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adobe lightroom training manualAt the simplest level, though, Lightroom was created to help you do just three main things: sort your photos, post-process them, and export them. On Photography Life alone, we already have more than 100 articles about Lightroom — the equivalent of several books — and other websites have countless more. Clearly, it is an important topic to learn, whether you are just starting out or you are an advanced photographer. In this comprehensive guide, we will go over the process of using Lightroom for beginners, from start to finish, including tips on the topics that tend to confuse people the most. This comprehensive article lays out all the basics, and it is divided into several different sections to make things easier to read. If there’s a specific term that you’re trying to find in this article, you might want to press Control F (or, for Mac, Command F) on your keyboard. If you’ve never used this shortcut before, it’s very useful, since it lets you search a webpage by the keyword you want. Also, you can skip to the various parts of this article by clicking on the options here: Introducing Lightroom Why Lightroom is Unique Demystifying the Lightroom catalog Importing a photo into Lightroom Explaining the layout of Lightroom’s Library and Develop modules How to organize your photos in Lightroom How to post-process your photos in Lightroom How to export your photos from Lightroom Backing up your catalog Conclusion My goal was to write a tutorial that lays out everything a beginner needs to know about Lightroom, whether you have an older version (anything before Lightroom 6, such as Lightroom 4 or Lightroom 5) or the newest version (Lightroom 6 or Lightroom CC). Hopefully, even if you start without any knowledge at all, you’ll end up with a medium- to high-level understanding of Lightroom’s most important concepts. So, it’s a long article. Feel free to bookmark this page for later reference if you find some of these tips to be useful.http://www.ez-qc.com/uploads/file/dg-747-projector-manual.xml
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Lightroom can be overwhelming at first, and the purpose of this guide is to simplify everything as much as possible. What is Lightroom? Lightroom is a post-processing and photo organization software. It lets you sort your photos, edit them, and export them at whatever size you need. Let’s dive into each of these three main functions: Organizing Your Photos The most obvious thing that Lightroom does is help you sort and organize your photos. Each time you import images into Lightroom, you’re also seeing where they’re located on your computer (i.e., the file structure). This appears on the left-hand side of your screen. So, you might see something like this: The photos that are already on your computer don’t automatically show up in Lightroom. If you want to add some of your photos to Lightroom, or you want to add an entire folder of photos, you’ll need to import them. I’ll cover more about the Import Dialogue later; it’s not something you need to know in detail yet. Beyond simply telling you where your photos are located, though, Lightroom has many other ways to sort and organize your photos. What if, for example, you take a photo that you particularly like, and you want to find it again in the future. Is there some way to mark it that makes it easy to locate later. Of course! There are countless ways to do so. You could give it a five-star rating, you could flag it, you could add it to a “Best Photos” collection, and many more. Later on, I’ll go into detail about these different options, and how you can use them to sort and organize your photos however you want. For now, just know that Lightroom is one of the main programs — in fact, the most popular one on the market — that photographers use to organize and sort their photos. Editing Your Photos Lightroom isn’t all about sorting your photos, though. Most importantly, it also lets you edit the photos that you take.http://www.goldengateshirts.com/userfiles/dg-stomp-manual-portugues(1).xml Lightroom doesn’t offer the same vast range of post-processing edits that other software options, such as Photoshop, do. Still, just because it isn’t as extensive doesn’t mean it’s not extensive enough. Many photographers can get by seamlessly with Lightroom’s post-processing features; personally, although I do own Photoshop, I use it more for graphic design work than photo editing. Lightroom’s post-processing options cover all the main bases: brightness, contrast, color, sharpness, and many more adjustments. This also includes the ability to apply local edits — i.e., adjusting certain parts of the photo selectively, while leaving the rest untouched. In short, Lightroom was designed to edit your photos. This isn’t simply a side feature that you can use from time to time rather than editing the photo in Photoshop; it’s intended to be the main tool you use for post-processing. Exporting Your Photos Most likely, you’re already somewhat familiar with the idea of exporting your photos. Say, for example, that you’re trying to email a set of several photos to one of your friends. Since Gmail and other email services tend to have a file size limit — something like 25 megabytes — you may not be able to send full-resolution photos. One way around that is to shrink the file size of the photos that you send. Rather than 4000-pixel photos at 0 compression, you could send 1000-pixel photos at 20 compression instead. That’s one of the things Lightroom does well. If you need to resize a photo for email (or anything else), it is easy to export a photo at whatever settings you want. Exporting doesn’t delete the original copy of your photos. If you export a 500-pixel copy of a photo, it’s just that — a copy. This isn’t the most well-known thing that Lightroom does, but, in the long run, you’ll end up exporting your photos all the time. What Makes Lightroom Different from other Software. This is one of the top questions I hear about Lightroom, and with good reason.http://www.bosport.be/newsletter/boss-me-30-manual-pdf Lightroom does not work how you might expect, and, in a few crucial ways, it is vastly different from other options on the market, including software like Photoshop. Case in point: When you make a change to your photo in Lightroom, that change only shows up in Lightroom. What do I mean by this. Say that you brighten a photo in Lightroom. You might be surprised to realize that, if you open the photo in any other software, it won’t look any brighter than normal. The actual, underlying file is totally unchanged. This is a fundamental part of Lightroom, and it’s not a feature you can disable. So, if Lightroom makes it impossible to actually edit your photos, and the edits are only visible in Lightroom, why would professionals ever use it. In fact, this system has a lot of benefits. First, to address the main concern most people have: Yes, there is a way to see your Lightroom edits outside of Lightroom. What is it? You already know the answer — exports. When you edit a photo in Lightroom, the edits do only show up in Lightroom. However, when you export a photo — which, as I mentioned earlier, is one of the three most important things you can do in Lightroom — all the edits are present in the photo you’ve exported. So, you can edit a photo all day in Lightroom to look exactly how you want, but you won’t see any of the changes if you open the file outside of Lightroom. The exported copy of the photo now has all the edits you just made. It doesn’t replace the original file, which is still sitting happily on your computer. Instead, it creates an entirely new photo, complete with all the export settings you chose (file type, pixel dimensions, compression, file name, and so on). Why is this better than simply editing the actual, original photo. There are a few reasons, but here’s the big one: This type of editing is non-destructive. You’re never changing anything about your original file at all.http://pharmaciesaintlouis.com/images/a-manual-of-councils-of-the-holy-catholic-church.pdf (There are only three settings within Lightroom that do affect the original: renaming the photo, moving the photo to a new folder on your hard drive, and deleting the photo from your disk.) Lightroom makes it essentially impossible to accidentally ruin anything beyond repair. The same cannot be said of, for example, Photoshop. If you open one of your photos in Photoshop, crop it, save the photo, and exit, your photo will be permanently cropped. There are ways around this — specifically, unchecking the “delete cropped pixels” option and saving as a PSD file — but this isn’t an intuitive fix. It’s far too easy to edit the original photo by mistake. (See Photoshop vs Lightroom for more differences.) Lightroom is great precisely because you’re never touching the original file. Lightroom is non-destructive editing software, and that is a critical feature for almost every photographer. What is the Lightroom Catalog. As you read about Lightroom, you’ll hear one term a lot: catalog. Lightroom is a cataloging software. What does that mean. In fact, this is exactly what I covered in the prior section: Lightroom doesn’t actually touch your photos. Every single edit that you make to a photo; each five-star rating you give; every time you add a photo to a collection — all of those changes are stored somewhere other than the actual photo on your computer. Where? The Lightroom catalog file. The Lightroom catalog is one file that contains each change and adjustment you make to every single one of your photos. It also doesn’t take up too much space on your computer; my Lightroom catalog file is only about 300 megabytes in size, yet it contains all the edits to each of my thousands of photos. Not bad! The Lightroom catalog gets more and more complicated as you learn about it in-depth. If you want to use multiple catalogs, send a catalog of photos to someone else, or use the same catalog on multiple computers, things can be very tricky. I recommend reading our full article on Lightroom catalogs if you’re trying to do anything complicated, and our article on using Lightroom with multiple computers. Luckily, you probably don’t need to do any of that yet. If you just want to add photos to a single Lightroom catalog, you already know enough to start. By default, the photos on your computer (or memory card) won’t be a part of your Lightroom catalog — so, you need to add them yourself. How do you do this? To add a photo to your Lightroom catalog, you need to start at the Import Dialogue. Click to the next below, and we’ll cover that process. My photos have been displayed in galleries worldwide, including the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History and exhibitions in London, Malta, Siena, and Beijing. These days I'm active on Instagram and YouTube. Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience. 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All this in 15 minutes, from a real photo shoot in RAW, not staged stock images. This guide works for Lightroom 4, 5, 6 and Lightroom Classic. If you are confused about Adobe’s new naming of Lightroom Classic v Lightroom CC read here. Lightroom for Beginners The video will get you up and running in Lightroom in 15 minutes. Here is a quick guide to get you started really fast and easy, it will only take a couple of minutes to read this information. This is a no BS Lightroom turbo start. Non Technical Lightroom Getting Started Guide Lightroom is broken up into Modules. There are currently 7 Modules in Lightroom, here is a secret, you only have to know 2 of them. It’s a good idea to learn the rest later, but to get started, all you need is the Library and the Develop module. This is where all your photos live. This is where you import the photos and do all the boring stuff like keywords and collections etc. It might be boring, but a little effort here will pay off in spades later on down the road, You’ll see. You can sleep at night knowing that all your photos are safely tucked away and labeled so you can find them in a rabbits blink. When you get a bit more experienced, you’ll also find that most of this can be automated. The Develop Module This is where the party’s at after everyone has left the library. The develop module is where you take those dull images and turn them into works of art. This is your digital darkroom (Lightroom) where you can be creative. A lot of this can also be automated if you are in a rush. But you may want to hang out here for a while, because this is fun. Lightroom Workflow Ok, here we go. In as few words as possible, here is how to work in Lightroom. I’ll give you details about the stuff that really matters and skip the boring details. Get your photos into Lightroom You’ll start in theLibrary module: Click the import button in the lower left The importer will open. Click the Arrow in the lower left corner to expand it. It’s useless to you collapsed This is what the expanded Importer window looks like. Don’t worry about all the options for now, we will walk through the steps you need. You can bring them in from your computer if you like, but for the sake of this tutorial, I’m going to assume that you want to bring them in from your camera card reader. Copy and Copy as DNG are the only options from a camera or card. To keep it simple, we are going to use Copy. At the top right, you will see an option that says “TO” This is where we are copying the photos (and videos) to. Under the “to” options, I recommend choosing the subfolder and Into One Folder option and giving it a name. (this will prevent those horrible nested folders by date, that are a pest later on) Next, locate the folder that you want to put your photos. If you are just starting, it’s a good idea to have a strategy and stick with it, because you will be using this structure for a very long time. What do I do for a digital asset management strategy. What we are doing right now, is creating a folder structure on your disk drive. Lightroom doesn’t care where the photos are to nicely catalog them. But this structure is for you, to help you keep your photos organized, trust me, it’s worth the extra effort. I normally create a top level folder called photos. Under this a create categories that I’ll use such as: Places People Events Clients etc I’ll then create folders as I import photos under these categories, as subcategories: Places Boston California New York London etc Use whatever categories you think you’ll need. You can always add more later or change them WARNING. If you do change folder names or image locations, do it through Lightroom or you will break the file association. Usually you will go with the default, which is all the photos on the card. If you turn on the option “Don’t import suspected Duplicates and photos are already in Lightroom, they will be greyed out. Click the import button Your photos will now be copied into Lightroom and you will return to the Library module where you can watch your photos getting sucked into Lightroom. All your photos are now safely tucked into Lightroom. Next step is finding them. Organizing your Photos in Lightroom At the top left you’ll see the Navigator which is a thumbnail of the selected photo. Under that is the Catalog. The options that you’ll use are either Previous import, which will limit the view to just the last batch of photos you bought into Lightroom. Or you can choose All Photographs, to show every photo currently in Lightroom. If photos seem to be missing, click All Photographs. The next block down shows the Folders View. You will see a list of drives that have photos in them that Lightroom is managing (in the Library). Currently attached drives are lit up. The Folder structure is the same as on your computer, because this is what you are actually browsing right now. Here you can see our Folder called Colorado that we just made when we imported from the card. Lightroom Collections are good We want to make our own folder structure just for Lightroom, this will make things easier to use for us. For this, we use Collections. Collections have tons of advantages because they don’t actually contain photos, just a reference to the photos, this way we can have the same photo in different Collections without making multiple copies of the same photo. Trust me, multiple copies of the same photo is a bad thing and can get very confusing as well as quickly filling up you drive with duplicate photos. Select all the Photos that you want to put in the collection. Name this Collection something that is descriptive. Optional: Nest it in a Collection set if you want. Check the box, Include Selected photos. Click create Bang! You now have a Collection with your selected photos in it. For way more reasons than I’ll list here, I like to organize my photos into Collections and work on them from there. I almost never go into Folder view unless I have lost something. Metadata in Lightroom Now its time to do all the metadata work. At a bare minimum, I add some keywords to help find the photos later. You can select an entire Collection and add simple keywords to them all in just a few seconds. You’ll see little badges on photos that have metadata. There is a lot of other metadata stuff you can do to your photos now if you like. If you want to sort through them and find the good ones, you can use things like ratings, flags and labels. I have touched on this on the 15 minute video, so you can watch that when you’re ready to do more organization. When you want to go more advanced you can add meta data on import etc. You can even create metadata templates that add a ton of info to a photo in a single click. (All of this is explained in my 13 hour comprehensive Lightroom training video) Let’s select a photograph and have some fun with it, enough of this organizational stuff. Click a photo in the Filmstrip. It will appear nice and big if you double click it. Using the Develop Module in Lightroom Click the word Develop at the top of Lightroom and the currently selected photograph will now appear in the digital dark room. This is where you make all the image adjustments that could be as simple as cropping, lightening or darkening photos or as advanced as localized dodging and burning, black and white, special effects and even retouching. Once again, covered in depth in my Lightroom for Digital Photographers video training and also some free tutorials here on PhotoshopCAFE. The develop Module Let’s make some adjustments to the photograph. Here I grabbed the white balance tool and clicked on an area that should be neutral gray or white in the photo. This removes the color cast. White balance is usually the first thing I do to a photo. At this point, make some adjustments using the basic adjustments panel. Most of your adjustments can be made in this panel and it’s certainly a good place to get started. There are a ton of other option that you will learn later as you go deeper into the rabbit hole. For now, just get familiar with the basic adjustments. If you have used Camera Raw before in Photoshop, these settings are identical. Why Lightroom? At it’s most basic, the Library module. Or see a more detailed video on why Lightroom. Basic Lightroom Adjustments The sliders are broken into 3 groups WB: White balance Tone: Making the photo or portions of the photo lighter and darker Presence: Grittiness and color I usually start with white balance, then move on to Exposure to set overall brightness. Then grab Highlights and shadows to recover details in the highlights and shadows (Expand the dynamic range). Set whites and Blacks to give contrast to the photo. Nice crisp clean whites and deep rich shadows. Here is the result of moving a few sliders, a much more realistic and cleaner photograph. Now, Lightroom is capable of much more than just basic adjustments, you can use it to create a lot of mood and drama, You can add color looks and be very creative with Lightroom, and I’ll teach you that on other tutorials. Lightroom presets What you can also do is save all of these adjustments as presets. Presets are like little recipes that can be applied to any photograph in a single click. You can make your own, or add in ones that you get from other people. Give it a name and a folder, default id User Presets. Notice you can choose which adjustments to include in the preset. Most of the time, I add them all even if some settings aren’t in the preset, it won’t cause any harm. Click create and your preset will be saved. You can access it from the presets panel and use it anytime without having to re-apply all the adjustments. Here is the same photo where I am applying some presets that I created at an earlier time. See how they dramatically change the appearance of a photo in a single click. A lot of people get Lightroom just to use presets. We will email you some free presets and a free ebook to get you started right now. Or here is a completely different preset for a different feel to this photograph. Exporting photos from Lightroom When you have finished making your adjustments, you will want to share your photos with the world. While you can create web galleries, slideshows, print and even make books in the different modules in Lightroom, let’s do a simple task. Export a Photo that we can share online on Social Media. (Lightroom can also integrate with your favorite social media site directly from within Lightroom) Let’s look at a simple photo export. There are a ton of options in here including the option to create export presets and multiple images. I actually created a Facebook preset, Ill break it down. File image format choose jpg and a medium quality. I limited the size to 1600 on the longest edge, thats big enough for people to enjoy without becoming so huge it bogs down the entire internet. I also include a watermark. I think it’s always a good idea to protect your public images with watermarks. They also make it possible for people to find the copyright holder (you) when they are hot linked on different pages. Click export and the photo will be exported for your use. 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I wrote this Beginner’s Guide to Lightroom to help you, and I wish I would have had something like this when I first got started. It’s designed to help you through a few basic steps from opening up Lightroom for the first time, making two basic edits, and exporting (saving) a final version of your picture. The catch, though, is that it doesn’t really edit your images, or actually manage anything either. Instead, the program works by looking at pictures you have stored on your computer, and allows you to create instructions for how you want to change them. Lightroom doesn’t touch the original image. It doesn’t move it, copy it, rename it, or change it in any way. Instead Lightroom, is a non-destructive editing program, that allows you make changes to a preview or thumbnail version of the picture, which means you can see what the final image will look like after you make it brighter.The best analogy I can think of is that of a kitchen: your original pictures are kind of like the raw ingredients in your cupboards, and the Lightroom Catalog is like a recipe book. Lightroom doesn’t do anything to your ingredients (your original files), but instead saves the instructions for transforming your supplies into actual finished products (in this case output edited images), just like recipes for your photos.