Lightroom Classic CC: Advanced Workflow Techniques

Add flexibility and efficiency to your Lightroom Classic CC work by leveraging the power of virtual copies, Smart Previews, and Snapshots and History.

Add flexibility and efficiency to your Lightroom Classic CC work by leveraging the power of virtual copies, Smart Previews, and Snapshots and History. In this short course, Chris Orwig introduces advanced workflow techniques that provide photo editors with greater artistic freedom and more creative possibilities in Lightroom Classic CC.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the challenges and solutions
• Using the exercise files

1. The Secret Weapon: Virtual Copies

• Introducing Virtual Copies
• Three ways to create a virtual copy
• Virtual copy workflow
• Using Virtual Copies when converting to black and white
• Sorting and filtering for Virtual Copies
• Managing Virtual Copies
• Virtual Copies and collections
• Challenge: Quickly create four versions of one image
• Solution: Quickly create four versions of one image

2. More Flexibility with Smart Previews

• Why Smart Previews matter
• Building Smart Previews with the Import dialog
• Creating Smart Previews in the Library module
• Generating Smart Previews when you export as a catalog

3. More Control with Snapshots and History

• Working with History to quickly undo adjustments
• Creating Snapshots for different processing options
• Deleting, renaming, and updating Snapshots
• Challenge: Saving three looks with Snapshots
• Solution: Saving three looks with Snapshots

Conclusion

• Next steps