One of the best way to use virtual copies is to do different exposures/settings for different parts of the photos, open them as a stack, then mask. It works great for backlit photos.
Here's a relatively simple tip for getting even more use from virtual copies. Virtual copies have a metadata field called "Copy Name" which by default will be filled with 'Copy 1' then 'Copy 2' and so on as you create the copies. You can put anything you want in the copy name field, so you could use a keyword meaningful to you. Once you have some virtual copies you'd like to share, create a Lightroom collection and make it the target collection. In the library view where you've created your virtual copies, use the 'Library Filter' tool to search on the text field 'Copy Name' and use the restriction 'Contains' and fill in the virtual copy name you're interested in in the text box. Press return and you'll be looking at just virtual copies. Select all of them (cmd-A on the Mac) and then hit the letter 'b' and they'll all be put into the target collection you've created. Once you've done that, you can synch that collection with Lightroom mobile and voila-- you have a web address you can direct anyone to that needs or wants to take a look at your images.
Hi phlearn! Could you do a photography episode for a change please? I would like to learn and grasp meter riding a bit better when you use a external canon flash on a subject....the setting up of the sekonic meter and the camera and the flash...many thanks!
Dude, I am so happy you're teaching lightroom! As a photographer I spend more time on Lightroom than photoshop. It's just awesome that you're sharing cool tips and tricks on Lightroom. Please continue to do so 😃
i should just roll with it, or more importantly try it myself, but I'm not at home with lightroom and just wanted to throw a quick question out here... but when you were sync settings, you've edited to b&w and you want the color version of another photo to get the same b&w treatment.. how does lightroom know you're trying to sync the b&w settings and not the other way around and make them both color instead? Perhaps the order in which you select your images? It will always sync with the very first image you've selected? and, noticed you always picked the original image to create virtual copy.. could you have created a virtual copy from the virtual copy?
Thanks Aaron.its help me but I will love to knw how to merge diff shads together,and also what if I want to keep a particular colour on a photo and make the rest black and white..Thanks Man
I have a question but I don't know if there is a keyword for it, so...in layman terms...when you have your RAW files in Lightroom, and then you go to "Edit in Photoshop...", a TIF file is created in that process and Lightroom links that to the original RAW file (by way of "1 of 2" and "2 of 2" and the thumbnails are darkened to easily see those links\groups). If you then save your edited file in Photoshop as a PDF, it is NOT automatically reflected in the lightroom ribbon of images,. You have to import that file into the catalogue manually....which is fine. But, it does NOT have a "1 of 2" link to the original RAW file. Is there something you can do in Lightroom, to create that relationship ?
Aaron, do you ever use 'Collections' from Lightroom in your workflow? I know you have separate folders for: Capture, Output, Master, and Selects. Wondering how/if collections could be implemented into a workflow.
Aaron I want to ask you how to fix screen problem when using photoshop on I Mac 4K display I always have that black screen flashing problem when using brush 😢
Hi! With two pics it seems to be quite easy process, but then I tried to imagine 50.... and ctrl-click made at least 100 times to apply presets and export images. Is there any smart way to do it?
In that case you probably want to skip using a preset. Select the image that has all the edits as you like them in the library view; then cmd-click every image you want to change, then, hit the Sync settings button. In the situation you've described, that's 52 clicks, total. Or ... if your library view has only images you want to sync, then cmd-A to select all, then click sync settings.
Actually, there is an easy way :- ) When you select a batch of photos and do "create virtual copy" for all of them, after this step you will get SELECTED virtual copies! Just right click on one, and set a color label, and you can filter them with one click! :D Now syncing the settings for all virtual copies is a piece of cake :D
Hi Phlearn, I am freaking out. I move a folder in Lightroom from my mac to my external drive. When the move was completed I created smart previews, and while it was doing the previews I try to change the name of the folder which suspended the previews. Now, what I don't get is why I cant find my originals, I can only find my some of the smart previews....!!! They should be on my external drive, I did not move them in finder I did it in Lightroom and still I can't find it. Please help.
I find Sync a bit confusing, How does Lightroom know which way to sync if you have both images selected? If you have two images with different edits to each wouldn't it sometimes sync the wrong way? That said, I sometimes use it for batches, and it usually works ok. but usually I just use 'Previous' I find it much handier for single images..
Ah right, so the order you click on the images matters then? I assumed it was either this way, or the most recently edited image gets used, or the only (if that's the case) edited image gets used. It's strange, but I suppose it works.. And there's always copy and pasting settings.
I tried this four or 5 times and followed step by step and when i came to the sync it changed the size of the new image and made it a little bigger..the edits were the same...any thoughts as to why? i didnt use photos i took but just some general photos i found online....
What I don't like about this tutorial is he assumes you haven't done any processing to the image already. At the step at 5:53, don't "select all". In your case, uncheck the selections under "Crop".
Guys or Aaron. Please help. I can't find the video of the "hidden" filters in photoshop (like vsco filters I mean). Do any of you know how you could get to them?
me encanta este canal tus videos son muy buenos, pero sería muy feliz si los tradujeras al español, te pediría el gran favor de subtitularlos, entiendo poco el ingles pero lo poco que entiendo, me es muy util eres un grande
+PHLEARN and any Lightroom gurus out there, is there a way to apply settings to your first or second copy of every image without clicking on each individual copy? I am working on a big event with hundreds of images and want to save time.
I was waiting for you to work with at least 500 images so you could show me how to select all of one color at one time but you didn't. For that I'm gonna have to give this video a thumbs down.
I wish it was that simple but Lightroom groups the original photo with the copies successively. This means all the 500 copies would be mixed up with the originals making it a pain to export them. One would have to choose them one at a time until all of the copies are selected then export them. Not very efficient.
