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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

Watermarking

After all this dry info regarding sizes, ppi, and metadata, we can finally play around with something more visual.

Figure 7.19 – Watermarking

Watermarking offers us three ways to approach watermarking our photographs:

  • Simple Copyright Watermark
  • Text Watermark
  • Graphic Watermark

The first and quickest way to use the Watermarking feature is Simple Copyright Watermark. There are no settings associated with this option. It will place the watermark only if we have copyright information populated in the picture's metadata. Whatever we have in the Copyright field will be placed as a watermark in the bottom-left corner of the exported photograph using default settings. If copyright information is too long, Lightroom will cut it short.

Figure 7.20 – Simple Copyright Watermark example

If we don't like the watermarks created using Simple Copyright Watermark, we must choose the Edit Watermarks...