking at the thumb nails and then the full screen and even the
zoomed-in view of lots of photos. So
let’s speed things up and take advantage of a couple of keyboard shortcuts that
help make it easier with the basic task of changing our image view. The more
you know the LR user controls the faster and better you’ll be!
So just like Adobe uses this shortcut in Photoshop,
remember you can use the Control key for Windows or Command key for Mac along with
the Plus/Equals “+” or “=” key to zoom in or with the Minus “–“ key to zoom
out. It will increment between five views, go in from the thumbnail to “Fit”,
to “Fill”, to 1:1, to 2:1 and back all the way out to the Grid/Thumbnail view,
just using those two keys.
Note that the most zoomed level as shown in the
Navigator panel can be set by you, using the pull down. In my photo examples, I set that position to
3:1 instead of 2:1.
You can also use the “space bar” key to quickly move
from the Grid/Thumbnail, to “Fit” view, then hit the space bar again to change
to the 1:1 view. Keep hitting the space
bar to move in and out between the two views you last selected. Now that’s fast!
You can also use the “Z” key from the thumbnail view
and it will immediately take you to the 1:1, hit it again to go back to
grid/thumbnail view.
Practice using these methods and as you become
comfortable with them, I assure you, you will become much faster and more
thorough working in Lightroom.
CAPS-Chicago Area Photographic School will be November 21st and 22nd at Elgin Community College. Check out the CAPS homepage at: Home
To register go to:
John joined the Lake
County Camera Club in 2008 and has served in many capacities and
also had great success participating in club, CACCA and
PSA competitions. While he enjoys the challenges of
learning many different photography types and styles, his
favorites tend to be Architecture and landscapes. As an early adopter for
HDR, panoramic and compositing processing techniques, he has always
enjoyed the deep dive into more advanced photography processing
technology.
John
has been teaching Lightroom to large and small groups through
his club activities and takes a very practical and real life experience
perspective on the full implementation of the software. He loves
to share and teach with photographers of all levels and give back to the
photography community.
Website: Photography by John Williams
John will be teaching on Sunday, November 22nd.
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