Could you end me a copy of your CS3 snap preset. I am new to Lightroom and this would go a long way in understanding how best to use it. Thank you for your kind generosity.

Kanu

I have right here an autographed copy of “Photoshop CS2 Speed Clinic” that I use all the time! Recently I had occasion to use the Menu Items feature from Chapter 3 in an action in order to have the right brush ready for the user when the action completed.

Now I’m writing another action that needs to have the right Gradient Tool ready for the user when the action completes. Unfortunately, the Menu Items feature doesn’t seem to work for the Gradient Tool, and I can’t seem to find anything in Scripting that allows me to do this.

Can you point me in the right direction to solve this problem? If so, I can have the equivalent of Lightroom’s Graduated Filter as an action for CS3. Thanks in advance…

Bill Ford

Thank you verymuch for your fine book “Layers”, in German.

With the downloaded pictures from Mr. Kelby’s website it is a
great pleadure for me to imitate your workshops.

Above all your humorous talking with me as the reader of your book
makes me laughing.

Friendly Greetings to you
from
Renate Schmidt, Kelkheim, Germany

Lightroom workflow preset

Lightroom presets for workflow. A basic starting point. First you will need your monitor calibrated. Lightroom 2. Photoshop CS3 or newer.

After working with Lightroom for about two weeks now. I found that there is a learning curve to working with develop settings and trying to find the best image. I took this up, because I was getting kind of flat looking results with lightroom only. Figured I needed a good starting base to work from.

Since I already had CS3, I took the raw file from lightroom and edited it to CS3 threw edit export. Then using curves in CS3, I used Scott Kelby’s Method of working darks, mid-tones and highlights. From there I made any final tweaks opening up curves again.

Next saved the image and went back to lightroom 2. where it showed up as a PSD file. Next, I made a virtual copy of the (raw file) original and tried to match the same exposure, colour, contrast, etc. of the psd using lightroom. Making these adjustments in the develop module, mostly using Basic and Tone curves. After getting as close as possible to the settings I had made in curves with CS3 (psd file), I used the virtual copied clone file in lightroom to make a preset.

I called this preset “CS3 snap” and use it as my base starting point in lightroom. Works pretty good and I make tweaks from there when working with a new image. I think there is room for other presets in areas like hard backlight and Black N White.

Would like to know how other lightroom users are getting consistant results. Improving processes, techniques. Those of you who leave their email, I’ll send you the preset free. Would like to know how it works for others. Jon L

I just started going through all of my images over the past years. They won’t all fit on my Macbook Pro so I decided I should link to the images on my server instead. Then I was planning on exporting any keepers to a folder on my MBP so I could have them with me all the time and track them in a separate Library.

So, I created a new Library and re-linked all of my images. But now I’ve lost all of my LR edits to the file.

Is there any way that I can transfer the processing transactions for any images with edits from one Library to another? If I export an image and have another LR Library auto-import the images, is there a way I can keep the Developer settings in those files too??

Great blog, glad I found it. THANKS.

Rich

I believe all you have to do is move all your folders of images to the new drive. Lightroom will then display a “?” in each thumbnail for the images moved. Just click on that “?” and direct Lightroom to the new location.

Ralph