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Only 1 thing keeps me from switching all the way to LR. In LR, after using LR Denoise, the program does NOT shift the image to the created .dng file. LRC does this! Because of this at times I start working on a non-denoised file. If they would change this I would be all in. I HATE the whole catalog thing!!!

Thank you. I have your class, but this is a short refresher that I like. i'm not using LR full time, so refreshers help. One big motivation for me is I don't like having a catalog. Here's a nitpick on LR. I like comparing two photos. In LRC, when you look at one image in XY, and move the location you are looking at, LRC automatically moves to the same location in the other photo. Not so in LR. You have to hunt in both photos to compare the same areas. This is not a show stopper for me, but I don't understand why Adobe dropped this feature.

Great explanation of these features , keep up the great work ! 😊

Thanks Matt!! Have used Bridge/ACR for years - This indeed looks like it may be a 1-stop-shop for me 🙂 Will give it a whirl...

I’ve been meaning to investigate the usefulness of uploading photos to the cloud in LR and this video explained it succinctly ….. thanks!

Great video! Learning more about Lightroom. I have two questions. 1. With the Lr version on an iPad/iPone, it has at the bottom “Device” and “Lightroom”. Is that the same as “Local” and “Cloud” on the desktop version? 2. When on travel without a laptop, I’d like to be able to download images into Lr on an iPad to begin screening/reviewing, and upon return, transfer to LrC for editing. Would you discuss a workflow for this?

nice tuto. How do you import your photos with LR ? I am windows user. Which import tool do you advise (bridge, explorer in dcim folder, photo mechanic,...) ? I am happy with now have Sony live view in LRC. No need Smartshooter or Captureone softwares anymore. I would be interested by some tutos about it in studio... I suppose Lightroom won't have this feature ?

Thanks Matt. This was great!!

Interesting video. I'm a dedicated Bridge & ACR user but I've just downloaded Lightroom & I'm going to have a play with it & see how I go.

Thanks Matt, that was a good presentation, especially the part about using LR as a replacement for Bridge for quick editing. There are a couple of features that I can't do without in LR Classic, unless you have suggested substitutions. The first one is smart collections. I don't keyword a lot, but I do assign a genre to my photos (e.g. fine art, work, travel, family) that I use to generate smart collections for things like family albums. I use my keywords combined with metadata like the date and ratings. If there was a way to create smart albums in LR, that would be fantastic. Also, I really would like LR mobile on my iPad to have a local storage feature so that I can store my photos on Google Drive and avoid paying Adobe for cloud storage. If you could influence Adobe to provide these two features, I'd consider making the switch.

Excellent presentation, thank you!

Hi Matt! I love the tips but there's a 404 error. Are these tips still valid or did you change the URL in any way?

Hi Matt, Thank you for sharing this helpful video. I have both your recent Bridge and Lightroom (not Classic) courses and find them well worth the cost. I have been using Lightroom Classic (LrC) since Version 1, but have been intrigued by Bridge and the latest version of LR. My wife and I recently returned from a Europe trip; so I decided that would be a good starting point to use Bridge instead of importing into LrC. I selected Bridge because it allows me to add "Labels" which LR currently does not. I use labels for HDR, Focus Stacking, Exposure Blending, Pano and Final Image. They come in handy for me as I go through my initial review before deciding which images to fully post-process. However, Bridge does not have flags, and as you indicate, you need to go to ACR to make any edits. I like the Virtual Copy feature in LrC, but find the Duplicate feature in LR and Bridge works for me. It takes more disk space, but if you don't like one of the versions you can delete it. I like the cloud features for uploading, sharing and backing up your best images. I would upload my final PSD or Hi-res JPEG image as those are the ones I would want to show people on my phone and have as an extra backup. I would like to see Adobe integrate all of the LrC features, except the catalog, into LR, and think that is where Adobe is headed. In the meantime, it would be great to be able to Open as Layers in Photoshop and add Labels. Somewhat unrelated, I revisited a technique from your How to Photograph Moving Things course. For landscape images where I was getting highlight blowout warnings in my Canon R5, the camera allows me to exposure bracket handheld by using the high speed burst mode and holding the shutter button long enough for all exposures to be taken. As you point out in your course, as long as I shoot in Manual and use Auto ISO with a fast enough shutter speed the bracketed shots look sharp after merging to HDR in ACR. I will not try this in LR to skip a step.

Thanks, I picked up some useful tips. I use LR more so nowadays

I do not use Camera Raw. However, I do want to be able to 'denoise' my file. I find Topaz AI and LRC and Photoshop 2024 do not 'denoise' successfully. Actually, sometimes it works on the face but then adds excess 'garbage' on necks, arms, etc. Is there any plan for a clean 'denoise' to happen for non-camera-raw files in the near future? Or am I missing something here?

It was a very interesting and informative demonstration of the capabilities of a younger Adobe child. I must say that you even encouraged me to look at it and see what it can do. Greetings from Poland, from the city of "Przemyśl Fortress".

Thank you was immensely helpfull. I will give it n go. I only use bridge and CR. Classic was just a slept for me. I like the control i get with bridge to work from 1 browser and still be able to edit at the same time. I prefer speed and use over precision I guess. Love the community prsets, will definitely chek it out.

Thanks, Matt! Always informative.

You stated "no catalog", but i don't that that is accurate when you put the photos in the cloud, There is some type of catalog housed ont eh Adobe Servers someplace in the cloud. We put a lot of faith in Adobe to maintain, backup and ensure these images and catalog are maintained properly.

Thankx dude man. I just started using Lightroom so I never used th old version. So this is really helpful. More pls

Never was a fan of the catalogue myself. It was just to mu chof a hassle to import the images when I already had them in a perfectly fine (for me) order on my Drive. So when LR included the Local I was realy happy about that. Now all I would need is the map view of LrC in LR and it would be perfect.

Wow - I didn't know Lightroom had these features 😮 I guess now I will give it a chance. I had ruled it out, due to the forced cloud upload. Very nice. Thanks Matt 😃

Matt, you’re a great instructor, I personally have learned from you for going on 15 years. I don’t know what kind of negative comments you get, but they seem to really bother you, which is a shame. There are many who can’t or won’t, who then choose to criticise or troll, please try to let it roll off. Keep up the great content.

You are my hero. Always pulling me to the future….

Great video Matt. I’m still hoping to see Adobe add “open as layers in Photoshop” to Lr.

Thanks Matt. I appreciate your tips and tricks and can't imagine the amount of time you put into creating the content. If a topic doesn't interest me, I just skip over it. We all have different likes and tastes. That what makes life interesting. So... Thank you Matt for all you do!

Purchased @4:45. This was just what I was asking for. THANKS!

This (Lightroom) has near zero utility for me. With more than 38,000 photos, absent from Lightroom I find many Lightroom Classic's photo management capabilities indispensable: Smart Collections, Color Coding, its extensive Search features and Virtual Copies are a must have for me. Oh, and I can sync from Lightroom Classic to Lightroom Cloud unlimited number of smart previews, without touching my 20 GB cloud storage space ; they look good enough for me.

Every image I add to Lr is saves Local to a folder of my choice. - That takes care of the redundant backup issue. Every image I add to Lr is synced to LrC. - No need to use the LrC 'Import' function. That takes care of the 'no modules in Lr' issue. I just added 10 images to Lr, switched to LrC, made a Collection of those images and made a LrC SlideShow - all within 5 minutes! I exported the video then added it to Lr and it synced to LrC. The video (slideshow) is viewable via iPhone and Web! I just made a 'virtual copy' in LrC of a Lr synced image and 5 seconds later it was in the cloud (Lr). - Virtual copy issue solved! I find it quite convenient/easy to get the best of both versions(?) of Lightroom! Now if we can get Adobe to add 'sub-folders' to the Lr Local tab! 😉

With the help of Matt and B. Matiash LR classes, I switch from classic to LR this year and haven't looked back since. I did go with the 2TB version to keep projects in the cloud as well as my keepers but I'm loving the workflow that LR brings and no catalogs is wonderful

I started playing around with the LR workflow when they added the local tab. Your course was very helpful to make the switch away from classic . I have fully embraced Lightroom and have never looked back. Lightroom makes it incredibly easy to manage photos while you're on trips. LR has really simplified my editing and photo storage workflow.

Thanks.....

Recently started using the local and it's amazing for editing when I don't want to catalogue. Catalogue can consume lots of space

Thanks Matt. But for me no searching, and no virtual copies are deal breakers. I'm still using Classic. Also I'm sure you're aware that you can, as I do, have Classic set to automatically write xmp files. And if I remember correctly, once you put an image file on the Cloud, it breaks the link to the one on your local drive. That would mean that if I wanted to have an up to date copy locally, I'd have to copy it manually. Lightroom Classic does this automatically, though I've had so much trouble with it that I have stopped using it. I do love the "recommended presets". I wish I could get that in Classic, actually that's the only feature missing from Classic.

Matt is there a way to create a virtual copy as I use this version of Lightroom but this is one option I miss Thanks

I have been playing with this version of LR and for the most part, I like it. However, there are a few quirks that really irk me - 1) when a star or flag is assigned to an image, it does not automatically move to the next image. And 2) it seems that Group into Stack is always grayed out. Perhaps some setting in Preferences is not set up appropriately?

As I still work with my version of CS6 and can only afford one monthly rental which would you say is best to go with LR or Photoshop... whichever will be a big learning curve for the senior lady lol

Thanks!

Hi, I edit my photos in Lightroom 12 in mac and some time in Lightroom 13 in PC, and I get this message (Metadata was changed externally) and two choices (Overwrite Setting or Import Setting from Disk), I have a XMP files related to all photos, so which one to chose? Thank you.

whats your manual setting for the denoise sir?

Hi Matt - Appears your ahead of all of us. (UPDATED OCTOBER 2024) ☺ I just re-downloaded your "Lightroom System" course that I purchased some time ago - just to see if you might have updated some of it. INDEED you have "Blue = UPDATED OCTOBER 2024". ☺☺☺ I do appreciate you updating your courses.

Lightroom classic 13 has been a disaster. Running so slow. I wish it would be possible to downgrade the catalog to 12. Many have problems with LRC 13. Any updates on sluggishness?

Matt....on the a7r iii...I see how to shoot in silent mode but how do I silence the timer when shooting 2/5/10 second countdowns?

I wonder what would happen if you used the rectangular object selection box over that whole bottom of the wedding dress. If it would just add the wedding dress and omit the railing.

Very informative. Thank you.

I love your vídeos.

Thank you, Matt. It enhanced my images