Comments on: Tips I Learned at Scott's Lightroom Tour

By: Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:08:17 +0000

Is it possible (or would you expect it would be possible in the future) to create or enforce “rules” to govern a collection?

For example, when you mention Scott’s method of creating a child collection of all the 5-star rated photos from a parent collection… If in the future, you change the rating of a picture (from either 5 to something lower, or something lower up to a 5), you would need to follow a second step to either remove or add the photo to the child collection, respectively.

It seems like a useful rule/filter/definition to be able to create a child collection which applies, for example, a certain filter from the parent, so that child collection membership could be, in some sense, automated.

In this case, that seems a trivial example, but let’s say instead of “just the star rating,” you wanted to govern a collection by other filters as well (metadata, dates, etc.)…

Any thoughts?

By: Simon Wren

Simon Wren — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:09:59 +0000

Tip #3: Quick grayscale conversion

Just hit “V” in grid view, loupe or develop to quickly see a mono version of the selected image.

(And if you like it and work on it some more in develop then the “\” key will quickly toggle between a view of the original image and its current (edited) state.)

By: Mario

Mario — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:12:50 +0000

great to have comments here.
i have a question regarding the Impromptu Slideshow. while i really like the concept of this, is there any way to change the default slideshow preset that is used with Impromptu Slideshow? becuase i have my standard slideshow and would really prefer the Impromptu to use that preset, otherwise the feature is quite useless to me.
if it’s not possible that would be a nice little improvement for the next version

By: Steve Prince

Steve Prince — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:08:20 +0000

Thanks Denis for posting the link to LL! I have been following the advice in that article since it was first posted and I love the wider gamut. But the PS ‘out of gamut’ warning is a critcal step ….. don’t skip it, or you’ll scare yourself. If your doing a black and white photo you will get super tone mapping from ProPhoto. The new Epson printers with Vivid Magneta are going to make ProPhoto even more popular. Better and better inkjets are making a difference in Fine Art Printing. Good!

By: wouter

wouter — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:42:59 +0000

ProPhoto RGB has the widest Gamut range of all color spaces, next in line is Adobe RGB

By: Denis Pagé

Denis Pagé — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:42:19 +0000

Fot your november 5th tip #2 (ProPhoto), you may be highly interested to read this fantascic article: See
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/prophoto-rgb.shtml