Comments on: Q&A – Lightroom 3 http://lightroomkillertips.com/2010/qa-lightroom-3/ Online Photoshop Lightroom Tutorials and Tips with Matt Kloskowski Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:08:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jim http://lightroomkillertips.com/2010/qa-lightroom-3/#comment-14096 Jim Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:29:38 +0000 http://lightroomkillertips.com/?p=2341#comment-14096 I don't know if anyone here has any experience with this, but i'm actually struggling with combining two separate lightroom 3 catalogs. This is for when i'm traveling and working on my laptop, and then when I get back I want to import my changes onto my desktop's catalog (or vice versa). Matt did a LR2 tutorial on this that was perfect, but it seems the "import from catalog" dialog box has changed in LR3. In LR2, if you had a catalog you wanted to import into another computer, but you only wanted to import SOME of them, you could easily specify exactly what you wanted to import, and what to ignore. I'm trying to do the same thing now with LR3, but it seems now it only allows you the option to import the entire catalog. That's pretty useless to me. Why would they have changed that. Anyone know of a fix? I don’t know if anyone here has any experience with this, but i’m actually struggling with combining two separate lightroom 3 catalogs. This is for when i’m traveling and working on my laptop, and then when I get back I want to import my changes onto my desktop’s catalog (or vice versa). Matt did a LR2 tutorial on this that was perfect, but it seems the “import from catalog” dialog box has changed in LR3. In LR2, if you had a catalog you wanted to import into another computer, but you only wanted to import SOME of them, you could easily specify exactly what you wanted to import, and what to ignore. I’m trying to do the same thing now with LR3, but it seems now it only allows you the option to import the entire catalog. That’s pretty useless to me. Why would they have changed that. Anyone know of a fix?

]]> By: Dave http://lightroomkillertips.com/2010/qa-lightroom-3/#comment-14015 Dave Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:32:45 +0000 http://lightroomkillertips.com/?p=2341#comment-14015 I am attempting to use LR3 with CS4 and there are some serious compatability issues, some of my images, particularly in shadow areas fimish up severly pixilated when they have been worked on in LR3 and then imported into CS4 via LR. If you open a raw file in CS4 with an LR3 sidecar file attached you then get the same problems. Open up a raw file is CS4 with no LR3 sidecar or with a LR2 sidecar then everything works as it should. In short it seems that if you upgrade to LR3 then you have to also upgrade to CS5 so that the camera raw plug ins are compatable. I am attempting to use LR3 with CS4 and there are some serious compatability issues, some of my images, particularly in shadow areas fimish up severly pixilated when they have been worked on in LR3 and then imported into CS4 via LR. If you open a raw file in CS4 with an LR3 sidecar file attached you then get the same problems. Open up a raw file is CS4 with no LR3 sidecar or with a LR2 sidecar then everything works as it should. In short it seems that if you upgrade to LR3 then you have to also upgrade to CS5 so that the camera raw plug ins are compatable.

]]> By: lgphoto http://lightroomkillertips.com/2010/qa-lightroom-3/#comment-13968 lgphoto Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:05:48 +0000 http://lightroomkillertips.com/?p=2341#comment-13968 Jeff, were you able to find a solution to making highlight priority the default? It's making me crazy too... Jeff, were you able to find a solution to making highlight priority the default? It’s making me crazy too…

]]> By: John http://lightroomkillertips.com/2010/qa-lightroom-3/#comment-13940 John Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:57:54 +0000 http://lightroomkillertips.com/?p=2341#comment-13940 I am probably the only one who misses it but what happened to the "split toning" in Lightroom 3? I can not find a satisfactory way to duplicate the effects as I could do in Lightroom 2 or am I missing something? I keep going back to version 2 to get my work finnished. Thank You John I am probably the only one who misses it but what happened to the “split toning” in Lightroom 3? I can not find a satisfactory way to duplicate the effects as I could do in Lightroom 2 or am I missing something? I keep going back to version 2 to get my work finnished.

Thank You
John

]]> By: Yorgo http://lightroomkillertips.com/2010/qa-lightroom-3/#comment-13914 Yorgo Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:54:09 +0000 http://lightroomkillertips.com/?p=2341#comment-13914 I'm having a tough time printing border less photos with my new Epson 3880 printer through Lightroom 3. I set my printer driver for borderless (4x6 borerless retain size), then in the Print Module I make sure that my cell size is as big as my paper (4x6) and have all margins set to "0". Yet what I see on my screen is not what I get on the print. Usually it will have a white border, and sometimes it will have a white border and my photo will be cropped either form the left or the right. What am I doing wrong? I’m having a tough time printing border less photos with my new Epson 3880 printer through Lightroom 3. I set my printer driver for borderless (4×6 borerless retain size), then in the Print Module I make sure that my cell size is as big as my paper (4×6) and have all margins set to “0″. Yet what I see on my screen is not what I get on the print. Usually it will have a white border, and sometimes it will have a white border and my photo will be cropped either form the left or the right. What am I doing wrong?

]]> By: Hemant Anand http://lightroomkillertips.com/2010/qa-lightroom-3/#comment-13893 Hemant Anand Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:54:23 +0000 http://lightroomkillertips.com/?p=2341#comment-13893 Hi Matt I could not find a link to send a new question directly, that's why it's here. Since I have upgraded to LR3, I have noticed that all my pictures have some amount of vignetting. I am using "Camera Standard v2" profile for Nikon D700 as default profile with "2010" as current process. When I import the same pictures in "Aperture", there is no vignetting. Can you please help me in finding out what is wrong? Am I using some wrong settings? with best regards, Hemant Hi Matt

I could not find a link to send a new question directly, that’s why it’s here.

Since I have upgraded to LR3, I have noticed that all my pictures have some amount of vignetting. I am using “Camera Standard v2″ profile for Nikon D700 as default profile with “2010″ as current process.

When I import the same pictures in “Aperture”, there is no vignetting.

Can you please help me in finding out what is wrong? Am I using some wrong settings?

with best regards,
Hemant

]]> By: Brec http://lightroomkillertips.com/2010/qa-lightroom-3/#comment-13532 Brec Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:51:26 +0000 http://lightroomkillertips.com/?p=2341#comment-13532 Hey Matt, all, first off, I don't know the excat terms since I'm not working with an English LR version. Here's my question: the catalog setting where lr automatically saves changes to the dng and meta data is still activated on my from lr2 imported catalog. Though it doesn't seem to do anything. Has the procedure changed somehow? Before I could test myself I already manually updated my files. Thanks Hey Matt, all,

first off, I don’t know the excat terms since I’m not working with an English LR version.

Here’s my question: the catalog setting where lr automatically saves changes to the dng and meta data is still activated on my from lr2 imported catalog. Though it doesn’t seem to do anything. Has the procedure changed somehow?

Before I could test myself I already manually updated my files.

Thanks

]]> By: Steve K http://lightroomkillertips.com/2010/qa-lightroom-3/#comment-13495 Steve K Sat, 03 Jul 2010 14:34:22 +0000 http://lightroomkillertips.com/?p=2341#comment-13495 Hi Matt, I'm coming in late to this thread because I just got back from a week of hiking in Yellowstone (awesome). I'm in the midst of doing a full backup of all my photos before installing LR3 and see a lot of files under the "Silvertone" folder. I'm wondering, do I need to keep it? (I'll be deleting LR2 when done). Also, lots of lrcat files.. same question. I suppose I should just generally ask what I can delete given that I'm pretty much converting to LR3. Thanks, Steve Hi Matt,

I’m coming in late to this thread because I just got back from a week of hiking in Yellowstone (awesome).

I’m in the midst of doing a full backup of all my photos before installing LR3 and see a lot of files under the “Silvertone” folder. I’m wondering, do I need to keep it? (I’ll be deleting LR2 when done). Also, lots of lrcat files.. same question.

I suppose I should just generally ask what I can delete given that I’m pretty much converting to LR3.

Thanks,

Steve

]]> By: Rick http://lightroomkillertips.com/2010/qa-lightroom-3/#comment-13413 Rick Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:06:56 +0000 http://lightroomkillertips.com/?p=2341#comment-13413 Is there a way to have LR3 ignore video files upon import? One can uncheck each file during import but I would rather not have LR3 import the video files. Is there a way to have LR3 ignore video files upon import? One can uncheck each file during import but I would rather not have LR3 import the video files.

]]> By: Frédéric http://lightroomkillertips.com/2010/qa-lightroom-3/#comment-13107 Frédéric Mon, 28 Jun 2010 05:49:59 +0000 http://lightroomkillertips.com/?p=2341#comment-13107 Just remove it from the files and folder of your catalog on your disk. Just remove it from the files and folder of your catalog on your disk.

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