There wasn't a thread for this, so I thought I'd kick it off.

Partly curious, since there are so many seasoned photographers here who use Lightroom... workflow tips, anyone?

Some tips:

http://lightroomkillertips.com/

This post has been edited by TheWandererX: Jun 15 2011, 10:43 PM

Great thread. Currently, LR is the PP software that I use 99% of the time. Hopefully we can fuse the knowledge from all forum members regardless of their preferred camera brands.

I use LR too haha , easier and faster to process loads of new images.

me too. though the price are beautiful unless u got student license =)
its great. workflow? i love pick,unflag and delete~not to mention fast live raw editing.

Wondering.. what do you guys usually do after editing?

Save in a separate Catalog?
Export a copy of the processed image & delete from Catalog?
Save in main Catalog?

I'm curious.. picking photos and editing photos are fine, just wondering to what happens after.

This is also one of the reason why Malaysia is one of the best country to take up photography as hobby.

I wanna ask how much you all bought LR for -.-

A little over RM300 (student discount & bought from a friend), but I'm sure we got those *ahem* sites you can download off

Let's not touch on sensitive topics, shall we? Later kena banstick

Waiting to enter college to be eligible for student discount.

less than a year left. Sigh.


LR rocks la.

LR to have the most versatile workflow. here my workflow after importing all images :
1. LIBRARY = use 'pick' to choose usable + great photos
2. then go to DEVELOP = filter all the picked photos, edit them,export them
3. LIBRARY again = 'reject' all broken, underexposed,not in good composition, no value ( i shoot RAW, but still some are died)
4. see through again all photos(i shoot so many images,forgot to do shutter count...), rejected photos i delete forever. photos like 50:50 i left unflagged.

5. after few months, burn all the photos into DVD according to session and functions. (its RAW,its eat your HD in raw)

thats all the functions that i use for daily usage.

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Added on June 10, 2011, 11:17 pm---yeah,RM 320 if im not mistaken. use your cousin name~akikiki


This post has been edited by kuihbahulu: Jun 10 2011, 11:17 PM

Some of the nice preset i get from here Lightroom Killer tips

A question, why every raw far i import to lightroom, the contrast will +25, is that normal?

You might have accidentally clicked on 'Apply During Import'. Check the fields to the top right of the Import dialog.

My workflow, which how most professionals do as how i understand it.

1. Shoot subject, multiple times, different settings/angles/etc. important ones, or underexposed/overexposed/not in ideal environment ones i shoot in raw.
2. Go back, insert memory card to pc. run lightroom
3. import everything. One catalog per camera (my NEX3, Pen EE2S, Fuji X100, all different catalog)
4. go through every image, the ones that i want/need, i press 5 for 5 stars. additionally, ones that i wanna upload to facebook, i flag it as blue. useful because once you upload the images in albums, copy the download link so you can link it everywhere on the net (like use the img tag in lowyat, for instance)
5. filter the non 5 star images, delete them permanently. No point saving gazillion semi-good or almost good images... that's why you gotta practice taking as much as you possibly can. Rule of thumb: take all possible perfect images during the shoot and save editing time.
6. Develop the image
7. do the sharpening at the final stage. since lightroom's editing workflow doesn't destroy the image, it's unnecessary to make a copy - unless you wanna make multiple, different editing styles of the same image lah. Either use the sharpen slider, or your own plugins, like Nik's Software for instance.
7. Select the blue-flagged ones, make a new album if needed, upload to facebook. you can make it private if the images in the album are only for posting in lowyat or internet, for instance.

Added to first post for reference (:

So photogs, I'd love it if you guys dropped by & share your workflow with us

i like to use LR aso..but want to know what's is include in the software when u purchased it?any free upgrade?

Lightroom 3 is d best, with nik software plugins, its become easy as ABC with all presets

Lightroom can't do colorsplash like photoshop right???

I like to use lightroom coz it's fast n easy, one downside for me is unable to put nice watermark, anybody can advise? Using CS5, i make the signature into a brush, like a chop, can chop anywhere in the photo

Possible with the right presets. Possible to do it manually too - you also gain full control over the end result if you do it manually.

You can put a 'nice' watermark. Make a watermark image, and when you're in the Export menu, scroll down to Watermarking, and customize your personal copyright. (: