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[What's New in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4]
Hi and welcome.
My name is Julieanne Kost, and we're going to take the next few minutes to look at
the new Map module in Lightroom 4.
So I know that a lot of people arrange their images, or group their images, differently.
Sometimes we do it based on people.
Sometimes we do it based on time, date, or year.
But also, and probably more popular today is the ability to group your images
based on location, especially if that location happens to be embedded in the photograph.
For example, most camera phones today embed that information.
You can turn it off, but I've got an example here where you can see when I click on this image
right here, in the right hand side we have the GPS information embedded in that file.
Now if I want to see where I took this image on the map,
there's a little arrow to the right of the GPS data that I can click on,
and it takes me over to the Map module and shows me that location.
Now we're using Google maps, obviously, for this,
and so you just need to know that you will need to be online if you want the Map module
to display the map.
Otherwise, we're not allowed to cache the information,
so you would just get a blank screen.
So you do need to be online for that.
Okay, now how do we navigate the map?
Well, down here in your tool bar, you've got to zoom in and zoom out.
We can also just use the keyboard shortcuts.
It's just the - key or the + key.
You don't need to add the Command or Control key to zoom in or zoom out.
You can also hold down the Option key though or the Alt key on Windows,
and then you can click and drag over an area to zoom into that area.
We'll do that again just so that we can get a little bit closer,
and now you can see exactly where I was when I photographed all of those images.
Now this is the street view, but we can also view the map a variety of different ways.
Right here, we can see all of the different styles, and I can either click on each one individually,
or I can use the keyboard shortcut, which would be Command 1 for this hybrid,
Command 2 for the road map, 3 will go through the satellite, 4 is the terrain,
and then 5 and 6 go between light and dark.
So you can just pick whichever map you prefer.
Let's go to Command 2, or it would be Control 2 on Windows in order to just see
the road map there.
So this is great if your images all ready include GPS data,
but what if you're photographing with a camera that does not record that?
Well, we could return back to the Library module because I want to pick
a different collection of images so that I can show you what we can do.
But remember you don't always have to go back to the Library.
Right down here at the top of your filmstrip, you can select, for example,
from all of your photographs or from your recent sources
or you can even add different sources to your favorites and then they'll appear permanently
up here.
So for example, if I go to All Photographs, and then we zoom way, way out.
We can see on the map here all the different places that I've embedded GPS data.
Now I did this myself, and let me show you how.
We'll go ahead and narrow it down a little bit, in fact, let's go to a collection of images
that I've photographed in Italy.
You can see over here in my Navigator, I can quickly scoot over and look there,
or we could use that same keyboard shortcut--that option--and then drag.
Of course, that would be Alt on Windows and just drag into this area.
So I was thinking that all of the images that I had in this collection were actually
on this map already, but if I want to double check, you'll notice up here
we have a bunch of different location filters.
So these are the ones that are visible on the map right now.
It changed what was available down there in my filmstrip.
If I choose Tagged, then it shows me all of the images that are tagged,
and it will actually blank out some of the images that aren't tagged.
Likewise, if I select Untag, now it's going to show me all of the images that are untagged.
So I might need to scroll through a little bit, but there we go, we'll start at the beginning,
and I can see that all of these are untagged.
So let's just scroll. All of these images I can see--I can tell so far in the filmstrip
were all photographed in Venice, so I'm just going to go to the end of that shoot,
which is right here. I'll hold down the Shift key and that selects all of those images
because I want to add these to the map, right?
So if I could see Venice right now, I could simply drag and drop them,
but I can't, so let's go ahead and use the search map.
I'll just type in Venice and hit return.
Now it comes up with 2 results.
Obviously. I want to be in Italy, so let's select that one.
So it shows me Venice on the map.
Now I could zoom in, and I could be really specific,
but for the purpose of the demonstration, let's just grab these images
and just drop them right there on that marker
because you see that first marker was telling me the results of the search,
and then I dropped all the photos that I took in that location on top of it.
If you ever want to see, for example, the map key, so that you know what all these
different markers are, you can go ahead and show that,
so you can see the one here with the search results,
and then these are my selected photos that I just dragged to here.
In fact, if I click on that, I can see my photos, and I can navigate through all of those images.
But I'm not quite done yet.
I want to go ahead and just make sure that all of my images are tagged
in this collection, so I'll just quickly move through.
Sometimes it shows you really briefly--you'll think they're untagged,
but then we just need to check those, and so when you release, it will tell you
what's been tagged and what hasn't.
So here it looks like I've come across another series.
So again, I can just select the first one, go to the end of the series that hasn't been tagged,
and then click on that.
This time I'm going to be a little bit more specific, and I'm simply going to paste
in the address because I know that that's where this hotel was,
and then again, simpy drag and drop.
And when I drag and drop my images on my map,
in case I forgot to mention it, you can see down here that the GPS data
is actually being added to each one of those images,
so once I've done this, it's already embedded.
Of course, if I make a mistake, all I need to do is select that image again
and drag it to a different location on the map. Excellent.
Let's go ahead and look at what's visible on the map,
and then I'm going to zoom out a little bit because I kind of want to see this overall area.
Now, if this was an area where I photographed often, or I thought I was going to go back
and photograph again, what I might want to do is save this as a location.
So over here on the left hand side, I can create a new preset and it will actually name it
with the location name.
Then I'll go ahead and select Create.
I could have made that larger or smaller while I was in the dialogue box,
or I can go ahead and narrow it down after the fact if I wanted to,
and I can reposition that location.
What that really helps with is, maybe I will zoom out,
and maybe I'm looking at a different area, and then I want to go back to that same area,
well, now all I need to do is click right here to the right of the number of images
that are in that area, and it will take me right back to that saved location.
So you can see how easy it is for me to navigate 2 different areas on the map.
Now, here's an important point.
I just clicked on this location, which is Iceland, but I don't see any images on the map
because again, the map is only going to show me the images in the collection, or in the folder,
that I'm viewing.
So in this case, what I'd want to do, is select all of my photographs,
and that way, Lightroom will go out and look at all the GPS information
and then map those images.
So now it makes a little bit more sense when I click on my saved locations
because I will obviously see all of those images.
Okay, so if your photograph has GPS locations,
we will automatically place that on the map.
If your image doesn't have GPS locations, you can do a search and then drag and drop it,
or if you know the GPS locations, you can simply select all of the images
and just add that into the GPS field, either in the Map module or in the Library module.
There's 1 other way that you could pair your imformation,
and that is if you have something that keeps track of a track log.
So the track log file format that we support is GPX,
and in case your device doesn't record GPX data,
there's software out there that will convert it.
But then all you would need to do is load that track log,
and then once you've loaded the track log,
you would go ahead and you would autotag the photos.
One little important safety tip on that is you just want to make sure that
all of your images actually have the right time and date stamp,
so I know a lot of times when I travel you change time zones,
and you might forget to change the date and time on the back of your camera,
so all you'd want to do is go in the Library module and change or edit your capture times,
so that it would match up with your log.
Okay, a few shortcuts--Command K will actually lock all of your markers,
so that you can't move them.
"I" will show you this information so this overlay that tells you where you're looking here,
if that gets in the way, you can just tap the "I" key again to hide that.
If we go back to grid view, I had showed you in the metadata area here--
we'll go to an image that I know has metadata--
if you click on the arrow here, it will take you to the Map module.
If you ever did want to see this in Google Maps as opposed to the Map module,
you could hold down the Option key or the Alt key and click on that,
and it would actually show you that in Google maps.
Just something you might want to know.
And finally, here you'll also notice that in the grid view, we have a new little icon.
This is the map icon, right here--this little marker icon,
and again, if we click on that, it will also jump us over to the map module
and show you where that image was taken.
One last thing is when you do get a list of those saved locations,
you can go underneath the metadata area,
and you'll notice that one of the options here is Map Location,
and it will show all of those presets, those saved locations,
so that you can see how many images in the collection or folder that you're looking at
reside in those map locations.
Excellent! That wraps up this video on the Map module in Lightroom 4.
My name is Julieanne Kost. Thanks for watching.
