Comments on: Lightroom Fundamentals

By: jrista

jrista — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:39:18 +0000

The next article in this column will be about the Import process in Lightroom. If anyone has tips, tricks, or a little gem of uncommon insight about the import tool, please respond here! I would like to incorporate as much knowledge as I can about the Import screen.

By: jrista

jrista — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:01:31 +0000

@ARegularReader: Well, first, you might try one of those books on etiquette…seems like you could use a bit of a refresher yourself. Second, I know this is currently a wall of text, however I have no intention of leaving it that way. I promised our resident blog manager that I would get this article published by Sunday, and to do that I had to publish without any screenshots. I intend to add several to break up the article as soon as I can, however I do have other responsibilities in life as well…not the least of which is moderating PhotoSE itself. So, show a little respect, and the task of reading this article will improve in a couple days.

By: jrista

jrista — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 02:58:52 +0000

Thanks! I will definitely address culling in detail when I describe the import process. Culling is a specific aspect of library management, and I did not want to go into extensive detail about specific parts of the larger workflow in this article. Don't worry though, culling will be a critical part of one of the next two articles (not sure if I want to include that as part of the import step, or as part of the initial library management that immediately follows import).

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:34:40 +0000

In fact, you can cull in the Library by just merely clicking on X to 'Reject' and then you can simply delete all the rejects through the menu.

By: David Pollitt

David Pollitt — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:36:24 +0000

jrista, great article! I should take the advice that you give and actually spend some time tagging and adding metadata up front, but man is that hard!

One thing I think would make sense to point out even in this introductory article, is that you should really cull photos in the Library module and not the Develop module. It is much, much faster to view the JPEG previews in the Library module and rate or categorize your images as opposed to the Develop module which grabs the full RAW image. So before heading to develop to play with sliders, stick in Library to cull!

By: David Pollitt

David Pollitt — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:33:37 +0000

First of all, you are right, that was written WAAAY back in 1997. An average monitor in 1997 was probably 15", 800x600, and horrible to look at for any amount of time. That article is completely dated in every way possible. People are reading things on iPads, iPhones, Android, 2560x1440 Apple Thunderbolt displays, and the like. Nice constructive criticism! This is a group blog, you do better!

By: ARegularReader

ARegularReader — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 08:48:57 +0000

Good lord, could that writing have been any more dense? Try writing for the web next time if you actually want people to read it. Short paragraphs. Bullet points. Scanability. Surely you’ve heard of these concepts? Jakob Nielsen cracked the code waaaaayyy back in 1997, but it looks like you could use a refresher: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9703b.html