- Bonjour mesdames and messieurs, in this quick video
I wanna show you the ten short cut that I've been using
the most on Lightroom for the last ten years.
You know, you get some habit with using different short cuts
and I'm really curious to see what short cuts
you use the most, and please leave a comment on this,
I'm gonna show you the short cut that I use the most,
from the one that I use the least,
to the one that I use the most.
Here we go.
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Starting in number 10 position, Control + M for panorama.
You select all three photos,
and if you go here to Photo Merge you can see that
Control + M is gonna basically photo merge the three photo.
Number nine it's the HDR.
You select three photo in HDR, normally exposed,
under exposed, over exposed.
You select all three and Control + H
and boom it launches the HDR window.
Okay, number eight.
The X key when you use the crop.
So, I often do photos for like social media for Facebook,
and I have this kind of landscape cropping,
but now let's say that I got to four by five
and I wanna make this into like an Instagram photo.
If you press X, it's gonna rotate between landscape
and portrait and you can go directly
and do your Instagram cropping right away.
Number seven.
E for full screen mode.
So let's say I wanna go see the photo in full screen,
I press E and boom, it's in full screen mode.
Number six.
G for grid mode.
If I wanna put this in the grid mode,
I can press G and I can say oh I want this one
and I can press E and go back to this one
or press G again, get this one and press E
and go into full screen mode.
Sometimes it's more convenient than just using
the bottom of the strip here.
Number five, N for survey mode.
Don't ask me why, but survey mode is amazing.
So, survey mode basically is this.
You, I'm gonna select a whole bunch of photos
that I kinda like and let's say,
so I'm pressing the control key,
I'm selecting a whole bunch of photos,
you know, maybe that you wanna use for a magazine,
or something, I don't know which one is the nicest,
and I'm just selecting different photos like this,
and then I press N and bonus key is Shift + Tab,
if you press Shift + Tab you go into full screen mode
and I'm like, oh, okay, I don't like this one,
I'm gonna take this one out.
Oh, I don't like this one, I'm gonna press X,
and you can by elimination decide which one you really want
and every time you take one out,
the other four gets really bigger.
So N is something that I use a lot, with Shift + Tab.
And Shift + Tab puts you back into the normal mode.
Control + F to find a photo.
So Control + F, for example I click on all my photos,
I press Control + F and I type a sea for example,
and it's gonna take me all the photos that are taken at sea.
So that's something that I use a lot.
Number three, we're getting to the top of the list.
B for adding to the Quick Collection.
Now this is something I use all the time.
So for example, you see here,
I've got different collections, I can click on New HDR
and I can right click
and say Set as a Target Collection, all right?
And now, I can go for example, I can click here
and go to Folder in Library and let's say I wanna add
this photo or that photo or let me go to another collection,
I wanna add this photo of Ansel Adams to the New HDR.
I can press B and now it's added here in the new HDR.
You can see it's here.
Let's say I want to add this photo, B, B, B,
and all it does it just adds in the Target Collection
the photos which is really cool.
Number two, the label system.
So the label system is something I use all the time,
so let's say I want to isolate this photo as being an HDR.
I can press for example six on my keyboard,
and that's gonna set the label to red,
six on the keyboard red, red.
I can filter just by red photo, I only have the red photos,
which is here, and you know I can go back,
and that's something I use a lot,
so let's say for example I want to look at all my
panoramas and all HDR really fast.
So I press six it's gonna give a red color to this,
six, six, and then I have a, let's say an HDR here,
which I already did and now I can filter by red,
and I have my panorama and I have my HDR.
That's something I use all the time.
And short cut number one is the star system.
The star system is really the way I work.
Basically what I do is whenever I go through my photos,
whenever I do a photo shoot,
I give a one star by pressing number one,
to a photo that I think has potential.
If the photo is amazing,
I'm seeing it has a lot of potential, I give it a two.
Otherwise I just give it a one, and I go through
all my photos by giving one to all the photos
that I think have potential.
I just give them, one, one.
And then I filter all my one photos and then I go through
again that photos, and sometime I bump up to,
like this is, this one I can say oh, I'm gonna give it two
stars to this one and a two star to this one.
This one I'm gonna give it zero,
and I go through all my ones and I give some of the photos
two stars for example.
Okay, and you just press two on your keyboard.
And then I filter by two and usually that's the one
I'm gonna retouch and once they are retouched,
you know for example,
I'm just doing a really quick retouching,
and once they are retouched I give it a three stars.
And then all the retouched photos have a three star.
I've been doing this for 10 years,
and boom now I've got, this one is not retouched,
I've got all my retouched photos that have three stars.
So what up?
I hope this inspire you to use the short cut,
don't forget to like this video
and don't forget to leave me a comment and tell me which
shortcut you like the most or you use the most in Lightroom,
and also, check out my last week videos on whether or not
retouching is cheating.
I got a lot of comments on this video, check it out.