Getting Up to Speed Fast on the New Lightroom
Scott introduces the new Profile-based workflow, including the new B&W profiles, the Creative profiles, and other important new upgrades and updates in this latest version of Lightroom (note: these new profiles are in the latest Lightroom versions: Classic, CC and Mobile).
Release Date: 2018-04-03
Lessons
What Raw Profiles Are (and why they matter)
If you understand why RAW and JPEG files look so much different from each other when they come out of your camera, then it helps to understand why they look so different when they appear in Lightroom. This is more important than it sounds (and it will you get this whole profiles thing).
Duration: 4 mins 17 seconds
Applying RAW Profiles
Adobe created a new default RAW profile (the first new one in 11 years, called Adobe Color, and he’s why it’s better, and how to apply it and other RAW profiles options at the start of your editing workflow.
Duration: 6 mins 14 seconds
Converting Your Images to Adobe Color
Here’s how to use Auto Sync to convert a whole collection (or Folder) full of images that you already had in Lightroom to this new updated Adobe Color default look for your RAW images.
Duration: 2 mins 28 seconds
Accessing the Old Legacy Profiles
Here’s how to access the previous RAW profiles from older versions of Lightroom.
Duration: 7 mins 45 seconds
Converting to Black & White Using the New Creative B&W Profiles
It’s a whole new world when it comes to converting to Black and white now, thanks to these newly introduced B&W profiles, and a hidden B&W panel that only appears once you’ve converted to black and white.
Duration: 4 mins 14 seconds
Dehaze’s New Home
Adobe relocated Dehaze to the Basic panel, and here’s how Dehaze works on its own globally and why you sometimes might want to apply it using the Adjustment Brush instead.
Duration: 3 mins 9 seconds
New Lightroom Mobile Features
Here’s how to use the newly added Upright and Guided upright features.
Duration: 4 mins 14 seconds
Using the New Auto Feature and Other LR Additions in the Past 6 Months
Besides the newly released features, there are some important other features added in the past few months that Scott included, including converting Folders into Collections; creating Collections from Map Pins, and using the new AI-machine-enhanced Auto feature (and how to tweak it for better results).
Duration: 7 mins 39 seconds