Adobe Lightroom is an app that’s filled with all kinds of helpful features that can make life easier for you once you learn they exist. Here’s a 10-minute video by photographer Evan 5ps with 14 different tips and tricks that he uses on a daily basis.
Here’s a quick rundown of the different tricks covered (watch the video to see how they’re used and what they can do):
- Jump from Library to Develop by hitting the ‘D’ key
- Change your background color by right clicking on it
- Easily straighten your horizon by hitting Cmd/Ctrl key to open the Straighten tool
- Change your crop orientation by hitting the ‘X’ key
- Straighten out lines using the Transform panel
- View your photo in isolation by hitting the ‘L’ key
- Hide and show panels using the Tab key
- Increase slider length and precision by dragging the panel open more
- Make small slider adjustments by hovering your cursor over them and pressing the Up and Down keys (holding Shift adjusts in larger increments)
- Adjust your brush size using the ‘[‘ and ‘]’ bracket keys. Holding Shift adjust feathering.
- Copy photo editing settings by right clicking photos to paste them onto another photo
- Remove Develop modules panels that you don’t need by right clicking and unchecking them
- Selectively sharpen portions of your photos by hitting Alt/Option and using the Masking slider in the Detail panel
- Clone/Heal in a line instead of a point by holding the Shift key between clicks
If you’re just starting out in Lightroom Classic CC, these are helpful things to know to edit your photos more efficiently.
Source: petapixel.com