Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers, The
Martin Evening
Language: English
Pages: 681
ISBN: 0321819594
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom was designed from the ground up with digital photographers in mind, offering powerful editing features in a streamlined interface that lets photographers import, sort, and organize images. This completely updated bestseller was also written with photographers in mind. Author Martin Evening describes features in Lightroom 4 in detail from a photographer’s perspective. As an established commercial and fashion photographer, Martin knows firsthand what photographers need for an efficient workflow. He has also been working with Lightroom from the beginning, monitoring the product’s development and providing valued feedback to Adobe. As a result, Martin knows the software inside and out, from image selection to image editing to image management. In this book you’ll learn how to:
• Work efficiently with images shot in the raw or JPEG format
• Import photographs with ease and sort them according to your workflow
• Create and manage a personal image library
• Apply tonal adjustments to multiple images quickly
• Integrate Lightroom with Adobe Photoshop
• Export images for print or Web as digital contact sheets or personal portfolios
• Make the most of new features in Lightroom 4, such as the Camera Raw Process 2012 Basic panel tone controls
Photographers will find Lightroom 4–and The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Book–indispensable tools in their digital darkrooms.
This book’s companion site, www.thelightroombook.com, offers video tutorials, articles, sample images, and updates from author Martin Evening.
“With Martin’s expert guidance, you’ll soon find that you have precisely the tools you need to turn your concentration back where it belongs–on making better pictures!”
–George Jardine, digital photography consultant
“As a photographer himself, Martin Evening knows what tools photographers need to realize their creative vision. In this book, he shows not only how Adobe Photoshop Lightroom works but also why it will become an essential part of any photographer’s workflow.”
–Greg Gorman, photographer
Help…” to access the Lightroom User guide (Figure 1.13). If you choose Lightroom Online… this takes you to the main Lightroom page where, if you click on the Support link, you’re taken to the Lightroom Help and Support page (Figure 1.14). Figure 1.11 The Help menu is common to all Lightroom modules. This screenshot shows the Library module Help menu, but the other modules will look similar except they will show help items and help shortcuts relevant to that particular module. The Lightroom Help
now Lightroom should have processed all the photos and created standard previews. If not, you can always go to the Library menu and choose “Render Standard-sized previews.” I was therefore now ready to start reviewing the pictures and mark which ones were my favorites. You can do this in the Library or Develop module, but the Library module is certainly faster for this type of editing. It is possible to rate images in different ways. You can rate the best images using the flag system (pressing P
use this template the sequence number uses the original, camera-generated file number and the file renamed sequence numbers will keep rolling over from one job to the next. So, instead of your imported images always being numbered from say, 1 to 500, you will end up with a much broader distribution of sequence numbers throughout the catalog. Consequently, this can make it easier for you if you need to narrow down an image selection based on a sequence number only search. Let’s say for example
still present in the Lightroom catalog folder. If this is the case, try manually deleting the “lock” file via the system Finder/Explorer. Do this and you should find that Lightroom will relaunch as normal. You may also see a Lightroom Settings folder. This only shows up if the “Store presets with catalog” option is checked in the Lightroom Presets preferences (see page 14). When checked, a Lightroom Settings folder is added inside the Lightroom catalog folder. This allows you to store
since Lightroom 3 the Crop presets list has now been rationalized. the adobe photoshop lightroom 4 book 177