Lightroom

[loana0320]

I am trying to mess with Lightroom hubby got it for me last night.. and I open my raw files and than when I click import to photoshop and I finish editing there I try to save as I normally do to a folder save as it won;t let me save as a jpg... what am I doing wrong? hubby got me irfanview and asked me to just after that process to do a batch conversion but there has to be a way.... help?

[TxManx]

Lightroom saves the changes to your pictures in metafiles...so the pictures are never actually 'changed'...to 'apply' the changes, you must 'export' them to JPG or some other image format.

It's confusing at first, but extremely powerful when you think about the ability to go back and make small changes.

You can also make 'virtual' copies of your photographs to try different post processing concepts and compare them side by side...never worrying that the original file will ever be damaged...

[loana0320]

Thanks Ken... I will try to play with it some more tomorrow!

[HutchPhoto]

I think to save it as a jpeg you need to change it from 16bit to 8bit I had the same problem when I first got it..

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[Dobick]

Originally Posted by HutchPhoto

I think to save it as a jpeg you need to change it from 16bit to 8bit I had the same problem when I first got it..

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What Tim said -- change them to 8 bit as a last step, and save them as a jpg.

If you do most of the work in lightroom, you can always export to a Jpg after you have those changes made, but if you are doing more advanced photoshop edits, then you will also want to change to 8 bit and save.

[loana0320]

awesome Thanks so much :)

[HutchPhoto]

Enjoy Lightroom> ;-)

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[bands321]

I got it for Christmas and haven't had much time to play with it but I did come across some podcast tutorials, you might want to check them out on iTunes.

[HutchPhoto]

Originally Posted by bands321

I got it for Christmas and haven't had much time to play with it but I did come across some podcast tutorials, you might want to check them out on iTunes.

Could you post a link???


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[CincoJoe]

Just open iTunes and search Lightroom

[CincoJoe]

Here is a good site:
http://www.layersmagazine.com/category/lightroom/

[HutchPhoto]

Thanks Joe.. I will check her out...


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