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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

Output Sharpening

This option will provide additional sharpening to anything we already applied in the Develop process. Depending on the file's final destination, we can choose between Sharpen For: Screen, Matte Paper, or Glossy Paper, all with three different Amount settings: Low, Standard, and High.

Figure 7.17 – Output Sharpening

Of course, final results will differ depending on other settings we chose, and Low screen sharpening will be much more prominent on a 1,080-pixel-wide export than High sharpening on a full resolution export. It's worth experimenting with various settings from time to time as different types of images will behave differently at various sizes and outputs, but as a rule of thumb, I keep it set to Standard for most types of exports.

Now it's time to explore Metadata.