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well those were some really really fun
shoots that we did in Chicago and gary
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indiana and now we're back in the studio
and just as important as what we do out
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on location is how we handle the files
back in the studio in terms of asset
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management and post-processing and
retouching so I want to walk you through
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my process in Lightroom and Photoshop
how I use those tools and a bunch of
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ancillary tools plugins and hardware etc
in order to get the kind of images that
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I do so the first thing to go over is a
little bit of background information
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about how I set things up in order to
work with Lightroom but first and
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foremost one of the first things I want
to mention that I do when I get back is
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I copy the files off the cards onto the
computer and you'll see that I've done
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that here typically this would just
these cards folders that say card one
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and two on the desktop here would
actually be compact flash cards or St
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cards and I would then copy the contents
so we will get back to that in a minute
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but I did want to mention that that that
is the first thing that I do is my first
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line of defense that first backup so you
know I don't erase the cards I put them
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in a safe place on got them backed up
here on the computer as well and
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typically all duplicate that as well
onto an external hard drive so let's
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take a look at about let's take a look
at rather how I set things up with
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Lightroom Lightroom one of the strongest
things about lightroom is its ability to
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have presets set up a preset for only as
smart as what you tell them you need to
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know exactly where to go like if you
have an export preset for example in
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order for you not to have to set up over
and over again exactly what folder
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that's gonna that export is gonna go
into what I do is I set up things that I
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called statically orders were those that
they are folders that don't move they
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remain in the same position and they are
kind of Bulgaria's where all my jobs all
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my experts will go there no matter what
kind of job it is at center ice 09 and
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then I just move those exports to the
correct job holders that I need so
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static folders are really important to
another area and those will typically
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live in my user folder you can see here
in my user folder let's go here you've
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got things like blog me client album
image selections print orders I used red
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card for my as my gallery so red card
proofs export slideshow images etc have
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also gotten shoots folder where I keep
all of my shoots right there and then on
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my desktop this happens my watermark
happens to live in a folder on my
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desktop it could easily be in by User
folder but it just happens to be where I
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kind of set it up so that's where it
lives right now and you just open that
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up and you'll see here that I've got my
water marks in there in various formats
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and I used up with up tool called
modified which I will talk about later
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for Lightroom does a better job of
watermarking then laterooms on-board
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tool I just got a crisper better-looking
image by doing that so let's go back
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over here to our shoots folder and take
a look at this fall at the top level
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folder here called 00 folder blacks now
open that up here that is a kind of
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boilerplate template folder structure of
a bunch of folk group of folders that I
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don't have to set up every single time I
don't have to recreate every time I do a
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job so I had this is a duplicate this
folder every time I wanna important job
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and to Lightroom and I just a ton of
time not to mention that this is Kevin
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composers workflow so you definitely
want to check out kevin is good good
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friend and an awesome a Lightroom and
Photoshop instructor target etc
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author just an all around great guy
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and this is kinda his workload have
adapted it to make my own but it
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definitely is based on on his original
work force he doesn't want to check out
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kevin's Lightroom instruction also under
your classroom so basically in this
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folder I've got here a bunch of
subfolders original cars were all copy
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of the original cards in there and got
some cards and folder setup already to
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take those to put each of those cards
into and I do that I can't be in each
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card individually into an individual
cards folder so that there are no
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problems with overwriting files in case
the camera has turned over while I'm
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shooting in terms of the file numbering
and I don't want any problems with that
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so that helps to alleviate that problem
then they are digital masters that's
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where all of my my D&D conversions and
any kind of work that I do in Photoshop
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will live the gallery slideshow prints
album etc that's what kind of
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straightforward and then a Lightroom
catalog this is an empty catalog that
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I've created and it's called it renames
so that I remember that I have to rename
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that catalog as well so close this is
the first thing that we want to do is
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duplicate that folder so down my control
key here on a Mac and I will duplicate
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that go and the first thing that I want
to do is named this folder say digital
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classroom
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and Chicago
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be this bored here to rename have given
us one name because I can highlight it
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and I don't have to do anything more is
ready for me to paste in the name that I
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just copied to the clipboard digital
classroom Chicago and there we go that's
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ok so the next thing I want to do is
take this group of folders and I want to
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move this entire thing into the
appropriate category of job and in this
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case it's going to be education of God
client took a commercial work personal
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work etc so just move this into
education in their open up our Lightroom
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empty catalog here the reason creating
this catalog in addition saves time but
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it also allows you not to have to
recreate the wheel every time you're in
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Lightroom there are certain things that
you have to recreate like elections and
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certain preset some things that you
don't have to redo alright so we've got
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our empty calibrated you can see that is
an empty catalog no images in their
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ready to go
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collections got some collections in
there let's move this down here so let's
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copy in our files from our cards to
smooth this over here
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select all of this article were
pretending that these are compact flash
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cards mounted bring this over here and
just moving them in this case but I
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would be copying them
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here so like all of these bring this
into
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ok so now we will reject our cards
excellent alright so now one of the
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things that we can do in order to get
our Import dialog box launched and