Lightroom Tip - Color Label Sets
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
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
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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