Use Enable Painting to speed up Image Editing
A little used function of Lightroom is “Enable Painting” which can be found under the Metadata main menu item. Enable Paining will activate the Spraycan mouse cursor as well as a series of Paintable options from the Toolbar.
If you now examine the Toolbar at the bottom of the screen you will see a click-able menu next to the word Paint. If you do not see this then try pressing the ‘T’ key as you may have toggled off the toolbar.
You have a lot of flexibility as to what can be painted. Note painted here means applying edits to images by clicking with the Spraycan cursor. Keywords, Settings,Metadata etc.
Note you can further refine the chosen settings with the right hand menu. The example here shows the options available for the Develop Settings.
Once you have chosen your settings just click on an image thumbnail to apply it.
Very simple but not often used I suspect!
November 19th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
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January 6th, 2010 at 10:48 pm
Hi Joe,your tips are the best online,far better than Adobe,and heaven forbid you ever want to try and contact them.It recently took me 5HRS to get my LR2 app running after being cut off twice on phone. Keep up the great work,regards.