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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
9
Section 3: Exploring the Export, Print, Book, and Slideshow Modules
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Table of Keyboard Shortcuts

The Web module

We can build a simple web gallery in the Web module and export it as an HTML web gallery or upload it directly onto our server.

Figure 9.42 – The Web module

I'll be perfectly honest with you – there are better tools for creating web galleries, and what Lightroom has to offer might feel a bit outdated, especially when compared to what's available online, even for free. Having said this, the option to quickly build and export a web gallery (or upload directly to a server) is available directly from within Lightroom. In this chapter, we will look at the Web module's potential.

Before we start playing around with the settings, we must choose a folder or a collection of images that we want to work with and sequence them in the order we would like them to appear. In the toolbar under the main window, we can specify which photographs we would like to choose:

  • All Filmstrip Photos
  • Selected Photos
  • Flagged...