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This post is part of our Learning Lightroom series. It’s the beginning of the new year, meaning that it’s time to update your Lightroom Copyright preset (something I need to remind myself to do every year lest I forget). In case you forgot how to do this (or want to create a new copyright preset), here are the instructions. To Edit/Create a Copyright Preset From the Library module, click Metadata on the menu and then choose Edit Metadata Presets. Click the Preset drop-down list and then select the Preset you want to edit. If you’re creating a new preset, then...

This post is part of our Learning Lightroom series A handy way to import your photos into Lightroom is by using the Auto Import feature. How it works, is that you specify a watched folder; that is to say, a folder whose contents are watched by Lightroom. Whenever you add any new images to the folder, Lightroom will automatically import the images and store them in the destination folder that you specify. As an example, whenever I plug my phone into my computer, any new images I have taken are automatically copied over to a Dropbox folder called Dropbox Photos....

We have just uploaded the macOS Mojave Level 1 courseware manual to our website.  You can check out a preview and an outline of the course from our Mac OS page:  https://pcmcourseware.com/collections/individual-mac-courses/products/mac-os-x

This post is part of our Learning Lightroom series.   Survey View allows you to view multiple photos at the same time in a grid. This view comes in especially handy when going through a photo shoot of similar images and you need to narrow it down to the keepers. To display several images in Survey View, select the images in the Filmstrip and then press the N key on your keyboard. To select consecutive photos, click on the first photo, hold down the Shift key and then select the last photo in the series. To select non-adjacent photos, select...

This post is part of our Learning Lightroom series. A handy yet often unappreciated feature of Lightroom is the Painter Tool, located on the Toolbar. If you’ve ever worked with the Format Painter feature in Microsoft Office products, then you’ll be familiar with the concept. What the Painter tool does, is allows you to paint an attribute to multiple photos by clicking on them. This is especially handy if you want to quickly apply attributes to images in multiple folders or collections.  The icon for the Painter tool resembles a paint can. If you don’t see it on the...