Lightroom Transformations |
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Introduction |
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Acknowledgments |
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1 What Makes A Good Photograph? |
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What Are You Trying To Say? |
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Essential Steps For Optimum Quality |
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The key areas of interest need to be clearly visible |
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Lead the eye into the frame |
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Look for shapes within the frame |
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Image Selections And Rating |
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Finding a fresh perspective |
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Lens Aperture And Shutter Speed Selection |
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Factors Affecting Lens Sharpness |
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Fixing Camera Shake In Photoshop |
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Fixing Axial Chromatic Aberrations |
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When to apply the lens corrections |
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25 | (1) |
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Capture sharpening workflow |
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How To Remove Moire Patterns |
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It is OK to clip the shadows or highlights |
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Secondary Develop Module Adjustments |
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Exporting From Lightroom To Photoshop |
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Continued editing in Lightroom |
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Color profile calibration |
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Comparing different color spaces |
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Page Setup and Print Settings (Macintosh) |
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Page Setup and Print Settings (PC) |
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Final Print system Print dialog settings (Mac & PC) |
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Saving the print settings as a preset |
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Where Are Your Files Archived? |
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3 Tone And Color Corrections |
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Levels/Exposure Adjustments |
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Lightroom Basic Panel Adjustments |
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68 | (1) |
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Lightening an underexposed image |
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Photoshop Curves versus Lightroom Shadows adjustments |
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How to deliberately lose highlight detail |
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Individual Auto Tone adjustments |
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Hard-Clipping The Shadows |
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Setting The Whites And Blacks In A High-Key Image |
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Negative Clarity adjustments |
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Adding Clarity to bring out fine detail |
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90 | (3) |
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93 | (1) |
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Basic Panel And Tone Curve Adjustments |
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Tone range split point refinements |
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98 | (3) |
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101 | (1) |
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102 | (9) |
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Applying A Custom White Balance Adjustment |
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103 | (1) |
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Boosting The Color Saturation |
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105 | (3) |
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108 | (1) |
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Modifying the color using HSL adjustments |
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109 | (2) |
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Why We Need To Manipulate Our Images |
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111 | (18) |
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113 | (1) |
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Basic dodging and burning |
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114 | (3) |
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Refining filter adjustments |
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Editing skies with the Graduated Filter |
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118 | (1) |
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Brush editing a Graduated Filter adjustment |
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Adjustment brush settings |
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Combining multiple localized adjustments |
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Adding An Effects Panel Vignette |
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127 | (2) |
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Post-Crop Vignetting options |
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129 | (1) |
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Adding Masked Curves Adjustments |
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Adding masked adjustment layers |
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134 | (1) |
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Using overlay layers to apply local adjustments |
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5 Recomposing Photographs |
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137 | (26) |
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137 | (13) |
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The Lightroom Crop Overlay tool |
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140 | (1) |
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Content-Aware Scale Adjustments |
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Compressing the elements together |
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141 | (4) |
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Content-Aware Scale controls |
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Extending the canvas area |
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146 | (4) |
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150 | (4) |
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150 | (1) |
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Applying an Upright adjustment |
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151 | (3) |
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The Adaptive Wide Angle Filter |
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Removing elliptical distortion |
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156 | (2) |
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Adaptive Wide Angle filter controls |
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158 | (1) |
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Correcting the perspective in a Photo Merge panorama |
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159 | (4) |
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6 Blending Multiple Images |
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163 | (36) |
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164 | (6) |
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Creating an HDR Photo Merge in Lightroom |
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171 | (4) |
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Creating A Panorama Photo Merge |
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175 | (3) |
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178 | (1) |
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An extreme wide-angle Photomerge |
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179 | (5) |
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Blending Multiple Flash Exposures |
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Removing Street Furniture |
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186 | (4) |
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190 | (1) |
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190 | (5) |
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7 Black-And-White Conversions |
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199 | (22) |
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Enhanced Black-And-White Effects |
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204 | (1) |
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204 | (4) |
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Desaturated HSL Adjustments |
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208 | (4) |
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Creating a vintage black-and-white look |
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213 | (5) |
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Black-And-White Print Output |
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218 | (1) |
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Optimum quality and print longevity |
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218 | (3) |
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221 | (27) |
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Complex Spot Removal retouching |
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223 | (5) |
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228 | (1) |
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Syncing Spot Removal settings |
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Removing dust spots from multiple images |
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229 | (4) |
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233 | (1) |
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Hand-Coloring Photographs |
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239 | (5) |
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244 | (4) |
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