How to use Lightroom in general?

Hello!

I'm new to Lr. I use RawShooter years.

I'm using Lr 3, but I keep frustrated: of RawShooter, I'm used to the following workflow:

1.) point in the source directory

Images to the point 2)

3.) pick up images developed from the output directory.

In Lr, I'm supposed to do to import images (where?), developing them, and then export them. I'm supposed to use a catalog, but what's the point? I keep my photos in a perfectly organized file system directories, I don't need a catalogue, I do?

When I start the import, sometimes it works, sometimes remove I can choose a directory, but import the button is disabled. I have pictures of 5 days, in 5 separate directories. I imported the first and the last successfully, but cannot matter the other 3. Why?

When I export, I'm lost: what images get exported? How to choose the directory / set of photos I want to export? How to resize images (many of them to a size preset)?

First of all, I want to do the basics: exposure and contrast of the correct values. In RawShooter, I pressed the CTRL key and the tool displayed everywhere and underexposed parts of the image. It is not available in Lr.

The user interface is so hostile, he does not point me in the direction that I should follow - I can't find my way.

There must be a standard routine for these tasks, can someone point me in the right direction?

Thank you

B

You really know how to ask a trick question.  The scope of what you asked is really beyond the feasibility of covering in a forum like this.  There are some excellent tutorials on Adobe.tv, or you can subscribe to Lynda.com for a month and get excellent training there.  But to answer your questions briefly:

The catalogue is what stores all the settings that you make in Lightroom.  It uses a database and images to be imported into this catalogue so that Lightroom for you give access to images.  You can leave your images in the folder structure that you created, keeping tangled it.  Lightroom will not move these images, simply add them to the catalog.  All changes/settings you make to the Lightroom will be stored in the catalog.  The original image remains unchanged.

To export pictures, select a group of images you want to export.  It will be the images that you worked on in Lightroom and they are your master images.  After you have highlighted the pictures you choose export, and a dialog will be displayed that allow you to define everything you need; file type, dimensions, resolution, destination, amount of output sharpening, etc...  After you have defined all the parameters that you export copies for a reason you need.  For example, I could export a group of images to send by e-mail.  After I sent the images I usually clears the copies, keeping only these original images of the masters.

It is a brief introduction.  You really need to look at some tutorials to learn how the program works.  I hope this will at least help you get started.

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