Lightroom Tip - How to Change the Default Backup Location
The default backups are kept in
/Pictures/Lightroom\Backups (Mac) or
\My Documents\My Pictures\Lightroom\Backups on PC.
You cannot change this location directly via a Preference or Options setting. You have to do it via the Scheduled Backup dialog box which will pop up when it is time for your next backup.
To force it to open sooner and make the location change do the following.
1. Open Lightroom and select Catalog Settings from the File menu.
2. Select Every time Lightroom starts from the backup section.
3. Restart Lightroom
4. When the Back Up Catalog box opens you can then
set a new location for the backup folder.
This allows you to backup to any drive, internal or
external, even an USB key drive or iPod.
Try it and see for yourself.
Let me know if this tip helps you.
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Lightroom Multiple Image Dust Spot Removal
You can use Lightrooms Copy function in the Develop Module to semi-automate the removal of sensor dust spots from multiple images.. This short article describes how to do this using Lightrooms' Copy Tool.
Read the full Auto
Dust Spot Removal using Lightroom article.
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Lightroom Tip - Display Exposure Bias on Thumbnails
An easy way to identify the sets of images to use is to set Lightrooms View options to show just capture time and exposure bias.
You can further refine
this by grouping the images using stacks and capture
time. The images are then displayed in groups and you
can easily see which images belong together.
The information on the
thumbnails, above, allows you to identify and ensure
that you include the right exposure biased images.
Try it and see for yourself.
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Lightroom Tip - Display Context Senstive Key Summary
This will bring up an overlay screen with all the key combinations for the Module you are in.
Below is the overlay for the Library Module.
To clear the help screen
just click on it.
Try it and see for yourself.
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Lightroom Tip - Keep the White Balance Tool Active
Once you have set the
white balance the Eye dropper disappears. That is
unless you have un-checked the Auto Dismiss Box on
the Toolbar. Note the Toolbar needs to be active to
do this. Press the 'T' key to toggle the Toolbar.
Try it and see for
yourself.
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Lightroom version 2.0 - My Top 5 Requirements
So here are my Top 5 feature requests for Lightroom v 2.0 having used it from the very first beta.
- Ability to display a JPEG with the same 'settings' as was used to capture the image in the Camera. Most of individual camera manufacturers have this in their software (Nikon's Capture NX for instance) but this data is probably not available to the Lightroom Team.
- Selective image editing of just small areas of an image. The Targeted Adjustment Tool is good but TAT edits affect the whole of the image.
- Dual Monitor support. I really miss this as a 'long time ago' Aperture user!
- Better cloning and patching tools. The dust spot removal is much better that it was but I want to avoid round tripping to Photoshop
- Inclusion of some of the cataloging and smart searching functionality that Aperture has.
What features would you like?
Link to Scott Kelby's Lightrooom Post
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