From the course: Lightroom Classic: Tips and Quick Fixes

Using the exercise files - Lightroom Tutorial

From the course: Lightroom Classic: Tips and Quick Fixes

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Using the exercise files

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- If your membership includes it, I put together a collection of hands-on exercise files. These are a series of my own personal photos, as well as a few pieces from client work, and some photos from my good friend, Robert Vernelli, who's a portrait photographer. What I've done is try to pull together a collection of images that will represent typical problems that you'll often encounter. Now, in some cases, I've already partially corrected the images so that we're only focusing on the task at hand. So if we're talking about adjusting the color of the sky, the image may already have its tone properly corrected. What I'm trying to do here is just really zero-in on specific problems so you can learn to fix just that. Some of the files are DNG files, and some of them are also high dynamic range DNGs which were created using multiple exposures. You'll find the class available in the online library that walks you through how to work with HDR images in Lightroom, as well as bracketed photos if you'll like to explore this workflow in greater depth. I often use these HDR DNGs because they give you greater flexibility when you work with dynamic range. Other times, I've just taken basic raw files from many different cameras and have standardized them to the DNG format to make it a bit easier for you to use them. This will allow people to use the DNG format and keep a clean lesson folder to ensure that the files work with older versions of Lightroom. Be sure to download the files to your local computer. I'm about to show you how to bring them in to Lightroom, but do keep in mind that these files are made available to you only for educational purposes. So please don't use them in personal projects or repost them to the internet. To import them into Lightroom, launch Lightroom Classic. You can hold down the option or the alt key when you do so to create a new library if you don't want to import these into your current photo library. I'll make a new catalog here. And I'll call it LR_quicktipsCC. And choose create. Let's maximize that. Now, what we need to do is add the folder in. Click the plus button here and choose add folder. Navigate to the exercise files that you downloaded. You can select the folder and click choose. A new dialogue comes up. Select all photos. Make sure there's a check box next to that. You'll see the subfolders as well. You can choose to build previews. I recommend standard quality and smart previews. Don't apply any developed settings or metadata during import. Now click the import button. The folders are scanned and added in. You can track the progress in the upper corner here. And if you click, you'll see more details. It lets you know that it's building previews for the files which will take a moment, but this will speed up the performance as you work on your computer. Now there are a variety of photos in here, and these are going to help us as we work through the different exercises. For the most part, these are raw images. Make sure you choose the include subfolder option, and you check the all box to bring in all 70 images. You should see that the folder is added to your library. And you could see beneath here that there are additional subfolders. Once the previews are done being built, you'll get a dialog box and you can click OK. Now, it's going to be very easy to click on an individual folder that relates to each of the chapters here in our course. Once you've got these files downloaded and loaded into Lightroom Classic, you're ready to begin.

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