To get there, just point your browser of choice to lightroom.adobe.com and sign in with the same Adobe ID and password you use for your Creative Cloud subscription. If you’ve already synced photos from Lightroom Classic or imported directly into one of the Lightroom apps, you’ll see those photos are already here. From the Home screen you can easily access recently added and edited photos, add new photos through your browser (full resolution photos that will be uploaded to the cloud, synced across Lightroom apps, and count against storage), access folders and albums, explore the Learn and Discover features, and quite a bit more. Along the top of the interface are icons for viewing notifications, checking cloud storage quota, downloading the desktop and mobile apps, accessing help and support, and accessing your account info and Technology Previews.

Technology Previews are a sneak peek into new features that aren’t fully formed but are functional enough for customers to test drive and give feedback to the Lightroom team. At the time of writing this there are two available, Collaborative Proofing and Clean Up. Collaborative Proofing has been around for a few years now as a tech preview. Clean Up is relatively new, and once enabled you’ll find a Clean Up menu item under the All Photos grouping on the left panel. Adobe doesn’t provide any glimpse into what’s under Clean Up’s hood, and simply states that it identifies photos you may want to remove to save space. Looking at the photos it suggested for me I can see it doesn’t like photos that are blurry or poorly exposed, such as these shots from my trail camera.

You can go through the photos it gathers arranged in added date and select photos that can either be flagged as rejected or just outright deleted. You can use CMD+A (PC: Ctrl+A) to select all and mark them all at once, but I wouldn’t recommend that without going through them all first, as it doesn’t like intentional blurring such as panning or slow shutter shots and really hates screen captures. Housekeeping is important, and tools like this can be helpful, but you still want to be in the driver’s seat. If you use it, be sure to click the Feedback button and let Adobe know what you think.

Grouped along with Clean Up you’ll find access to your Deleted photos (you’ve got 60 days to restore before they are automatically removed for good), Sync Issues (which groups photos having any sync related issues, which can help you identify where a problem may exist, such as in my case I had shut down Lightroom on my laptop before syncing had completed), Gallery (learn how to set up a Gallery), and Connections (these are also found in the Mac/Win version of Lightroom and allow you to send photos to online print services).

When working with your photos, you can add and remove them from albums, create new albums and folders, add and remove photos from storage, share them with others, and most amazingly edit them with much of the same functionality we have in the other Lightroom apps. To see your options, select an album, then select a few photos within it to activate the blue bar above the thumbnails. Here you’ll find the options for setting the cover photo, removing photos from the album, deleting them from the cloud, adding to another album, moving to another album, adding them to a connection, sharing them with others, downloading them, or applying keywords. In this case, I’m going to click Remove to remove these duplicates from the album.

Clicking on a single photo will switch to showing that one photo in a loupe view, where you can apply flags, ratings, keywords, title, and caption (click the i icon to access title and caption fields as well as see more information about the photo). From this view you can also access the suite of editing tools along the right panel and download and share icons along the top. Clicking the X button returns you to the Grid view. The editing tools available here are limited compared to the full apps, but still plenty powerful for something you access in a web browser.

The icon at the top will take you into all the presets that ship with Lightroom, your own custom presets, as well as presets recommended by Lightroom’s AI from the larger community. These can be a great way to explore looks and start from a different place.

Whether you apply a preset or not, the next icon down will take you into the editing suite where you can customize things to your taste. You’ll find the Light, Color, Detail, Effects, Optics, and Geometry panels waiting for you to adjust and get real-time updates as you go. These edits are then synced across all other Lightroom apps. If cropping is desired, click the Crop tool icon and fine tune your composition. When finished, click the X at the top to keep your edits and return to Grid view.

The Masking tools have been updated here as well, though not as full featured as you may be used to in other Lightroom apps. With a photo in Loupe view, click the Masking icon to edit existing masks or create new ones. The mask types are currently limited to Subject, Sky, Background, Radial Gradient, and Linear Gradient, though Adobe says more options will be coming in the future. When adjusting a mask’s settings, we’re limited to Light, Color, Effects, and Detail.

If you’re wanting to experiment with different looks and styles you can even take advantage of the Versions feature here on the web. Versions are like snapshots in Lightroom Classic in that they are only visible when you are in the Versions screen, where you can add, delete, and rename versions as desired. To create a new look while saving the original, go into the Named tab and click Create Version, where you’ll be prompted to give it a meaningful name and click Create. This saves the current look as a version. Now you’re ready to experiment. Click the Edit icon and make your changes for the new look. Go back into Versions, click Create Version, and give this new look a name. The thumbnail of the photo will reflect the currently selected version. To switch to a different version, you’ll need to select that photo, go back into Versions, and then select the thumbnail representing the desired look you want to see.

There’s a lot of cool features hidden away in Lightroom web, and the best part of it is that allows you to access your cloud-based library (which includes smart previews synced from Lightroom Classic) from anywhere you have Internet and a web browser. Give it a try and spend a few minutes exploring the Learn and Discover sections to further improve your experience with Lightroom.

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Ever since Lightroom let us sync our images from our desktop to our mobile devices, in the desktop version of Lightroom Classic, Adobe had hidden the Sync controls under the Identity Plate in the top left corner. If you didn’t know they were there, you’d probably never find them on your own, but in the current version of Lightroom, it’s now finally right out in front, which is awesome because syncing allows your images are available on all your devices.

If you look in the top right corner you’ll now see a cloud icon (shown circled above in red), and you click on that to access the sync controls.

One thing I want to point out to that is really helpful is that Adobe has published a “Sync FAQ” page on their site, and they embedded the link right inside the sync controls panel (as seen above to the right of the little ‘i’ (info) icon.

Adobe did a nice job of going through the most-asked questions, and even listing what will and won’t sync, including which size files are too large to sync regardless of their file type (spoiler alert: it’s 200MB).

NOTE: Once you turn on syncing, only Collections you choose will be sync’d over to Lightroom on your mobile device (and it only sync’s Collections — not Folders), so you don’t have to worry about turning on syncing and it raiding all your free space on your phone or tablet. Plus, it doesn’t send the full high-resolution JPEG, TIFF or RAW file — it sends ‘Smart Previews” instead. For more on all this syncing stuff, hit this link.

Anyway, high-five to Adobe for making these sync controls more “discoverable” to everyone. Here’s to what could be a really awesome week, so let’s make the most of it. Stay healthy, sane, and we’ll catch you back here tomorrow.

-Scott

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I saw comments like those from my post last Friday about this new Lightroom Technology Preview, so I thought I’d address it here today. There are at least five advantages (maybe more), over the current limited proofing feature e and here they are:

(1) You can limit the total number of picks a client can choose, which is really helpful. I’ve submitted 120 images to a client and had them request 109 images edited and retouched. Lesson learned. Now I say “Pick your 10 or 12 favorite” and then I can use this feature to make sure they don’t go over my limit.

(2) You don’t have to go back to a small panel in Lightroom Classic to see their picks — they’re all collected right there for you, right where you shared them on Lightroom Web in the first place.

(3) You’re one click away from creating a collection of just their picks

(4) You can easily take that collection of their picks and resubmit them to have them narrow things down even more (and limit that number ot maybe 3 or just 1.

(5) You get a notification in your Lightroom CC mobile app letting you know if your client makes a selection or comment.

That’s just five of the low-hanging fruit; I’ll bet Adobe could give you a few more. I know watermarking was one some folks really would like to see added, and hopefully that will make the final version.

Only 7-Days Left To Get The The Photoshop World Conference Orlando Early-Bird Discount

This is the last week to save that extra $100 on a full-conference pass, so get your tickets right now (and don’t forget to snag a room at the official conference hotel, the Hyatt Regency Orlando — it’s where all the instructors and staff are saying, and the conference itself is in their convention center). First, watch this short (around 33-seconds) video to get you ready!

Here are the details:

Who: Landscape photographers, portrait photographers, Lightroom users, wedding photographers, designers, Photoshop freaks, creative people, newbies, pros, street photographers, social media content creators, Web developers, lighting lovers, and the best instructors in the world.

What: The Photoshop World Conference, produced by KelbyOne

Where: The Hyatt Regency Orlando Conference Center

When: May 31-June 2, 2019

Why: Because we all need to keep learning, keep laughing, keep being inspired, recharging our creative batteries, and getting away from it all for three days where we shut everything else out and just soak it all in. Plus, there’s a ton of Lightroom training every single day, so…ya know, there’s that.

Tickets and more info at PhotoshopWorld.com – Hope to see you there, and in the meantime, here’s to a rockin’ Monday!

-Scott

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If you need to send images to a client (or friend) as proofs you’ll find this really helpful (well, more so when it’s fully functional). Here’s a quick overview of the new “Collaborative Proofing” technology preview where it’s at right now in the development phase.

STEP ONE: You have to have synched a collection of images to Lightroom Mobile (Lightroom CC) to enable proofing, so that’s really your first step. Then in your Web Browser go to lightroom.adobe.com and log-in with your Adobe ID. Then look up in the top left corner of the screen and you’ll see a blue pop-up dialog asking if you want to enable Collaborative Proofing. Click on the LR icon. From the pop-up menu that appears, choose “Technology Previews.”

STEP TWO: This brings up the Technology Previews window (shown above). Turn on the checkbox for Collaborative Proofing and then click the Apply changes button (as seen here).

STEP THREE: Now, click on the collection you want to have available for collaborative proofing. Above your thumbnail grid you’ll see four tabs and the last one is the Proofing tab, so click on that tab to see the Collaborative Proofing options. Here you can turn on Collaborative Proofing, and then it gives you a link where you can share this collection with anyone you’d like to give feedback on these images. What I like is that they give you the option of limiting the number of total picks the people you sent this link to can make. That way, you can limit their picks to 5 or 10 or whatever number works for you. There’s nothing worse than sending a proof page with 120 shots, and your clients choose a 112 (Well, unless of course, you’re charging by the image).

STEP FOUR: If you click the clipboard icon next to the link, it copies the link to your clipboard. If you share that link with someone, to mark a photo as a selection, or to leave a comment on an image they will have to sign in with an Adobe logo (and it tells them that right on screen). Once logged in, they can see the images at a large size; click the round checkmark to mark an image as a “pick” and leave comments that come right back to you in the proofing window. There are navigation arrows at the bottom of the screen to lead the viewer through the images to proof.

STEP FIVE: Their selects and comments will appear in the proofing panel. Well, I believe that’s the plan anyway, but after clicking the refresh/sync button in the top right corner numerous times, none of the nine images selected by my test clients ever showed up.

UPDATE Friday 4:04 pm ET: It’s working now (see below).

If you click on the blue “Create Album” button, it takes the 9 images my test clients selected (two different people) and puts them in their own separate album, so you can see which ones they chose.

Give it a try yourself and see what you think. Here’s to a great Easter weekend, everybody!

-Scott

P.S. Want to learn more about Lightroom in three days than you have in three years? Come join us at the Photoshop World Conference in Orlando, May 31st – June 2, 2019. It’s a Lightroom love-fest. Here’s the link with details.

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Once you’ve enabled the feature, click into one of your albums (same as synced collections from Classic), and you should see the Best Photos icon above the thumbnails.

I’ve been having fun playing with it, and I’m curious to hear what others may think. I suppose like other technology previews we may one day see a version of this appear in other parts of the Lightroom ecosystem, as we did with the new and improved Auto settings. Time will tell. One of the ways I’ve been playing with it is to start by using the Adobe Sensei powered search function to find all photos of a certain subject, then make a collection out of the results, and then run the Best Photos algorithm on that collection. Here’s an example.

I did a search on all photos using just the word “dogs” and out of 3677 total photos synced with Lr CC from Classic it returned 410 results. I do have a lot of dogs in my life, and while there were some non-dog photos in the results, I was amazed when it found some photos with just part of a dog’s head. I’ll worry about the non-dog photos later.

The fastest way I’ve found to make a collection from a search result is to click the check mark on the first photo in the results, then press the End key (this may involve the fn + right-arrow key, depending on your keyboard layout) to jump to the very bottom of the results. Hold the Shift key, and click the check mark on the last photo in the results to select all in between. You’d think there would be an easier way to do this, so if you know one, let me know.

With all the search results selected, I’ll make an album by clicking the Add To button at the top of the results. This will open a dialog where you can choose to add them to an existing album, or create a new one. I chose the latter. Click the Copy button to complete the process.

Now that I am viewing the contents of my new All Dogs collection I’ll cull out the non-dog photos by holding the CMD (PC: Ctrl) key and clicking the check mark on each unwanted photo. Then click the Remove button that appears at the top to remove them from the Album. In my case, there were 25 non-dog photos out of the original 410 it found. That’s not too bad. What we don’t know is if it missed some dog photos out of the entire library, which is one of the problems I have with the AI powered search. It’s easy to see the wrong photos, but no way to see the misses.

Now that I’ve culled my collection down to all of the same subject, I put the Best Photos algorithm to the test by clicking the Best Photos button at the top. The Adobe Sensei magic starts to analyze the collection to find what it thinks are the best photos. What criteria does it use? Well, we don’t really know. Adobe has said things like, “Best Photos leverages a number of Adobe Sensei technologies to help automatically identify and group similar photos, pick the best photo from that group, and then select the best photos of each of the groups,” which doesn’t really tell us anything specific. I suspect factors such as things we’ve done (edits, ratings, and such) are a factor, along with basic photography guidelines like rule of thirds, triangles, and so on, and then all that combined with some human expert input on examples of what are “best photos.” I really don’t know exactly, but I do hope it becomes more transparent if it moves beyond a technology preview.

Once analyzed we get our results. There is a tab on the left, which shows what it thinks are the best photos, and a tab on the right for everything else in that collection. At the top-right there is a slider that we can use to dial down to just a few of the top photos, or dial up to add more into the Best pool (basically moving photos back and forth between those tabs). You can also click the minus sign on any thumbnail to remove it from the best tab (and add to Other Photos). I did this for a few duplicates and a couple I didn’t think were that great.

Aside from the few I removed, I thought it actually did a pretty good job, and it did it really quickly. Much faster than I could have made the same decisions. At the bottom is an easy button for sharing that group out or making a new collection. I opted for a new collection, called Best Dogs, and sent that to my wife. They should add those same buttons for making a collection and sharing to the original search results to make that part easier.

Have you made any practical use of the Best Photos feature? Any other tips for getting better results?

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The process is very straightforward, although not necessarily intuitive at first glance. The key to understanding the technique is that the unique text for each slide in a slide show or page is stored in the metadata of each photo.

This seems to most commonly come up with slide shows. I’ve heard from many people who go to the Slideshow module, start creating a layout, and then when they want to add text to the slide, they click the ABC button in the Toolbar, which by default, makes a Custom Text field appear next to the ABC button. It’s easy to understand how a person would start to enter text in that field and think they were on the right track when that text appears on the slide. After having that text positioned where they want it, they advance to the next slide and are confused to see that same bit of text they just entered showing on the next slide as well. What’s going on here?

When you click the ABC button, you’re on the right track, but if you want unique text to appear on each slide, what you need to do next is click the drop-down menu that appears next to Custom Text and explore the other options.

Here you’ll find a set of pre-installed text templates (Caption, Custom Text, Date, Equipment, Exposure, Filename, Sequence, and Title) that can be used to display different types of data on a slide show, a book project, a web gallery, or along the bottom of a Single Image/Contact Sheet print in each of the respective modules. Note: If you don’t see those pre-installed templates, go to Lightroom (PC: Edit) Preferences, click on the Presets tab, and click the Restore Text Templates button. The Custom Text template is applied by default, but you can change it by selecting a more suitable template for your needs. The template you choose displays data based on the tokens it contains and the photo being shown.

Text templates are similar to filename templates in that they are comprised of one or more tokens that can pull information embedded in a file’s metadata. For example, the Caption text template contains a single token for pulling the information contained in the Caption field of a photo’s IPTC metadata. So the simple answer for having unique text appear on each slide in a slide show (or under the photo in a web gallery) is to first enter the unique text into the photo’s Caption field via the Metadata panel in the Library module, and second, to add the Caption text template to the slide show or web gallery.

You also have the option to create a custom text template. At the bottom of the list of text templates is the word Edit. Choose Edit to open the Text Template Editor.

The Text Template Editor allows you to mix and match various text tokens in any combination to fit your needs. You can even type text directly into the template if you wish to hard code in a bit of text into a template. After creating a custom template, click the Preset drop-down menu at the top of the editor and choose Save Current Settings as a New Preset to preserve that template for re-use. Any custom text templates, as well as the Template Editor itself, will be accessible from the ABC button of the Slideshow module, the Image Info panel of most web galleries, the Photo Text in the Text panel of the Book module, and the Photo Info menu of the Page panel in a Single Image/Contact Sheet print layout. Have fun creating different templates.

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STEP ONE: Start by syncing any Collection to Lightroom Mobile (here’s how to do that if you’re not sure how). Then go under Lightroom’s Help menu and choose “View my Collections on The Web” and it launches your Web Browser and takes you to your synced collections (as shown here — you can see my synced collection in the list on the left side panel. Here I clicked on the “French Riveria” collection. All your collections are private until you choose one to share one, so click on a Collection and then click the ‘Share’ button right above your thumbnails.

STEP TWO: This brings up the Share Options window. Click on “Lightroom Web Gallery” as shown here.

STEP THREE: This brings up the options window you see above where you can name the gallery (this text will appear on top of your Cover Photo), and you can optionally add an Author credit. BTW: The reason it says “Author” instead of “Photographer” is that the whole idea behind using this gallery, rather than just sharing a collection, is to share a ‘story’ using images and words. To choose which image becomes your large-size cover photo, just click on its thumbnail in the Cover Photo area. At the bottom there are also options for allowing people who view your gallery to download the image; see your metadata or your GPS location info. When you’re done, click Save to create this gallery (don’t worry — this gallery still isn’t public — you have to choose to share in the next screen, but at least you’ll be able to see and edit your gallery in the next screen).

STEP FOUR: Here’s a preview of your gallery. You can see the Cover Photo and title overlaying it at the very top.

STEP FIVE: To rearrange the order of your thumbnails, you can just drag and drop them. Here I’m dragging the 6th photo (2nd row far left) over to the 5th position (2nd-row center), and you can see the outline of my thumbnail replacing the image behind it.

STEP SIX: To add text, just click the pencil icon on the far right. Here I added “Our Hotel in France,” but then I separated those hotel shots from the rest of the images (including the ones taken in Italy) by holding my cursor in-between any two images and the images bend inward like a door open, and in-between the images you’ll see a circle and a plus-sign. Click on that plus sign and it creates a visual Section Divider between the sections of images (seen in the next image).

STEP SEVEN: Here you can see the sections divided, and I added the text “Italy.”

STEP EIGHT: You can add a caption to any photo, so when somebody looks at your image large size, they’ll see your caption in the lower lefthand corner. To do this, double-click on the photo, then click the ‘i’ icon on the far right side of the screen and a sidebar slides out on the right side where you can enter a title and/or a caption (this is also where any metadata on the photo you chose to include will appear).

STEP NINE: Another big advantage of these galleries, over just sharing a collection is; not only do you not have to share all the images in a collection, better yet you can drag and drop images from any shared collection into your gallery, like I’m doing here where I’m taking an image from my KISS and Def Leppard Collection and dragging and dropping one of the images up to my Shared web gallery in the top left corner (the dotted lines on the left show places you can drag and drop your images).

STEP 10: Another nice feature is the slideshow — if they hit the Play button, you get a full screen, auto-advancing slides, with forward and back arrows on either side and a set of simple controls at the bottom.

STEP 11: When you’re ready to share your gallery, you’ll find the URL (web page link) right at the top left of your image area (circled in red on the left). Click on the Clipboard icon to copy this address to your clipboard so you can email it to text it to anyone you want to view this gallery (only the people that have this link will be able to see the gallery). If you do want to make it public, you can post the link directly to Facebook, Twitter or Goggle+ using the icons to the right (I circled it in red on the right above).

There ya have it! (There are probably more features because I keep uncovering more, but we’ll save those for another day. Once I get to 10-steps, I feel like it’s time to pull the plug).

Hope you all have a great day, and we’ll catch ya back here tomorrow.

Best,

-Scott

P.S. We added stops in Richmond and Nashville to my “Lightroom On Tour” full-day seminar, coming in July. Get your tickets now and come spend the day with me learning Lightroom like a boss! 

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Here’s how:

STEP ONE: Click on the “Lightroom CC” name up in the left corner of your screen and turn on “Sync with Lightroom mobile.”

NOTE: You don’t have to have even downloaded ANY of the mobile apps to do this sharing technique — so just turn on syncing (don’t worry, nothing syncs anywhere until you tell it to, and we’re only syncing one collection anyway when we do). 

STEP TWO: Click on the little square to the left of the collection you want to share (in this case, I’m sharing a collection from a Dolphins game I shot last season). That square only appears when you turn on “Sync” so if you skipped Step One, you won’t see that square there (I don’t have a square to spare!).

STEP THREE: Go under Lightroom’s Help menu and choose “View Your Synced Collections on the Web” (as shown above).

STEP FOUR: Choosing that menu item launches your Web browser and takes you to lightroom.adobe.com – where you simply sign in with your Adobe user name and password, and voilá — there’s your synced collections, beautifully displayed on the Web. You can click to see larger images, the whole nine yards. That’s all well and good, but that’s just sharing with you — the whole idea is to share with somebody else. So, click the “Share” button at the top of the thumbnail grill (I circled it here in red).

STEP FIVE: This brings up the Share Options dialog (shown above). They want to make REALLY, REALLY sure you want to share this collection (and give you some other options), so start by clicking “Share this Collection” as shown here. Wait, there’s more.

Above: Another dialog appears, letting you know that “This collection is currently private” but if you still want to share this collection (where anyone you give the Web address to will be able to see it), then you’ll have to click another button (just to be doubly sure). If that’s you (and it is, by the way), click “Share this Collection” as shown above. There are still sharing choices (options) to make — that’s next (and no, these three screens cannot be combined into one. That would be too easy).

Above: This dialog shows you the URL (web address) where your collection is now shared. If you click the little Clipboard icon (as shown here), it copies that URL to your computer’s memory, and you can copy and paste that in an email, in a text, etc. to share this collection with whoever you’d like. If you want to share this collection publically, you can post this link on Facebook, Twitter, or G+.

They also give you some options — for example: if you want the images in this collection to be downloadable by the person(s) viewing this collection online, turn on the “Allow Downloads.” Turn on the Show Metadata if you want people to know what f/stop you used, and such, and turn on Show Location, if you want them to know where you took the shot, provided you have GPS data embedded into the file.

Lastly, using the flags, you can choose to just “Just the picks” from this collection; just the “unpicked” images; or the most curious choice of all, “just show my rejects” (that last one has to be pretty popular I’m sure).

OK, there ya have it – five steps to sharing your collection with anybody, anywhere.

Don’t forget: the one and only Moose Peterson is my guest on The Grid today at 4 pm EDT (here’s the link) – we’re talking about how to get sharp photos. At 2 pm EDT, we have a KelbyOne members-only live Q&A Webcast with Moose on wildlife photography. Hope to see you at one or both later today.

Best,

-Scott

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Go under Lightroom’s Help menu and choose ‘View Your Synced Collections on the Web’ as seen above.

BTW: Even if you don’t have the catalog open that you sync to LR Mobile, it still takes you to the sync’d page on the Web, so you don’t have to switch catalogs to your sync’d catalog before you choose that menu command. 

Above: Choose that menu item, and it launches your Web browser and takes you to lightroom.adobe.com and asks you (well, the first time anyway) to enter your Adobe User ID and password to access your collections.

Once you’re logged in, from there you can share any sync’d collection you’d like by clicking the Share Button, which brings up the dialog you see above (you can share by copying the private URL, or you can share publicly to Twitter, Facebook, etc.). Lots of options to share your collection just the way you want to, here.

Hope you found that helpful.

Best,

-Scott

P.S. This Thursday I think my new online class is coming out called “Everything Else in Lightroom, Part One” which is a class on how to do all those things that aren’t big enough to warrant a full class, but you might want to know how to do anyway, and I did the class so each lesson is just one topic, so you can jump to the topic you want, like “How to create a watermark” or “How to relink missing photos” or “How to create a custom copyright template” and stuff like that. Part One is going up this week, and then Part Two and Part Three (and probably a Part Four)  are coming soon.  Keep an eye on KelbyOne.com on Thursday for the new class release. 

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Good Monday everybody, and here’s one that might have gone unnoticed (Adobe actually started letting the public test this last year) — it’s called “Suggested Crop” and here’s how Adobe describes it:

“Adds options to experiment with different crops based off a new image aesthetics and compositional analysis technology.”

In short, I think that means “A robot can crop better than we can.”  (Just a joke – just for laughs, etc.)

Anyway, at this point, this feature is only available in “Lightroom Web” but it’s worth trying out if you’ve sync’d any collections to Lightroom Web (then just go to lightroom.adobe.com – log in with your ID, and you’ll see your sync’d images there).

You one of those images in its Develop Module (press the letter “d” on your keyboard, just like in Lightroom Desktop), and you’ll get a pop-up message asking if you want to try out this new cropping feature they’re testing. If you click Yes (or OK, or whatever), it will give you one-click buttons you can click and it will show you different ratios (like 1:1, 16:9, etc.) and when you click, it will show you how their AI would crop.

I don’t always agree with its choice, but of course I will when the robots from space take over, which is only a matter of time (well, at least it is on Season 2 of Colony). If you don’t like their choices, you can always hit the little “x” to cancel and do it yourself (or don’t crop at all).

Anyway, hope you find that helpful.

Best,

-Scott

P.S. If you’re wondering why this isn’t in Lightroom for the desktop yet, my guess is that it’s easier to add things to an online app than it is to do an update to Lightroom on your computer. Hopefully this will make it to the Desktop app sometime soon — sometimes I would like a 2nd opinion.

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