Julieanne Kost's Blog

In June of 2010, I posted this video (Little Known Feature Enhancements in Photoshop CS5) as part of the What’s new in Photoshop CS5 series. I will assume that some of you have upgraded more recently than that, so I thought I would repost it. Sometimes known as JDI’s, Little Known Features, Tips and Tricks or most recently Hidden Gems, this video covers all those little features in Adobe Photoshop CS5 that you may not know about that can make your life easier.

In this quick tip (How to Prevent  Lightroom’s Previews File from Taking Over the Hard Drive), I explain what makes Lightroom’s Preview file (.lrdata) grow and how to set your Catalog Settings to prevent it for getting out of hand.

In this episode of the Complete Picture (Opening Files from Lightroom into Photoshop), I hope to help you avoid unwanted or puzzling results by answering the three most frequently asked questions around opening and round-tripping files from Lightroom to Photoshop.

In this quick tip – How to add arrowheads to lines in Photoshop - Julieanne reveals an automated feature for adding arrowheads to the beginning or end of lines in Photoshop.

After yesterday’s post I was reminded that I had previously created a much longer video that covered not only Tool Presets but also the customization of Workspaces, Menus, Keyboard shortcuts, Preferences, Palette Options, the Preset Manager and more! Although it was recorded with Photoshop CS4, the tips and techniques that I cover are just as useful today as they were then. Click here to enjoy!

In this episode of the Complete Picture (Create and Save Your Own Tool Presets in Photoshop CS5) I will demonstrate how to eliminate repetitive tasks and increase efficiencies in Photoshop by customizing the tools you use the most and saving them as Presets.

I am posting the links to these two videos again after presenting the material at Photoshop World last week. My apologies for not including the links in the workbook.

In this episode of The Complete Picture, I demonstrate how to create a video using a sequence of time lapse images with Adobe Photoshop Extended.

Making a Movie in Photoshop Extended (Part 1)

Making a Movie in Photoshop Extended (Part 2)

I am posting the links to these two videos again after presenting the material at Photoshop World last week. My apologies for not including the links in the workbook.

In these episodes of The Complete Picture, I demonstrate how to streamline Lightroom 3 by taking advantage of presets, templates, collections, virtual copies (and more) in order to eliminate much of the repetitive post-capture tasks such as importing, tagging, developing, exporting and sharing photographs.

The Top 10 ways to Automate Lightroom Part 1

The Top 10 ways to Automate Lightroom Part 2

In this episode of the Complete Picture (Relative vs. Absolute Adjustments to Images), Julieanne Kost demonstrates the differences between making absolute adjustments to photographs -using the Develop module in Lightroom- and relative adjustments using the Quick Develop panel.

In this Episode of The Complete Picture (Working with Variables) I will demonstrate the incredible power of Variables in Photoshop. You will learn how to cut hours out of your production time when you need to combine text and photographs. Although this feature has been in Photoshop for many releases, only a small number of customers know if its immense power for tasks such as automating event photography, creating web banners and producing graphics.

In this Episode of The Complete Picture (Quick Tips for the Lightroom Print Module), I will focus on little known features and helpful hints for making the most out of the Lightroom Print Module. Learn how to create a template for posting images to your blog using the print to JPEG option, apply custom edge effects and backgrounds using Identity Plates, screen back images using the Tone Curve, and more!

To Export files from Lightroom and automatically launch Photoshop in order to run Droplets (batch actions), place the droplet in the Export Actions folder:

• Mac (user)/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Export Actions

• Win (user)/Application Data/Adobe/Lightroom/Export Actions

Then, in the Export dialog box under the Post Processing section, choose Post Processing > After Export > (name of droplet). For more information on using Photoshop Actions with Lightroom click here…

Command (Mac) / Control (Win)  + S copies any changes made to a photograph from LR’s database into individual DNG, JPEG, PSD, and TIFF files (or XMP sidecar files for proprietary raw files). Note: the data (change) is also kept in the Lightroom database). To automatically write changes into files (or into XMP sidecar files) choose Catalog Settings > Metadata > Automatically Write Changes into XMP. Click below to watch a 10 minute in-depth movie about this process.

Saving Changes to your Photographs in Lightroom 3

In this episode, Julieanne Kost will explain how changes made to photographs are saved automatically to the Lightroom Catalog. Then Julieanne will demonstrate how to use both the “Save Metadata to Files” command as well as the “Automatically write changes to XMP” Catalog Setting to push changes made to photographs from the catalog into individual files (or sidecar files) so that they can be read and utilized within additional applications such as Adobe Bridge.

In order to define different default processing settings for different cameras, select Lightroom’s Preferences and click the  Presets tab.  Under the Default Develop Settings area, check “Make defaults specific to camera serial number”. This can be extremely useful , for example if you are shooting with multiple cameras and want Lightroom to automatically apply a different Camera Calibration profile to each. Click here for a video about setting default Camera Calibration profiles (and other options). (This video covers both Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw in Photoshop.)

Notice that in the preferences you can also choose to “Make defaults specific to camera ISO settings”

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adobe-evangelists-julieanne-kost/working-with-dng-camera-profiles/

In this Episode of The Complete Picture (Posterizing Images with Control and Flexibility) I will demonstrate how to reduce the color palette of an image to create a posterized effect with the most control and maximum flexibility possible.