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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

Folders and Collections

A big part of Lightroom Classic is its excellent selection of asset management tools. We will learn about the differences and similarities between collections and folders, how we might use them, and what different approaches can mean for our workflow, both in the short term and when planning for the future.

When I mention "asset management," it is just a fancy way to think of how digital evolution replaced sticking labels on bags with negatives held in shoeboxes. By assets, I mean our precious photographs. Even if they don't mean much financially, they can be of great emotional or historical value. So, we want to be able to pinpoint the photograph we are looking for quickly and accurately. If you are only just starting a photography career, you will appreciate neat management of your photo collection when a client comes back to you 10 years after you made a photo for them, asking for a full-resolution copy. If you are trying to clean up many...