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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)
1
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
9
Section 3: Exploring the Export, Print, Book, and Slideshow Modules
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Table of Keyboard Shortcuts

Exporting images

To learn about exporting, we must go back to the Library Module. When we learned about it in Chapter 3, Tools Available Within the Library Module, and Chapter 4, Folders and Collections, we skipped the Export button to come back to it later.

Figure 7.2 – Export button

As you can imagine, using the Export button at the bottom of the left panel is not the only way to access the Export dialog. We can open it by right-clicking on a photograph or group of pictures in the ever-present filmstrip.

Figure 7.3 – Right-click the Export menu

The Export button will open a new window with all export-related settings. Right-clicking on a picture will allow us to either open the Export dialog, use the settings we used during our previous export (Export with Previous), or use one of the presets. We will return to it once we know more about the different export options. Lastly, we can use the keyboard shortcut "Shift...