Creating a new event in Darkroom Core so you can start adding green screen images and placing them on backgrounds.
You start out in the photolibrary tab (look at the bottom of the software window.
Photolibrary is the first tab. Followed by Photoworkshop, Orders, Proservices, Setup, and Photopresentation.
I usually only ever use Photolibrary, Photoworkshop, Orders and setup.
You will use Setup when you want to Change application options, set up packages, create or import templates, set up printers and a few other options.
Photolibrary is where you can view the photo catelogues and images you’ve added to darkroom core.
Photoworkshop is where you edit images, add backgrounds and output orders.
Orders tab is where you can look up an order that was place earlier in the day or even weeks or months ago.
For this lesson we will be working in Photolibrary.
Click the New Red plus sign in the upper left had corner of the software.
From the drop down menu click on add photo catelogue.
This window has three required fields, Type, Event name and and Event Date
Type is a drop down menu with 14 choices. I shoot mostly sports but you can choose Aerial, Art Gallery, church, corporate, entertainment, event, motorsports, outdoor adventure, performance, photo journalism, portrait sitting, school sport and wedding.
Since 90 percent of what I do here in Darkroom is sports, I put sports events in many of the different categories. The key is just remembering where you put your event.
After picking a type from the drop down list, I usually create an event name that is either the team, school or league’s name. I also usually start the name I give it with the date. This helps me look for this later when I get someone who contacts me with a correction of asking for a reprint or any other reason you many need to look at your finished green screen images weeks or months from now.
The event’s date default’s to the current date and I just leave it there.
When you are done you can click on Finish at the bottom of the software.
You then click on the event that you created and click on new again. You now click on Add Photo Group to (Your Event) which is whatever you named it. On my menu it is Add Photo Group to Test.
I click on that and it opens up a window for me to name the new Group. This is usually the team name.
Once this is done it’s time for me to import the green screen images.
In that left hand file menu, be sure you’ve selected where you want the images to import, then click on Add images at the top of the screen, then select import from the drop down menu.
This opens up a window that allows you to browse to the folder of images you want to import. It will open up with the last folder of images you imported, but just click on the arrow next to the current folder name and you will be able to browse to any folder on your computer.
Find the folder you want then click on the import all option.
This will import all of the photos in the folder and you’ll be ready to move over to the photoworkshop tab to start adding backgrounds and working on your images.
Before we end this lesson there are two other things you can do in the photoworkshop window that I want to point out.
First, this is ofen the easier way to find a single image in you folder of images if you are looking for the three or four images that had orders placed and you have a folder of a dozen or more images.
The image names in the Photolibrary work space are black on a white background, making them easier to read than the white type on a gray background that you see on the Photoworkshop background.
Each image name is under each image thumbnail in the Photolibrary. It also has the numerical order of the image in the folder. It may show the image name as 5 – tm-9923.jpg This tells me that image number tm-9923.jpg is the 5th image in the folder.
In Photoworkshop, the film strip of photos you can select from only lists that number that shows what image it is in the folder. If you want to select image tm-9923.jpg, just pick image 5 in the film stip. Once you select an image in the films strip, the image number, will show up above the image when it pops into the image work space.
This is why I like to go to photolibrary when I am looking for a specific image number. On the photolibrary workspace, you can view all the image numbers in the folder at once.
The other thing you can do in photolibrary that I want to point of is to add photos by dragging and dropping them to the photolibrary workspace.
Dragging and dropping to add photos also works in the Photoworkshop tab is you drag and drop them to the film strip.
I generally have two or three different sets of images for each team. One for the individual orders and one to create the team photos.
I generally add the individual photos to this first area, then I create a sub folder to add the team images.
Click on the team name in the left column that is the folder browser and then click on the red plus sign on the to left again. In the drop down click on Add Photo Group to (team name). It opens up a new window and I just team in the name text box and click finish. That adds a sub folder to your current work space that allows you to keep the sets of images seperate.
Thanks for watching this tutorial about the Darkroom Core Photolibrary Tab.
