Synching For Speed Inside Lightroom's Develop Module

Doug Sloss · Issue 83, Mar/Apr 2015 · pp. 83

Products mentioned: Adobe Lightroom

When establishing an efficient workflow, one thing savvy photographers look for are ways to speed up the editing process. One effective way to improve speed in Lightroom is by employing the program’s Synch command to quickly apply identical edits to an image set of similar photos captured in the same conditions. While it’s possible to use the synch command to apply develop edits to a group of wide angle shots, it is especially helpful when running it on a group of macro subjects where lighting for the most part remains consistent and your subject often remains somewhat motionless, which gives you a fairly consistent background while talking your pictures. Here’s how it works. The first thing I did was choose a photo to make my initial develop edits on. I started with the first image in the Filmstrip and applied a lens profile correction and removed chromatic aberration from the photo usi…