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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
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Table of Keyboard Shortcuts

Recapitulating the Lightroom Classic modules

Let's start with the Library module.

The Library module

We explored the Library module in Chapter 3, Tools Available within the Library Module. This is where we manage our photographs. It's where each project begins and ends. We start by importing new images into Lightroom, deciding where they will be saved, and whether we want to apply any default keywords or Develop settings. We can even do a preliminary edit, picking images for import with "P" and rejecting them, and unselecting with "X". Once our new photos are imported, we can then view them as a grid ("G") or singular photo ("E"). I always call this part editing, but other photographers might call it culling or selecting. For me, personally, culling is a derogatory term in this case, and selecting describes only part of the process, and so I call it editing. We can create our edit, which we will later develop in a couple of...