Introduction to Lightroom. Part 2.

Creating a New Catalogue :

• Start Lightroom    (If it asks to backup then select ‘Skip Now’)
• Create a New Catalogue :-
• Select ‘File->New Catalog …’
• Name the Catalogue ‘YourName-Ex-14’
• Create it in a new folder on the desktop called ‘Lightroom Exercise’
• Import about 20 images into the catalogue :-
• Add some keywords to the images as you do this.

Keywords :

• Make sure the ‘Keywording’ and ‘Keyword List’ panels are visible.
• Select an image and add keywords for all the dominant colours in the image - 
• Click where it says ‘Click here to add keywords’
• Enter the new keywords (the colours) separated by commas.
• Press the ‘Return’ key. They will be added to the keyword list above, and to the Keyword List panel below.
• Repeat for another image with different colours.
• Add a keyword to a group of images –
• Select a number of images that all contain one of the colours already entered.
• Move the mouse over the colour in the Keyword List and click on the box at the left hand side to add the keyword to all the selected images.
• Create a keyword set 
• Click on the + sign at the top left of the Keyword List panel,
• Enter the keyword tag ‘Colour’
• Untick ‘Put inside “xxx” and ‘Add to selected photos’
• Select ‘Create’. It will be added to the keyword list and greyed out.
• Drag all the colour keywords into ‘Colours’

Selecting Images with Keywords :

• Move the mouse over the Keyword List panel and click on the arrow to the right of one of the keywords. All the images with that keyword will be selected.
• Click where it says ‘Filter Keywords’ and type a letter that is in at least one of your keywords. Type more letters to search for keywords containing that group of letters. This is useful when you want to find a keyword the list is very long.
• Select ‘View -> Show Filter Bar’ to turn on the filter bar. 

What is the keyboard shortcut for this ? \

• Click on ‘Text’ and type keywords into the entry field to select images with those keywords.
• Click on ‘Attribute’ and select combinations of ratings, Labels and Flags to select images meeting particular criteria.
• You can combine a keyword search with an attribute filter as well.
• Select ‘Metadata’ to select images based on their metadata. At the top of each column the ‘All’ option will clear that search criteria.
• Click on ‘None’ to clear the filter and select all the images.

Stacks :

• Select at least 4 images of the same subject. Eg pictures of the same building or person.
• Select ‘Photo -> Stacking -> Group into Stack’. 

What is the keyboard shortcut for this ? Command G

• Find 3 ways to expand and collapse the stack – list them here –
• Click on the number icon in the top left corner to expand and collapse
• S to expand or collapse the stack 
• Expand the stack and rearrange the images in the stack to move a different image to the top of the stack.
• Collapse the stack. What do you notice ? The image on the top of the stack changes to the one you have now put there

Virtual Copies :

• Select an image and then select ‘Photo -> Create Virtual Copy’.

What is the keyboard shortcut for this ? Command '

• Use the Quick Develop panel or the Develop module to make changes to the virtual copy. 
• Make another virtual copy of the same image and apply a ‘Creative Preset’.
• Click on the number in the top left corner of the one of the copies to make it the master image.
• Click on the number in the top left corner of the master image to collapse the group.