Chapter 1 Importing: Getting Your Photos Into Lightroom |
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Before You Do Anything, Choose Where to Store Your Photos |
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Next, Do This: Set Up Your Folder Organization (It's Really Important) |
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Getting Photos from Your Camera Into Lightroom |
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Importing Photos Already on Your Computer |
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Save Time Importing Using Import Presets (and a Compact View) |
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Importing Video from Your DSLR |
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Shooting Tethered (Go Straight from Your Camera, Right Into Lightroom) |
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Using Image Overlay to See if Your Images Fit Your Layout |
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Creating Your Own Custom File Naming Templates |
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30 | (4) |
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Choosing Your Preferences for Importing Photos |
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The Adobe DNG File Format Advantage |
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Creating Your Own Custom Metadata (Copyright) Templates |
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38 | (2) |
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Four Things You'll Want to Know Now About Getting Around Lightroom |
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Viewing Your Imported Photos |
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Using Lights Dim, Lights Out, and Other Viewing Modes |
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Chapter 2 Library: How To Organize Your Photos |
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Folders and Why I Don't Mess with Them (This Is Really Important!) |
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52 | (4) |
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Sorting Your Photos Using Collections |
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Organizing Multiple Shoots Using Collection Sets |
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68 | (2) |
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Using Smart Collections for Automatic Organization |
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Keeping Things Tidy Using Stacks |
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When to Use a Quick Collection Instead |
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Adding Specific Keywords for Advanced Searching |
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78 | (4) |
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Renaming Photos Already in Lightroom |
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Adding Copyright Info, Captions, and Other Metadata |
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83 | (3) |
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If Your Camera Supports GPS, Prepare to Amaze Your Friends |
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86 | (2) |
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Organizing Your Photos on a World Map |
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88 | (6) |
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94 | (4) |
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Creating and Using Multiple Catalogs |
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From Laptop to Desktop: Syncing Catalogs on Two Computers |
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Backing Up Your Catalog (This Is Very Important) |
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Chapter 3 DSLR: The Movie: Working With Video Shot On Your DSLR |
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Chapter 4 Customizing: How To Set Things Up Your Way |
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Choosing What You See in Loupe View |
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126 | (2) |
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Choosing What You See in Grid View |
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128 | (4) |
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Make Working with Panels - Faster & Easier |
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132 | (1) |
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Using Two Monitors with Lightroom |
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133 | (4) |
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Choosing What the Filmstrip Displays |
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Adding Your Studio's Name or Logo for a Custom Look |
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Chapter 5 Editing Essentials: How To Develop Your Photos |
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Upgrading from an Earlier Version of Lightroom? Read This First! |
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Setting the White Balance |
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Setting Your White Balance Live While Shooting Tethered |
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How to Set Your Overall Exposure |
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Adding "Punch" to Your Images Using Clarity |
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Making Your Colors More Vibrant |
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Using the Tone Curve to Add Contrast |
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Two Really Handy Uses for the New RGB Curves |
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Adjusting Individual Colors Using HSL |
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170 | (2) |
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How to Add Vignette Effects |
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172 | (3) |
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Getting That Trendy High-Contrast Look |
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175 | (3) |
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Creating Black-and-White Images |
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178 | (4) |
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Getting Great Duotones (and Split Tones) |
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Chapter 6 DJ Develop (Part Deux): More Ways To Tweak Your Images |
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Making Your RAW Photos Look More Like JPEGs |
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188 | (2) |
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Seeing Befores and Afters |
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Applying Changes Made to One Photo to Other Photos |
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Virtual Copies-The "No Risk" Way to Experiment |
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Editing a Bunch of Photos at Once Using Auto Sync |
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Using One-Click Presets (and Making Your Own!) |
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Using the Library Module's Quick Develop Panel |
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Using Soft Proofing to Make Your Images Look Good in Print and on the Web |
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Chapter 7 Local Adjustments: How To Edit Just Part Of Your Images |
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Dodging, Burning, and Adjusting Individual Areas of Your Photo |
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Five More Things You Should Know About Lightroom's Adjustment Brush |
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Selectively Fixing White Balance, Dark Shadows, and Noise Issues |
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Getting Creative Effects Using the Adjustment Brush |
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220 | (2) |
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Fixing Skies (and Other Stuff) with a Gradient Filter |
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Chapter 8 Problem Photos: Fixing Common Problems |
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232 | (2) |
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234 | (2) |
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Undoing Changes Made in Lightroom |
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236 | (2) |
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238 | (3) |
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Lights Out Cropping Rocks |
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Straightening Crooked Photos |
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242 | (2) |
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Great Trick for "Dust Spotting" Your Photos |
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Removing Spots and Other Nasty Junk |
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245 | (4) |
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249 | (1) |
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Fixing Lens Distortion Problems |
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254 | (2) |
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256 | (5) |
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Fixing Chromatic Aberrations (a.k.a. That Annoying Color Fringe) |
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Basic Camera Calibration in Lightroom |
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Chapter 9 Exporting Images: Saving JPEGS, TIFFS, And More |
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Saving Your Photos as JPEGs |
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268 | (8) |
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Adding a Watermark to Your Images |
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276 | (4) |
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Emailing Photos from Lightroom |
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280 | (2) |
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Exporting Your Original RAW Photo |
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282 | (2) |
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Publish Your Images with Just Two Clicks |
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Chapter 10 Jumping to Photoshop: How And When To Do It |
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Choosing How Your Files Are Sent to Photoshop |
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294 | (1) |
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How to Jump Over to Photoshop, and How to Jump Back |
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Adding Photoshop Automation to Your Lightroom Workflow |
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305 | (6) |
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Mixing the Old Lightroom 3 Fill Light with the New Lightroom 4 Power |
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311 | (4) |
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Stitching Panoramas Using Photoshop |
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315 | (3) |
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Creating HDR Images in Photoshop |
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Chapter 11 Book of Love: Creating Photo Books |
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Before You Make Your First Book |
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328 | (2) |
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Building Your First Book from Scratch |
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330 | (12) |
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Adding Text and Captions to Your Photo Book |
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342 | (4) |
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Four Things You'll Want to Know About Layout Templates |
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Custom Template Workaround |
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Chapter 12 Slideshow: Creating Presentations Of Your Work |
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Creating a Quick, Basic Slide Show |
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354 | (4) |
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Customizing the Look of Your Slide Show |
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Getting Creative with Photo Backgrounds |
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Working with Drop Shadows and Strokes |
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Adding Additional Lines of Text and Watermarking |
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Adding Opening and Closing Title Slides |
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Choosing Your Slide Duration and Fade Length |
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Chapter 13 The Big Print: Printing Your Photos |
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Printing Individual Photos |
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382 | (4) |
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Creating Multi-Photo Contact Sheets |
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386 | (8) |
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Creating Custom Layouts Any Way You Want Them |
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394 | (4) |
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Adding Text to Your Print Layouts |
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398 | (2) |
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Printing Multiple Photos on One Page |
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400 | (5) |
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Saving Your Custom Layouts as Templates |
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Having Lightroom Remember Your Last Printing Layouts |
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406 | (2) |
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Creating Backscreened Prints |
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408 | (6) |
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The Final Print and Color Management Settings |
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414 | (11) |
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Saving Your Page Layout as a JPEG |
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425 | (2) |
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Adding Custom Borders to Your Prints |
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Chapter 14 The Layout: Creating Cool Layouts For Web & Print |
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Here Are Some of My Layouts for You to Use |
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434 | (14) |
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Bonus: 24 Cool Lightroom 4 Develop Module Presets |
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Chapter 15 My Portrait Workflow: My Step-By-Step Process From The Shoot To The Final Print |
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Workflow Step One: It All Starts with the Shoot |
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Workflow Step Two: Right After the Shoot, Do This First |
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Workflow Step Three: Finding Your Picks & Making a Collection |
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Workflow Step Four: A Quick Retouch for Your Selects |
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Workflow Step Five: Emailing Your Clients the Proofs |
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Workflow Step Six: Making the Final Tweaks & Working with Photoshop |
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Workflow Step Seven: Delivering the Finished Image(s) |
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Index |
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