Adobe has great plans for Lightroom and is listening to its users! Scott Kelby sheds a little light on what’s up next for Lightroom over at his blog Photoshop Insider .
Apparently, Adobe is listening to Lightroom users more than we could hope and many of the features we are hoping for (plus some we didn’t even think of) are under consideration. When the next update will appear and what it will include remain a mystery. If we can get Scott in a back room for a while we could break that non-disclosure agreement! Only kidding!
You can read Scott’s full post here .
Adobe has launched a new community help system for Lightroom!! The new site combines the information from live docs with the ability to post comments, ask questions, and delve deeper into a topic.
All of the basics are there. But now you can click on the Learn More link at the bottom of each help topic for more information and useful sites and tutorials. Go and take a look at http://learn.adobe.com/wiki/display/LR/Home.
The site is administered by Adobe, moderated by experts from the community, and developed with the assistance of a panel of Lightroom Learning Advisors. So you’ll also find links to the moderators’ and advisors’ favorite Lightroom sites, plus links to troubleshooting sites and a page that lists third-party presets, galleries, and extensions.
One of Lightroom’s great features is the ability to put images into collections. An image can appear in several collections so you can build groups of images that make sense to you. If you click on a collection name you can see and select all the images in that collection and create a web gallery or prints.
But what do you do if you have a large number of images and you need to find out which ones are not in a collection? Here is a step-by-step way to select all your non-collected images.
While in the Library module, open your Collections panel on the left.
Now click on the first collections in the list to highlight it.
While holding down the shift key click on the last collection in the list. You should now have all your collections selected and all the images in them appear in the grid.
To select all these images either press Control-A (Command-A on the Mac) or go up to the Edit menu and click Select All.
What’s that you say? You’re right! Now you have all your collected images selected. Here’s how we get to our goal of select all images not in a collection.
Go to the Library panel and click on All Photographs.
Now the grid shows all your images with the collected ones selected. To finish off got to the edit menu and click Invert selection.
Viola! Now the grid shows a selection of all your images that are not in any collection!
