Adobe Lightroom 3 - Free Video Tutorials

Jason Hermann · January 17, 2011

A collection of my Lightroom tutorials

Lightroom 3 - Set-up and Importing
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Lightroom 3: Portrait Editing
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Lightroom 3: Droplets
Lightroom 3: Filters Panel Explained
Lightroom 3: Collections Explained
Lightroom 3: Teeth Whitening
Lightroom 3: Enhancing Eyes
Lightroom 3: Synchronizing Folders
Lightroom 3: Creating Custom Export Presets
Lightroom 3: Which File Format Is Better? .PSD or .TIFF?
Lightroom 3 & Photoshop CS5 HDR Pro Workflow
Lightroom 3: Portrait Editing Layla - Part 1 of 3
Lightroom 3: Printing and the Print Module Explained [/COLOR]
Lightroom 3: Developing Raw Images*NEW*
Best,
Jay

Cuong · January 17, 2011

Nicely done and very useful tuts.

Cuong

imagesofhim · January 18, 2011

Spent an hour browsing your site.

BRAVO!!!

Jason Hermann · January 19, 2011

Thanks

I just finished another Lightroom Video Tutorial on Filters:

Lightroom 3: Filters Panel Explained

Best,
Jay

Jason Hermann · January 19, 2011

Speed up your workflow in Lightroom by launching Photoshop Actions using Droplets. I use it constantly and I highly recommend you try it out

Lightroom 3: Droplets

Best,
Jay

Jason Hermann · January 26, 2011

New Video Tutorial. In this quick video tutorial we will go over teeth whitening.

Teeth Whitening in Lightroom 3

Best,
Jay

Jason Hermann · January 31, 2011

Here's a few more I just finished:

Lightroom 3: Enhancing Eyes
Lightroom 3: Synchronizing Folders
Lightroom 3: Creating Custom Export Presets
Lightroom 3: Which File Format Is Better? .PSD or .TIFF?
Lightroom 3 & Photoshop CS5 HDR Pro Workflow

Best,
Jay

Jason Hermann · February 3, 2011

In this New Adobe Lightroom 3 video tutorial 3-part series, we will go over a ton of portrait editing techniques including, spot removal, skin smoothing, eye enhancing, cropping, virtual copies, history palette, creating a custom BW preset and more.....

http://www.jhpvideotutorials.com/?p=2106

If you have any questions please just fire away here or under the video clips there is a comment area.
Thanks,
Jay

imagesofhim · February 3, 2011

Jason Hermann wrote: »

In this New Adobe Lightroom 3 video tutorial 3-part series, we will go over a ton of portrait editing techniques including, spot removal, skin smoothing, eye enhancing, cropping, virtual copies, history palette, creating a custom BW preset and more.....

Lightroom 3: Portrait Editing Layla - Part 1 of 3

If you have any questions please just fire away here or under the video clips there is a comment area.
Thanks,
Jay

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Jason Hermann · February 4, 2011

imagesofhim wrote: »

The link isn't working...

Sorry about that!

http://www.jhpvideotutorials.com/?p=2106

Best,
Jay

catspaw · February 4, 2011

awesome set of resources, thank you!!

Jason Hermann · February 15, 2011

You welcome Catspaw

Ready to start Printing??? Lightroom 3: Printing and the Print Module explained is now ready for viewing

Part 1,2, and 3.

Lightroom 3: Printing and the Print Module Explained *NEW*

Best,
Jay

MDalby · February 15, 2011

Wow... My new best friend. Thank you. I also can't wait to dig into the Photoshop tuts.

I appreciate the efforts.

MD

Jason Hermann · February 17, 2011

Right-on

Thank you for the comments!!

Best,
Jay

WinsomeWorks · February 21, 2011

Handy! I just looked at one of your tutorials. I've never had a copy of LR before, except a Beta version of LR 3 that I never had time to try. So... I just downloaded the trial version of LR 3 & am wondering if there's anything at all different about the trial version? Will I be able to use it just as if it were the real thing? Couldn't find out anywhere....

Anthony · February 21, 2011

WinsomeWorks wrote: »

[..]

Will I be able to use it just as if it were the real thing?

Yes.

Anthony.

Jason Hermann · February 25, 2011

Thanks for the comments guys

Hows your trial experience going?

Best,
Jay

WinsomeWorks · February 25, 2011

Jason Hermann wrote: »

Thanks for the comments guys

Hows your trial experience going?

Best,
Jay

Mine is going so-so. I think I'll like LR, eventually. (I've never used a Pieware program, or a database type of program, only Photoshop; CS 2 & CS 4. I never used Bridge, & 4 is still feeling new.) I've only used the PS portions of CS, nothing else. And I'm not a quick learner of new programs. I tend to focus in on the details & have a hard time getting the overall picture; I just don't understand yet how LR is "thinking", and am frustrated whenever there are too many ways to do one thing. I guess I need the absolute quick-start instruction. With almost any changes or additions I make to something in LR, I'm not clear on which files or folders it's applying to; there are so many ways to highlight something & many places it's showing up: Center of screen, upper left, lower filmstrip--- all gets confusing.

Your videos are immensely helpful though, and they're short enough that I can watch one or even watch it twice. Then I'll go back & try to have the video open at the same time as LR, & stop the video in certain places so I can try stuff. I should also watch them & take notes. I don't know if you can do anything about resolution in future vids, but one problem I have is that the normal or slightly larger mode aren't large enough to easily see what the words on the screen are saying, or to see your mouse pointer. If I switch to full-screen, it's pretty fuzzy. Everyone's tutorial vids seem to have this problem though, so maybe it's something you can't change. I find too too that I'm at such a basic level with general comfort in getting around a new program that I'm a little in over my head.

What I'm finding very confusing in LR are the following things:

1. The differences in selecting files, putting a check-mark on files, or putting files in a quick collection. (that last part happens w/ me not knowing how/why.)

2. The gazillions of options in all the menus, and not knowing what they do or why I should or should not choose them.

3. How or when changes getting made to a file are really getting made, and to where.

4. The difference between syncing (I've found 2 different types of syncing in LR, so they should have used 2 different wordings) and copying/pasting .... probably my biggest use for LR is going to be taking what color/lighting corrections I've done to one file & adding them to another file, or a whole group of files, so this is going to be critical.

5. I've gotten LR to recognize all my SmugMug galleries, etc. & am logged in, but can't figure out any way to actually export anything to SmugMug, or perhaps what they call "Publish". I fished all over the place & got nowhere.

Having said all this, I don't have a manual or instructional book yet, so these will hopefully help. I just put some in my Amazon cart but have to make some final choices. I wish there was a book on using Photoshop 4 & LR 3 together, but of course there's not. The other thing that will help is if I can finally choose an organizational method & start implementing it. I still haven't decided whether to go with a mostly chronological (date-based) method or not. Krogh, in the DAM book, gives so many reasons why NOT to go this way.... so, I dunno. Until I do that, it's hard to be confident about having LR create folders, etc. since I don't know what to tell it to call them. But, well... one step at a time... aaaargh!

Jason Hermann · February 25, 2011

WinsomeWorks wrote: »

Mine is going so-so. I think I'll like LR, eventually. (I've never used a Pieware program, or a database type of program, only Photoshop; CS 2 & CS 4. I never used Bridge, & 4 is still feeling new.) I've only used the PS portions of CS, nothing else. And I'm not a quick learner of new programs. I tend to focus in on the details & have a hard time getting the overall picture; I just don't understand yet how LR is "thinking", and am frustrated whenever there are too many ways to do one thing. I guess I need the absolute quick-start instruction. With almost any changes or additions I make to something in LR, I'm not clear on which files or folders it's applying to; there are so many ways to highlight something & many places it's showing up: Center of screen, upper left, lower filmstrip--- all gets confusing.

Your videos are immensely helpful though, and they're short enough that I can watch one or even watch it twice. Then I'll go back & try to have the video open at the same time as LR, & stop the video in certain places so I can try stuff. I should also watch them & take notes. I don't know if you can do anything about resolution in future vids, but one problem I have is that the normal or slightly larger mode aren't large enough to easily see what the words on the screen are saying, or to see your mouse pointer. If I switch to full-screen, it's pretty fuzzy. Everyone's tutorial vids seem to have this problem though, so maybe it's something you can't change. I find too too that I'm at such a basic level with general comfort in getting around a new program that I'm a little in over my head.

What I'm finding very confusing in LR are the following things:

1. The differences in selecting files, putting a check-mark on files, or putting files in a quick collection. (that last part happens w/ me not knowing how/why.)

2. The gazillions of options in all the menus, and not knowing what they do or why I should or should not choose them.

3. How or when changes getting made to a file are really getting made, and to where.

4. The difference between syncing (I've found 2 different types of syncing in LR, so they should have used 2 different wordings) and copying/pasting .... probably my biggest use for LR is going to be taking what color/lighting corrections I've done to one file & adding them to another file, or a whole group of files, so this is going to be critical.

5. I've gotten LR to recognize all my SmugMug galleries, etc. & am logged in, but can't figure out any way to actually export anything to SmugMug, or perhaps what they call "Publish". I fished all over the place & got nowhere.

Having said all this, I don't have a manual or instructional book yet, so these will hopefully help. I just put some in my Amazon cart but have to make some final choices. I wish there was a book on using Photoshop 4 & LR 3 together, but of course there's not. The other thing that will help is if I can finally choose an organizational method & start implementing it. I still haven't decided whether to go with a mostly chronological (date-based) method or not. Krogh, in the DAM book, gives so many reasons why NOT to go this way.... so, I dunno. Until I do that, it's hard to be confident about having LR create folders, etc. since I don't know what to tell it to call them. But, well... one step at a time... aaaargh!

Well, Based on the sounds of this you are off to a great start!! Lightroom is Very powerful just like photoshop, so inevitable there is going to be 5 ways to do everything. Everybody learns differently and my tutorials on lightroom tend to lean towards intermediate.

What I recommend is just keep it simple. Do your basic tasks and then branch out here and there as you get comfortable. Then if you don't know something that you really need to know, do a google on it. If you can't find it, ask here.

The quick collection issue is an easy fix! There is a little circle on the top right of the thumbnail image in Library mode. Hover over it and you will see it light up. Your accidentally clicking that. I've done it a million times.

As far as organizing your photos goes. I decided years ago the only way that works for me is by year. I have a monster database in lightroom with all sorts of hard drives hooked up. 1 of the external drives is on my Network and all my older photos are categorized by year. The folder structure looks like this:

Pictures> 2006> 022306> birthday.jpg

Pictures being the master folder, A 2006 folder within the pictures folder, A 022306 folder within the 2006 folder for that specific date, then within that folder the image birthday.jpeg itself.

I hope that helps,
Jay

Jason Hermann · May 4, 2011

I just finished a new 30+ minute video tutorial on developing raw images in Lightroom 3

Lightroom 3: Developing Raw Images*NEW*

DJT · May 4, 2011

Jason Hermann wrote: »

I just finished a new 30+ minute video tutorial on developing raw images in Lightroom 3

Lightroom 3: Developing Raw Images*NEW*

Awesome! I'll have to check it out soon. I've yet to use LR3 only because I have no time to learn new things...

Jason Hermann · May 5, 2011

Right-on

Thanks for the comments!!

Jason Hermann · May 16, 2011

New requested Tutorial:

Sharpening in Adobe Lightroom 3 is much more powerful than previous versions and in this video tutorial I will walk you through the process.

Lightroom 3: Sharpening Explained

Best,
Jay

Jason Hermann · July 14, 2011

Lightroom 3: Developing Photos - Episode #2
In this Lightroom 3 video tutorial I will take you through developing a really nice flower image I took a while back with the Canon 5D Mark II and the Canon EF 100-400mm f4.5-5.6L IS Lens. We will go over several techniques and tricks of the trade when it comes to utilizing the power of Lightroom 3.

Lightroom 3: Developing Photos - Episode #2 | JHPVideoTutorials.com

Best,
Jay

Adobe Lightroom 3 - Free Video Tutorials

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