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Yield the Wheel – A Lightroom mouse trick

First, a few words about input devices There are a multitude of ways to interface your hands with Lightroom: Mouse, Tablet, Touchpad, RPG Keys – all good ways to get your nerve impulses into Lightroom to do your handy work! When we’re dialing in a specific batch of images – diving head first into the Develop Module, [...]

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Fully Documented – Lightroom 2.0

Despite our great shortcut lists, quick tips, and exhaustive Lightroom tutorials, sometimes you just want the darn manual! (4.4MB – PDF) Adobe online help is great – but not so portable … so if you missed the link above … get … it … HERE (4.4MB – PDF) |Brandon Oelling x=photography+consulting – technology. leadership. commitment.

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Lightroom 2.0 Shortcuts – Cheat Sheet

We’ve updated our popular Lightroom Cheat Sheet to include changes introduced in Lightroom 2.0 We’ve highlighted in x=purple those updates, additions, or otherwise undocumented shortcuts relative to our previous Cheat Sheet. For those of you that have the pre-2.0 version please download this new version for all the juicy updates – included on one page for [...]

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Proportional Exposure Management

I don’t use the Quick Develop Panel. There I said it … I’m as guilty as the next person for having ignored what is truly a powerful tool in Lightroom. Sure I’ve played around with some Alt key trickery but I never really though of Quick Develop as a valuable part of my workflow … until [...]

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Pick, Pick, Reject

With the summer months fast approaching, the last thing I want to do is spend more time staring at my monitor. Every tip and technique that enables me to speed up my workflow, give me some control over my free time, and still maintain a maniacal hold on image quality is a sweet deal [...]

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Alt-ered States

Continuing on with my exploration of time-saving keyboard tricks, I have become a huge fan of using the {Alt} key (mac or PC) to quickly access two functions I use daily: Tone Control and Export as Catalog. During my first pass on a large job in the Library module, I not only rate images and select [...]

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