8 CRAZY LIGHTROOM HACKS TO CHANGE HOW YOU PROCESS IMAGES FOREVER!

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My name is Simon d'Entremont and I'm a professional wildlife and nature photographer from Eastern Canada. This video will reveal many of the "Rules" of photography, and when you should break them!

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[simon_dentremont]

What’s your favorite Lightroom trick that was hard to find or discover?

[janvandevliet]

I mostly refrain from making comments, but for this channel I make an exception.
I'm an amateur photographer, using 10y+ old tech.
Your channel provides useful tips and great techniques, enabling me to improve my skills. And whilst not being lured into the whole I can only say: thank you

[sskribbla]

You are one of the few photographers who always gives clear, concise and consistent information. I learn everything so much easier watching your videos

[guyguerra]

Simon, I've watched your videos on youtube for about a year, but only recently have I watched enough to realize how talented you are as a teacher, and how experienced you are as a bird photographer. You are one of my favorite bird photographer teachers now, and you have the personality to add to the joy of learning from you. I've appreciated everything I've learned from you so far. Guy

[Jwitherow]

YouTube is so weird I have been watching for years and only found you today, your channel is amazing

[urbani]

just thank you so much, 3 years now doing photos, and I learn more from your video than anyone else .

[RG-rmjt]

White balance using the eye dropper to select a white subject in your image. This little trick saves me so much time.

[NotAnotherChannel_Channel]

I really like the masking tool in sharpening that you mentioned. I also enjoy using AI sky detection in combination with dehaze. The newest version (13) has Point Color and Blur effects. These are a huge help.

[joshuajcrooks]

The new point color that Lightroom has is a very useful tool in my opinion!!

[SmilingFox]

I love that every time I visit this channel, I learn something new. Another well done educational video. Thanks Simon for consistently sharing easy to understand content.
Cheers. 📸😎👍🏻

Thank you so much. Been using LR for years and never knew about the alt-key masking. Super useful.

[johnray]

I find myself not using the Details for sharpening, I use the masking and select subject. Just wish we they put the "alt" feature there as well.

Did not know the dust spots! Appreciate it sir.

Love the bonus tip. Have to watch it a few times to ensure I got it correct, lol.

Good work sir.

[revanthvadlamudi]

The embedded and sidecar preview tips will save so much time! Thank you

[alexsemine]

For Before/After switching i prefer the key \. If you hold it, you see the Before while holding or if you press and release it will toggle between the two

[richardmaggio]

Not really a hack, but the lightroom "keyword" tagging feature is amazing at helping organize your photos. I have been photographing my son's soccer games and using keywords I can easily pull photos up by game and/or player(s). I had to provide 2 photos of each player to feature in a end-of-season video and this made it very easy to do. I then used color coding to denote which photos were selected.

Your channel has been an amazing help for me. I've only been doing this for 5 months and your channel really helped kickstart my skill and my enjoyment.

[sagetheowlfatfeathery]

Hidden feature I use is changing the grid overlay to assist with compostion; open crop tool, then press O repeatedly to give yourself different grid options. There are “golden section” grids there too; to get the one with appropriate alignment for your pic, press shift-O.

[wellsyboy]

The HSL Color panel has changed now in the latest Lightroom upgrade - for the better IMHO - the panel is now called the Color Mixer and has different and much better functionality

[FalloutUrMum]

I personally use Dark Table, but these tips still apply. The first tip is more used in the "Color zones" tool in Dark Table, but I find myself using it often. It's a great tip

[BradyReading]

Great video, thank you!

My tip submission: Instead of using jpeg previews for culling, an app like Fast Raw Viewer can be used to quickly decode your raw files directly. Keyboard shortcuts in app can then be used to send keepers and rejects to separate folders using only one keystroke so you can work through hundreds of photos in just a few minutes. All of your raw histogram data and other important info are right there available next to each picture and you can even compare and pick the best of similar shots all while maintaining the full range of the original shot instead of using processed jpeg to make those choices.

I use Fast Raw Viewer on MacOS and it’s blazing quick, I’m sure the windows version is fast as well.

[rickymundy]

Simon, Your tutorials are great and very easy to follow. Again thank you so much for sharing your skills. This was a very good tutorial especially the tutorial on culling unwanted photos. Thanks again Ricky