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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

Noise Reduction

Let's take a quick look at the sliders in the Noise Reduction section:

  • Luminance: The Luminance slider is the main tool to counteract noise in our photos, but we will start losing a lot of details at higher values. Using the Luminance tool is all about balancing between getting rid of unpleasant, digitally grainy-looking photographs and retaining or losing details. Working with high Luminance values will smother detail and make photographs look "plasticky-smooth" and unnatural. On the other hand, it may work in our favor once in a while and be a creative choice to run Luminance at a very high setting. Still, for most applications, it's all about being reasonable, especially when developing photographs of people.
  • Detail: We can counteract detail being removed by the Luminance setting by cranking up the Detail slider, which will help us retain a bit more detail at the price of more visible noise.
  • Contrast: The Contrast tool can help...