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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to create a catalog, what it means, and then imported a batch of photographs into Lightroom. It's a relatively simple process that follows a simple path from (where we import) > to (where we save), which we can translate as source > path > destination. The whole chapter contained quite a lot of information regarding a seemingly straightforward process. However, most of the options we discussed are set up only once in a while and for many photographers only once. It will all depend on your process and approach. As with everything, it takes a bit to get used to this process, and I encourage you to get into the habit of having a quick circular look each time you import images, following the guidance of this chapter. Even if it's only a glance, it will help you imprint the image of import dialog options in your head. This way, every import that follows will be more intuitive, and you won't become complacent, make a simple...