Lightrooom Basic PDF

1. DIGITAL WORKFLOW
A Eclipse Photography Institute Workshop
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2. WWW .SLIDESHARE.NET/
ECLIPSEINSTITUTE
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3. A WORKFLOW INTRODUCTION
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4. WHAT IS A
WORKFLOW?
A Workflow is a set of repeatable
actions that are designed to maintain
quality, speed up processing, and
ensure consistency when working
with your digital images.
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5. WORKFLOW (CONT.)
Workflows exist from the moment you press the shutter until you have
finished working with a file
Every Step, Every Keystroke is part of your personal workflow
This includes
How you name your file
Where you put your files
and Everything Else!
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6. WORKFLOW (CONT.)
Workflow is the key to modern digital photography
How many times have you been unable to find a specific photo?
What about having 10 copies of a certain image?
Workflow is the answer to these problems
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7. WORKFLOW REQUIREMENTS
Workflows must have a way to:
Import from Memory Card Develop Images
Rename Images Crop and Resize Images
Input Metadata Print Images
Rate and Categorize Images Archive and Backup Images
Adjust Image Properties
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8. WORKFLOW GOALS
To Make the Process Repeatable
To Make the Process Safe for Images
To Retain the Highest Image Quality (IQ)
To Make it Easy for the Photographer
To Make it FAST!
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9. ADOBE LIGHTROOM
The Photographers’ Answer to Digital Workflow
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10. ADOBE LIGHTROOM
An Introduction
Lightroom is a Digital Imaging Workflow Software
Built by Photographers, for Photographers
Has (most) Everything you Need, and Very Little of What You Don’t
The Fastest, Most Efficient Way to Fulfill your Digital Workflow
Requirements
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11. HOW LIGHTROOM WORKS
Lightroom has a Unique Architecture
At its core is an Image Processor and an Image Database
These are the Guts Behind the Program
The “Modules” Access the Core for Performing Functions
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12. MODULES
There are Five Modules
Library
Develop
Slideshow
Print
Web
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14. T O P PA N E L
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15. L E F T PA N E L
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16. R I G H T PA N E L
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17. CONTENT AREA
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18. TOOLBAR
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19. F I LT E R S E A R C H B A R
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20. FILMSTRIP
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21. IMPORTING
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22. IMPORTING: THE CATALOG BEGINS
Lightroom is a Cataloging Program
Works Very Differently from
Bridge
Only Sees What is Imported
Can Keep Track of Files in
Different Locations
May Take Some Getting Used To
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23. IMPORTING BASICS
Ways to Import
From a Memory Card
From a Folder
From the Camera
Tethered Shooting
Drag and Drop
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24. T H E I M P O RT D I A L O G
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25. IMPORT SETTINGS AND CHOICES
Eight Settings Will Determine How
Easy it is to Find Your Photos in
the Future
File Handling File Naming
Copy To Develop Settings
Organize Metadata
Backup To Keywords
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26. FILE HANDLING
Different Dialog Between Files and
Folders and Memory Cards From Files or Folder
Choices to Import Photos at
Current Location or Move or
Copy Them!
Take Note of the DNG File
Option
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27. COPY TO
This is Where You Specify Where
You Want Your Newly Imported
Files to End Up
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28. ORGANIZE
In the Organize Menu You Can
Choose Which Dates to Import
Drop Down Menu
You Also Make a Decision On
How to Import
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29. BACKUP TO
This Serves as a Secondary
Location for Backing Up
Don’t Make This on the Same
Hard Drive!!!
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30. FILE NAMING
The Choice With The Most
Implications
Powerful Way to Immediately
Get Rid of Camera File Names
DCS05004 etc.
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31. FILE NAMING EDITOR
Literally Hundreds of
Combinations to Name Your
Images Properly
Easiest to Understand In the Live
Demo
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32. DEVELOP SETTINGS
Tool that Allows You To Make
Changes to EVERY Image You are
Importing
Easy to Abuse
Could Be Very Useful as Well
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33. METADATA
This Preset Will Apply Any
Metadata to EVERY Image
Copyright Status
Creator Name / Website
Contact Info
Critically Important to Image
Safety
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34. KEYWORDS
Just Like the Others, Applies
Keywords to EVERY Image in the
Import
Keywords are the Ticket to
Locating Images
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35. A SPECIAL NOTE ON PREVIEWS
In Lightroom 1.4, You have Three
Choice re: Previews
Minimal
Standard
1:1
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36. THE LIBRARY
Gateway to Image Management (and Happiness)
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38. LIBRARY BASICS
Like Every Module, the Library is
Filled with Panels
Histogram
Navigator
Quick Develop
Catalog
Keywording
Folders
Keyword List
Collections
Metadata
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39. NAVIGATOR PANEL
Easy Way to Navigate Around
Images
Useful in Loupe View (1:1)
Can Fit or Fill
Always Gives You a Overall View
of Your Image
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40. CATALOG PANEL
Quick View Look at Catalog Status
All Photographs
Previous Import
Missing Files
Updated Files
A Few More....
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41. FOLDERS PANEL
The Folders Panel Lists All The
Locations of Images In Their
Respective Folders
Useful and Valid Method
Not Used in My Workflow
(LR v 1)
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42. COLLECTIONS PANEL
My Favorite Way to Group Images
Can Make Collections From
Images in Different Places
Collections and Sub Collections
can Reorganize in a Flash
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43. CHANGES TO COLLECTIONS
Collections have been made more
difficult to use
Still the easiest way to organize
multiple collections of files
Smart Collections are super
powerful ways to quickly organize
your images
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44. HISTOGRAM PANEL
First Place My Eyes Go
Shows All Important Camera
Data
Very Detailed
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45. QUICK DEVELOP
The Only Panel I Disagree With
The Develop Module Does
Everything with More Options
and Control
Useful For White Balance
Changes Across Many Images
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46. KEYWORDING PANEL
Keywords Make Your Life Easier
Tedious to Input but Lightroom
Helps
You can Enter Keywords
Directly or Use a Keyword Set
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47. KEYWORD LIST PANEL
Lists ALL of Your Keywords
Not Useful Once You Get More
than 100 Keywords
Better to Use the Find Panel
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48. METADATA PANEL
The Place to Input, Edit, Sync, and
Work with Metadata
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49. LIBRARY VIEW
MODES
Grid View
Loupe View
Compare View
Survey View
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50. GRID VIEW + FILMSTRIP
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51. LOUPE VIEW
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52. LOUPE VIEW 1:1
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53. C O M PA R E V I E W
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54. S U RV E Y V I E W
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55. THE FILMSTRIP
Your Constant Link Between Modules
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56. RATING IMAGES
As Part of the Editing Workflow,
One of the First Steps is Rating the
Images
Number Keys 0-5 Assign Stars to
Images
Easy Way to Sort Out The Best
Images
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57. COLOR LABELS
A Secondary Measure for Sorting
Images
Useful for Categories
i.e. All Red Labels for Water
Images, Green for Trees, etc.
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58. FLAGGING IMAGES
Lightroom Provides Two
“Flags”
The Picks Flag (P) Puts a
White Flag on the Image
The Rejects Flag (X) Puts a X
Flag on the Image
Easiest Way to Erase Image
From Lightroom
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59. STACKING
An Amazing Tool
Enables Images to be Grouped by Subject Matter
Useful for Compressing Your Library
CANNOT be used in Collections only Folders and Library
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60. AUTO STACK BY TIME
Lightroom Has an Amazing
Feature to Determine, by Metadata,
when Each Shot was Taken and
Stack Automatically
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61. RENAMING AND CONVERTING
IMAGES TO DNG
Located in the “Library” Menu Bar
Two Separate Functions, Both Very
Useful
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62. SEARCH TOOLBAR
Replaces the Find Panel of LR 1
Can Search by Almost any Imaginable Criteria
Useful for Learning from Mistakes
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63. LIVE DEMO :: IMPORTING AND
LIBRARY BASICS
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64. THE DEVELOP MODULE
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65. THE REAL POWER OF LIGHTROOM
Many Programs (i.e. Bridge) are able to Sort, Organize, Edit, and Contain
Images, But Lightroom Also is a Full-Featured RAW Processor
Lightroom is Also Non-Destructive
Uses the Same Processing Engine as Adobe Camera RAW
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66. RAW VS. JPEG
Quick Poll
Being Able to Manipulate Data
Without Destroying It is the
Greatest Strength of RAW Files
RAW’s Come With More
Requirements
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67. DEVELOP PANELS
Navigator Basic
Presets Tone Curve
Snapshots HSL/Color/Grayscale
History Split Toning
Histogram Detail
Brushes Vignettes
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68. PRESETS
These are Essentially Actions
Where You Can Set a Series of
Changes and Save Them to Be
Applied to Other Images
Lightroom Comes Pre-Installed
with Many Creative Choices
The Navigator Shows a Quick
Preview of the Change
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69. SNAPSHOTS
Much Like History Settings in
Photoshop, This Panel Allows You
to Get Back to A Certain Setting
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70. HISTORY PANEL
A Running Total of EVERY Action
You Have Performed in Lightroom
from Import to Export
Able to Change or Go Back Non-
Destructively
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71. BRUSHES / GRADIENT /
RETOUCHING
The Most Powerful New Feature of
LR 2
Can Use “Brushes” to Paint on
Exposure, Clarity, etc.
The Gradient Tool is Also in Here,
as well as Spot Tool, Cropping, and
Red Eye
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72. BASIC PANEL
Over 90% of My Images Go No
Further Than This Panel
Very Powerful Imaging Tool
Controls Every Basic Image Editing
Function
Hold Option (alt) to See Clipped
Channels in Exposure, Blacks, and
Recovery
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73. TONE CURVE
Advanced Way to Adjust Contrast
and Tone
Can Be More Precise Than the Basic
Panel
Localized Adjustments
First Panel that Uses Targeted
Adjustment Tool
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74. HSL / COLOR / GRAYSCALE PANEL
HSL = Hue, Saturation, Luminance
Easiest Way in Lightroom to
Convert to Grayscale
This Panel with the Targeted
Adjustment Tool can Create
Amazing Creative Effects
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75. SPLIT TONING PANEL
A Specialized Panel that Allows
You to Adjust the Highlights and
Shadows Differently
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76. DETAIL PANEL
Better Termed “Noise Reduction /
Sharpening” Panel
Lightroom Can Take Out Slight
Noise
Lightroom can Also Do Sharpening
Now Includes a 1:1 Preview Box
Also Chromatic Aberration Panel
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77. VIGNETTES
Changed from LR 1 to be a Creative
Tool
Can Add Vignette Post Crop
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78. CAMERA CALIBRATION PANEL
In This Panel, You can Adjust
Lightroom to Each Individual
Channel
Advanced, and Quite Frankly, Not
Worth Doing
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79. THE
RETOUCHING
TOOLBARS
Simple Editing Tools
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80. THE COMPARE TOOL
In the Develop Module, The
Compare Tool Is To Look at
Changes Between Settings
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81. THE CROP TOOL
The Crop Tool Also
Involves the Straighten
Tool
Able to Pick Crop Based
on Aspect Ratio
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82. RED EYE TOOL
Can You Guess What it Does?
Simplicity
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83. CLONE / HEAL TOOL
Lightroom has a Basic
Clone/Heal Tool
Easiest to See In the Live
Demo
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84. EXPORTING
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85. EXPORTING CHOICES
While Within Lightroom, All Settings are Non Destructive
Once you Export, Unless to a RAW or DNG File, the Settings are “Baked”
into the File
Adobe has Made it Super Easy to go from Lightroom to Photoshop and Back
You Can Export to Almost Any Format
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87. LIVE DEMO :: DEVELOP MODULE
AND EXPORTING
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88. QUESTION AND ANSWERS
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89. SLIDESHOW
One Export Option
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90. THE SLIDESHOW MODULE
Quick and Easy Way to Make Instant Slideshows
Useful for Showing Images Within Lightroom
Customizable
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91. SLIDESHOW PANELS
Template Browser
Options
Layout
Overlays
Backdrop
Playback
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92. TEMPLATE BROWSER
This Area is for Saving Previously
Used Templates
Can Make Large Alterations in
Slideshow Look Easily
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93. OPTIONS / LAYOUT PANEL
In these Panels, You Can Change
the Settings that Affect the Primary
Image
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94. OVERLAY PANEL
The Overlay Panel Allows You to
Put Your Name, the Rating Stars, or
any Text over the Slideshow on
Each Image
Useful for Establishing Copyright,
or Even a Watermark
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95. BACKDROP PANEL
The Backdrop Panel is Where
Lightroom Slideshows Really Begin
to Become Amazing
We will Look at this Further in the
Live Demo
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96. PLAYBACK MODULE
The Playback Module Allows You
to Add a Song from Your Itunes
Library
You can Also Adjust the Slide
Duration and Fading Time
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97. WEB
A Second Output Option
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98. OUTPUTTING TO THE WEB
Most Professional Photographers are Outputting their Images to the Web for
Client Approval
Lightroom Has Streamlined this Process to Make it Efficient and Simple
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99. WEB MODULE OPTIONS
In the Web Module, You Have Five
Options for Galleries
Lightroom Flash Gallery
Lightroom HTML Gallery
Airtight AutoViewer
Airtight PostcardViewer
Airtight SimpleViewer
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100. DIFFERENCES IN GALLERIES
The Airtight Set of Galleries are Flash Based Unique Ways to Put the Images
on the Web
The More Traditional Lightroom Galleries are Familiar to those Web
Galleries that Used to be Found in Bridge
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101. WEB MODULE PANELS
Preview Appearance
Template Browser Image Info
Gallery Output Settings
Site Info Upload Settings
Color Palette
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102. PREVIEW PANEL
The Preview Panel Will Show You
What Kind of Web Gallery You Are
Building, Flash or HTML
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103. TEMPLATE BROWSER
The Template Browser Comes
PreLoaded with a Variety of Color
Combinations, and Flash and
HTML Galleries
You Can also Build a Custom
Gallery and Save it to a Preset
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104. SITE INFO PANEL
What You Type In Here Determines
the Text on Your Web Page
Always include a Mail Link in the
form “mailto:EmailAddress”
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105. COLOR PALETTE PANEL
Quite Obviously, it Allows You to
Change the Colors of Various
Things on the Web Page
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106. APPEARANCE PANEL
The Appearance Panel Allows You
to Place Your Identity Plate
It also Allows You to Determine the
Sizes of the Images Presented
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107. IMAGE INFO / OUTPUT SETTINGS
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108. UPLOAD SETTINGS
In the Upload Setting Box, You Can
Set the FTP Information of Your
Web Host to Upload Directly from
Lightroom to the Web
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109. LIVE DEMO :: SLIDESHOW AND WEB
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110. PRINTING
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111. PRINTING WITH LIGHTROOM
Fine Art Printing from a Computer has been a Difficult Thing to Do in the
Past
Lightroom Streamlines the Process, but There are Still Some Quirks
Today, We Will Look at the Module, and How to Print a Contact Sheet and
Final Image
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112. PRINT MODULE PANELS
Preview
Template Browser
Image Settings
Layout
Overlays
Print Job
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113. PREVIEW PANEL
The Preview Module Give
You a White Background with
Guidelines on the “Cells” To Be
Used
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114. TEMPLATE BROWSER
Like in Other Modules, Lightroom
Give You Some Templates
You Also Have the Option to Create
Your Own
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115. IMAGE SETTINGS PANEL
Allows Control over Basic Image
Settings
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116. LAYOUT PANEL
The Layout Panel Lets You Have
Control Over How the Page is
Divided Up
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117. OVERLAY PANEL
The Overlay Panel Lets You Include
an Identity Plate or a Other Items
on Your Prints or Contact Sheets
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118. PRINT JOB PANEL
The Print Job Panel Lets You
Choose the Output Resolution,
Sharpening, and Color
Management Settings
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119. LIVE DEMO :: PRINTING
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120. QUESTION AND ANSWERS
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121. THE EXTRAS
Back Up, Preferences, A Final Workflow
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122. A BACKUP
SYSTEM
Nothing is More Important
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123. BACKING UP
Everything We Have Talked About is Unimportant if You Lose the Images
A Ideal Backup System Would Have The Images Residing on AT LEAST Two
Different Hard Drives, not in the Same Computer
One Copy Should Always Be In a Different Physical Location
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124. BACKING UP AND LIGHTROOM
Upon Import, Lightroom Gives You the Option of Saving to Two Different
Locations! Take this Gift
Every Week or So, Make Sure Things are Backed Up Properly
Multiple Hard Drives, Multiple Places
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125. LIGHTROOM PREFERENCES
Lightroom has a Number of Settings and Preferences
In The Next Live Demo, We Will Go Over All of Them in Detail
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132. MY COMPLETE WORKFLOW
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133. MY WORKFLOW IN WORDS
Insert Card into Card Reader Erase Rejects
Import into Lightroom Including Pick Five Star Images
Tom Numbering Move to Develop Module
Metadata and Copyright “Develop” Image
Generic Keywords Output Image
Edit Images Using Flags for Rejects Print, Web, Slideshow
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134. LIVE DEMO :: PREFERENCES AND
WORKFLOW
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135. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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136. THANK YOU!
Tom Maddrey
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