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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

Calibration

Remember when I mentioned that Tone Curve is the most feared tab? Welcome to Calibration, the most overlooked tab of them all.

Figure 6.81 – The Calibration panel

Version tells us which Adobe Camera Raw engine our version of Lightroom is using for the currently opened image. If you are on Lightroom Classic, then it should always be set to the latest version. This setting is applied to all newly imported images. Suppose you, however, look through your archives, coming back to edit older photographs that have been sitting in Lightroom for a while. This might be set to an older version, which means that some functionality will be limited or even unavailable. When you update the version, some images may look like they were processed slightly differently, but you will notice less fringing and noise, especially in the shadow areas. Suppose you are planning to update the process version for a large number of photographs. In that case, I strongly...