Adobe Lightroom 4 Video Workshop: 16 Tutorials on the Lightroom Library Workflow and Digital Photo Library Management

Great tutorials. I’ve learnt enough from White Balance, Sharpening and Soft Proofing to more than cover the cost. I need a new monitor now – soft proofing proved it!! Great work Thank you

Dear Mr. Jardine, I have just returned from Yellowstone, sharing the company of Ian Lyons, whom I have known and respected for many years. He showed me one of your Lightroom 4 Develop Tutorials, on his ipad. I was so impressed that I purchased both sets of tutorials (Library and Develop) from your website, as soon as I got home to the UK. Having now watched most of them, I can only conclude that they are absolutely superb. (The only disappointment is that the Tutorial Disks cannot be obtained from Amazon in the UK nor Europe.)

I am now getting results from Lightroom 4 that far exceed what I could obtain from Lightroom 3, thanks to your tutorials. Thank You. Allen

Once again George has produced a great how to series which is easy to follow and yet goes into great detail in making Lr4 work for you. I’ve enjoyed learning the new subjective control I have with Lr4!

Shayne

Thanks George, I have been a Lightroom user from the very beginning and use it nearly everyday in both my advertising and personal workflow. From the simple catalog features of key wording images to setting up advanced develop presets it is all a part of how I choose to work. Lightroom was advantageous in creating my book “Napa Behind The Bottle” to my recent assignment of traveling 13,000 miles across the country for Silver Oak Cellars on their 2012 Tower Tour shooting and categorizing thousands of images and processing them out on a daily basis. It all about digital photo management and the guru of digital photo management is George Jardine. George’s recent and amazing tutorials on Lightroom 4 detail the structure needed to work successfully in Lightroom. His tutorials are not the run of the mill re-hash of how to use Lightroom 4 but a in-depth insight into the reason and purpose from a photographer and former developer on the Lightroom team. You will have a new comprehension of how the program is meant to be used. Understanding from the perspective of a former Lightroom programmer and photographer is definitely the key to success. Combine that with George’s ability to actually teach and clearly explain the program with his own photographs and methodology and you have the ultimate in Lightroom 4 tutorials for any level user. You will find that you will come away with a lot more than just some keyboard shortcuts. The proficiency at which you will work after viewing these tutorials is well worth the price of admission and then some. There are a lot of tutorials out there but nothing compares and gives you the complete and thorough knowledge that you will use in everyday practice. From working professonals shooting thousands of pictures in a week to the weekend amateur trying to understand the basics these tutorials offer something for everyone. Here is a helpful link to George’s blog page: http://mulita.com/blog/ From there, you can see links to all the tutorials. If you want to link directly to the product pages, here is a link to Library: http://mulita.com/blog/?page_id=2 Here’s one to Develop: http://mulita.com/blog/?page_id=724 These are online tutorials… and “DVD’s are available from Amazon, but I am sure George will gladly send you download links if you want to have offline access.

these are really good instructional videos and make life easier for anyone to use lightroom. videos are in-detail and some times you might get bored with them but stick with them and at the end of day, you will be glad you made this purchase. These videos definitely help with your photo organization and the basic work flow. Thanks George for teaching stuff in an affordable and efficient manner.

The library tutorial series is great! I could only watch the first three videos before I had to stop and fix my library! I wish I would have found George’s tutorials sooner. Thank you.

Hi George, I have the Library and Develop Module Tutorials. What a find!! I wish I had found them for the earliest days of LR, I have pics ALL OVER the place on several hard drives etc.etc. Now I can put them in an orginized order thanks to your clear directions on how LR handles photo files. My wife really likes that you move your cursor in the tutorials slowly enough to follow it, unlike some instructors who seem to keep the “path” to a function a secret. Thanks so much, Alden

George, you are the Lightroom guru. Everyone should know of your wonderful tutorials. Two reasons: your complete knowledge of Lightroom’s many pieces and connections, your command of that knowledge; and secondly, your gift for passing that intelligence on — understandably, clearly and easily to anyone viewing it. This combination and your delight in sharing it are unsurpassed. Thank you,

I’m one of those people who are ALWAYS trying to learn more and obsessively collect information to make me better at my craft, so I’ve scoured almost EVERY possible source on photography/technique/workflow etc. I’ve always had to pick up tiny bits from here and there, which never make sense when put together and only serve to complicate since they all had their own authors little quirks.

A few minutes into your free video (that was on the Adobe site) I knew all that had changed. I can’t believe that I’ve paid for tutorials that wouldn’t answer some “square one” questions that I really needed to know. It’s not even a matter of simplifying or dumbing down, it’s just that you must know the root level mechanics, or your building on a house of cards.

Like I said, my Lightroom catalog is almost 170,000 pictures and I still didn’t know what was where and totally dreaded trying to get them in shape even if that meant losing work. It was too overwhelming.

As soon as I saw you zipping around your 39,000+ image library, I knew my search for sanity was close at hand.

I can’t thank you enough, but I will try.

Hi George,

I was directed here by an entry on Lightroom tutorials on the John Birch Photography Web site. I am interested in the Library tutorials to start, and am using LR3 (I’ve already spent enough on LR1 and 2 and associated books without doing much with it, to spend more on LR4 without at least learning to use what I already have).

Perhaps I am just not seeing it, but it seems the LR3 tutorials are no longer available now that LR4 is out? If that is the case, is LR4 sufficiently similar to LR3 that the LR4 tutorials can be used for LR3 without too much difficulty?

I know there’s a link to the LR3 series below this comment box, but there does not appear to be a purchase link for that set.

Thanks!

Craig

Hi George, I need a bit of advice. I have a large collection of RAW, TIFF, and JPG files I am ready to organize. My goal is to re-caption, keyword and file my images. They are all subject sorted now but need new image names to reflect dates-subject, etc. I have LR4 & CS6. Please tell me which tutorials I should purchase ie: Catalog vs Library course. I will get to the Develop module later after I am organized. Thanks much! Jeff

Hi George,

Thanks for your support in getting me started in the first series: Lightroom Library Workflow and Digital Photo Library Management. I’ve been an Aperture user for many years and have recently made the transition to Lightroom. I guess what helped is that the camera I recently purchased (Leica M-E) included Lightroom and the Leica RAW files are written to DNG files in camera. I am also encouraged in the way Adobe and Leica have been working together to ensure the camera files are fully supported in Lightroom and include many Leica lens profiles.

I’ve already read a book by a “national” best selling author to get started but it only covered the basics. I can already see from what I’ve watched so far that your videos are going to really improve my workflow and I’m finally confident I can transfer my existing Aperture Library over to be fully managed by Lightroom.

Once again you have answered my query very promptly and effectively. I now have no difficulty viewing the library videos on my iPad. I am very impressed by the quality of your support and have no hesitation in recommending your program to others.

We’d better stop praising George’s wonderful tutorials – he’ll get a swollen head! For those of us with Android tablets here’s how I watch the tuts while I have coffee. I have an app called Tonido (it’s free), which allows you to access your home computer over the net. All my George tuts are in a folder on my desktop for easy reference. I just log in, plug in my earphones, and enjoy my coffee.