What is your FAVOURITE Lightroom tip?

[Victoria Bampton]

Go on, we've all got them!

If you could only share one LR tip which you find useful or clever, that isn't the most obvious thing under sun, what would it be?

My favourite is the number of different ways you can sync develop settings while in Develop mode, particularly when you combine AutoSync and Previous. More information here.

So what's yours....?

 

[theturninggate]

Learned the hard way, Cmd-S has got to be my favorite LR tip.

 

[DonRicklin]

Just press 'T'

A Roy Nuzzo favorite!

:cheesy:

Don

 

[Sean McCormack]

A variation on the Roy trick... (Hahahahaha When I think of Roy and T!)

To briefly hide and reshow the tool bar, press and hold the T key. When you press and hold T, it hides, when you let go, it comes back..

 

[Clicio Barroso]

A variation on the Roy trick... When you press and hold T, it hides, when you let go, it comes back..

Mine is a variation of that one...
When in Loupe mode, press and hold the spacebar.
The image zooms in while the spacebar is pressed; release it and it zooms out.
Cool!
8)

 

[Sean McCormack]

Another 2 (similiar) ones like that is with holding L for a temporary Lights Dim and holding Shift L for Lights Out.
Also Holding down S to Expand/contract stacks

 

[DonRicklin]

And one more. pressing and holding G from Loupe will go back and forth from Grid the same way (can even select a new image while holding G). and works from either Loupe view, fit or larger.



Don

 

[Clicio Barroso]

Pressing and holding G from Loupe will go back and forth from Grid the same way (can even select a new image while holding G). and works from either Loupe view, fit or larger.

Hey!
I didn't know that one!
Nice tip, Don.

 

[Sean McCormack]

I've liked these enough to put a post together, which also expands on some of them, along with more. It's taking forever to publish though!

http://seanmcfoto.com/lightroom/2''7/1'/hold-on.html

 

[Clicio Barroso]

Sean,

Left a note on the blog.
Thanks for getting them together.

 

[Sean McCormack]

Saw that Clicio. BTW. I hate you. Well not really, but I love your work. It's really the stuff I'd love to be shooting.

So you like scroll galleries? Well here's one for you then:
Make sure you activate your logo (I assume your ID Plate is your logo).
http://seanmcfoto.com/lightroom/image/Clicio.zip


And here's my fake Clicio gallery

http://seanmcfoto.com/fakeclicio

And yes that is over retouched muck, hastily chosen at random!

 

[SteveF]

I got this one from "Killer Tips" I think.

One can use the "\" key to toggle between a before and after version to compare them.

 

[Victoria Bampton]

Great tips guys, keep 'em coming!

 

[Rob Sylvan]

Mine is applying a crop ratio to a group of images in Grid view, then jumping into the crop tool to tweak as needed.

- from Grid view, select a group of images that you want to apply the same crop ratio to
- expand the Quick Develop panel, expand Saved Preset
- click the Crop Ratio drop-down menu and choose the desired ratio or enter custom

You'll see the Grid view previews update with this new crop ratio. Press R to jump to Crop and reposition/resize the crop rectangle as needed without having to set the crop ratio each time.

 

[FredT]

When in Loupe mode, press and hold the spacebar.
The image zooms in while the spacebar is pressed; release it and it zooms out.
Cool!
8)

A variation on that: in loupe mode or Develop, click and hold mouse button will zoom in to the area at which the cursor is located, release zooms back out. Lets you quickly check a specific area. Moving the cursor while the button is pressed will drag the image around.

 

[hoddo]

I like

'Shift + Tab' to expand your image and temporarily hides all the side and bottom panels. Press them again to reveal them.

 

[hoddo]

Oh!

and another one -

'Shift + Enter' to play a slide show

 

[Mark Sirota]

The Targeted Adjustment Tool

Apparently, not everyone knows about the TAT. That's something that has no equal elsewhere, certainly it's on my long list of favorites.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/adobe_lightroom/discuss/721576'25596'6939/

 

[Clicio Barroso]

Saw that Clicio. BTW. I hate you.
Make sure you activate your logo (I assume your ID Plate is your logo).
http://seanmcfoto.com/lightroom/image/Clicio.zip
And here's my fake Clicio gallery
http://seanmcfoto.com/fakeclicio

http://seanmcfoto.com/fakeclicio

Sean,

Don't hate me; I just happen to like the girls, sweet, fragile and lovely girls!
Thanks a lot for the .zip, and I liked the pierced girl with the round light; very nice pic!

 

[Sean McCormack]

Aww.. I don't hate you, but I'd still love to be shooting more beauty stuff!

 

[Richard Earney]

Shift+Number Keys - to rate and move on
Shift+X to Reject and Move on

Such superb time savers!

 

[Sean McCormack]

It's much handier to simply press caps lock once, than shift everytime Richard. But you knew that anyway.

 

[Steve Crane]

Holding down Ctrl/Cmd to temporarily switch to the straighten tool in crop mode.

 

[theturninggate]

I think Sean's trick for formatting captions in web galleries ought to be in here. I've only just found his article on it tonight, and it's a fantastic tip!

 

[joebarrett]

My tip is to make sure you 'right click' on your Print presets

My tip is to make sure you 'right click' on your print presets and choose 'Update with current settings' if you want LR to save and update your changes.

The same applies to the slideshow and Web presets.