This course helps you to get up and running quickly with Adobe’s powerful image editing plug-in. This handy step-by-step class starts from scratch, starting with basic Camera Raw topics and moving on to more advanced features to help you to become more productive more quickly.

 In no time at all you’ll be navigating the Camera Raw Interface: adjusting image exposure, clarity, vibrance and saturation; removing haze from images; adjusting shadows and highlights; changing color and adjusting white balance; using handy tools such as the Adjustment Brush, Graduated Filter and Range Masking tools;  cropping and straightening images; fixing perspective problems; creating panoramas and merging photos using HDR; and much more.

 Who is this course for?

This course was created for people new to photography as well as well-seasoned photographers looking to learn how to use this powerful plug-in  This course will also be helpful for those coming from a previous versions of Camera Raw or those looking to delve more deeply into all of the features of Camera Raw. 

What does this course include?

• Step-by-step instructional videos that are easy to follow
• Downloadable lesson files allowing you to follow along with the instructor
• Support for any questions you may have

What You’ll Learn:

• Basics. We’ll begin by looking at the difference between RAW vs JPEG processing. We’ll look at how to choose a camera profile as a starting point and make virtual copies of our images. You’ll learn a bunch of Develop Module shortcuts as well as how to use third-party plug-ins.
• Image Adjustment Basics: Next, we’ll drive into photo editing beginning with a Basic Panel. You’ll learn how to adjust image exposure, contrast and clarity as well as tweek the vibrance and saturation.  We’ll discuss how to remove fog and haze from images, adjust the shadows and highlights and blacks and whites, and how to effectively use Lightroom’s Clipping Indicators.  
• Working with Color: We’ll go in-depth working with Color in Camera Raw. You’ll learn how to set the white balance in an image as well as how to change color in an image.  We’ll also add some interesting effects using split toning, learn how to apply selective adjustments using the Adjustment Brush, how to add a gradient using the Graduated Filter tool and learn how to use Lightroom’s new Range Masking Feature.
• Fixing Common Image Problems: To help you fix those pesky image problems, you’ll learn how to crop and straighten photos, remove spots and other image imperfections, and fix red eye. You’ll also make lens corrections, fix perspective problems and even rotate images. 
• Beyond the Basics: We’ll then move into some of the more advanced Lightroom editing features. You’ll learn how to adjust contrast using Lightroom’s Tone Curve, how to merge multiple images into a panorama or merge bracketed photos into  an HDR image. 
• Adding Effects and Finishing Touches: You’ll learn how to add those special finishing touches to an image.You’ll learn how to add a post-crop vignette, add grain, reduce color and luminance noise and sharpen your images. We’ll also add a spotlight to areas of our image using Camera Raw’s handy Radial Filter tool.  You also work with removing Camera Raw adjustments from an image as well as learn how to export your images into a variety of different formats. 

By the end of this course, you’ll learn how to edit your images in Camera Raw like a pro, allowing you to effectively move through your photography workflow with ease. The course is available on Skillshare and you can access it from the link below.

 Skillshare link to the Camera Raw: Up to Speed Course:

 Adobe Camera Raw: Up to Speed

We have just released the latest video course in our Up to Speed series:  Apple Photos: Up to Speed.

 This handy step-by-step course helps you to get up and running quickly with Apple’s powerful photo editing and management system, which comes bundled with every Mac computer and Apple device.  We start with the basics such as getting your images into Apple Photos and then we move on to the more advanced features, all with the goal of helping you to become more productive more quickly.

In no time at all you’ll be navigating the Apple Photos interface, importing, filtering, and rating your photos.  We’ll delve into adjusting image exposure, clarity, vibrance and saturation; adjusting shadows and highlights; modifying color and adjusting the white balance; applying pre-packaged filters and using the cropping tool, the rotate tool and the straightening tool. 

Who is this course for?

This course was created for people new to photography as well as well-seasoned photographers looking to learn Apple’s photo organizing and editing application.  This course will also be helpful for those coming from a previous version of Apple Photos or those looking to delve more deeply into the Photos application. 

What does this course include?

• Step-by-step instructional videos that are easy to follow
• Downloadable lesson files allowing you to follow along with the instructor

What You’ll Learn:

• Getting your files into Apple Photos. You’ll learn how to import images from your computer, an external drive or an SD Card You’ll learn how to change the storage location of your images, how to create and manage Photos libraries, and how to back up your photo.
• Viewing & Filtering Your Photos: Next, we’ll take a look at the methods of view your images.  You’ll learn how to use Photos View, and how to view your images by People, by Places, and by Memories and view.  We’ll navigate the Photos app by Recents and Imports, as well as use a variety of keyboard shortcuts to get around.
• Managing and Organizing your Images: To help you organize your images and find the ones you want quickly, you’ll learn how to add images to favorites as well as add keywords to your images, which you can then use when searching.  You’ll  add keywords to your images, learn how to modify and view an image’s Metadata, add geolocation information to your images and even search your images by location.  You’ll also learn how to create photo albums as well as work with Apple Photo’s powerful Smart Albums feature.
• Editing Your Photos. Next, we’ll drive into photo editing beginning with quick photo adjustments.  You’ll then learn how to navigate Edit mode where you’ll start by applying a variety of filters to your images.  You’ll learn how to adjust image exposure, contrast and clarity as well as tweak the vibrance and saturation of your photos.  We’ll discuss how to adjust the blacks and whites, and how to remove blemishes, dust, sensor dots or unwanted items from your photos using the Retouch tool.  We’ll also go in-depth working with Color in which you’ll learn how to set the white balance in an image as well as how to change color using the Selective Color slider.  To help you fix those pesky image problems, you’ll learn how to crop and straighten photos, remove spots and other image imperfections, fix red-eye and even rotate images. 
• Editing Video: In this section, we’ll start out by editing a Live Photo and then move on to trimming videos that you’ve taken with your phone.  You’ll also learn how to edit Memory videos which are a special type of video that Apple Photos automatically creates from collections of your photos.
• Sharing & Exporting Your Images: You’ll learn how to export your images into a variety of formats so that you can easily share them with others or to Social Media. You’ll create and present slideshows and print your images at home.  We’ll then finish by looking at some special projects that you can create from your images, such as a photo book, a calendar, greeting cards, wall décor and prints. 

 By the end of this course, you’ll learn how to build and manage your Apple Photos library, allowing you to effectively manage hundreds or even thousands of images with ease.  Soon you’ll be editing your images in like a professional, allowing you to effectively and quickly move through your photography workflow with confidence and ease. 

The course is available on Udemy and on Skillshare.  The links are below.

Questions?  Feel free to ask us anything relating to the course.

Skillshare Link:

Apple Photos Up to Speed on Skillshare

Udemy Link:

Apple Photos Up to Speed on Udemy

This course helps you to get up and running quickly with the latest version of Microsoft’s powerful database application. This handy step-by-step class starts from scratch, starting with basic topics and moving on to more advanced features of the application, designed to help you to become more productive more quickly.

In no time at all you’ll be navigating Microsoft Access’s interface, create databases, entering data, creating data entry forms for users, and reports. You’ll also learn how to filter your data using queries, create relationships between your tables, and how to create macros to automate your tasks. Additionally, you’ll learn how to import data from other applications into Access and how to export your Access data to other applications. You’ll end by managing your databases using Access’s various database tools.

Who is this course for?

This course was created for people new to databases as well as database designers looking to learn a new and powerful database management application. This course will also be helpful for those coming from a previous version of Microsoft Access or those looking to delve more deeply into the Access application.

What does this course include?

• Step-by-step instructional videos that are easy to follow

• Downloadable lesson files allowing you to follow along with the instructor

• Support for any questions you may have

What You’ll Learn:

• The Basics. We’ll begin by creating a new Microsoft Access database file and then take a look at the Access environment. You’ll set Access options, learn about database templates, how to open an existing Access database and how to create a new database. We’ll also take a brief look at the various objects in Access: Tables, Forms, Queries and Reports. Then, you’ll learn how to obtain help when necessary.
• - Working with Tables. You’ll start by creating a table using Application Part and we’ll move on to entering data into a table. You’ll discover how to create a table from scratch, add new fields to a table, change column width and height, delete fields from a table, change field properties and design while in Datasheet View. You’ll also learn all about setting Primary Keys.
• Working with Data. In this section, we’ll begin working with data. You’ll learn how to enter, edit, and format data. You’ll sort records, filter data by selection and form, select records and delete records. You’ll learn how to hide, unhide, freeze and rearrange columns. You’ll also import Excel data and data from a text file into an Access table. Lastly, you’ll learn how to display column totals in a datasheet.
• Advanced Tables. Next, we dive more deeply into working with Tables. Here, you’ll learn how to limit data entry be creating validation rules. You work with formatting and indexing fields, as well as how to require data entry in a field. Here, you’ll learn how to facilitate the data entry process by creating an Input Mask, a Lookup Field and a Value List. You’ll look at Primary Keys more in depth and learn how to create calculated fields in your tables.
• Working with Queries. Now we begin working with Queries. We’ll create queries both from scratch and using the Query Wizard. You’ll learn how to add fields to and remove fields from a query, rearrange query columns, how to add single or criteria to a query, and sort query data. You’ll also work with saving and running queries.
• Database Relationships. At this stage, you’ll learn all about database relationships. You’ll start by creating one-to-one relationships and then move on to one-to-many relationships and finally to many-to-many relationships. In order to maintain data integrity and to ensure that you never end up with orphaned records, you’ll learn how to cascade delete related records, enforce referential integrity and casted update related fields. You end up by creating and then printing a relationship report.
• Advanced Queries. Next, we’ll delve more deeply into the query object. We’ll learn how to create multi-table queries, using calculations in queries and change query properties. We’ll create expressions both manually and using the expression builder. You learn how to prompt a user for criteria by creating a Parameter Query as well as summarize data using a Totals Query. Using queries, you’ll find duplicate records in your table as well as find unmatched records between tables. You’ll also learn how to modify query joins in this section.
• Action Queries. In this section, we begin working with Action Queries; that is to say, queries that change the data in your tables. We’ll add data to a table using a Make-Table Query, adding data to an existing table using an Append Query, change data in your tables using an Update Query and delete data using a Delete Query. We’ll even take a brief look at creating an SQL query.
• Working with Forms. We now begin working with Forms. Here, we’ll create a form using the Form Wizard and then learn how to enter data into a form. We’ll change the layout of a form using Design view, add fields to forms, finding records in a form and modify the form from Layout view. You’ll also work with changing the properties of controls on your form.
• Advanced Forms. In this section, we’ll delve into some of the more advanced features of Forms. We’ll add headers and footers to a form, learn how to add various controls to a form as well as move and size controls. We’ll also perform calculations using calculated controls and modify individual control properties. Additionally, you’ll learn how to change form properties, modify the tab order in a form, insert graphics and lookup data in a table or query using a Lookup control. We’ll also learn how to add a subform and why you may need to.
• Working with Reports. Next, we’ll begin working with Access reports. We’ll begin by creating a basic report, applying a theme to an existing report and move to creating a more advanced report using the Report Wizard. We’ll look at the different report views and learn how to modify reports from design view. We’ll also learn how to print reports and create a label merge using the Label Wizard.
• Advanced Reports. In this stage, we’ll begin working with some more advanced report features. We’ll work with the various report sections, add controls to reports and modifying control properties. You’ll learn how to create a calculated control and how to change a control’s data source. We’ll take a look at how to sort and group report data, change report section properties and even change a report’s data source. You learn how to insert graphics and apply conditional formatting to a report.
• Advanced Features of Forms and Reports. Here, you’ll learn how to add a subform or subreport using the Subform/Subreport tool. You’ll learn how to modify a subform, align controls relative to one another and creating options groups. We’ll also look at how to insert total fields in reports, edit sorting and grouping levels in a report and add some pizazz to our reports using lines, rectangles and borders.
• Importing and Exporting Data. Now we delve deeply into exporting and importing data to and from Access. You’ll learn how to import data from a text file, Excel or from another Access database. You’ll also learn how to link data between databases. We’ll then work with exporting data to a variety of formats: a PDF file, to another Access database, to Excel, to Microsoft Word as an RTF file and even performing a Microsoft Word mail merge directly from within Access.
• Working with Macros. In this section, we begin working with Microsoft Access macros. Here, you’ll learn how to create a macro, add macro actions and executing a macro step-by-step. We assign a macro to a command button, use macro groups and use macro conditions. You’ll learn how to create an AutoExec macro that executes when a database is first opened, an AutoKeys Macro which executes after certain keystroke combinations are pressed and even a Data Macro which is a macro that is added to events in your tables. We’ll end by learning how to add a macro to the Quick Access Toolbar.
• Creating a System Menu. In order to make your database as user-friendly as possible, you’ll learn how to create a Switchboard. You’ll learn how to add items to a switchboard, edit a switchboard, setting startup options and create a navigation form.
• Database Tools and Maintenance. We’ll finish off the course by learning how to maintain your databases. You’ll learn how to compact and repair databases, change database properties, document and analyze your databases and view database dependencies. We’ll also learn how to back up a database and split a database into a front end and back end. Lastly, we’ll learn how to password-protect a database.

By the end of this course, you’ll learn how to create, organize and manage your Access databases, allowing you to effectively remain in control of your data.

The course is available both on Udemy and on Skillshare

The links to check out the course are below:

Udemy:

Microsoft Access: Up to Speed video course

Skillshare:

Microsoft Access: Up to Speed video course

The Adobe Classic course helps you to get up and running quickly with Adobe’s powerful photo editing and management system. This handy step-by-step class starts from scratch, starting with basic Lightroom topics and moving on to more advanced features of the Library module, designed to help you to become more productive more quickly.

In no time at all you’ll be navigating Lightroom’s interface, importing, rating, and filtering your photos, managing your photo library, creating and managing collections and publishing to online services. You’ll also delve into adjusting image exposure, clarity, vibrance and saturation; removing haze from images; adjusting shadows and highlights; changing color and adjusting white balance; using handy tools such as the Adjustment Brush, Graduated Filter and Range Masking tools; cropping and straightening images; fixing perspective problems; creating panoramas and merging photos using HDR; and much more.

Who is this course for?

This course was created for people new to photography as well as well-seasoned photographers looking to learn a new photo organizing and editing application. This course will also be helpful for those coming from a previous version of Lightroom or those looking to delve more deeply into the Lightroom application.

What does this course include?

• Step-by-step instructional videos that are easy to follow

• Downloadable lesson files allowing you to follow along with the instructor

• Support for any questions you may have

What You’ll Learn:

• Getting your files into Lightroom. We’ll begin by creating a Lightroom catalog, and then you’ll learn how to import images from your computer, an external drive, an SD Card or directly from your camera into Lightroom. You’ll learn about moving photos, copying photos and adding photos to the catalog.

• Learning the Lightroom Environment: Next, we’ll take a look at the various panels and panes in Lightroom. We’ll learn about Grid View and Loupe View, how to choose your best images by using Compare View and Survey View and how to switch modules using the Module Picker. We’ll also set some interface preferences so that the Lightroom Environment is the way you like it. You’ll also learn how to use Lightroom with a dual monitor setup.

• Image Handling: We’ll go in-depth working with the Folders Panel, and you’ll learn how to create, rename and move both photos and folders. We’ll also discuss how to synchronize photos to ensure that Lightroom includes any images that you’ve recently added to folders outside of Lightroom.

• Adding Image Information: To help you organize your images and find the ones you want quickly, you’ll learn how to add star ratings to your images, how to flag them, reject them and even add color labels to them. You also add keywords to your images and learn how to add and view an image’s Metadata.

• Searching for Images: You’ll learn how to quickly find your images using the Filter Bar with which you can filter them by flag, rating or label. You’ll also learn how to use Lightroom’s powerful search feature which allows you to filter images by text, attribute or metadata. Once we’ve filtered our images, we’ll then sort them in a variety of different ways.

• Organizing Images: You’ll organize your images by using Collections, Smart Collections, and Quick Collections. You’ll also learn how to organize your Collections into Collection Sets, and we’ll even create Collections from existing folders. Additionally, you’ll learn how to organize images using Face Detection, which groups photos by the people featured in them.

• Geotagging Images: We’ll work with the Map module and organize images by the location where they were taken. You’ll also learn how to add geolocation information to images if it wasn’t added when the picture was taken.

• Sharing Your Images: You’ll learn how to export your images into a variety of formats so that you can easily share them with others or to Social Media. You’ll create Export Presets, allowing you to save and reuse your export settings. You’ll also learn how to publish to a variety of online services.

• Catalog Management: In the lesson videos, we’ll learn how to use and manage multiple catalogs, how to merge several catalogs into one and how to back up your Lightroom catalog. We'll also examine a workflow that involves using Lightroom on multiple computers.

• Develop Module Basics: We’ll begin by looking at the difference between RAW vs JPEG processing. We’ll start out by choosing a camera profile as a starting point and make virtual copies of our images. You’ll learn a bunch of Develop Module shortcuts as well as how to use third-party plug-ins.

• Image Adjustment Basics: Next, we’ll drive into photo editing beginning with a Basic Panel. You’ll learn how to adjust image exposure, contrast and clarity as well as tweek the vibrance and saturation. We’ll discuss how to remove fog and haze from images, adjust the shadows and highlights and blacks and whites, and how to effectively use Lightroom’s Clipping Indicators.

• Working with Color: We’ll go in-depth working with Color in Lightroom. You’ll learn how to set the white balance in an image as well as how to change color in an image. We’ll convert an image to black and white, add some interesting effects using split toning, apply selective adjustments using the Adjustment Brush, add a gradient using the Graduated Filter tool and learn how to use Lightroom’s new Range Masking Feature.

• Fixing Common Image Problems: To help you fix those pesky image problems, you’ll learn how to crop and straighten photos, remove spots and other image imperfections, and fix red eye. You’ll also make lens corrections, fix perspective problems and even rotate images.

• Beyond the Basics: In this section, we’ll move into some of the more advanced Lightroom editing features. You’ll learn how to adjust contrast using Lightroom’s Tone Curve, adjust exposure using the Histogram and synchronize adjustments across multiple images. You’ll also learn how to revert back to a previous state of an image using the History Panel and how to save image states using snapshots. Then, you’ll learn how to merge multiple images into a panorama or an HDR image. Additionally, you’ll learn how to use and create Develop Module presets as well as how to soft proof your images.

• Adding Effects and Finishing Touches: You’ll end by learning how to add those special finishing touches to an image. You’ll learn how to add a post-crop vignette, add grain, reduce color and luminance noise and sharpen your images. We’ll also add a spotlight to areas of our image using Lightroom’s handy Radial Filter tool.

• Setting Up a Slideshow: From the Slideshow module, you’ll learn how to create and present a slideshow of your images. You’ll set slideshow options, modify the layout and backdrop, adding and modifying titles, adding music, setting playback options and how to export your slideshow to a PDF file or to a video.

• Presenting Your Images on the Web: Using the Web module, you’ll create a Web Gallery so people can view your images online. You’ll learn how to customize site appearance, customize output settings and how to upload your Web Gallery to your website.

• Creating a Photo Book: From the Book module, you’ll learn how to create a printed book of your images using the Blurb.com book service. You’ll set layout options, modify individual pages, work with guides and cell padding, adding text to your book and finally sending your book to Blurb (or exporting it to a PDF file).

• Printing Your Photos: Lastly, you’ll learn how to print physical copies of your images from the Print module. You’ll learn how to set the page size and layout, apply various image settings, aligning multiple photos on the page, setting page options and modifying your print job settings.

By the end of this course, you’ll learn how to build and organize your Lightroom library, allowing you to effectively manage hundreds of thousands of images with ease, how to edit your images in Lightroom like a pro, allowing you to effectively and quickly move through your photography workflow.

The course is available both on Udemy and on Skillshare (note that on Skillshare, it is broken out into three different courses).

The links to check out the course are below:

Udemy

Lightroom Classic Up to Speed

Skillshare

Lightroom CC Up to Speed: The Develop Module

Lightroom CC Up to Speed: The Library Module

Lightroom CC Up to Speed: Presenting your Images

Microsoft Project Video Course

We're expanding our courseware offerings to include video classes for individuals.  This is to announce that we've just released the Microsoft Project 2019 Up to Speed video course. This course helps you to get up and running quickly with Microsoft’s powerful project management system. This handy step-by-step class starts from scratch, starting with basic topics and moving on to more advanced features of the application, designed to help you to become more productive more quickly.

In no time at all you’ll be navigating Microsoft Project’s interface, create projects, entering tasks, creating project calendars, creating task dependencies, entering and managing resources and costs, splitting and postponing tasks, working with views, and working with Task Boards and Agile features. You’ll also learn how to update and track the progress of your projects, how to generate relevant reports, import data from other applications into Project, export data from Project to other applications, and much more.

Who is this course for?

This course was created for people new to project management as well as well-seasoned project managers looking to learn a new and powerful project management application. This course will also be helpful for those coming from a previous version of Microsoft Project or those looking to delve more deeply into the Project application.

What does this course include?

• Step-by-step instructional videos that are easy to follow
• Downloadable lesson files allowing you to follow along with the instructor
• Support for any questions you may have

Getting Started

By the end of this course, you’ll learn how to create, organize and manage an in-depth project, allowing you to effectively stay on top of hundreds of tasks and resources with ease.

The course can be purchased from our Microsoft Project page at the Udemy website. If you’re a member of Skillshare (or are thinking of joining), you can also obtain the class there. Click on either of the links below to begin your Microsoft Project journey!

https://pcmcourseware.com/collections/individual-windows-courses/products/microsoft-outlook

Microsoft Access is forthcoming.

The Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 Level 1 and Level 2 classes have now been added to the PCM Courseware library. You can view an outline of the courses as well as a preview of the first three chapters from our Photoshop course page.

It’s the beginning of the new year, meaning that it’s time to update your Lightroom Copyright preset (something I need to remind myself to do every year lest I forget). In case you forgot how to do this (or want to create a new copyright preset), here are the instructions.

To Edit/Create a Copyright Preset

1. From the Library module, click Metadata on the menu and then choose Edit Metadata Presets.
   
   
2. Click the Preset drop-down list and then select the Preset you want to edit. If you’re creating a new preset, then move to step 3.
   
   
   
   
3. From the Edit Metadata Presets window, scroll down until the ITPC Copyright screen is visible. In the Copyright field, change the year to the current year. If this is your first copyright preset, type in the copyright information as well as the ITPC Creator information (to insert the copyright symbol, press the Option + G keystroke combination if using Mac or if using Windows, hold down the Alt key and press: 0169 on the Numpad).
   
   
   
   
4. Once you’ve entered in your information, it’s time to save your preset. If you don’t want to overwrite the previous year’s preset (such as if you still have last year’s files left to import), then you’ll want to create a new preset. To do so, click the Preset drop-down list on top of the window and choose Save Settings as New Preset. In the Preset name box, type in the name for your new preset (such as Copyright 2019) and then click Create.
   
   
   
   
5. If you don’t have any of last year’s images to import into Lightroom, you can simply overwrite last year’s preset by simply clicking the Done button on the bottom of the screen.
6. If you ever have old presets that you want to delete, choose the name of the preset from the Preset drop-down list. Then, click the Preset drop-down menu again and choose Delete (Preset Name) from the list, such as “Delete Preset 2018”.

Looking to learn Lightroom CC Classic? Check out our Up To Speed ebook guide, available at Amazon, Kobo, Apple iBooks and Barnes and Noble. It’s is also available in PDF format from this website.

A handy way to import your photos into Lightroom is by using the Auto Import feature. How it works, is that you specify a watched folder; that is to say, a folder whose contents are watched by Lightroom. Whenever you add any new images to the folder, Lightroom will automatically import the images and store them in the destination folder that you specify.

As an example, whenever I plug my phone into my computer, any new images I have taken are automatically copied over to a Dropbox folder called Dropbox Photos. The next time I open Lightroom, Lightroom will take those images and move them to a Lightroom folder named “iPhone Images”. Then, I can go through them and decide if I wish to keep them, process them or delete them.

To Auto Import Images using Watched Folders, follow these steps:

1. Select File > Auto Import > Auto Import Settings to display the Auto Import dialog box.
2. In the Watched Folder area, click the Choose button and then navigate to the folder that you want Lightroom to “watch”. Click the folder and then click Choose.

3. In the Destination area, click the Choose button and then navigate to your main Lightroom photos folder (or the location where you want to create your destination folder). Click the folder and then click Choose.

4. Click in the Subfolder name box and type in the name that you want for the Destination folder.

5. To apply file naming settings to your imported files, click the File Naming drop-down list and choose Edit. Modify any desired settings.
6. Under the Information area, add any Develop Settings, Metadata or Keywords as desired. For initial settings, Standard is a good setting to use.
7. Click the Enable Auto Import to turn on the feature.

Looking to learn Lightroom CC Classic? Check out our Up To Speed ebook guide, available at Amazon, Kobo, Apple iBooks and Barnes and Noble. It’s is also available in PDF format from this website.

We have just uploaded the macOS Mojave Level 1 courseware manual to our website.  You can check out a preview and an outline of the course from our Mac OS page:  https://pcmcourseware.com/collections/individual-mac-courses/products/mac-os-x

Survey View allows you to view multiple photos at the same time in a grid. This view comes in especially handy when going through a photo shoot of similar images and you need to narrow it down to the keepers.

To display several images in Survey View, select the images in the Filmstrip and then press the N key on your keyboard. To select consecutive photos, click on the first photo, hold down the Shift key and then select the last photo in the series. To select non-adjacent photos, select the first photo, hold down the Command key if using Mac OS or the Ctrl key if using Windows, and then select the additional photos.



As you move your cursor over the images, a small x appears on the lower right corner of the image. Click the x to remove the image from the Survey. When you switch back to Grid View, only the remaining photos will still be selected, so you can then easily mark them using your preferred ranking system.

Quick Guide: To Use Survey View, follow these steps:

1. In the Filmstrip or in Grid View, click the images that you want to display.
2. Press the N key on your keyboard
   Or
   Choose View > Survey from the menu.

3. To remove an image from the view, move your mouse cursor over the image until a small x appears on the lower-right corner of the thumbnail. Click the x to remove the image from the Survey.



4. When finished, tap the G key to return to Grid View. The leftover photos remain selected in Grid View, allowing you to apply a ranking to the image.

Looking to learn Lightroom CC Classic? Check out our Up To Speed ebook guide, available at Amazon, Kobo, Apple iBooks and Barnes and Noble. It’s is also available in PDF format from this website.

A handy yet often unappreciated feature of Lightroom is the Painter Tool, located on the Toolbar. If you’ve ever worked with the Format Painter feature in Microsoft Office products, then you’ll be familiar with the concept.

What the Painter tool does, is allows you to paint an attribute to multiple photos by clicking on them. This is especially handy if you want to quickly apply attributes to images in multiple folders or collections.



The icon for the Painter tool resembles a paint can. If you don’t see it on the Toolbar, you’ll need to add it by clicking the downward-pointing arrow on the right side of the Toolbar and choosing Painter.



Quick Guide: To Apply Attributes using the Painter:

1. Switch to Grid View.
2. If the Painter icon is not visible on the Toolbar, click the downward-pointing arrow on the right side of the Toolbar and choose Painter from the list.
3. Click the Painter icon.
4. Click the drop-down list and choose the attribute you wish to paint (enter a keyword, choose the numbers of stars, choose what flag, etc.).



5. Click on any image to which you want to “paint” the attribute. You can click on as many as you like.
6. When finished, click on the Painter icon to deactivate it.

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It is important that you do any file management of your images from within the Lightroom application, this includes renaming files and folder, creating folder, copying files and folder to a different location or moving files and folders to a different location. If you move or change the name of a folder from outside of Lightroom such as from the Mac Finder or Windows File Explorer, Lightroom will no longer know the location of the folder and will display a question mark next to the folder name.

To tell Lightroom where the folder in question is located, right-click the question-marked folder and choose Find Missing Folder from the contextual menu. Then, navigate to the folder on your drive and click Choose.

Note that the question mark will also appear next to folders that are stored on an external drive that’s not currently plugged in. All you need to do in this instance is plug in the drive and the question mark disappears.

Quick Guide: To Find a Question-Marked Folder, do this:

1. Expand the Folders panel in the left pane if necessary.
2. Right-click on the question-marked folder.
3. Choose Find Missing Folder from the contextual menu.
4. Navigate to the folder that contains the missing images.
5. Select the folder.
6. Click Choose.

Tip: To display an image or a folder in the Finder (Mac) or Explorer (Windows), right-click the item and choose Show in Finder or Show in Explorer from the contextual menu.

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A handy feature in Lightroom is the ability to group multiple images into one item called a stack by choosing Photos > Stacking > Group into Stack from the menu or using the Command + G keystroke combination if using a Mac or Ctrl + G if using Windows.

When items are grouped in a stack, a badge displaying a number designating the number of images in the stack is displayed in the upper left-hand corner of the image thumbnail. To view the images in the stack, click the number badge or choose Photo > Stacking > Expand Stack from the menu. You can also press the S key on your keyboard.

To browse the images in a stack, move your mouse pointer over the stack until two vertical lines appear on the background of the thumbnail and then click the lines. Using stacks is ideal for keeping track of images in a panorama or comparing various images with different exposure settings.

To ungroup stacked images, click the stack and choose Photo > Stacking > Unstack from the menu.

Quick Guide: To Group Files into Stacks, do this:

1. Select the files you want to include.

2. Select Photo > Stacking > Group into Stack from the menu.
   
   Or
   Press the Command + G keystroke combination if using a Mac OS or Ctrl + G if using Windows.

3. To view the images in a stack, choose Photo > Stacking > Expand Stack from the menu.
   Or
   Click the small number badge on the stack.

   

   Or
   Select the stack and then press the S key on your keyboard.

4. To change the stack cover image, open the stack, select the image you want to display as the cover and choose Photo > Stacking > Move to Top of Stack from the menu.
   
   
5. To remove an image from a stack, expand the stack, select the photo you want to remove and choose Photo > Stacking > Remove from Stack from the menu.

6. To unstack images, select the stack and select Photos > Stacking > Unstack from the menu
   Or
   Press the Command + Shift + G keystroke combination if using a Mac OS or Ctrl + Shift + G if using Windows.

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A handy way to import your photos into Lightroom is by using the Auto Import feature. How it works, is that you specify a watched folder; that is to say, a folder whose contents are watched by Lightroom. Whenever you add any new images to the folder, Lightroom will automatically import the images and store them in the destination folder that you specify.

As an example, whenever I plug my phone into my computer, any new images I have taken are automatically copied over to a Dropbox folder called Dropbox Photos. The next time I open Lightroom, Lightroom will take those images and move them to a Lightroom folder named “iPhone Images”. Then, I can go through them and decide if I wish to keep them, process them or delete them.

Quick Guide: To Auto Import Images using Watched Folders, follow these steps:

1. Select File > Auto Import > Auto Import Settings to display the Auto Import dialog box.

2. In the Watched Folder area, click the Choose button and then navigate to the folder that you want Lightroom to “watch”. Click the folder and then click Choose.

    

3. In the Destination area, click the Choose button and then navigate to your main Lightroom photos folder (or the location where you want to create your destination folder). Click the folder and then click Choose.

    

4. Click in the Subfolder name box and type in the name that you want for the Destination folder.

   
5. To apply file naming settings to your imported files, click the File Naming drop-down list and choose Edit. Modify any desired settings.
6. Under the Information area, add any Develop Settings, Metadata or Keywords as desired. For initial settings, Standard is a good setting to use.

7. Click the Enable Auto Import to turn on the feature.

   

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By creating Virtual Copies of your images, you can experiment on the same image using a variety of different settings. Virtual Copies act and look just like the originals, and you can apply settings to each one independently. But the beautiful thing about Virtual Copies is that they are not real files — they are only a set of instructions, which means they take up no extra space on your hard disk. Thus, you can create as many copies as you like without having to worry about running out of disk space. Note that any changes you make to a Virtual Copy do not affect the original.



To create a Virtual Copy, right-click on the image in the center pane or in the Filmstrip, and choose Create Virtual Copy. You can also use the keyboard combination Command + ' if using Mac or Ctrl + ' if using Windows.

You can tell which of your images are Virtual Copies by the Page Curl icon on the bottom left of the image, which displays when you view a photo in Grid View from the Library Module.



In the Develop module, Lightroom adds the text “Copy 1”, “Copy 2”, etc. after the file name of any virtual copies.

Quick Guide: To Create and Use Virtual Copies

1. Either from the center pane or from the Filmstrip, right-click the image of which you want to create a Virtual Copy and choose Create Virtual Copy from the contextual menu

   Or

   Click the desired image and press Command + ' if using Mac or Ctrl + ' if using Windows.

   Or

   Click the desired image and choose Photo > Create Virtual Copy from the menu.

   2.To delete a Virtual Copy, click the copy and then press the Delete key on your keyboard. Click the Remove button when prompted.

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If you are shooting in RAW format (as compared to JPEG), your files may appear dull and lackluster. The reason for this is that you are in essence telling your camera not to make any color or exposure adjustments in camera – the images are not processed in the camera at all. When shooting in JPEG format, the camera tries to correct the image to make it look the best as possible. One advantage of shooting in RAW format is that you have much more flexibility when it comes to post-processing your image, especially as far as white balance is concerned.  1profile

When first opening an image in Lightroom, some people like to apply an Adobe Raw Profile such as “Adobe Vivid” or “Adobe Landscape” to their image as a starting point. Adobe Raw profiles simulate options that you can set in your camera. Often, an Adobe Raw profile will adjust an image so that it closely resembles an image that was shot in JPEG format.

Profiles used to be located in the Calibration Panel, but they have now been moved to the Basic panel. The Profile drop-down list displays a few standard Adobe Raw profiles to get you started, but there are now many additional profiles available. To view them, click Browse on the Profile drop-down list to display the Profile browser or click the grid icon to the right of the Profile drop-down list.

Under the Adobe Raw area, you’ll find the standard profiles that you see in the Profile drop-down list. There are, however, several other categories of profiles, such as Camera Matching, Legacy, Artistic, B&W, Modern, and Vintage. The profiles in the Camera Matching area will vary, depending on the camera you’re using. Click the disclosure triangle next to any category name to expand the category.

As you move your cursor over a profile thumbnail, the image in the center screen changes to display a preview of the profile. To apply a Profile to the selected image, click the thumbnail for the profile you want to apply. If there’s a profile that you especially like and use often, you can add it to the Favorites category by clicking the Star icon.

A handy new feature with Profiles is that when you click on a profile thumbnail to apply it to an image, an Amount slider appears in the Profile Browser window, allowing you to control the intensity of the profile, much like we see with the Opacity slider in Photoshop. Drag the Amount slider to the left or right until the desired effect is attained.

You can also choose how to view the profiles in the Profiles browser by choosing Grid, Large or List from the drop-down list directly below the Amount slider.

If your profile window is becoming cluttered, you can hide profile that you rarely use. To do so, right-click on any profile and the choose Manage Profiles from the contextual menu. Then, uncheck any profiles that you want to hide.

What’s interesting about profiles, is that they don’t override any of your existing slider settings. For instance, if you apply a Preset to your image, it changes all of the sliders that you may have set. Profiles, on the other hand, act as an additional layer over your current settings and do not overwrite anything you’ve already done with the edit sliders.

Quick Guide: To Apply a Camera Profile to an Image, follow these steps:

1. Select the image to which you want to apply a profile. 
2.  If necessary, click the disclosure triangle to the right of the Basic panel in the right pane to expand the panel (or click directly on the words Basic).
   
   
3. Click the Profile drop-down list. 
4. Click the Profile you want to use.
5. To display the Profile Browser, click the Profile drop-down list and then click Browse.
   Or
   Click the grid icon across from the Profile drop-down list. 
6. To expand a Profile category, click the disclosure triangle next to the Profile name. 
7. To see a preview of the Profile, move your mouse cursor over a Profile thumbnail. The image in the center pane will temporarily display a preview of the Profile. 
8. To add a Profile to the Favorites category, click the star icon on the top-right corner of the Profile thumbnail. 
9. To apply a Profile to the selected image, click the Profile thumbnail. 
10. When finished, click Close in the Profile Browser.

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In addition to standard Collections and Smart Collections, there is one final collection that you can create and that is a Quick Collection. What this is, is a temporary collection that allows you to add images in one keystroke. Quick collections are a way to quickly group together several photos temporarily. Perhaps you want to give someone a quick slideshow or show a client some examples of your portfolio. This also comes in handy when you want to group images from several different collections.

To add an image to a Quick Collection, press the B key on your keyboard. The image is then added to the Quick Collection located in the Catalog panel. To save the images in a Quick Collection to a Standard Collection, right-click the Quick Collection and choose Save Quick Collection from the contextual menu. Then, type in the name that you want for your new collection.

By default, the Quick Collection is set as a Target Collection – that is to say, a collection that allows you to add images to it by pressing the B key. You can tell which folder is set as the Target collection by the plus symbol next to the name of the collection. To can change the Target collection, right-click on any Standard Collection and choose Set as Target Collection from the contextual menu.

To Add Photos to a Quick Collection, do this:

1. Select the images that you want to add to the Quick Collection.
2. Press the B key on your keyboard.
3. To view the images in the Quick Collection, click the Quick Collection item in the Catalog panel.
   
   
4. To set another folder as the Target Collection (instead of the Quick Collection folder), right-click the collection you want to use and choose Set as Target Collection from the contextual menu.
   
   

5. To clear a Quick Collection, right-click on the collection and choose Clear Quick Collection.

6. To create a new collection from the images in the Quick Collection:
   a. Right-click the Quick Collection and choose Save Quick Collection from the contextual menu.
   b. Type in the name for your new collection in the Collection Name box.
   c. To remove the images from the Quick Collection after saving the new collection, click the box next to Clear Quick Collection After Saving.
   d. Click Save.

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In the Presets panel in the Develop module, you may now notice that your presets are grouped together with the groups separated by a horizontal line. This is a new feature recently added into Lightroom CC Classic 7.5. For instance, presets that you’ve purchased from third-party vendors are now separated from those presets that come bundled with Lightroom.

But there is more that you can do to organize your presets. If your preset list has grown to the point where it’s become unwieldy, you can now choose to hide those presets that you seldom use. To do so, click the + icon on the right corner of the Presets panel and click Manage Presets.

Then, uncheck the box next to any presets that you don’t wish to display in the Presets panel. Those that are unchecked will no be hidden from view. 

You can always go back in at any time and check the box next to any presets you want to redisplay.

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The White Balance setting allows you to adjusts the overall color temperature of your image. Many photographers adjust the White Balance first before making any other adjustments to their images.



To change the White Balance, click the drop-down list on top of the Basic panel next to WB to display all of the White Balance presets that you can set: As Shot, Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Shade, Tungsten, Fluorescent, Flash or Custom. Note that these presets will only be available if your photo is in RAW format. If you’ve processed your photo as a JPEG or a TIFF, the only options available are As Shot, Auto, and Custom.

Many people use the White Balance Tool (the eyedropper icon) to adjust their images. To do so, click the eyedropper to the left of the letters WB, and move your cursor over the image. As you hover over the image, a preview displays of what the image would be like if you were to click on that location. Ideally, you want to click on a neutral tone such as light gray or white. When you click, the temperature of the image will automatically adjust.



Of course, you can just drag the Temp and/or the Tint sliders until the image looks good to you. Dragging the Tint slider to the left adds green to the image and dragging it to the right add magenta. Dragging the Temp slider to the left warms the image by adding yellow and dragging it to the right cools the image by adding blue.

To Adjust the White Balance of an Image, follow these steps:

1. Click the word Basic in the right pane to expand the Basic panel if necessary

Or

Press Ctrl + 1 if using Windows or Command + 1 if using a Mac.
2. Select the image that you want to edit.
3. To use the White Balance Tool:

a. Click the eyedropper tool located to the right of the letters WB.

b. Hover your cursor over the image until the desired white balance is displayed in the preview dialog.

c. Click on a neutral area of your image to set the White Balance

4.  To apply a White Balance preset, click the WB list and choose the desired preset.



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If you’ve set up your camera to shoot in JPEG format, your camera will apply various settings to your images such as white balance, contrast, saturation, and sharpness when it saves it. If you are shooting in RAW format, however, any such settings are discarded when you bring the image into Lightroom. Shooting in RAW format tells your camera that you don’t want the camera to apply these adjustments as you will apply them later yourself. RAW format is more flexible and offers more opportunity to recover image detail in overexposed or underexposed images than JPEG format.

There are a couple of instances where Lightroom handles JPEG files differently than RAW files. One of this is White Balance. Lightroom allows you to apply a variety of White Balance settings to your RAW images: Daylight, Cloudy, Shade, Tungsten, Fluorescent, and Flash. In JPEG format, however, the White Balance options are limited to: As Shot, Auto or Custom. Thus, when shooting in JPEG format, you want to make sure your White Balance settings are correct, as your options in post-processing are limited.



Another area where you may notice a difference is under the Profile options in the Camera Calibration panel. In JPEG images, the profile settings are applied in the camera and become part of the JPEG file. In RAW files, the profile settings are discarded, allowing you to apply them later on in Lightroom (or in another post-process application).



Many people confuse RAW processing with the RAW file format. RAW processing is the engine that Lightroom and Camera Raw (available in applications such as Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, After Effects, and Bridge) use to process an image. When using the Raw engine in Lightroom, any adjustments you make to an image are saved to the Lightroom catalog, not to the image itself, and even though you are using the RAW engine, you can modify other image types such as JPEG, PNG, PDF or TIFF as well. Thus, when adjusting an image in Lightroom, you are not modifying any pixels, only the instructions.

RAW format, on the other hand, is your camera’s proprietary image format when not saving in JPEG such as .DNG (Adobe’s RAW Format), .NEF (Nikon’s RAW format), .CRW or CR2 (Canon’s RAW format), or .ORF (Olympus’s RAW format). Each camera manufacturer has its own unique RAW extension.

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If you need to apply the same setting to multiple images quickly, you can do so from the Quick Develop panel in the Library Module. This is ideal if perhaps, your camera was set to an incorrect white balance during a shoot. Using the Quick Develop panel, you could quickly remedy this with a couple of clicks.

This panel has three main areas: Saved Preset, White Balance and Tone Control. Each of these areas has a series of buttons with arrows, with which you can make adjustments to a greater or lesser degree. For example, the single left-pointing arrow on the Exposure decreases exposure by 1/3 stop whereas the left-pointing double arrow decreases exposure by a full stop.

From the Saved Preset drop-down list, you can apply any Develop Module presets that you’ve created or installed.

The White Balance drop-down list provides the same options as the Basic panel in the Develop module. By default, the Temperature and Tint options are hidden however so you’ll need to click the disclosure triangle to expand them.

Under the Tone Control area, the Exposure, Clarity and Vibrance controls are visible by default. If you expand this area however, you’ll see the same controls that are in the Tone area, with the exception of Saturation.

To revert to the original settings of the selected images, click the Reset All button.

To Apply Adjustments to Multiple Images, do this:

1. Switch to the Library Module.
2. Switch to Grid View.
3. Select the images you wish to edit in the Filmstrip or in the center pane.
4. If necessary, click the words Quick Develop in the right pane to expand the panel.
5. To apply a Develop preset, click the Saved Preset drop-down list and choose the one you want.
6. To apply a White Balance preset, choose the one you want from the White Balance drop-down list. To fine tune the white balance using the Temperature or Tint controls, click the White Balance disclosure triangle and then click the appropriate arrow buttons to incrementally increase or decrease the Kelvin temperature.
7. Click the Tone Control disclosure triangle to display all of the available controls. To automatically apply Lightroom tone settings for Exposure, Black, Bright and Contrast, click the Auto button in the Tone Control area. To adjust individual tone settings, click the appropriate arrow buttons.
8. To return to the pre-adjustment state of the selected images, click the Reset All button.

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If you find yourself needing to work through a large volume of images quickly, then you may wish to turn on the Auto Advance feature. What this does, is once you’ve added a star, label or flag to an image, Lightroom automatically advances to the next image in the folder. This is the case whether you’re adding a new rating or updating an existing rating.

To turn the Auto Advance feature on or off, choose Photo > Auto Advance from the menu. You can also turn on Auto Advance by pressing the Caps Lock key. Auto Advance will remain activated until you press the Caps Lock key again.

If you want to turn on Auto Advance only temporarily, hold down the Shift key and then press the keyboard shortcut for the flag you want to add. For instance, if you held down the Shift and the 3 key, Lightroom would apply a 3-star rating to the image and automatically advance to the next image. Once you release the Shift key, Auto Advance becomes disabled.

To Enable Auto Advance, do this:

1. Select Photo > Auto Advance from the menu to toggle Auto Advance on or off (a checkmark next to it on the menu indicates that it is active)

Or

Activate the Caps Lock key on your keyboard.

2. Add a flag, star or label to an image to automatically advance to the next image.
3. To temporarily activate the Auto Advance feature, hold down the Shift key and then hit the keyboard shortcut for the rating you wish to apply. Release the Shift key when finished.

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If you wish to focus specifically on an image without distractions, you can use the Lights Dim feature to dim or completely black out the interface by pressing the letter L on your keyboard. The first time you press the key, the interface is dimmed. While the background is dimmed, you can still interact with the interface. For instance, you can click an

image in the Filmstrip to focus in on a different image. Likewise, the arrow keys on your keyboard allow you to navigate the images in the folder, even when the lights are dimmed.



To completely blacken out the interface, press the L key again. While you can no longer access the Filmstrip, you can still navigate through your images using the arrow keys on your keyboard. If you wish to display your image as large as possible on your screen, use the Shift + Tab keystroke combination before using Lights Out to hide the panels.

To return to the normal interface view, press the L key again.

To Use the Lights Out/Lights Dim Feature, do this:

1. For maximum effect, press the Shift + Tab keystroke combination to hide the panels. This will eliminate the black space around the image normally taken up by the panels.
2. Press the L key to dim the interface.
3. Press the L key again to completely blacken out the interface.
4. To return to the standard interface, press the L key again.

Tip: You can use the Shift + F keystroke combination to completely fill your screen with the Lightroom interface. Press Shift + F a second time to hide the menu bar. Press Shift + F a third time to return to the standard interface.

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A vignette adds darkening to the edges of your image, thus creating a nice finishing effect. It also helps to draw the viewer’s eyes to the center of the image. If you’ve already cropped your image, use the Post Crop Vignetting tool located under the Effects panel.

By using this tool, you can brighten or darken the edges of your image within the constraints of the crop. Note that this is different than a lens vignette which occurs when your camera inserts dark edges around an image (you can fix this from the Lens Correction panel by clicking the “Enable Profile Corrections” box).

To add a post-crop vignette, drag the Amount slider to the left to increase darkening or to the right to decrease darkening (you should generally avoid white vignettes, however). You can drag the Midpoint slider to set how far the vignette reaches into the image and use the Roundness slider to change the shape of the vignette. To modify the hardness or softness of the edges of your vignette (the vignette transition), use the Feather slider.

Vignetting should be added in minimal amounts, and it is best to avoid extreme darkening or lightening of the edges of an image.
Tip: To fix darkened edges in an image caused by the camera lens, use the Amount slider under the Manual tab of the Lens Corrections panel.

To Add a Post-Crop Vignette to an Image, do this:

1. Click the Effects panel in the right pane to expand it.
2. Drag the Amount slider to the left to darken the edges of an image or to the right to lighten the edges of an image.
3. Drag the Midpoint slider to specify the reach of the vignette into the image.
4. Drag the Roundness slider to change the shape of the vignette.
5. Drag the Feather slider to modify the hardness or softness of the vignette edges.

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Lightroom’s search feature is both flexible and powerful, in that you can search for photos by keywords, file name, caption metadata or attribute (ranking, labels, rating, flagged status) and this is all accomplished from the Filter bar on top of your screen. If the Filter Bar is not visible, choose View > Show Filter Bar from the menu or press the \ key on your keyboard. From the Filter Bar, you can search by Text, Attribute or Metadata.

From the Text tab, you can search by a specific category such as keywords, filename or caption or search in any searchable field.

The Attribute tab allows you to filter your search by flag, ranking, rating or label. This works exactly the same way as the Filmstrip Filter Bar that we worked with earlier – select those attributes that you wish to display.

The Metadata tab allows you to search by any searchable metadata. By default, Lightroom displays only three metadata columns: keyword, camera, and lens. To add another column, click the fly-out menu icon on the top right corner of any column and choose Add Column. Then, click the title of the column and choose the field by which you want to filter your photos. Likewise, you can click the title of any of the columns to change the field that is displayed. You can also filter by more than one entry in a column by holding down the Command key if you’re using Mac OS or the Ctrl key if using Windows and then selecting the desired multiple items.

If you move to another tab, make sure you click Done or click the tab for any previous searches to remove that filter from your results. One Metadata filter that you might find handy is the Date filter. This allows you to narrow down your search by Year, Month and Day, thus eliminating the need to organize your folders by Date on your hard drive – Lightroom does it all for you

A recent feature in Lightroom is the ability to quickly find images that are edited or unedited. To do so, choose Edit in the Library Filters Metadata browser (change one of the Metadata columns to Edit). This will display how many photos in the current folder or collection are edited or unedited. You can also click the Edited/Unedited toggle icons on the Attribute bar of the Library Filter, as well as on the bar above the Filmstrip.

 

To Find Images Using the Filter Bar, do this:

1.  If the Filter Bar is not visible, choose View > Show Filter Bar from the menu or press the \ key on your keyboard. You will need to be in Grid view for the Filter Bar to display.

2. To filter by text: a. Click the Text tab on the Filter Bar. b. Click the Text drop-down list and choose the field by which you want to search (to search any field, choose Any Searchable Field from the list).
c. Choose the desired logical operator from the second drop-down list. 

Then type in the text you wish to find.

d. When finished, click None or click the word Text on the Filter Bar to toggle it off.

3.  To filter by attribute:
a. Click the Attribute tab on the Filter Bar.
b. To filter by labels, click the color box for the label or labels by which you want to filter.
c. To filter by star, click the number of stars you want to filter by. To choose the way in which Lightroom filter by stars, click the icon to the left of the stars and choose rating is greater than or equal to, rating is less than or equal to or Rating is equal to.
d. To filter by flag, click the flagged, unflagged or rejected icon or any combination thereof. 
e. To filter by edited or unedited, click the Edited icon or the Unedited icon. 

f . When finished, click None or click the word Attribute on the Filter Bar to toggle it off.

4. To filter by metadata:
a. Click the Metadata tab on the Filter Bar.
b. To change the Metadata field for a column, click the name of the field on top of the column (the title) and choose a new field from the list. 


c. To add another column, click the fly-out menu icon on the top right corner of any column and choose Add Column. 

d. To filter by metadata, choose the desired element in any of the columns. To choose more than one element in a column, hold down the Command or Ctrl key as you select.
e. When finished, click None or click the word Metadata on the Filter Bar to toggle it off.

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