Customize Lightroom and Photoshop for your workflow

Customize Your Lightroom

Now you can give a face lift of Lightroom , you can edit your grid, how the program handles your files and you can also choose the program that you want to edit your photos from Lightroom

Changing your Identity Plate

file information displayed

Changing your grid

Choosing your outside editor

Customizing Lightroom FaceplateYou can customize your face plate with font and logos if you like

Go to Edit and then open Identity Plate set up

Grid OptionsYou can have a customized grid to line up your photos

Go to View Loupe Overlay then select grid hold control down to adjust gird

File Information DisplayedYou can have a customized the file information you want displayed

Click on View then view options to select the info you want displayed

Customizing Your Outside EditorYou can change the program that you want to use as your outside editor

Click on Preferences then the external editing tab

Customize your photoshop workspace

As you know there are so many panels in photoshop your work space can become cluttered. You can use the workspaces provided or you can use your own work space

Photoshop Workspaces

Loading Actions

Personal Work Space

Recording Actions

Photo Workspaces

Now since Photoshop has become so powerful they break out the work spaces to Photography, 3D, Motion ,Painting and Typography

Personal Workspaces

Everyone’s work flow is different so you will have different windows and such open. The best thing to do is to open the windows you use most and then save it as a new work space. So when photoshop opens you can be working in the environment that is most contusive to your work flow.

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Recording ActionsOpen a file.

In the Actions panel, click the Create New Action button , or choose New Action from the Actions panel menu.

Enter an action name, select an action set, and set additional options:Function Key Assigns a keyboard shortcut to the action. You can choose any combination of a function key, the Ctrl key (Windows) or Command key (Mac OS), and the Shift key (for example, Ctrl+Shift+F3), with these exceptions: In Windows, you cannot use the F1 key, nor can you use F4 or F6 with the Ctrl key.Note: If you assign an action the same shortcut that is used for a command, the shortcut will apply the action rather than the command.

You can record your own Actions

with a few easy steps

Recording ActionsClick Begin Recording. The Begin Recording button in the Actions panel turns red .Important: When recording the Save As command, do not change the filename. If you enter a new filename, that new name is recorded and used each time you run the action. Before saving, if you navigate to a different folder, you can specify a different location without having to specify a filename.

You can record your own Actions

with a few easy steps

Recording ActionsPerform the operations and commands you want to record.Not all tasks in actions can be recorded directly; however, you can insert most nonrecordable tasks using commands in the Actions panel menu.

To stop recording, either click the Stop Playing/Recording button, or choose Stop Recording from the Actions panel menu. (In Photoshop, you can also press the Esc key.)

You can record your own Actions

with a few easy steps

Lightroom Presets and Automation

Presets a group of recorded edits to a file. You can record repetitive edits and save them to use later. There are many 3rd party actions that you can load to Lightroom that can help you stream line your time and editing. Also you can record your actions to use later and to apply over many files at once

Presets

Loading a Preset

Making a Preset

Automaton

Making a Preset

Presets you create are based on the current settings of the selected photo.

•In the Develop module, click the Create New Preset (+) button at the top of the Presets panel or choose Develop > New Preset.

•Click Check All to select everything or click Check None to deselect everything, and then click to select each of the settings to include in the preset.

•Type a name in the Preset Name box, specify which folder the preset should appear in, and click Create. The preset is added to the list in the Presets panel in the specified folder.

Making a Preset

Loading and Exporting a Preset

Import

To import a preset, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the area where you want the preset to appear and choose Import. Double-click the preset template file.

Export

You can export presets you’ve created to share with colleagues or to use on a different computer. Preset templates are saved with an .lrtemplate extension.

To export a preset, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) a preset and choose Export. Type the name of the preset template file and click Save.

Loading and Exporting a Preset

Import

To import a preset, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the area where you want the preset to appear and choose Import. Double-click the preset template file.

Export

You can export presets you’ve created to share with colleagues or to use on a different computer. Preset templates are saved with an .lrtemplate extension.

To export a preset, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) a preset and choose Export. Type the name of the preset template file and click Save.

File Handling and Saving Presets

When working from one

program to another you can

customize how you it handles

your file and how it names

them when you export

HDR Files in Photoshop

To do HDR files you need to

have several photos with the

different exposures to take

advantage of the all features

in HDR Pro

Editing Panoramics

Hint:

When editing Panoramics you

need to be aware of file size

and not give Photoshop too

many files

You Can Bring in Multiple Files as Layers

Now you can select more than

one photo from lightroom and

take it to Photoshop and make

a composite image

Homework

•Customize your Lightroom

Faceplate

•Customize a Photoshop

workspace