Bournemouth — Jan 16th 2018
Rick started by outlining the modules in LR, notably the Library where all the pictures can be seen and Develop where pictures are edited and improved. Rick showed how to use presets to speed a user's usual workflow along with a number of other tools. In the process, he made a intrusively bright red car fade into the background.
We then moved onto a typical workflow after a day spent taking pictures. Once the camera's SD card is plugged into the Mac, much of the process is automated. The photographer is called upon to grade the pictures using the PUX keys (mnemonic: Pick, Unpick, eXclude) to Flag, Unflag or Reject each photo; a finer-grained grading is also available through star ratings.
The next step is to "develop" the pictures using the Develop module. Rick showed how settings could easily be reused for several pictures, horizons straightened and offending details be removed. Finally, Rick showed how LR could produce a slideshow or simply export the finished pictures in many formats.
After refreshments, we moved on to Q&As. It was noted that the latest iTunes on the Mac could no longer download iOS applications (this now being done directly on the iPhone, iPad etc). However, copies of iOS apps previously downloaded remain invisibly in the iTunes library consuming disk space (10-15GB for the 2 Macs being used). If you are confident that these remain downloadable from the App Store, the Mac files can be deleted and the space reclaimed.
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