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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

Image Sizing

Different applications work best with different formats. From submission pages requesting images within a specific MP size to alleviating too much Facebook or other social media compression by exporting in their native sizes.

Figure 7.16 – Image Sizing

Resize to Fit offers great flexibility, and we can set the size of exported photographs with very specific rules:

  • Width & Height: Here, we can set the maximum width and height of the exported image without changing the original aspect ratio. If we, for example, set this to W:1500XH:1000, Lightroom will export the image, making sure that the whole picture can fit within these dimensions and so the image will have a max height of 1000 and a max width of 1500. Imagine a box with set dimensions into which Lightroom will fit our image without rotating or cropping it.
  • Dimensions: When we use this setting, Lightroom will apply a higher value to the longer edge and a lower value to...