Shortcuts with the same results are a great thing, so when your working on your computer and you come across shortcuts I suggest you take them. [Here is an article about shortcuts for lightroom to help you speed up your post process work.](http://l.knowphoto.com/23)
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In todays screencast I wanted to cover a simple but under used feature of Lightroom. Virtual Copies of your images allow you to keep multiple versions of the same image with different effects applied to each copy. The cool thing about this feature is you can store all the different iterations of your images with almost no overhead. This is made possible by Lightroom’s non-destructive workflow, each copy is just a new set of metadata not a completely new copy of the image. Your hard drive will thanks you
Great list by [Scott Kelby](http://l.knowphoto.com/1k) on 10 things to do when your a new lightroom user to make sure you get the most out of the program.
Recently I’ve started to want more portability in the way that I work photographically and that meant that I needed Lightroom to move seamlessly between my desktop and my laptop. This proved to be move of a challenge then I thought, it wasn’t that I couldn’t make it work, rather that there were trade offs to making it work. It seemed most solutions were less them optimal but I’ll cover them all here and you tell you what I ended up doing.
###Requirements –
* Fast
* Whole Library on both computers
* Good Backup Solution
* Easy to setup
* Easy to migrate
Today were talking about ligthroom presets. They are a very powerful and easy way to speed up your editing. To do this you should pick a well exposed image and apply “global” adjustments to the image. Once you have the global adjustments done you create your preset, then your just one step away from applying that preset to any image you want.
Today’s Screencast is a look into the flickr integration with the latest Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Beta. We are going to be covering some of the great new features that this integration makes possible along with setting up the integration. We hope you enjoy.
Good news everyone the developers at Adobe have released a free beta release of Lightroom 3. This is a great way to try out new features, and have a chance to provide feedback. Check it out at the [Adobe Labs Site](http://l.knowphoto.com/u)
If you have a PPC mac and are running Lightroom or Camera raw Adobe is recommending that you downgrade to the previous version to avoid a bug when converting some images. Check out the details over at the Adobe Blog
Running out of space on your computer, did you know you could export your collections to a catalog in LR to store on another hard drive or CD/DVDs. Check it out over at Layers Magazine
More on our recent theme of post processing, sharpening in lightroom. It’s a really important step that often gets overlooked. I would suggest that you check out the article over at the Digital-Photography-School.com