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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

A brief overview of folders and collections

Folders and collections are two distinctly different approaches to storing and managing a library of photographs, but we can work with them in a seamless way. The most important thing is to develop a new way of thinking about how we can access our photographs.

Folders

The most significant difference between folders and collections is that folders are referencing the actual locations of photo files on our hard drives. We learned in the previous chapter that by right-clicking on any folder and choosing the Show Parent option, we can display the exact path to the location of any folder on our hard drive. If we delete or move a photograph from a folder within Lightroom, the same will happen with the referenced file on our hard drive. Lightroom is as much an asset management system as it is a tool for making our photographs look better through the development process.

Access to all of the folders and collections is located in the left...