Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic For Dummies. Rob Sylvan
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Название: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic For Dummies
Автор: Rob Sylvan
Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited
Жанр: Программы
isbn: 9781119873235
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6 For the Copy To field, click the Choose button, navigate to a folder on the desktop computer drive where the photos can be saved, and then click OK.The selected location is entered into the Copy To field.
7 Click Import.The import process kicks off. The data from the .lrcat file on the external drive is copied into the .lrcat file on the desktop computer. The photos are copied from the external drive to the desktop computer as well.
FIGURE 2-10: The Import from Catalog dialog.
Once the progress meter is complete, you’ll have successfully transferred a group of photos (and all the work that has been done to them) from the laptop to the desktop computer. (Time to congratulate yourself.) By using Lightroom Classic to perform the data handoff, you ensure that the program never loses track of the source photos and that all your work makes it back home.
Note that there is an option for importing edits made to existing photos under Changed Existing Photos. If you include photos from your master catalog when you first leave on your (imaginary) trip and then edit them on the road, you can import the changes back to the master catalog. In this case, I didn’t have any existing photos, so there wasn’t anything to import.
The other thing to keep in mind in this scenario is that once you have everything safely transferred to the master desktop catalog (and backed up), you should delete the temporary catalog and photos from the laptop and external drive used in the transfer to avoid confusion and duplication down the road.
Chapter 3
Lightroom Classic Basics That You Should Know
IN THIS CHAPTER
Beyond the all-important catalog, there are a number of things, from key preference settings to color spaces, that every Lightroom Classic user should know before they dive in too deep. I also want to clarify what is meant by “the cloud” in the context of the Lightroom world. Let’s start with the nitty-gritty preference settings you’ll want to know.
Configuring Lightroom Classic Preferences
Lightroom Classic’s default preference settings are good for getting you up and running, but that doesn’t mean you can’t make a few tweaks to suit your workflow better. You adjust the seat or mirrors in your car every now and then, right? You’ll probably want to do the same here.
To see what’s what with your default settings, first open the Preferences dialog by choosing Lightroom Classic ⇒ Preferences (Edit ⇒ Preferences in Windows) from the main menu. The Preferences dialog appears on-screen in all its glory, as shown in Figure 3-1. What you see here are global preference settings, meaning these preferences are in effect regardless of which catalog you have open. Although many of these preferences are self-explanatory (I’ll skip those), a few are worth digging into. I do the digging for you in the next few sections.
FIGURE 3-1: The Preferences dialog set to General.
General preferences
The General preferences tab is kind of like the catch-all drawer in the kitchen; it’s got all the stuff that didn’t fit neatly anywhere else:
Default Catalog: I cover this in Chapter 2, but it’s important enough to repeat that you should choose a specific catalog instead of Load Most Recent.
Import Options: Controlling some things that happen at import:Show import dialog when memory card is detected: If you find it convenient to have the Import dialog open automatically, keep this option checked; otherwise, uncheck it.Select the “Current/Previous Import” collection during import: If you like to start an import and then select some other folder or collection to work on while the import happens in the background, uncheck this box; otherwise, when the import begins, Lightroom Classic shifts your view to this special collection found in the Catalog panel. I leave this checked because I like to see the new photos appear.Ignore camera-generated folder names when naming folders: Some cameras can be configured to create folders on the memory card. Check this box to ignore them.Treat JPEG files next to raw files as separate photos: Anyone shooting raw+JPG who wants to see both photos side by side in Lightroom Classic should check this box. By default (unchecked) Lightroom Classic treats the JPG as a sidecar file, and you only see the raw.Replace embedded previews with standard previews during idle time: Chapter 4 describes the import dialog options. In those options, you’ll find a setting for previews called Embedded & Sidecar, which tells Lightroom Classic to use the embedded preview at first. This preference setting here tells Lightroom Classic to go ahead and replace those embedded previews with standard previews when you are not working.
Completion Sounds (Optional): Configure the sounds you want the program to make when it completes those tasks.
Prompts: These are the warning dialogs that pop up when you attempt to do things like move photos or folders. Some prompts have a Don’t Show Again option to disable them from appearing in the future, which is great when you find the warning prompts slow you down. However, they can help keep you out of trouble, so if you change your mind and want to enable them again, click the Reset All Warning Dialogs button to bring them back.
The Presets preferences
The Presets tab is one-stop shopping for all the settings that pertain to Lightroom Classic’s default presets and templates, and is broken into three sections, as follows (I recommend leaving all default settings at first, so I didn’t include a figure):
Raw Defaults: Adobe revamped the process for customizing the default settings applied to all raw photos (visit the link below to see how it works). This gives you the power to define the starting point for your raw photos (non-raw photos do not have any СКАЧАТЬ