Next Month, I’m Speaking in the UK at “The Photography Show”

It’s the biggest and the best, and I’m super psyched to be speaking there once again. It’s just six weeks away. I have a 20% off discount ticket code you can use (it’s SPKTPS24), but if you’re a working pro, you might be able to get in free (they have some stipulations, but if you meet the requirements, you’re in free). Here’s the link for more details. Hope I see you there!

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Join us for this 2-day extravaganza and capture the extraordinary—same passion, new techniques, and a whole lot of fun! Register early and save $150! More details and tickets (get yours today), at kelbyonelive.com

OK, no football this weekend, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be football food, so…well..there’s that. At least my team is guaranteed not to lose this weekend. Have a great weekend!

-Scott

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Here’s a great video from Adobe’s own Julieanne Kost on how to do exactly that:

Great video! Thanks, Julieanne.

I’m back from London and New York

Two great trips, nearly back-to-back, but I had a blast, got to see and spend time with lots of great folks, and now I’m back in the saddle (whatever the heck that means).

Congratulations to the folks at B&H Photo – New York definitely has a new trade show, as their BILD Expo absolutely rocked! Packed every day – tons of great classes and talks and demos – their Expo floor was sold out and packed, and it really felt like “the old days” of photo shows in New York, and everybody was loving it. Thanks to everybody who came out to my keynote – it was standing room only and such a great crowd to present to – I loved every minute! Thanks to B&H for having me – it was an honor to teach at such a well-run, classy, and fun event.

Lots more about my London workshop soon, but we had an absolute blast!!! Not a drop of rain – lots of great shoots and great work from everybody in the classroom. Plus, we had the perfect location as our home base. Can’t wait to share the details.

Have a great Monday, everybody!

-Scott

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First, to find it take the photo you want to add the border to into detail view, and when edits are finished, tap the Share icon to open the Border Options screen.

From here you might want to start at the bottom and work up by first tapping the desired border size. So, if this was going to Instagram and I wanted to have a canvas that was 5:4 I would tap that icon to start.

Next, adjust the Thickness slider to your liking. The thicker the border the smaller the photo.

And finally, choose your color. There are a series of preset color swatches you can choose from, or if you want to select a color from the photo, tap the eyedropper icon and move the color picker around the photo to find a color.

You can go back and tweak settings to dial things in just the way you want them, then tap the Share icon at the top to begin the exporting process.

From here you can share directly to a social media app or just save the copy to your device and share as you wish. A simple, but useful feature that I hope will appear across all versions of Lightroom in the future.

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Check out this great video from Adobe’s own Julieanne Kost, and you’ll see why this is such a big deal for photographers who edit on their mobile devices.

Thanks, Julieanne (and thanks Adobe for adding this).

Hope you have a kick-butt Monday!

-Scott

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We spent about 5 or so hours on the river, and I was so grateful for getting to spend the first day of summer in a boat (thanks, Dave!). There is an incredible abundance of life along those waters, and we saw dozens of harbor seals, multiple osprey nests, bald eagles all around, and even a few sturgeon jumping completely clear of the water. If you’ve never been to Maine in the summer you’re really missing out. At the end of the trip I popped the SD card out of my camera and used the Lightning to SD Card Reader to quickly view and download a few of the photos from the day onto my iPhone. Considering the size of the raw files from the R5, I only wanted to pick 5 or 6 photos to transfer, edit, and share before hopping in my car for the ride back to New Hampshire.

Some of my favorites were of this pair of ospreys coming into their nest on top of a buoy. I love the moment when a bird’s wings are completely open as they come in for a landing. One of the benefits of the R5 is all that resolution for cropping in just a bit tighter, so after adjusting the tonality and color, I cropped it as a vertical 4×5 for sharing on social media, and then used masking to selectively edit the osprey.

I had downloaded one other similar osprey shot, so once I finished editing the first one I tapped the 3-dot menu and chose Copy Settings to open the Copy Settings dialog where I could select all of the settings I wanted to paste onto the similar photo.

I was in a hurry to get on the road, so I just selected them all.

It is worth noting that if you have masks applied, you can tap into the Masking option and choose which masks you want to copy along with the rest of the settings. In my case I wanted both masks, but that may not always be the case.

With the settings copied, I switched to the next photo, tapped the same 3-dot menu, but then chose Paste settings to apply all the same settings to the next photo. Now the bird’s wings were not in the same position as the first photo, but the AI-based mask was for subject, so Lightroom simply recomputed the mask for this photo, and then applied all the settings. Such a time saver!

I had also grabbed one of the heron in flight photos, so I switched to that one and pasted the same exact settings, and it recomputed the mask and worked like a charm for that photo too. So the next time you are editing in Lightroom mobile, be sure to give the copy/paste settings option a try and see how you like it.

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Here’s how to set things up so any photos you take with your phone’s camera not only go straight into Lightroom but a nice bonus is – when you do this, they also automatically sync back with Lightroom on your desktop so that you can edit your images on your phone right there on the spot, or after you get back on your computer.

You set this up in Lightroom mobile: click on the Gear icon in the top right corner to bring up the App Settings (preferences), then tap on ‘Import’ (as shown above).

When the Import preferences screen appears (seen above), where it says “Auto Add from Camera Roll” at the top, toggle the switch to the right of “Photos” to the on position (shown circled in red above), and you’re done. It’s that easy – now, images you shoot with your phone’s camera will automatically be imported into Lightroom for editing.

Hope you found that helpful. Have a great Monday, everybody!

-Scott

P.S. Don’t forget, The KelbyOne Lightroom Conference is coming up next month, and you don’t want to miss out. Get all the details right here.

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STEP ONE: Launch Lightroom on your iPhone, and at the bottom of the main street, down at the bottom in the blue pill shape; click on the Camera icon to bring up the Camera app.

STEP TWO: Up at the top center of the screen, it shows the file format you’re shooting in (shown circled above in red) – either JPG (jpeg) or DNG (Adobe’s RAW format). Tap on the name, and a pop-up screen appears where you can choose which mode you want to shoot in. If you want to shoot in RAW, choose DNG. That’s it.

Now, when you shoot with Lightroom’s camera, those raw images will appear right within Lightroom, ready for you to edit on your Phone.

Have a great weekend, everybody! The Bucs are on a Bye week, but Bama is playing (it’s an out-of-conference game we should win fairly easily), so it should be a great weekend! Have fun! #rolltide!

-Scott

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Thanks, Terry. Very clever.

First Look at On1 Effects 2023

ON1 software just released major updates to their plug-ins, including my favorite, On1 Effects 2023. I did a video showing all the new goodies (below), including the cool new AI features and how to use them. This is the plug-in I use for my finishing moves (I know a lot of you here already use it, too), and I’m super digging the new features they’ve added. Give it a look if you’ve got a few minutes.

Hope you found that helpful.

Just Eight Days ‘Til The OPTICWEST Conference

I’m so psyched! I haven’t been to California since 2019, right before COVID, and I so miss all the great folks out there, and I can’t wait to be there, teaching again at the OPTICWEST conference. B&H Photo hosts it and the wild thing about this multi-day conference for landscape, travel, and nature photographers (with an all-star crew of instructors), is that you can attend in person (in beautiful Monterey – a photographer’s paradise along the Pacific Coast), or online, and either way – it’s free. All of it. The classes, the tradeshow, the whale watch – the whole nine yards, thanks to B&H Photo. All you have to do is RSVP right here. That’s it. Don’t miss out, especially when it’s free (and these days, nuthin’s free). 

Here’s the link, and I hope to see you in person in just eight days. 

Have a great weekend, everybody. Hope to catch ya here next week!

-Scott

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Terry is a champ! (thanks, Terry).

Today is labor day in the US (A national holiday, so our offices are closed), and here’s wishing you a fun, relaxing holiday, too!

-Scott

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That said, if you migrate a Lightroom Classic catalog to the cloud, then all assigned keywords should go along for the ride. This is typically for people who are moving from Lightroom Classic to Lightroom and plan to no longer use Lightroom Classic anymore. The main point to keep in mind is that keywords of any type do not sync. From here on out I will only be looking at the feature within Lightroom (on both desktop and mobile).

Enable People View

By default, People View is disabled. Head over to Lightroom > Preferences > General, and toggle the switch to Enable People View. If you had People View enabled and you disable it, then Lightroom will delete all stored face data and no longer analyze new photos. On mobile, the option to enable People View is found under Settings within the Lightroom app. You only need to enable it in one place.

Assign Names to Faces

Facial recognition takes place in the cloud (Adobe servers), and as such, is not immediate. Let’s start with looking at People View as it appears in Lightroom for desktop (Mac and Windows), then later we’ll look at it on mobile. Once enabled, click the People tab in the Photos panel on the left to jump into People view. As faces are analyzed they will automatically be grouped together with like faces.

You will likely have some faces recognized that you do not know or do not want to name. In those cases, right-click the face group in question and choose Hide Person to remove that group from view.

For faces you do want to name, click that face group to see all of the associated faces it has grouped together. Then, assign that person’s name to the group by typing it into the field at the top. By clicking into the group you can verify all of the faces are of that person. Note, you can also right-click a face group icon and choose Add Name from the contextual menu to add the name there. If a face group is already named you can right-click that face group and choose Rename if needed to correct or add info.

Over time, both as you import or sync new photos to the cloud, you will see more photos added to existing face groups as well as new face groups appearing in People view.

Click into an existing named face group to see if new faces were added that you can approve or reject as being that person. If there is a new face the algorithm wants to assign to an existing face group you will be asked if that new face is that person, to which you can answer No to remove it from that group, or Yes to add it to the group. In this case, the answer is No. Depending on how many new photos you’ve added or where you are in the overall analysis phase, you may get prompted several times for a given person.

The more photos of the same person you add and identify the better the algorithm seems to be at recognizing a person across a long span of time. At the end is a young me in a pretty sharp Easter outfit.

Next week we’ll wrap this up with a look at manually adding names, merging face groups, and how this looks on mobile.

I hope you’ll join me at Photoshop World!

I’m excited to be part of the amazing roster of instructors at this year’s Photoshop World, from August 30th to September 1st. It is all virtual (hopefully for the last time), so you can tune in from where ever you are. You’ll get 3 full days of multiple tracks of learning on Photoshop, Lightroom, and photography. You can even rewatch sessions for a year after its over, so if you miss any part of the live event you can always catch it later. Register and take your skills up a few more notches!

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