So here is a video that shows you how to merge all your job specific Lightroom Catalogs into 1 Master.

Enjoy!

So if your new to Lightroom, or just need help with your workflow…. Take some time to watch these videos. THESE ARE NOT ABOUT THE KEYS! You will not learn anything about the RPG KEY product in this videos….. Just how we use Lightroom when we are without a set of keys.

Step #1. File + Folder Prep.
We start every job with a set of files + folders that are the same from job to job. The job folder lives on our desktop and when we are done with our edits and manipulations, it gets moved to a backup system.

Step #2. Creating a job specific Lightroom Catalog + Import
Each job gets its own LR catalog in our studio. It just makes working between two studio locations much easier for us. If you are using (LR 3+) you “might” get away with 1 catalog but speed could become an issue. In this video we explain how to change file names, preview size and all the import settings that we use.

Step #3. Flagging and Ranking our Images.
In this video we explain a few different methods for finding the keepers in a body of work. For the new to Lightroom crowd, pay close attention to how we setup the filters. If you are an RPG KEY owner the “single pass” workflow talked about in this video might be just for you!

Step #4. Image Editing.
This video explains some of the basic develop tools in Lightroom. Very basic and if you know Lightroom this video might be a waste of your time.

Step #5. Exporting.
In this video we explain how to make a watermark in the new LR 3 and the different choices we make while exporting.

The collection includes:

Assign ***
Add to Selection
Add to Selection (Contiguous)
Assign * Rating
Assign ** Rating
Assign **** Rating
Assign ***** Rating
Assign Blue Label
Assign Green Label
Assign Red label
Assign Yellow Label
Batch Rename
Camera Raw opens in Photoshop
Clear Rating
Close Window
Compact Mode
Copy
Cut
Decrease Rating
Decrease Rating Ctrl+
Duplicate
Exit
File Info
File Navigator View
Filmstrip Focus View
Increase Rating
Increase Rating
Increase Rating .
Invert Selection
Light Box View
Metadata Focus View
Move to Recycle Bin (Image or Folder)
New Folder
New Window
Next page Right Arrow
No Rating
Open
Open in Camera Raw
Open Raw Image
Paste
Previous Document
Previous Page
Refresh
Reset to Default Workspace
Return to Adobe Photoshop
Select All
Select First Image Home
Select Labeled
Select Last Image
Select Unlabeled
Set label 6-9
Show all Files
Show only files with 1 or more * Rating
Show only files with 2 or more * Rating
Show only files with 3 or more * Rating
Show only files with 4 or more * Rating
Show only files with 5 * Rating
Show only files with Blue Label
Show only files with Green Label
Show only files with Red label
Show only files with Yellow Label
Show Thumbnails Only
Slide Show
Switch to Next Open Window
Switch to Previous Open Window
Switch to Previous View
Switch to User-Defined Workspaces
Switch View
Synchronise (Version Cue)
Toggle * Rating
Undo/Redo
Versions
Window

The Aperture module for RPG offers 90% of the same features included with our Lightroom modules.

This product includes our 58 Key Keyboard + RPG Aperture plug-in.
This includes functions for the following and so much more!

#1: All native shortcuts
#2: 24 user defines Presets
#3. All stock presets

Tint + / -
Temp + / -

Exposure + / -
Recovery +/-
Black Point +/-
Brightness +/-

Contrast +/-
Definition +/-
Saturation + /-
Vibrancy +/-

Highlights +/-
Shadows +/-
Rang +/-

Reset Adjustments

Quick Brush – Blur
Quick Brush – Burn
Quick Brush – Contrast
Quick Brush – Definition
Quick Brush – Dodge
Quick Brush – Intensify
Quick Brush – Polarize
Quick Brush – Saturation
Quick Brush – Sharpen
Quick Brush – Tint
Quick Brush – Vibrancy

1 Star
2 Star
3 Star
4 Star
5 Stat

Add Blue Label
Add Green Label
Add Gray Label
Add Orange Label
Add Purple Label
Add Red Label
Add Yellow Label

Assign Name
Auto-Stack

Black & White Controls
Chromatic Aberration Controls
Color / Monocrome Controls

Compare Mode
Duplicate Image
Create version from master
Create version from master and add to selection

Crop Tool
Customize Metadata Overlays
Cycle View

Decrease Loupe Diameter
Decrease Loupe Magnification

Decrease Rating and Move to Next Image
Decrease Rating
Decrease Thumb Size

Deselect All
Devigneette Controls
Duplicate Image
Edge Sharpen Controls

Edit with default editor
Edit with plug-in #1
Edit with plug-in #2

Email version
Empty Aperture Trash
Enter Faces View
Enter Places View
Enter Stack Compare Mode
Enter/Edit full screen

Export Masters
Export Version

Filmstrip view
Grid View
Flip

Highlights Hot and Cold Area
Highlights and Shadows Controls

Increase Loupe Diameter
Increase Loupe Mag
Increase Rating
Increase Rating and Move On
Increase Thumb Size
Invert Selected

Keyword 1
Keyword 2
Keyword 3
Keyword 4
Keyword 5
Keyword 6
Keyword 7
Keyword 8

Lift Tool
List view
Navigator
New Album
New Folder
New Project
New Smart Album
Noise Reduction

Open / Close Stack
Print Image
Promote Stack Item
Put focus in Library Inspector

Quick Preview
Red Eye Correction
Reject
Reject and advance
Remove Color Label

Remove Keyword 1
Remove Keyword 2
Remove Keyword 3
Remove Keyword 4
Remove Keyword 5
Remove Keyword 6
Remove Keyword 7
Remove Keyword 8
Retouch Brush
Rotate Browser Position
Rotate Image Left
Rotate Image Right
Rotate Tool
Scale to Fit

Secondary Alternate
Secondary Blank
Secondary Desktop
Secondary Mirror
Secondary Span

Select All in Stack
Select All
Select and advance
Select Compare Item
Select
Selection Tool

Sepia Tone Controls

Set Stack Pick

Show 1 Star or better
Show 2 star or better
Show 3 star or better
Show 4 star or better
Show 5 star or better

Show all
Show flagged images
Show Master
Show rejects only
Show unrated only

Shuttle Left / Right
Split Stack
Stack Image selected
Stamp Tool
Stop Shuttle
Straighten Tool
Swap Browser Position
Uncover
Viewer Compare
Viewers Show Multiple
Viewer Show One
Viewer Stack
Vignette Controls
White Balance Controls
Zoom viewer In
Zoom viewer out

1/13/2010… NEW FEATURES!
Our new PS Plug-In searches your computers Hard Drive and finds all of the actions you have installed into photoshop. This includes not only actions but Brushes, Scripts and almost every Photoshop tool!

Here are just a few!

Up to 147 User Defined Actions.

Go to Background Layer
Canvas Size tool
Duplicate Layer
Duplicate Image
Flatten Layer
Free Transform Tool
Go to Bridge
Image Size
Last Layer
Select Liquify Tool
New Layer
Next Layer
Redo
Undo

RPG Launcher Next
RPG Launcher Last

Save & Close
Save

Select Anchor Tool
Select Art Brush Tool
Select Audio Annotation Tool
Select Blur Tool
Select Bucket Tool
Select Burn In Tool
Select Clone Stamp Tool
Select Color Replacement Tool
Select Color Sampler Tool
Select Convert Anchor Tool
Select Crop Tool
Select Custom Shape Tool
Select Delete Anchor Tool
Select Direct Selection Tool
Select Dodge Tool
Select Ellipse Tool
Select Eraser Tool
Select Eyedropper Tool
Select Freeform Pen Tool
Select Gradient Tool
Select Horizontal Type Mask Tool
Select Inverse
Select Lasso Tool
Select Line Tool
Select magic Eraser Sool
Select Magic Stamp Tool
Select Magic Wand Tool
Select Magnetic Lasso Tool
Select Marquee Ellipse Tool
Select Marquee Rectangle Tool
Select Marquee Single Column Tool
Select Marquee Single Row Tool
Select Move Tool
Select Notes Tool
Select Paint Brush Tool
Select Patch Selection Tool
Select Path Selection Tool
Select Pattern Stamp Tool
Select Pen Tool
Select Pencil Tool
Select Polygon Select Tool
Select Polygon Tool

This “plug-in” like application used in conjunction with our keyboard will likely cut your editing time in half.

Its just that simple!

Our RPG LR keyboard includes keys for:
24 user Defined Presets.
Escape
Edit in Photoshop
Edit in 1 other app.

Star +
Star -

Red Flag
Blue Flag

Flag +
Flag -

Enable Filters

Quick Collect

Show Clipping

Color Gray

Left Panel
Right Panel

Library – Develop Module Toggle

Select all
Select None

Grid View

Duplicate selected photo

Survey View
Compare view

Before & After view

Select White Balance Tool

Undo
Redo

Reset to import status

Tint +
Tint -

Temperature +
Temperature -

Brightness +
Brightness -

Recovery +
Recovery -

Blacks +
Blacks -

Paste Last
Sync

Contrast +
Contrast -

Last Image
Next Image

Exposure +
Exposure -

Saturation +
Saturation -

Sharpness +
Sharpness -

Vibrance +
Vibrance -

Auto Tone
Auto White Balance

Reject Flag
Un-Reject Flag

Clarity +
Clarity -

Fill Light +
Fill Light -

Enter

Open Adjustment Panel
Close Adjustment Panel
Open Gradient Panel
Close Gradient Panel
Select Clone Tool
Select Heal Tool
Select Crop Tool
Select Line Crop Tool

Speed Crop as 4×6
Speed Crop as 5×7
Speed Crop as 8×10

Select Hue TAT Tool
Select Saturation TAT Tool
Select Luminance TAT Tool
Select Gray TAT Tool
Select Tone Curve TATTool

Select Curve Point

Copy Settings
Paste Settings

So when a photographer makes an investment with us, we try our best to go above and beyond to take care of them.   Everyone gets the same great service, no matter how big or small they might be.    Recently I spent some time on the phone with a customer and he took a moment to rave about us.

Here is a link to the article:    http://blog.jaylance.com/2010/09/11/cool-tool-cool-company/

And here is what he wrote:

Cool Tool… Cool Company!

by JEFF on SEPTEMBER 11TH

As many of you know, I use a combination of Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop to edit and manage my work. Earlier this year I shot a wedding (this one) and that day I also happened to have two additional photographers shooting with me. The end result was nearly 3000+(!) pictures that I needed to work through after the event. Now Adobe Lightroom is a stellar product, but one of the areas it is a bit… weak… in is keyboard shortcuts.

If you’re a Lightroom user, you know that it’s almost impossible to get any serious work done without having one hand constantly on the mouse… so many of the essential functions have no keyboard shortcuts whatsoever. In my former life I worked in the software industry, and I knew that often times using the mouse is the absolute SLOWEST way to get anything done. This is part of the reason that so many pieces of software have tons of keyboard shortcuts… It’s *way* faster to hit CTRL+C to cut something and CTRL+V to paste it elsewhere instead of having to use the mouse to go to a menu… find cut… select it… go to a menu… find paste… select it… The thought of working my way through 3000+ photographs this way was almost enough for me to trade photography for a nice career in accounting! (Not really.)

As I found myself contemplating the magnitude of the editing job before me, I started thinking that there HAS to be a better way! I began to poke around on the interwebs and it was not too long after that point that RPG Keys entered my life (www.rpgkeys.com. The nutshell description of RPG Keys is that it is an additional USB keyboard which places all of the essential functions of Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop literally within a single keystroke on an external dedicated keyboard. It’s like having an external 10-key keyboard, except it’s a ginormus keyboard with 58 fully customizable keys.

All was well-and-good until recently when I updated to the latest version of Lightroom… At that point things started to go a little… funky… for me as some of the keys stopped working correctly, others worked fine but also caused Lightroom to give me error messages. (Talk about Lightroom sending mixed messages!) It was then that I found out that it wasn’t just a cool tool I was dealing with, but a cool company as well. You see, at some point in the last couple of weeks I had missed the newsflash that the great people at Riley Photographic (the makers of RPG Keys) had updated their software to work with the latest version of Lightroom. So when I sat down last night (Friday) to do a bit of editing was when I discovered that I was having problems. I emailed their tech support just before midnight (again, Friday night) thinking that with any luck I would hear something by Monday afternoon… at the earliest.

Imagine my surprise, then, when I had a reply waiting for me when I got up this morning… and not just any old reply, but a tech support reply from Tim, the owner of the company! A few minutes later when I couldn’t find the correct download link (it was early… pre-coffee…) I sent him another email, and that was how I found myself on the phone talking with Tim… the owner of the company… On a Saturday morning. I heard the happy screaming of children in the background and apologized for interrupting his family time… At that point he informed me that he was on the way to the airport with his family as he was flying to Portland to do a speaking engagement.

So consider my mind blown. The owner of the company is… helping me with my tech support question… on a Saturday morning… with his family in tow… on his way to the airport… where he’ll be flying out to go to a speaking engagement. I couldn’t believe it. Apparently the death of amazing customer service has been exaggerated. So thanks Tim, you could have let it sit until Monday and I would have been none-the-wiser… But you saved me a bunch of hours and helped me be productive with my time today. You rock. Your company rocks. Your products rock. You’ve got a customer for life in me. For those of you who use Lightroom and want to streamline your workflow (or ‘explosify your workflow’ as the folks at Riley Photographic would put it), I can’t recommend RPG Keys highly enough. It’ll change how you use Adobe Lightroom, and if you have big projects like I sometimes do, it’ll give you your life back as well.

It does make me wonder why I can’t get Bill Gates on the phone when Outlook crashes on me, though…

Okay… but the results are really cool!

Take a moment to read this.

http://www.slrlounge.com/speed-up-post-production-with-rpg-keys

These are the system that the keys work with.

PC:   XP / Vista / Seven

MAC:  10.5 and 10.6

Photoshop CS3    32 bit

Photoshop CS4   64 & 32 Bit

Photoshop CS5  64 & 32 Bit