- We took a look at organizing images in Bridge.
Let me show you an alternative
using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.
Now personally I usually do most
of my organization in Bridge,
so that things stay organized at the hard drive level.
As you move things around in Bridge
you're actually moving them on the drive,
but if you decide that you prefer Lightroom
that's fine too, and I'll show you a couple of tips.
First off, if you did the previous exercise
where we started putting things into folders
you'll need to open up one of those folders,
I could do that by just Command + double-clicking,
grab those images,
and pull them back into your Source folder.
Essentially you're looking to undo what you did from before.
Another way of doing that is to just take a look
at the folder itself,
grab all of those images in that folder,
and then simply pull it out of the folder
and put it back at the top level.
We're just undoing the nesting that we did.
Now that these folders are empty
I'll throw them away in this case.
You can keep them, it doesn't really matter.
I just wanna get you back to the starting point.
Alright, go ahead and launch Lightroom.
And in this case I chose to make
a New Catalog to keep things separate.
This way it keeps it separate from all of my normal images
and makes it easier to manage the project.
I'll click the import button
and depending upon your version of Lightroom
you may see the Lightroom import dialog,
things look different depending on versions lately.
They've gone through a lot of iterations,
but the concept is the same.
Simply choose to browse your computer
and point it to the images.
In this case I imported them to the Desktop.
I'll simply go into the Getting Organized folder,
grab the Source folder, and click Choose.
This will load all of those images
and go ahead and Import all 953.
You may have a few more or a few less,
depending upon what you did in the previous exercise,
but that's gonna import them at their current location
into your catalog.
Now as these are importing
you'll notice that depending upon the size of your thumbnail
it might be easy or hard to actually see the bracketing.
If these thumbnails are too large
you'll see sort of staggered or a stairstepped view.
Same thing if they're too tiny.
We could actually see the different
brightnesses running through.
In this case by taking a look at the data
you can get an idea of what's happening.
Let's change from the Default Metadata
to the IPTC dataset
and this shows us more information.
Now there's a lot here
and that's giving us some of the information
about the file and the copyright material.
And let's switch here to the EXIF data here
and we'll see even more material
about what the camera actually stored.
What we're looking for is the Exposure Bias.
So this is showing us the exposure compensation.
For example, four stops under,
two stops under, zero, two over,
four over, and then it resets back to four under.
Well, that shows me that this is a five shot bracket,
so I'll just adjust the size of the thumbnails
until I see five images,
and that makes it easier to view the different brackets.
Now I could see from left to right
all of the shots that went in.
Now it might depend on how you've set up
the bracketing order on your camera,
but by adjusting these to match the bracket burst
it's a lot easier to see what's happening.
Here we go from the photo,
to the different exposures,
and then I pan the camera,
and repeat the exposure bracketing.
Pan, one, two, three, four, five.
Well, that makes it really easy to see what's going on.
So by adjusting the size of the thumbnail
that might be worth it to you.
Additionally, there are some ability
to do some auto-stacking here.
So this allows me to select all of these images,
and I'm simply gonna choose to stack.
With a right-click here I could choose Stacking
and I'll choose Auto-Stack by Capture Time.
This makes it easy to set the threshold
of how many stacks.
Now looking at this we can start to see what's happening
and this is the time in between the stack.
So as we adjust here
with the Time Between Stacks you see changes.
Shorter time, fewer stacks.
So this is gonna make it easier.
In this case it looks like it's gonna put this
into a five image stack,
and that's what I wanted.
Essentially I said allow up to four seconds
between each shot.
By waiting a little bit as I panned
it then auto-stacked the next place.
So if I click Stack that's gonna speed things up.
And now those are actually stacked
and we can simply collapse those.
I'll just, with everything selected,
right-click, choose Stacking,
and we'll Collapse All Stacks.
And you see it made it a bit easier.
Now we can take a look at the individual shots
and start to group those.
So, for example, this one here,
each of these is one of the shots in the HDR.
Now let's just select this stack here
and deselect everything else,
grab this one image, and we'll restack that
into a five image stack.
And it looks like we're back on track.
So looking at these here,
I can always click to expand and see what's going on,
and I'm just looking for the break point.
So looks to me like this is the front door,
we pan across,
and then we get back to the front door.
Let's double-check that, yep.
So there's one panorama.
With that selected now it's pretty easy to use a Collection
to start to organize that.
Let's go ahead and Create a Collection Set
and we'll call that 360_VR.
Now inside of that I can make a Collection.
And I'll just call this Shot one
and put it inside 360 VR.
You'll see that it becomes nice and organized.
Now we can grab that first series,
there it is,
and just move that right into Shot one.
Now it's very simple, there they are.
Now you'll notice that it only took the top images,
so if you have that problem
make sure you take a look at your stacks here.
You might wanna actual expand those stacks temporarily.
So we'll just select everything
and choose to Expand All Stacks,
but now as an organization tool,
very simple.
There they all are, back to the front door,
click to select, and put that into Shot one.
Now I can go to the next one.
This was the lower level interior.
And I can see all of the shots that went into that.
And there it is.
Let's select those,
come over here and select our Collection,
and we'll make a new Collection,
call it Shot two.
And Create.
Grab those photos we had selected,
there they are.
Take it through the last one,
drop it in.
Now you'll note if you actually select the images
you can very quickly create a selection
and move them across.
So there's my range of images
and I'll say Create a Collection,
we'll call this Shot three,
put it inside the Collection Set
and tell it to Include the selected photos,
and click Create.
And you'll notice it moves it across.
So all in all a very easy way to get organized.
This is gonna make it simple
to keep your things imported and organized as you need them.
Now you can feel free to keep practicing here
by going through the rest of the photographs.
There's a lot of extras from this shoot,
you'll notice that sometimes there are single exposures.
So in this case I didn't do any bracketing.
I can select that whole range
and just group that into a stack for organization,
and with that all selected there
let's just expand it,
grab the whole range,
and make a new Collection,
Shot four,
put it in the set,
and Include the selected photos.
There we go.
Keep practicing if you'd like
or if you feel like you've mastered this skill
we can go on to the next section.