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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
6
Section 2: Developing Photographs in Lightroom Classic
9
Section 3: Exploring the Export, Print, Book, and Slideshow Modules
14
Table of Keyboard Shortcuts

Video

Lightroom offers us minimal Video Export options, but what's on offer is enough for any photographer who might sporadically need access to this type of functionality.

Figure 7.12 – Video

Starting with the first checkbox, we can choose whether Lightroom should include video files in the export or not. If we decide to include video files, we will have two short pull-down lists to specify Video Format and Quality of the imported video.

The Video Format options are very straightforward and allow us to choose between the following:

  • DPX: The preferred, lossless format for further editing
  • H.264: Probably the best-known video compression standard for video
  • Original, Unedited File

For DPX, we can choose between three different frame rates. H.264 offers only four vague options, from Max to Low, described in more detail once we choose any particular option. Original, Unedited File doesn't provide any further options...