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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

Post-Processing

By default, this function is set to Do nothing and will play our chosen system sound once the export is completed. In addition to the export, we can also choose to show exported files in Finder (Show in Finder), Open in Photoshop, or even Open in Another Application, which we will be able to choose directly from our App folder.

Figure 7.25 – Post-Processing

Lastly, we can use Go to Export Actions Folder Now and, inside it, place shortcuts to applications that we want to be opened after pictures finish exporting. If you are an advanced enough user, you can even place executable files in that folder. Anything we save in the Export Actions folder will be accessible to us from the Post-Processing list as a shortcut.

In the next section, we will learn how to save our settings as presets that can be reused whenever we need them, without the need to set up everything from scratch once more.