In this episode of The Complete Picture, Julieanne shares several suggestions for hardware, software, and preferences to help optimize the performance of Lightroom. Keeping these tips in mind when setting up a new system or refining your current system will help speed up Lightroom and make you more productive.

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Julieanne Kost, Adobe Principal Evangelist Photoshop and Lightroom, takes a close look at several feature enhancements and refinements made to scripted patterns including placing patterns along a path, rendering unique trees for concept, architectural and fine art images and scripted border designs. Learn how to unlock the background into a layer with a single click, choose recent colors from the swatches panel and add and change color readouts for multiple color samplers at once.

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Julieanne Kost, Adobe Principal Evangelist Photoshop and Lightroom, walks through the new Perspective Warp feature in Photoshop CC. Learn how to create quads, adjust the layout, and distort the perspective of an image.

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In this episode of The Complete Picture, Julieanne demonstrates five of her favorite new and improved features for working with vectors. Discover path creation improvements, isolation mode, drag-selecting paths, path operation shortcuts, and more. 

Note: If you are new to Photoshop or skipped version 6, you might want to take a look at the re-engineered shape tools in this video “What’s New in Adobe Photoshop CS6” (vector layers begin at @ 44:45). http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adobe-creative-suite-6-creative-cloud-launch-week/whats-new-in-adobe-photoshop-cs6/ And, you can learn about rounded rectangles and Live Shape Properties in this video: “Adobe Photoshop: Favorite Features for Photographers” http://tv.adobe.com/go/16825

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In this episode of The Complete Picture, Julieanne demonstrates two ways to change the capture time of your images. The first enables you to offset a time zone change and the second supports a custom adjustment to align multiple cameras used to shoot one event but with different date/time settings in-camera.

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In this episode of The Complete Picture, Julieanne discusses backup strategies for the Lightroom catalog, incremental backup catalogs, photographs, presets, preferences, and additional supporting files. Of course there are many ways to manage files - this tutorial is intended to help you identify the best approach for your workflow.

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Learn the additional, seldom talked about features in Lightroom 5 that can make a huge difference in the way that you work with your images.

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Discover the new enhancements made to the Book module including page numbering, easier text creation, and custom templates.

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Learn how to create lightweight, efficient Smart Previews to work with offline images in Lightroom.

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Learn how easy it is to apply Lightroom’s selective adjustments including color temperature, exposure, sharpening, noise reduction and more using the new Radial Filter tool.

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