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what I'm doing to prepare for a world trip all around the world for a few
years
and I talked about the year i'm going to be using also updating GPS data
in Lightroom in this episode were gonna talk specifically about logging still
photos and so the work that I'm going to be doing I'm gonna be publishing a lot of
images
on my blog spontaneous world as well
as I'm writing some photography books I have to make sure that my images are
prepared for those books
and of course I'm gonna be making more exploring photography video so a lot
of those stills have to be
prepared for video as well I need to be able to do that very very quickly so
we're going to into Lightroom
gonna be able to update the meta-data tagged photos
and then use export presets and publish folders to do all the work for me
automatically so that's what we're gonna talk about in this episode
and we're gonna do a lot of stuff very very quickly so we're gonna jump into
Lightroom a show you a few tricks but before we do that
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alright well now we are in Lightroom five and i wanna talk to you about
preparing
images logging them and preparing them for three different things one using in blog
specifically WordPress blogs
the second thing we're gonna talk about with these images here
is getting them ready for video and in third
you wanna talk about getting them over to book specifically placing them in
InDesign not normally we would talk about things like
going through your images these are the images I shot
a couple weeks ago as the images for the GPS coordinates
normally we'd go through here and we would select the images we want to use
not in our publications and stuff so I doing here and I
perhaps pick this image here press the P button
to flag that as pick I'd go through here and say you know what
that's a pretty cool picture and I pick that and so I'd have two choices
so we're gonna skip over that but I've got these two images that were gonna work with
today
and I can go in here to the attribute tag and say just show me the ones that are
flagged
and there we go we've got this Silverstream kinda thing here in this
copy shop what I want to do is talk about this will
point copy shop in Phoenix and so we've got this little coffee
house out front we've got this sorta Outback this is a little
a camper that you can actually in the nicer parts of the year
opens up you can actually get coffee there eat outside it's really sort of a
cool
little coffee shop from back kinda deal so what I do is talk about that
so what we gonna do is create our Featured Image I'm gonna make this the
coffee
front of this and so let me show you what our blog looks like so spontaneous
world is the blog that Lex and I
created for as a cataloging our adventures around the world
so you can see this is a standard WordPress blogs a nice template
with that featured images that are used in the top bar here that scroll through
so you can kinda see what's going on with different
articles here now if I go into the actual blog you'll see the same images
show up on as featured images
if I go into one of the articles itself you'll see again we've got this big
banner across the top
and then if I go down here got some small thumbnails that if you click
you'll see that they pop up this is all standard word press stuff that you've
seen a million times before or we can also go into like this
right here this backpack Jenga article that lex wrote and you to see that this is an
actual image that's in
the the article itself so its not in
a gallery it's just placed in so we'll make sure that we got these all prepared
so we can
upload them to our blog and they show up correctly
and the other thing this image at the top if we resize
the block its resized as well as part of the
template that we have so this ones going to be a pretty big image
so large screens will have a nice for image as well
now that we know how these are gonna be used let's go over to Lightroom see how
easy it is
to prepare it so this coffee imagery here this is what I want to use for my
featured image so what I want to do is go to the developed module
then I'm gonna click on the crop tool and this featured image
needs to be a sixteen by six aspect ratio really wide
to do that over here on the aspect ratio
you can use a shot and thats if you go in here and start
cropping that's going to keep that same aspect ratio or you can use a custom
aspect ratio
and you can see that I have a sixteen by six custom aspect ratio
how do I create that super easy you can just go here and click
enter custom and I wanna say I wanna make one up here
some might call it five by I don't know
12 sort of a weird one but there you go a five by 12 aspect ratio
and now when I click this little scrolly here you can see that five by
12 is part of my custom
aspect ratios Lightroom will store up to five of these so when you enter the
sixth one
the first aspect ratio that you create is gonna fall off it'll store up to 5 of these
so I want to use 16 by six that's the aspect ratio that
our blog uses so I've got this here, I will crop this
in just a bit I'm gonna straighten it out just a hair bring that
over and i like it I may go with that hot enter
and now I have a nice crop image that can be used as a featured image
let's go back to the library module, hit G to go back there now we've got this
image here this is of that sort of
Silverstream notice on the right hand side
under meta-data I have these captions
and so if you go you've got all these different EXIF and IPTC
there's one that's called large caption and allows you a really large space
to write captions and so I've already written in here Silverstream coffee shop
in Phoenix Arizona
and you'll see this comes into play quite a bit as we go through this
I'll zip over here also entered in this coffee
image here coffee shop in Phoenix all right let's see how all this
comes together the key to all these things are custom exports
and you can do like you can expert something custom preset I'm sorry
a custom preset you can create a custom preset extremely easily
so all we're gonna do here is we're going to create a fake preset
just so you can see how it's used and I'll show you the ones that have
I've already created
so what we're gonna do here is we're gonna grab an image then go to File
export click and they will have this
export one file we had this little a dialogue here the promising a million
times
we want to export this to a hard drive and we're gonna say
we want to expertise to a specific folder we're going to put this
in a folder called fake blog and then when I want to do is I want this
image to be a JPEG image Quality of eighty
sRGB because it's going to be used on screens and
We're gonna type in let's say 800 pixels wide
the resolution is good we're gonna sharpen this for the screen and we're gonnaI
use
all metadata to except the location info and you can
create anything you want here so I'm just gonna use those as my starting point
and after the import I'm going to show this in Finder
now when I can do is, I have all of my settings created and normaly you would just click
export I don't want to have to create these over and over and over again so I'll do
on the left-hand side here you'll see their presets that are created
I'm going to add a preset and so this preset is going to be called
lets call it 800
pixel image.
create whatever you want and then in the folder we create a new folder called
fake blog
and this is really cool because. I say create here
now you can have this export
thats already setup so I'm gonna click cancel here
in the future if I wanna export one or 10 or a million files
all I have to do now is go file export with preset
800 pixel image if i click that
it's going to use all the settings that we've already created
The folder name the image size, all the sharpening everything's there
if I hit space you'll see this is 800 pixel wide image
it's all set up in our folder called fake blog
So thats how you create a custom preset so what I want to do now
is show you how you can a export these so I'm gonna say
export spontaneous world 1000 pixels normal
and its gonna say where. I've created this so will ask me where
to create this on the desktop create a new folder and called
temp blog is a temporary blog file
say open and ok it exports that
and there it is 1000 pixels wide ready to go for the blog
and the other thing I want to do is export this guy here this coffee
so I say export with preset I've already set up a 1600 pixel wide
featured image so I'll click that its already
a set up to be the exact size they want same folder
I'll click export that's all done
it's going to zip through this file really quickly and you can see on this
one that actually had a renamed to feature
image and if I click that you can see it's all set up as well
and we zip over to our spontaneous blog
blog I can create a new post
and what I'll so I'm going to add media
what i'll do is upload a file select the file I want
uploaded some my desktop called temp blog
and here's my first image this is the image of
that camper I click Choose
there goes notice over here in the title
silver gulfstream shows up and in the description
Silverstream coffee shop in Phoenix Arizona shows up
where did this come from well to go back over the Lightroom
you'll see that in my
meta-data here if I say quick describe
you can see that I have a title
silver gulfstream captions Silvergulf Stream Phoenix Arizona
and that matchs that it's pretty awesome
then I can start using those in my blog ,I'm not gonna creat this post but you can see
that's how you set things up for blog it's very very easy
and quick. alright now let's talk about getting things exported
for video now this is a little bit different I'm gonna show all the different images
here
for video and for books one of the differences
is instead of exporting once you might wanna exports something
and then have to update over and over again maybe crop it a little bit
differently
update the meta-data perhaps do some different develop presets it's not like
you're
editing it once in being done you might have to tweak it a little bit
and for that you might want to have a folder that automatically
is updated with all the images that you use and generally these images are used
over a long period of time
so if you have to go back and edit a video or maybe go back and edit a video
in just parts have that to use in a new project he want to have all those raw
files to still be available sounlike a blog were you just uploaded to the Internet
and then you delete them off your hard drive
these you want to hang around for a while so I've done is
on my video drive I have actually created
a at folder here called
videos, and then
up here we have a folder called ADTV stills those are Adorama TV stills
and you'll see that it's totally empty I've just created that
as a placeholder, so we can create this video
so now what we're gonna do is how do you take these video
images these stills images and music video andup date a folder
over and over well that the key to that is something called publish
services these are very very similar to
export presets the difference is their lives. So as you
update folders and images and
it will actually tell you hey your folder on your hard drive is out of sync
with the images
in Lightroom let's take a look what we're gonna do here is on the right
we're gonna click this little plus button and we're going to go to the publishing
manager and in here what we're going to do
its we're going to add a new
service and this is going to be hard drive and the name for this
is ADTV video
stills so create that
all right now we have this description ADTV video stills
what I wanna do is export these to not the desktop
I don't want to do that I want to go and choose a folder
on my video drive here and we want to go to
our videos ADTV stills that's where we want these to go.
so now that we have those will leave the the names normal
when ago here and we're gonna have these export as JPEG
files we wanna crank these up so there pretty high quality so we'll have them
about
eighty that seems to work just fine sRGB is
perfect for this we want to resize these were gonna resize the long
edge what we wanted to you is, normally
our videos are 1080 so all say 1080 as the height
of our image and we're gonna sharpen these for screen. We're gonna leave
all the meta-data in there and that's good
so what we'll do is save that now what I can do
is notice we have this little folder here called ADTV stills
and I can go in here and grab a few of the images
so I'll take this we'll take this just drag it over
tob ADTV stills now if I click on this
we'll see that there are three images that need to be published
when I click Publish what's happening is this is the same thing as
exporting images it can apply all the settings that we created the image sizes
custom names or whatever you need to do and its storing those
go over here to finder its storing those in the folder that you set up so
here they are
so we have this image here we have this image here we have this image here.
now watch what happens if I go in lets say to this
image and we're gonna go to the developed module and I'm gonna make it
lets say black and white fine that's cool and now
when we go back to our ADTV stills notice this says modified photo
to republish so it knows that we've modified something on our Lightroom
a catalog thats out of sync with the folder that we created
I clicked publish its gonna overwrite that file in the folder
with a new file so now if we go back over this folder
we can see that there it is to black and white image now
now the beauty of that is if you're editing in Premiere
I what will happen is it will automatically pull
the most recent image so if you have one person it's editing images and another
person thats
editing video you don't have to worry about getting new assets over and over again
as long as you both pointing to the same hard drive
everything stays in sync and that's the beauty of published
folders and publish services. Now I'n gonna show you one more thing really really
quickly
we're gonna use the same strategy for updating books so I going to InDesign
you'll see that I've created this little frame here it doesn't matter if you
know InDesign or not this is just an image placeholder
what this will do is it will automatically pull meta-data
from our image and create a caption
so check this out what we're gonna do here is we are going to go back to our
develop module
in our library module here and we will go to
our most recent data
there we go get this guy right here so this is our image that we shot downtown
and I go down to our described here
our large caption and I'm gonna say skull lady
in Phoenix there we go
So I've got that you know what I will do here now
is I'm just going to drag this
to my little published folder here called on the go
and noticed that shows up I will click Publish
now watch what's gonna happen here this
photo here is going to be published with the settings that I created
and if I got it InDesign I will click
my little Photoshop file here dragon in
and notice skull lady in Phoenix shows up
and the way that that happened is in InDesign there something that's called
object and then we can do captions
and you can do caption set up and you can tell it
what to pull it from we tell it to pull from a description
once I have that setup then it will go to
this automatic pull that from the image itself
so in designs that some really cool features the bottom line is
as your logging images think of these different things
export presets and public services as ways to automate
what you're doing so it doesn't matter where these are going if it's
going to a book
going to a blog going to video you can create presets or published
services that automate everything for you to keep everything in sync
it's really awesome so dig in and try some of these things
yourself. Alright well that's a ton of stuff that we just learned in Lightroom
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