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The Photographer's Guide to Adobe Lightroom

By : Marcin Lewandowski
Book Image

The Photographer's Guide to Adobe Lightroom

By: Marcin Lewandowski

Overview of this book

It takes talent to be a great photographer, but in the digital era, it also takes a level of technical proficiency. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic was designed as a one-stop solution for photographers to perfect their final products on a desktop-focused workflow, which includes local storage of your photos in files and folders on your computer. Knowing how to efficiently navigate through Lightroom means that you’ll be able to concentrate on being creative instead of wondering “what does this button do”. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples, you will begin with importing photographs into Lightroom. You’ll focus on how to sort through, sequence, develop, and export ready files in various formats, or even design a book and create gallery-ready prints. Next, you will learn how to make informed decisions within Lightroom and how to approach your work depending on the set of photographs you are working on. This guide also illustrates real-life usage and workflow examples that are not just for aspiring professionals, but also for artists and amateurs who are still getting to grips with the technical side of photography. By the end of this book, you'll be confident in importing, editing, sorting, developing, and delivering your photos like a professional.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Section 1: Importing Images into Lightroom and Exploring the Library Module's Structure and Tools
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Section 2: Developing Photographs in Lightroom Classic
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Section 3: Exploring the Export, Print, Book, and Slideshow Modules
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Table of Keyboard Shortcuts

Get Them All Out of Lightroom – Exporting for Work and Leisure

You did all the hard work to capture the images, edit them, and develop them to perfection. Now it's time to share them with the world and to do that, we need to get them out of Lightroom.

Figure 7.1 – Export dialog

There are many different requirements placed on photographers regarding the final file format. Press photographers will look for different settings from fine art photographers; Instagram has optimal file requirements, and all competition submissions have file requirements. Do you want your clients to know what camera and settings you used or not? Do you want the print house to receive optimized files for that large canvas print? This chapter will deal with all of these questions and a few more.

In this chapter, we will cover each of the nine tabs plus one additional menu, followed by a section on the presets:

  • Exporting images
  • The Export Location tab...