The "cute" Painter tool in Lightroom Classic enables you to quickly apply metadata to specific photos while browsing multiple images in the grid view display. In this quick video, you'll learn how you can quickly switch keywords while applying those keywords to photos using the Painter. Want more tips like this? Check out my "Lightroom Quick Tips" course on GreyLearning, part of the "Mastering Lightroom" bundle of courses. … [Read more...] about Quick keyword switch with the Painter tool in Lightroom Classic
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Final Cut Pro X Basics: How to organize your clips using keywords and favorites
While there are a lot of different ways of organizing your clips, in the video below, using Final Cut Pro X, I am going to show you one way to organize your video clips using keywords and favorites and then how to quickly place them on the timeline. Watch the video https://youtu.be/PkzmIrHrk9U Thanks for watching and I hope you found this helpful! … [Read more...] about Final Cut Pro X Basics: How to organize your clips using keywords and favorites
Organizing multiple shoots from one memory card
Typically, it’s best to dedicate a memory card to one shoot. After the session, you import your images into your computer, rename them, add a few keywords, then format the card — in camera — for the next shoot. This is a solid workflow until you're forced to photograph multiple sessions or subjects on the same memory card. Worry not, here’s a simple workflow to help you organize multiple shoots from one memory card. The organizing concept This organizing concept can be used with both Mac and Windows, Lightroom, On1 or Skylum’s new DAM … [Read more...] about Organizing multiple shoots from one memory card
ACDSee Ultimate 10 – How To Get Your Photos Organized With Categories
How would you describe the subject in this photo? As a Fox, a Red Fox, or Vulpes vulpes? Baby, pup, or kit? Animal, mammal, canine, vulpine? The answer is all of them, and more! With wildlife photography there are many ways to classify and describe an animal. As your image portfolio grows, it becomes more and more important to have a good system for categorizing and keywording your photos so that once you have found a home on your hard drive for them you can find them again. This way you can find your images and get the right ones to those who … [Read more...] about ACDSee Ultimate 10 – How To Get Your Photos Organized With Categories
Fast & Easy Photo Keywording from the Cloud
If you ask a random group of photographers what their favorite things about photography are, odds are "spending hours keywording images" is not on anyone's list! Keywording is a task that is easy to put off. I am guilty of this and quite often behind getting it done. I've set aside a specific "keywording" day on the calendar, used keyword lists to make it easier, I've even adked my wife to hide my memory cards until I get the latest batch of images done. For all of this, keywording remains my number one most procrastinated task on my … [Read more...] about Fast & Easy Photo Keywording from the Cloud
Mastering Keywords in Lightroom: Part 1
Keywording is one of those tasks that many photographers dread, put off, forget about, and then at some point in the future wish they had done more thoroughly from the start. I am guilty of this myself. Applying keywords (or tags) to your photos allows you to leverage the power of Lightrooms database (catalog) to help you find, filter, and organize your photos in a variety of ways (and it only gets more powerful over time). The only downside is that it is a manual process that we just have to make ourselves follow through on a regular basis. In … [Read more...] about Mastering Keywords in Lightroom: Part 1
