Comments on: Scott's Top 10 (+ 3 of my own)

By: mattk

mattk — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:37:49 +0000

Test

By: Darrin

Darrin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:58:02 +0000

Thanks for the tips. The comments were equally enlightening.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:08:52 +0000

Love your tips Matt! Thanks for sharing. I love it.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:02:12 +0000

Great tips Matt!
Although, I’ve noticed on the third point, If you edit a photo in PS that was in LR by Edit In -> Adobe Photoshop en Save it As… in photoshop the same title and with the extension .NEF , lightroom will update the file with photoshop adjustments!

Cheers!

By: Paddy

Paddy — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:30:43 +0000

Hey Matt,

thanks for these extra tipps.

Cheers
Patrick

By: DJ

DJ — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:55:08 +0000

Hi Matt,

You actually forgot the number 4 tip:

4) Check Lightroomkillertips.com on a regular basis.

Keep up the good work,
DJ

By: Mike Paterson

Mike Paterson — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:33:12 +0000

Thanks for the additional tips Matt! Much appreciated.

By: Dave Kosiur

Dave Kosiur — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:43:44 +0000

Strictly speaking, item #1 isn’t true either. Forever is along time!

Lightroom’s history feature is linear, which means it doesn’t support any branching. If you go back to a older step in the history and start editing the image anew at that point, you lose any of the other steps “above” that step from the old edit. Creating a virtual copy is a better way of creating these editing “branches”, but the history of the original isn’t copied to the virtual copy. Let’s say you create a VC and do some editing, then create a new VC of that edited VC. Should you delete the first VC, you’ll have no idea of all the steps it took to get to the final VC you saved!

Dave

By: Matt Kloskowski

Matt Kloskowski — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:45:22 +0000

Thanks Chris. I just want to clarify so that comment readers don’t get confused. The 3rd point is accurate. When you edit a raw file in Photoshop you get a copy. There’s no way around it. Sure you can throw smart objects in there to finesse how available your raw edits are, but the main stumbling point I see when teaching people is the fact that you will always get a copy. There’s no actual way to edit the raw file in Photoshop without making one.

Thanks.
- Matt

By: Simon Grosset

Simon Grosset — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:16:34 +0000

I always convert to dng format when I import into Lightroom. Is there any way that the history of each image could be saved into the dng format? If not, is that something Adobe could be encouraged to provide in the next generation dng?

Simon