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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 Detailed View of the Develop Module's Functions

From its very inception, Lightroom has been the digital equivalent of photography darkrooms, allowing everyone to develop photographs without the use of chemicals at instant speed and with great sophistication – from global adjustments to tiny tweaks, from detailed brush adjustments to batch processing large bodies of work. Lightroom offers photographers all the tools to make images look better (and more) without ever going near Photoshop or other post-production software. Lightroom is an end-to-end solution that's used to polish photographs and it unleashes the potential of photographers.

Figure 6.1 – Photograph in the Develop module

In the previous chapter, we briefly looked at each available tool in the Develop module – in this chapter, we will learn how they work and how they can help us. Postproduction is an integral part of photography and we will often think ahead to it...