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Lightroom Tip - Color Label Sets

Joe.Barrett@image-space.com — 2008-07-04T14:40:49+01:00

I would guess that most people do not use Color Labels.
They can be useful, as Lightroom allows you to edit and prepare custom color label sets. Color Labels allow you to add an extra level on information say for flagging images to be printed, deleted or archived.

Make sure that the Color Labels are turned on for your thumbnails by checking Show Rating Footer check box in the View / View Options menu.

Once selected you will see the square Color Label icon underneath the thumbnail. Note, you may have to cycle through the thumbnail modes using the J key to see them. Now click on the square icon. A pop up list appears which will allow you to quickly assign a color flag. You can assign a color flag in a number of different ways. Probalby the quickest way is to use the numerical keys, 6 through 9, though for some reason, only the first four color lables have shortcut keys!

If you want to assign your own color labels you can do so using the menu item Metadata / Color Label Set / Edit. This brings up a dialog box which will allow you to define you own set of five labels. The defaut alternative ones are also worth playng with.
Hope this helps.

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Lightroom Tip - White Balance using RGB Percentages

Joe.Barrett@image-space.com — 2008-07-01T10:44:11+01:00

When setting the White Balance in Lightrooms’ Develop Module you have to look for a neutral area of the image. This can be somewhat of a trial and error process.

I find an easy way is to focus my attention on the RGB pecentages as I move the white balance tool around likely areas.

You are looking for all three RGB values to be as near to 50% as possible. Then click with the white balance tool and the white balance is set.

Works well. Not rocket science - but it works.

Try it and see.

Update following comments feedback

You should make sure you pick an area of the image which you know should be neutral for this method to work properly - a grey color of some kind. The tip is more about getting the RGB values right once you have selected the area in the image.

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Lightroom Beta 2 Tip - Stacks Dual Screen Workflow

Joe.Barrett@image-space.com — 2008-06-20T08:28:45+01:00

Lightroom beta 2 has a Secondary Display mode, which as you would expect, allows you to use two displays - note Lightroom 1.4 does not support dual displays.

I have been playing with the Secondary DIsplay option and have found a really useful configuration for working with Lightroom image Stacks.

Open Lightroom in Library Module mode and bring up a screen full of thumbnails which includes some Stacks.

Set the Secondary Display mode to Survey as shown below.

As long as you are in the Survey Mode you will get a secondary display window which shows all the images in the Stack. This is a fully working Survey window which you use as normal - clicking the X in the bottom right to reject an image. Here is how make this work.

If you click on a Stack thumbnail you will get a single large version of the image which is at the top of the Stack.
Now, click the numbered Stack Icon in the top left of the thumbnail. All the images in the Stack will now be shown on the Secondary Display view.

This setup at last makes Stacks work well in Lightroom.

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