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1 | (54) |
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Getting Your Photos Into Lightroom |
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Before You Do Anything, Choose Where to Store Your Photos |
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2 | (1) |
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Next, Do This: Set Up Your Folder Organization (It's Really Important) |
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3 | (2) |
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Getting Photos from Your Camera Into Lightroom |
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5 | (11) |
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Using Smart Previews to Work Without an External Hard Drive Attached |
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16 | (2) |
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Importing Photos Already on Your Computer |
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18 | (2) |
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Save Time Importing Using Import Presets (and a Compact View) |
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20 | (2) |
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Importing Video from Your DSLR |
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22 | (2) |
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Shooting Tethered (Go Straight from Your Camera, Right Into Lightroom) |
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24 | (4) |
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Using Image Overlay to See if Your Images Fit Your Layout |
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28 | (4) |
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Creating Your Own Custom File Naming Templates |
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32 | (4) |
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Choosing Your Preferences for Importing Photos |
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36 | (3) |
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The Adobe DNG File Format Advantage |
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39 | (1) |
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Creating Your Own Custom Metadata (Copyright) Templates |
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40 | (2) |
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Four Things You'll Want to Know Now About Getting Around Lightroom |
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42 | (2) |
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Viewing Your Imported Photos |
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44 | (2) |
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Using Lights Dim, Lights Out, and Other Viewing Modes |
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46 | (2) |
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Seeing a Real Full-Screen View |
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48 | (1) |
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Using Guides and the Resizable Grid Overlays |
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49 | (1) |
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50 | (5) |
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55 | (64) |
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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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56 | (4) |
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Sorting Your Photos Using Collections |
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60 | (12) |
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Organizing Multiple Shoots Using Collection Sets |
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72 | (2) |
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Using Smart Collections for Automatic Organization |
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74 | (2) |
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Keeping Things Tidy Using Stacks |
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76 | (4) |
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When to Use a Quick Collection Instead |
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80 | (2) |
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Using Target Collections (and Why They're So Handy) |
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82 | (2) |
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Adding Specific Keywords for Advanced Searching |
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84 | (4) |
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Renaming Photos Already in Lightroom |
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88 | (1) |
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Adding Copyright Info, Captions, and Other Metadata |
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89 | (3) |
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If Your Camera Supports GPS, Prepare to Amaze Your Friends |
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92 | (2) |
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Organizing Your Photos on a World Map |
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94 | (6) |
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100 | (4) |
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Creating and Using Multiple Catalogs |
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104 | (2) |
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From Laptop to Desktop: Syncing Catalogs on Two Computers |
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106 | (3) |
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Backing Up Your Catalog (This Is VERY Important) |
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109 | (2) |
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111 | (2) |
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113 | (2) |
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115 | (4) |
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119 | (20) |
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How to Set Things Up Your Way |
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Choosing What You See in Loupe View |
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120 | (2) |
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Choosing What You See in Grid View |
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122 | (4) |
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Make Working with Panels Faster & Easier |
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126 | (1) |
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Using Two Monitors with Lightroom |
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127 | (4) |
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Choosing What the Filmstrip Displays |
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131 | (1) |
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Adding Your Studio's Name or Logo for a Custom Look |
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132 | (4) |
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136 | (3) |
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Chapter 4 Editing Essentials |
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139 | (46) |
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How to Develop Your Photos |
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Are You Seeing Different Sliders? Read This First! |
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140 | (2) |
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Setting the White Balance |
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142 | (5) |
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Setting Your White Balance Live While Shooting Tethered |
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147 | (2) |
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My Editing Your Images Cheat Sheet |
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149 | (1) |
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How to Set Your Overall Exposure |
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150 | (3) |
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60 Seconds on the Histogram (Which Slider Controls Which Part) |
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153 | (1) |
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Auto Tone (Having Lightroom Do the Work for You) |
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154 | (1) |
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Dealing With Exposure Problems (the Highlights and Shadows Sliders) |
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155 | (3) |
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Setting Your White Point and Black Point |
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158 | (1) |
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Adding "Punch" to Your Images Using Clarity |
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159 | (1) |
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Making Your Colors More Vibrant |
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160 | (1) |
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Using the Tone Curve to Add Contrast |
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161 | (5) |
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Two Really Handy Uses for RGB Curves |
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166 | (2) |
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Adjusting Individual Colors Using HSL |
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168 | (2) |
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How to Add Vignette Effects |
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170 | (3) |
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Getting That Trendy High-Contrast Look |
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173 | (3) |
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Creating Black-and-White Images |
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176 | (4) |
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Getting Great Duotones (and Split Tones) |
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180 | (2) |
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182 | (3) |
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Chapter 5 DJ Develop (Part Deux) |
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185 | (24) |
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More Ways to Tweak Your Images |
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Making Your RAW Photos Look More Like JPEGs |
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186 | (2) |
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Seeing Befores and Afters |
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188 | (1) |
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Applying Changes Made to One Photo to Other Photos |
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189 | (2) |
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Virtual Copies---The "No Risk" Way to Experiment |
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191 | (2) |
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Editing a Bunch of Photos at Once Using Auto Sync |
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193 | (1) |
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Using One-Click Presets (and Making Your Own!) |
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194 | (4) |
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Using the Library Module's Quick Develop Panel |
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198 | (2) |
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Using Soft Proofing to Make Your Images Look Good in Print and on the Web |
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200 | (4) |
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The "Previous" Button (and Why It Rocks!) |
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204 | (2) |
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206 | (3) |
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Chapter 6 Local Adjustments |
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209 | (26) |
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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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210 | (7) |
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Five More Things You Should Know About Lightroom's Adjustment Brush |
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217 | (1) |
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Selectively Fixing White Balance, Dark Shadows, and Noise Issues |
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218 | (2) |
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Getting Creative Effects Using the Adjustment Brush |
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220 | (2) |
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222 | (4) |
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Fixing Skies (and Other Stuff) with a Gradient Filter |
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226 | (2) |
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Custom Vignettes & Spotlight Effects Using the Radial Filter |
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228 | (4) |
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232 | (3) |
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235 | (44) |
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236 | (2) |
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238 | (2) |
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Undoing Changes Made in Lightroom |
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240 | (2) |
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242 | (3) |
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Lights Out Cropping Rocks! |
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245 | (1) |
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Straightening Crooked Photos |
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246 | (2) |
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Finding Spots and Specks the Easy Way |
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248 | (3) |
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Oh Hallelujah, It's a Regular Healing Brush! (Finally!) |
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251 | (3) |
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254 | (1) |
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Fixing Lens Distortion Problems |
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255 | (5) |
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Auto Correcting Perspective and Other Lens Problems Using Upright |
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260 | (6) |
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266 | (2) |
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268 | (5) |
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Fixing Chromatic Aberrations (a.k.a. That Annoying Color Fringe) |
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273 | (1) |
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Basic Camera Calibration in Lightroom |
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274 | (2) |
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276 | (3) |
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Chapter 8 Exporting Images |
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279 | (26) |
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Saving Jpegs, Tiffs, and More |
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Saving Your Photos as JPEGs |
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280 | (8) |
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Adding a Watermark to Your Images |
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288 | (4) |
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Emailing Photos from Lightroom |
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292 | (2) |
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Exporting Your Original RAW Photo |
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294 | (2) |
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Publish Your Images with Just Two Clicks |
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296 | (6) |
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302 | (3) |
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Chapter 9 Jumping to Photoshop |
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305 | (32) |
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Choosing How Your Files Are Sent to Photoshop |
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306 | (1) |
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How to Jump Over to Photoshop, and How to Jump Back |
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307 | (11) |
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Adding Photoshop Automation to Your Lightroom Workflow |
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318 | (6) |
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Stitching Panoramas Using Photoshop |
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324 | (5) |
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Creating HDR Images in Photoshop |
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329 | (6) |
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335 | (2) |
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337 | (34) |
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Before You Make Your First Book |
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338 | (2) |
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Building Your First Book from Scratch |
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340 | (12) |
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Adding Text and Captions to Your Photo Book |
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352 | (4) |
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Adding and Customizing Page Numbers |
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356 | (2) |
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Four Things You'll Want to Know About Layout Templates |
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358 | (2) |
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Creating & Saving Your Own Custom Layouts |
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360 | (3) |
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363 | (3) |
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Custom Template Workaround |
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366 | (2) |
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368 | (3) |
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371 | (30) |
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Creating Presentations of Your Work |
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Creating a Quick, Basic Slide Show |
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372 | (4) |
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Customizing the Look of Your Slide Show |
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376 | (6) |
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Adding Video To Your Slide Show |
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382 | (2) |
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Getting Creative with Photo Backgrounds |
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384 | (6) |
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Working with Drop Shadows and Strokes |
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390 | (1) |
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Adding Additional Lines of Text and Watermarking |
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391 | (1) |
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Adding Opening and Closing Title Slides |
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392 | (2) |
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394 | (2) |
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Choosing Your Slide Duration and Fade Length |
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396 | (1) |
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397 | (2) |
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399 | (2) |
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Chapter 12 DSLR: The Movie |
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401 | (12) |
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Working With Video Shot on Your DSLR |
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402 | (11) |
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413 | (48) |
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Printing Individual Photos |
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414 | (4) |
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Creating Multi-Photo Contact Sheets |
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418 | (8) |
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Creating Custom Layouts Any Way You Want Them |
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426 | (4) |
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Adding Text to Your Print Layouts |
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430 | (2) |
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Printing Multiple Photos on One Page |
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432 | (5) |
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Saving Your Custom Layouts as Templates |
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437 | (1) |
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Having Lightroom Remember Your Printing Layouts |
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438 | (1) |
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Creating Backscreened Prints |
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439 | (3) |
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The Final Print and Color Management Settings |
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442 | (11) |
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Saving Your Page Layout as a JPEG |
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453 | (2) |
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Adding Custom Borders to Your Prints |
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455 | (3) |
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458 | (3) |
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461 | (28) |
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Creating Cool Layouts for Web & Print |
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Here Are Some of My Layouts for You to Use |
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462 | (14) |
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Bonus: 24 Cool Lightroom 5 Develop Module Presets |
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476 | (13) |
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Chapter 15 My Portrait Workflow |
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489 | (26) |
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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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490 | (1) |
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Workflow Step Two: Right After the Shoot, Do This First |
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491 | (1) |
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Workflow Step Three: Finding Your Picks & Making a Collection |
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492 | (3) |
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Workflow Step Four: A Quick Retouch for Your Selects |
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495 | (2) |
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Workflow Step Five: Emailing Your Clients the Proofs |
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497 | (2) |
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Workflow Step Six: Making the Final Tweaks & Working with Photoshop |
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499 | (5) |
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Workflow Step Seven: Delivering the Finished Image(s) |
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504 | (2) |
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10 Important Bits of Advice for New Lightroom Users |
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506 | (6) |
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512 | (3) |
Index |
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