Photography - Light room and Task 2

What is lightroom -  it is a program used to organise, store and develop  images.

What are the advantages of lightroom -

• manage / organise photos easily 
• non destructive work flow 
• develop photos like camera raw in photo shop 
• auto save + history to go back 
• before and after views 
• virtual copies 

I used light room for this task to organise all the photos i took during the studio shoot lighting task. 

I started by making a new light room catologue and importing my images in by using the add fuction, i used add as i allready had a copy of the negative files save to my harddive so only wanted to add them in.

becuase of this when i removed my hard drive  the files went off line  but as i had built smart previews when importing i could still veiw the images, if i click on the ! i could try and relocate them.  

another way files can be imported is from another catalogue, how ever i didn't have any in another catalogue so i didn't use it. 

I then went through and organised all images , i colour coded them depending on who was in the image , stared all the ones i like best and added key words. This organisation means that  when i want to try and find an image later on it will be a lot easier. I can do this by using the atribute or text function to find what i am looking for. 

I then made collections of the images that i thought were best then put them into categories depending who was in them. 

I then ognised these collections into a collection set. 

One i did that i went through and edited my images, lightroom has the same settings as camera raw in photo shop that can be used to edit images 

It auto saves these changes which you can go back through in the history, the history is also coppied if you make a new catalogue of the images. 

You can also send images to photo shop if you like as both programs are run by adobe 

and use before/after to see what the changes look like 

I then wanted to make some of the images black and white, so i made virtual copies of these , which allows me to change the image of the copy without effecting the first one. 

I only edited one of the coppies  then i selceted all the ones i wanted to be black and white  and synchronised them . 

 I then went into survey veiw to compare my images and select the ones i wanted to export.

I then added a water mark to the images  before exporting them 

I also exported one of the collections as a new catalogue 

The advantages of doing this means that it keeps light room more organised and tidy without having 10000 of files all over the place.