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Tip Tuesday: Share a RAW Image, Preserving Your Edits

Tip Tuesday: Share a RAW Image, Preserving Your Edits

Posted by | Jan 15, 2019 | , |

In the Library module, click on your RAW image, then under Metadata, choose Save Meta­data to File (or just press Command-S [PC: Ctrl-S]). This saves an XMP file (called a “sidecar”), along with your exported original RAW file (as seen in the inset above), and this XMP file contains all the edits you made to this image in Lightroom. If you were to give these two files to someone else and they opened this RAW image in their copy of Lightroom (or in an application that supports XMP data, like Adobe Bridge or Photoshop, for example), that RAW image...

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Tip Tuesday: Kerning and Leading

Tip Tuesday: Kerning and Leading

Posted by | Jan 8, 2019 | |

In type, kerning is the space between each character and leading is the space between each line of text. They get their names from the old days of movable type presses. Strips of lead were placed between each line of text to set the line spacing. The kern was the overlap of the metal type over the slug. Okay, now that you have some useless knowledge, let me give you something useful. To adjust the kerning, place your insertion point between two letters, hold down the Option (PC: Alt) key, and tap the Left or Right Arrow keys on...

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Tip Tuesday: Batch Rename

Tip Tuesday: Batch Rename

Posted by | Dec 25, 2018 | , |

Have you ever had to rename a bunch of files? Maybe DSC34565.CRW isn’t a descriptive enough name? Or maybe you want to rearrange the files and give them a sequential filename to keep them in order, or even build a time-lapse sequence. Whatever reason you may have, it’s easy! Open Bridge and select all the files that you want to rename. Right-click and choose Batch Rename. You’ll see a dialog with lots of options, including the option to add sequential numbers.    This tip originally published in the March, 2016 issue of Photoshop User magazine, in Colin Smith’s Photoshop...

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Tip Tuesday: Undoing Changes in Lightroom Classic

Tip Tuesday: Undoing Changes in Lightroom Classic

Posted by | Dec 18, 2018 | , |

To undo your last step, you can use the regular ol’ Undo keyboard shortcut, Command-Z (PC: Ctrl-Z). If you press it again, it undoes another previous step, and then another, and so on, until it gets back to how the original image looked when you imported it. If you want to see all the edits and changes you’ve made to the image since you imported it, go to the Develop module’s History panel (in the left side Panels area), and there, you’ll see each edit listed in order (with the most recent at the top). You can click on...

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Tip Tuesday: Printing Multiples of the Same Image Per Page in Lightroom’s Print Module

Tip Tuesday: Printing Multiples of the Same Image Per Page in Lightroom’s Print Module

Posted by | Dec 11, 2018 | , |

There are a couple of different ways, but we’ll start with probably the most-used method, which is choosing how many rows/columns of images you want on your page. In the Page Grid section of the Layout panel (in the right side Panels area), if you choose 1 for Rows and 1 for Columns, you get one image (makes sense, right?). If you want more than one image per page, you just increase either the number of rows or columns. For example, if you drag the Rows slider to 3, you will now have a page with three images stacked...

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