Learn to Create Beautiful Output in Lightroom 4
Lightroom 4: Producing Great Output
A Workshop on Video with Laura Shoe
Produce professional-quality prints, photo books, slideshows and web galleries with Lightroom!
This Lightroom 4 series is no longer available for purchase. Please consider the Lightroom 5, 6 and Classic version (click here) – it covers features not available in Lightroom 4, but otherwise is mostly applicable to Lightroom 4. (This is the OLD Lightroom 4, not the cloud-based Lightroom that is in version 4 in 2020/2021)
12 hours of training on 55 videos
For PC, Mac, and mobile devices
Assumes basic experience with Lightroom. (Start with my Fundamentals & Beyond series.)
“Laura’s video training has to be the best and easiest way to master Lightroom. It’s superb…perfect for both beginners and intermediate level Lightroom users and will impress advanced users as well.”
Photosource International
Laura Shoe has taught for Adobe, creativeLIVE, Rocky Mountain School of Photography and other organizations and has been making video tutorials for 10 years. From her years of teaching experience she anticipates where students get stuck, and with a clear and concise presentation style, guides you through the complexities with ease.
What You’ll Learn
Producing Great Output covers Lightroom’s output-creation capabilities. After learning how to prepare for your output project you’ll learn everything there is to know about creating output with the Book, Print, Slideshow and Web modules, as well critical output concepts. CLICK ON THE TABS BELOW to read more about what you’ll learn:
The Book Module (2 hours 54 minutes)
Create beautiful photo books that you can upload to Blurb.com to have printed.
Create PDF e-books of your book designs to put on your mobile devices and to share electronically with people.
Included videos:
Setting Book Options
Workflow and Preferences
Getting Started
Saving Your Book Work
Basic Layout Skills
Changing Page Layouts
Basics of Adding Text
More Text Skills
Adding Image and Graphic Page Backgrounds
Designing Beautiful Covers
Using Auto Layout Presets to Save Time and Improve Consistency
Tips for Reviewing Your Book before Having It Printed
Uploading or Exporting Your Book
Reusing Your Book Designs with Other Photos
The Print Module (2 hours 43 minutes)
Create single-photo or multi-photo designs.
Print to your own photo printer with professional-quality results.
Save your designs to have someone else print them or to share them electronically.
Included videos:
Print Module Overview
Saving Your Work: Print Collections
Saving Your Design to Use with Other Photos: Templates
Setting Output Size and Destination
Making Contact Sheets
Triptychs and More; Adding Text
Single Photo Layouts
Picture Package – Printing Multiple Sizes of the Same Photo
Creating Free-Form Designs/Collages with Custom Package
The Print Job Panel – Setting Resolution, Profile, and More
Printer Settings
Thirteen Keys to Printing Success (or, What Can Go Wrong and Why)
The Slideshow Module (1 hour 42 minutes)
Create slideshows with text and music.
Play them in Lightroom or export videos and PDFs to share online.
Included videos:
Overview; Previewing and Playing Your Slideshow
Slide Background, Layout and Other Options
Adding Text to Your Photo Slides, Part 1
Adding Text to Your Photo Slides, Part 2 – Custom Text
Adding Title Slides
Saving Your Work
Exporting Videos and PDFs of Your Slideshows
The Web Module (1 hours 35 minutes)
Design web galleries showcasing your work and upload them to your website or other webspace.
Discover where you may have personal webspace to use that you didn’t know about.
Included videos:
Uses for the Web Module
Introduction to Working with the Web Module
Perfecting the Lightroom HTML, Airtight and Flash Gallery Designs (4 videos)
Exporting and Uploading Your Gallery
Saving Your Work
Output Concepts (2 hours 30 minutes)
Master output concepts that are critical to getting great quality output and that I think every photographer should know!
Included videos:
Introduction to Color Management – Why What You Get in Output May Not Match What You See in Lightroom and What You Can Do About It
Calibrating Your Monitor
Printer Profiles
Color Spaces (sRGB, Adobe RGB, etc.) and Previewing Your Output with Soft Proofing
Output Proportions – Why You Can’t Get that 8×10 without Cropping
Understanding and Setting Size and Resolution for Printing
Understanding and Setting Size and Resolution for Screen-Based Output
The JPEG Quality Setting and Compression
Output Sharpening
What You Get
What My Customers Say
Purchase Options
This Lightroom 4 series is no longer available for purchase. Please consider the Lightroom 5, 6 and Classic CC version (click here) – it covers features not available in Lightroom 4, but otherwise is mostly applicable to Lightroom 4.
Sample Videos
Overview of Lightroom’s Book, Print, Slideshow and Web Modules
Videos for sale are larger and are not blurry.
Adding Custom Text to Your Slideshows
Using the Custom Package Feature in the Print Module to Make Photo Collages
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