| Chapter 1 Importing: Getting Your Photos Into Lightroom |
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First: Move All Your Photos onto One External Hard Drive |
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What to Do When You See a Question Mark on Your Photos Folder |
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You Need a Second Backup Hard Drive |
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And You Need a Cloud Backup, Too |
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Get Your Photos Organized FIRST, Before You Launch Lightroom |
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Importing Photos Already On Your Hard Drive |
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Choosing How Fast Your Photos Appear |
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Importing from Your Camera (Easy Method) |
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Importing from Your Camera (Advanced Users) |
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Using Lightroom with a Laptop? You'll Love Smart Previews |
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Save Time Importing Using Import Presets (and a Compact View) |
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Choosing Your Preferences for Importing Photos |
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Converting RAW Photos to the Adobe DNG Format |
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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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The Two Flavors of Full-Screen View |
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| Chapter 2 Getting Organized: My System For A Happy Lightroom Life |
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Four Important Things to Know First! |
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Want a Happy Lightroom Life? Use Just One Catalog |
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Where to Store Your Catalog |
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How to Make a Collection from a Folder |
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Organizing Photos Already On Your Hard Drive |
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Why You Need to Use Pick Flags Instead of Star Ratings |
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Organizing Photos You're Importing from Your Camera |
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Two Tools to Help You Find Your Best Shots: Survey and Compare View |
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Smart Collections: Your Organizational Assistant |
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Reducing Clutter Inside Your Collections by Using Stacks |
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Adding Keywords (Search Terms) |
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Face Tagging to Find People Fast |
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Finding Photos Using a Simple Search |
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Lightroom is Automatically Organizing Your Images on a Map |
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Map Organizing Even If Your Camera Doesn't Have GPS |
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Making Collections from Locations on the Map |
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Dealing with "The File Could Not Be Found" Message |
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Lightroom Is Automatically Organizing Your Photos by Date Behind the Scenes |
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Backing Up Your Catalog (This Is VERY Important) |
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| Chapter 3 Advanced Stuff: That Next Level Of Importing & Organizing |
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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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Creating Your Own Custom Metadata (Copyright) Templates |
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Using Lights Dim, Lights Out, and Other Viewing Modes |
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Using Guides and Grid Overlays |
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When to Use a Quick Collection Instead |
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Using Target Collections (and Why They're So Handy) |
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Adding Copyright Info, Captions, and Other Metadata |
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From Laptop to Desktop: Syncing Catalogs on Two Computers |
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Dealing with Disasters (Troubleshooting) |
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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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Choosing What You See in Grid View |
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Make Working with Panels Faster & Easier |
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Using Two Monitors with Lightroom |
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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 Your Images: How To Tweak Your Images Like A Pro! |
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My Lightroom Editing Cheat Sheet |
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If You Shoot in RAW, You Need to Start Here |
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Setting the White Balance |
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Setting Your White Balance Live While Shooting Tethered |
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Seeing a Before and After |
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Want to Copy a Particular Look? Reference View Can Help |
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Auto Tone (It's Finally Actually Really Kinda Pretty Good) |
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Expanding Your Tonal Range by Setting Your White and Black Points |
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Controlling Overall Brightness (Exposure) |
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My Power Trio: Combining Whites + Blacks + Exposure |
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Adding Contrast (Important Stuff!) |
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Dealing With Highlight Problems (Clipping) |
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Fixing Backlit Photos and Opening Up Dark Areas |
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Clarity: Lightroom's Detail Enhancer |
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Making Your Colors More Vibrant |
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Automatically Matching Exposures |
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Putting It All Together (Here's the Order I Use for My Own Editing) |
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| Chapter 6 Painting With Light: The Adjustment Brush & Other Toolbox Tools |
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Adjusting Individual Areas (Dodging & Burning) |
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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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Richer Skies Using the Graduated Filter |
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Making Tricky Adjustments Easily Using Color and Luminance Masking |
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Spotlight Effects (and Off-Center Vignettes) Using the Radial Filter |
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| Chapter 7 Special Effects: Making Stuff Look...Well...Special! |
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Applying Filter-Like "Looks" Using Creative Profiles |
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Virtual Copies-The "No Risk" Way to Experiment |
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Changing Individual Colors |
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How to Add Vignette Effects |
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Getting That Trendy High-Contrast Look |
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Creating Black-and-White Images |
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Using One-Click Presets (and Making Your Own!) |
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Cross-Processing Fashion Look |
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| Chapter 8 Problem Photos: Dealing With Common Image Problems |
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Undoing Anything (or Everything!) |
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Lights Out Cropping Rocks! |
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Straightening Crooked Photos |
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Removing Stuff with the Spot Removal Tool |
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Finding Spots and Specks the Easy Way |
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Automatically Fixing Lens Distortion Problems |
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Fixing Lens Problems Yourself Using Guided Upright |
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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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Adding a Watermark to Your Images |
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Emailing Photos from Lightroom |
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Exporting Your Original RAW Photo |
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Publish Your Images with Just Two Clicks |
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| Chapter 10 LR With Photoshop: How And When To Use Photoshop |
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Choosing How Your Files Are Sent to Photoshop |
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How to Jump Over to Photoshop, and How to Jump Back |
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Keeping Your Photoshop Layers Intact |
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Adding Photoshop Automation to Your Lightroom Workflow |
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| Chapter 11 Photo Books: Creating Beautiful Books With Your Images |
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Before You Make Your first Book |
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Making Your First Book In Just 10 Minutes |
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Using Auto Layout to Automate Your Layout Process |
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Making Your Own Custom Pages |
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Adding Text and Captions to Your Photo Book |
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Adding and Customizing Page Numbers |
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Four Things You'll Want to Know About Layout Templates |
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Customizing Your Backgrounds |
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Helping with Layouts and Printing Outside of Blurb |
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Custom Template Workaround |
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| Chapter 12 Printing: Unlocking The Power Of The Print |
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Printing Individual Photos |
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Creating Multi-Photo Contact Sheets |
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Creating Custom Layouts Any Way You Want Them |
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Adding Text to Your Print Layouts |
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Printing Multiple Photos on One Page |
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Saving Your Custom Layouts as Templates |
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Having Lightroom Remember Your Printing Layouts |
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Creating Backscreened Prints |
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The Final Print & Color Management Settings |
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Saving Your Layout as a JPEG (for Photo Lab Printing) |
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Adding Custom Borders to Your Prints |
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| Chapter 13 Video: Working With Video Shot With Your Camera |
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Trimming Your Video Clips |
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Choosing the Thumbnail for Your Video Clip |
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Pulling a Photo from Your Video Clip |
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Editing Your Video Clip (the Easy, but More Limited, Way) |
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Serious Video Clip Editing (Using Lots of Goodies!) |
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Let's Make a Short Movie (and Even Save It in HD Quality)! |
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| Chapter 14 Going Mobile: Using Lightroom On Your Phone/tablet & More |
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Four Really Cool Things About Lightroom CC on Your Mobile Device |
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Setting Up Lightroom on Your Mobile Device |
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How to Sync Collections over to Lightroom CC (Mobile) |
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Adding Pick Flags and Ratings to Photos |
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Editing Your Images on Mobile |
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Sharing Your Lightroom Albums on the Web |
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Sharing a Live Shoot to a Phone, Tablet, or the Web |
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Lightroom Mobile's Advanced Search |
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The Built-in Camera (It's Pretty Sweet!) |
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The Desktop Version of Lightroom Mobile is Lightroom CC |
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| Chapter 15 My Workflow: Here's My Typical Start-To-Finish Project |
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Workflow Step One: Importing Your Images |
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Workflow Step Two: Sorting Your Images |
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Workflow Step Three: Editing Your Selects |
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Workflow Step Four: Getting Client Feedback |
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Workflow Step Five: Printing the Image |
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Other Ways You Can Continue Learning with Me |
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