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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

Section 3: Exploring the Export, Print, Book, and Slideshow Modules

What would be the point of all the hard work we did in Sections 1 and 2 if we kept it all hidden in our computer? Even if all we want to do with the photographs is to share them with our closest family members, Lightroom will help us to do so on a number of different levels, from a simple export in a social-media-friendly format to creating photographic prints and designing a photobook. We will also look at a few additional bits of functionality and then finally, wrap the book up with a concise summary.

In this section, we will cover the following topics:

  • Chapter 7, Get Them All Out of Lightroom – Exporting for Work and Leisure
  • Chapter 8, Get Them All Out – Using the Print and Book Modules
  • Chapter 9, Slideshow, Map, and Web Modules
  • Chapter 10, Final Notes and Summary