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Lightroom – Virtual Copies

Lightroom – Virtual Copies

Lightroom is an amazing tool, it not only allows you to catalog your photos and batch process them, it also allows you to create many copies of the same image, but virtually. So you don’t use up valuable disk space playing with different editing processes. Creating multiple copies, then of course allows you to view them side by side in Lightroom.

So, how is it done.
Start with the original and process that as desired.

When you are happy with the image, right mouse click in it or its thumbnail and select ‘Create Virtual Copy’ another thumbnail will appear next to it, with a “folded corner”.

As well as the virtual copies icon, you’ll see how many images are in the ‘stack of photos’, if stacking is turned on and the filename show a copy number too. Again, if that option is selected in view options.

Now just edit that photo as before. You can reset the settings to put you back to the original, or just continue with those as a starting point.

You now have the option to create as many as you like. When you’ve finished, you can select the edited thumbnails and press ‘N’ on the keyboard to give you a Survey Mode.

So, it’s that easy to create different versions and you can happily keep all of them knowing that you are not using megabytes of disk space.

Learning Lightroom

Learning Lightroom

With my photography I use Lightroom software. I use it to manage and edit all my photos and for good reason. It is an excellent piece of software.

I shoot using the RAW setting on the camera and this gives me great editing power over my photos.

As I am a tutor by trade, I also offer tuition on Lightroom to help photographers, both pro and amateur get the most of their photography.

As you can see using the software can really help with tricky lighting when shooting landscapes. It is also great for just lighting up photos and getting details back.

As well as creating in interesting feel to a photo that might otherwise seem a little dull.

Its other major power is cataloging your photos with many features to help you sort, whittle down, compare and more importantly find your photos quickly!

I offer the training on a 1-2-1, please contact me for more details.

Interesting First Quarter to the Year

Interesting First Quarter to the Year

It’s been an interesting start to the year.

On the tutoring front, I’ve continued Lightroon tuition, done some Mac basics sessions, more Lightroom & helped the same person with studio lighting setups & product shots and lastly fixed an email problem for a lady who’d been having problems for months.

With photography, I’ve done 2 maternity shoots, plus our own. A promotional shoot for an osteopath, lingerie shoots, bodyscapes, a couple ‘statues’ shoot and a fashion shoot!

What a great first quarter of the year! Looking forward to the next quarter.

Oops, September

Oops, September

Oh dear, where did September go? Although not as busy as I could be, September just seems to have gone.

So what happened in September? Well there was more web development on going, but this is nearly finished now. I did a great materials photo shoot on a Friday at the beginning of the month followed by another on the Monday! Also photographed another stage in a stages maternity shoot.

I’ve also done more Lightroom training. A busy month for that, helping one person with an emergency and a new customer too as well a some photo shop training.

Nat and I also did a mini lighting session to learn some new lighting techniques and expand our knowledge.

So all of that and all the usual things means that September has passed with only this blog entry. Not really what I wanted, but its been busy.

October, must do better!