LIGHTROOM
Paint settings onto your shots to change them quickly
Adding keywords, changing settings and adding ratings to your newly imported RAW files can be a labour of love, and to do in detail, will take up a lot of editing time. But in the Library module of Lightroom there’s a handy feature that can speed up the process, and it’s easy to pass it by if you don’t know it’s there. The Painter looks like a spray paint can, and can be found just above the Filmstrip towards the bottom of the interface. Click the Painter to make it active, then you’ll see a menu appear next to it. From here, you can write in keywords, add labels, flags, ratings, metadata, settings and much more. Then, just click over…
