This time I’ll just let others talk about Lightroom. I’ve collected 10 video tutorials from Youtube that might be of interest for some of you. Most of us are so eager to start playing around with new software and stuff (cellphones or TV etc) that we often forget the “other” great features of it. With this in mind I thought that this list of video tutorials might open your eyes to some features you’ve might have seen but not yet tested in Lightroom. Learning by practice is always a good way to do it, but to first see it being done by somebody else is even better…
1. Soften the skin:
2. How to use the luminance feature in Lightroom:
3. Selective colouring:
4. Batch your settings – Apply the same adjustments on many photos at the same time:
5. How to use the adjustment brush:
6. Convert your photos into Black & White:
7. Sorting and ranking photos in Lightroom:
8. Create virtual copies of photos in Lightroom:
9. How to watermark images with your own logo/text:
10. Remove unwanted items in photos:
Other great sources to mention are:
Lightroom 2 Learning center
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Lightroom 2 Learning site
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Adobe TV – Lightroom tutorials
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You’re most welcome Jens.
Thanks!
Great list of videos! Thanks a lot!
We have a handful of good Lightroom tutorials over at http://cameradojo.com
These were so helpful! Thank you!
I have tried the luminance trick on blue skies a couple of days ago (and in that sense found how it works before viewing the tutorial). What I discovered is that it adds some color noise to the photo and hence that needs to be countered by increasing the color noise reduction in the Details palette. It does not affect a desaturated photo, of course.
Thanks for the tip Sandeep.
// Pierre
Wow these tutorials rock! I learned so much in so little time…thanks so much for posting them. I am anxious to try them out! Especially the skin smoothing one. Thanks for a great site!
Thank-you so much, these were great and easy to follow. I’m new to lightroom and watching just a few of your tutorials is now saving me HOURS of post work.
You’re welcome Jacqueline,
Thanks!
Super Tutorial!
This links to utube videos don’t appear to exist??
Hi Estie,
Thanks for your comment.
I’ve tested all embedded videos and can confirm they all work just fine for me.
/Pierre
Great videos. Thanks. If anyone needs help with digital photo library management, you should check out these Lightroom Workflow tutorials. http://mulita.com/blog/?page_id=2
Not free ($29.95) but so worth it. After watching these tutorials, I finally understand the Lightroom library features.
I’m not familiar with this stuff. I will try to practice it today.
Hum, seems the videos are gone … Too bad !
I found out that ALL but one (#9. How to watermark images..) of the movies are working just fine.
Very strange … The page display only the titles for each video with a big empty space between them ! I manage to access the video searching the HTML source code for the video link …
I can’t see the links…
I think the videos doesn’t appear in Chrome. Try in Firefox. It worked to me.
Thanks, this is very helpfull :)
Best collection for Lightroom Tutorials. Thanks for share. :)
You just mentioned about 10 tutorials.softening is not working properly according to your tutorial. Can you just add some contrast to make the softening more attractive? Its the color combination what make the video/picture more attractive. So i expect more Detail video review on light room that really can help me to be good at this topic. By the way i was searching for how to add watermark on video and get this blog. I have solved my query and also learn some new topics. Good wishes with you
One of the best lightroom tutorials collection I have ever seen. Thanks for sharing.