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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

Get them All Out – Using the Print and Book Modules

Prints are one of the most rewarding ways to look at photography. Lightroom offers a very streamlined way to get our pictures from the screen into the physical world with a printer between these two states. This chapter explains how to achieve the best results in preparing files for printing at home and gives you tips on preparation work when sending photographs to be printed by a service. In addition, we will look at how to work on designing a photo book layout and preparing it for print. As a bonus, we will also look at using the Print module to give you an edge in posting to social media such as Instagram.

In the second part of this chapter, we will learn about using the Book module, which will make designing our first photo book or album not only easy but also enjoyable and fun.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • A Print module overview
  • Page settings
  • Image settings
  • Layout
  • ...