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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
14
Table of Keyboard Shortcuts

Tools on the right-side panel

The right-side panel is where all the tools affecting the look of our photographs are, and in the following subsections, we will learn what each of them can do.

Histogram

Just like with the Library module, our default view starts with Histogram, but this time, it is one of the tools to change the look of our photo, not just a window with information. If we hover our mouse cursor over the histogram, we will notice that from left to right, Histogram is split into five distinct areas, as follows:

  • Blacks
  • Shadows
  • Exposure
  • Highlights
  • Whites

This can be seen in the following screenshot:

Figure 5.5 A

Figure 5.5 B

Figure 5.5 C – Adjustable Blacks, Shadows, Whites, Exposure, and Highlights

The mouse cursor changes to "left/right" arrows with a bar in the middle when we hover over the histogram. We can now adjust five major areas directly...