JUST had to share....new to Lightroom and loving it.

I'm working in Lightroom now and MAN its great. I had to stop and post this quick note. Simple things make me happy, dual monitor support, show full screen image one one monitor and cycle through them by just moving the mouse across the grid view on the other monitor.

Did some quick edits of some very old scanned negatives, and it brought out stuff that was not seen before on those old scans.

Should have did this YEARS ago.

Thank you for all your input in helping me get to this point.

Mike

I'm at the bottom rung of the learning curve. I had printed some images to canvas of our other two dogs and my wife was looking for one of Austin. Yesterday was a nice day so I was outside shooting and got a few possible printable images.

Photoshop......man on man, must expanded a canvas, used content aware fill and created image with enough boarder to print a canvas print the way I wanted....


Having too much fun now.

Good stuff, have fun !

I agree, Lightroom is a great tool, very very useful.

Thanks for sharing...glad you are enjoying. Keep shooting.

What were you using before?

A lot of people frown on Adobe these days (because of subscription model I suppose) but I've been using Lr since the first version and have yet to use anything I like better. I almost never get outside Lr for processing my images and if I do it is a particularly difficult clone or something that forces me to Ps.

I've had a copy of Photoshop SE and then newer Photoshop Elements, but I started with Picture Windows Pro years ago on a home built Windows 98 machine. then I migrated to Aperture when I got my first Mac. What I could not do in Aperture I did in Photoshop SE....

I have also been using Canon DDP but only recently looked carefully at it as I foolishly did not realize it has some editing ability ( or I simply forget it did?) and it's pretty good. I was using that but watching videos on Lightroom and liked what I saw. In the meanwhile I migrated my Aperture library to Photo by accident I found I didn't like the Apple Photo app for many reasons since I really grew unhappy with the HUGE Aperture and Photos Library.

As an aside I had a Aperture library that was 460 gb and Photo's library that was about 520 gb and my hard drive SSD was about full. I thought they were separate files but actually they are linked and the TRUE total space used by the two is much less than the sum of 460 and 520. But I could not figure out why my hard drive was so full. Turns out that TimeMachine uses your system drive for Snapshots and my system had about 500 GB used in Snapshots! D'ooh. Someone on Apple forum said my MacAir was using that space.

I have always kept my originals in folders by date, etc, and when I began to understand how Lightroom manages photos I though Ah, that is better, my originals are where I want them untouched, Lightroom lets me import with the fold names and order that I like (nicely done), and the edits are no destructive and stored in the much smaller Lightroom Catalog. My total photos folders are just over 500 gb, while my Lightroom catalog and smart preview folder is about 62 GB. I'm going to put a copy on my laptop (doing the very careful backup before copying method LOL) and then can have access to all the files.

I am learning the CC thing, and only have the 20 GB option. I was kind of surprised to see my 'collections' that I made also ended up there. Did not expect that, so I'll have to learn more on that least I use up that 20 GB quickly LOL.

Mike

Aronis wrote in post #19005007
I'm going to put a copy on my laptop (doing the very careful backup before copying method LOL) and then can have access to all the files.

You might want to be VERY explicit, and tell folks actually which named version of Lightroom you are actually running. It used to be simple about advice given to LR users who had a copy of LR on their desktop, a copy of LR on a laptop, and then they wanted to keep edits performed on the laptop SYNCHRONIZED to the catalog contents on the desktop.

But with the intro off multiple versions of LR, and with the continuing evolution of version number capabilities, providing sage advice has gotten trickier.

Wilt wrote in post #19005011
You might want to be VERY explicit, and tell folks actually which named version of Lightroom you are actually running. It used to be simple about advice given to LR users who had a copy of LR on their desktop, a copy of LR on a laptop, and then they wanted to keep edits performed on the laptop SYNCHRONIZED to the catalog contents on the desktop.

But with the intro off multiple versions of LR, and with the continuing evolution of version number capabilities, providing sage advice has gotten trickier.

Clarify....

I got the "photography package" including Lightroom CC, Lightroom Classic (desktop version) Release 9.1, Photoshop 2020 20.1.3(desktop) and the Creative Cloud app that organized them all. Also on iPhone LR, PS.....

and these.

OK, at this point I bow out from further discussion and become simply a reader of the thread...my experience is with LR6, as I refuse to participate in the subscription because my camera is supported in LR6 and I do not feel the compulsion to use any newer features of newer versions of LR. Those who have used LR CC v9 are far better able to suggest how to use that software on two different PCs (a desktop, and a laptop) and keep the catalogs in synch.

Be careful using both Lightroom Classic and Lightroom on the same device. While people have found workarounds it's not really recommended. The really short explanation is both want to be the boss. To use both it takes a little more diligence.

I never installed Lightroom as I prefer not to send files to the cloud and it is not as powerful as Lightroom Classic.

Have fun with the new toy.

OK now really confused by Adobe ever changing naming. In the context of today's licensing with Lightroom, and Lightroom Classic, 'Lightroom CC' is what?

I just went to the web to try to figure it out, and got this:

"Lightroom Classic CC is designed for desktop-based (file/folder) digital photography workflows. ... By separating the two products, we're allowing Lightroom Classic to focus on the strengths of a file/folder based workflow that many of you enjoy today,
while Lightroom CC addresses the cloud/mobile-oriented workflow."

...in Adobe's own confusing way, you infer 'Lightroom Classic CC' = 'Lightoom Classic' the file/folder resident on your PC beast, and 'Lightroom CC' is the web-oriented beast.

[Picture Lucy with head spinning because of what Charlie Brown has just said]

Wilt wrote in post #19007154
OK now really confused by Adobe ever changing naming. In the context of today's licensing with Lightroom, and Lightroom Classic, 'Lightroom CC' is what?

I just went to the web to try to figure it out, and got this:

"Lightroom Classic CC is designed for desktop-based (file/folder) digital photography workflows. ... By separating the two products, we're allowing Lightroom Classic to focus on the strengths of a file/folder based workflow that many of you enjoy today,
while Lightroom CC addresses the cloud/mobile-oriented workflow."

...in Adobe's own confusing way, you infer 'Lightroom Classic CC' = 'Lightoom Classic' the file/folder resident on your PC beast, and 'Lightroom CC' is the web-oriented beast.

[Picture Lucy with head spinning because of what Charlie Brown has just said]

I have it all down at this point. The names have changed to confuse the innocent. I think they could have come up with a completely different name for the web based products, that would have made it much easier to distinguish the two. But I think the way it all came into existence the naming scheme became a secondary concern.

They have dropped the name CC from the lightroom products and have a SEPARATE program call Creative Cloud.