Learn to Create Beautiful Photo Output in Lightroom
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Lightroom 5, 6 and Classic: Producing Great Output
A Workshop on Video with Laura Shoe
Produce professional-quality prints, photo books and e-books, slideshows and web galleries with Lightroom!
For Lightroom Classic (AKA Classic CC; updated through 10.4) and for the old Lightroom 5, and 6.
Over 13 hours of training on 61 videos – download and keep them forever (no subscription)
Assumes basic experience with Lightroom (Start with my Lightroom Fundamentals & Beyond series.)
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“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 over 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
After learning how to prepare for your output project, you’ll learn everything there is to know about creating output with Lightroom’s Book, Print, Slideshow and Web modules, as well critical output concepts that every photographer should understand. Click on the tabs below to read more about what you’ll learn:
The Book Module (3 hours 40 minutes)
Create beautiful photo books that you can upload to Blurb.com to have printed.
Create PDF e-books to put on your mobile devices and to share electronically with people.
Create JPEG files of your page designs – use any time you want nicely formatted photos and/or text on a page!
Videos:
- Available Book Options
- Workflow and Preferences
- Getting Started
- Saving Your Book Work
- Basic Layout Skills
- Changing Page Layouts
- Lightroom Classic Freeform Layouts and Photo Borders
- 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 45 minutes)
Together with the Output Concepts section of this course, this is a full course in pro-level printing!
Use the Print module to create single-photo or multi-photo designs.
Print to your own photo printer with professional-quality results.
Save your designs as JPEG files to have someone else print them or to share them electronically.
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 (What Can Go Wrong and What to Do)
The Slideshow Module (2 hours)
Create slideshows with text and music.
Play them in Lightroom or export videos and PDFs to share online.
Videos:
- Overview; Previewing and Playing Your Slideshow
- Set Timing, Pan and Zoom, Music, Other Playback Options
- Setting Slide Background Options, Photo Layout and Borders
- Adding Text to Your Slides – Identity Plate, Watermarks and More
- Adding Text to Your Slides, Part 2 – Titles, Captions, and More Custom Text
- Adding Introductory, Ending and Section Title Slides
- Saving Your Work
- Exporting Videos and PDFs of Your Slideshows
The Web Module (1 hours 33 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.
Videos:
- Who Can Use the Web Module, For What
- Introduction to Working with the Web Module
- Perfecting the Different Types of Designs Available (4 videos for Lightroom 5, 3 videos for 6, CC 2015, Classic)
- Image Info and Output Settings Panels
- Exporting and Uploading Your Gallery
- Saving Your Work
Output Concepts (2 hours 35 minutes)
Master output concepts that are critical to getting great quality output and that I think every photographer should understand!
Videos:
- Introduction to Color Management – Why Your 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; Where to Crop
- Understanding and Setting Size and Resolution for Printing (How Large Can I Print My Photo?)
- Understanding and Setting Size and Resolution for Screen-Based Output
- The JPEG Quality Setting and Compression
- Output Sharpening
What You Get
What’s New Since Previous Versions of Producing Great Output
Book module videos now incorporate new features added in Lightroom Classic 7 and 8, including new Blurb trade book, magazine and layflat options; editable page layouts; freeform photo and text cells; photo borders, and other small changes. (Those of you who purchased in 2018 were offered a free Book update in summer, 2018 that updated for many of these changes.)
New video for Enhance Raw Details and changes to workflow video to accomodate running this.
New video for Enhance: Super Resolution and changes to a handful of other videos due to this ability to increase the size of files and its impact on output capabilities and workflow.
New video discussing how to set up and manage catalog backups and how to restore a catalog backup to recover lost output (and other) work
Miscellaneous small updates
Should I Upgrade to This Version?
There are not a lot of changes, particularly if you’re not interested in making photo books (physical or e-books) or you received Book updates last year, or you have Lightroom 5 or 6. That said, in a perfect world, if you haven’t watched many videos yet or plan to revisit the series extensively and aren’t facing a budget constraint, I almost always suggest upgrading so that you can be confident you’re hearing fully up-to-date and relevant information.
Book module videos now incorporate new features added in Lightroom Classic 7 and 8, including new Blurb trade book, magazine and layflat options; editable page layouts; freeform photo and text cells; photo borders, and other small changes.
The slideshow videos are updated to include the features added during the Lightroom 6 / CC 2015 product cycle: pan and zoom, up to 10 music tracks, aspect preview, reorganized Playback panel.
- The Web module videos are updated to cover the new HTML5 Track, Grid and Square galleries.
New video discussing how to set up and manage catalog backups and how to restore a catalog backup to recover lost output (and other) work.
New video for Enhance Raw Details and changes to workflow video to accomodate running this.
New video for Enhance: Super Resolution and changes to a handful of other videos due to this ability to increase the size of files and its impact on output capabilities and workflow.
Miscellaneous small updates
Easily get to any topic within any video fast with the 45+ page detailed searchable index with video subtopic start times
Should I Upgrade to This Version?
If you have Lightroom 5: Producing Great Output or Lightroom 4: Producing Great Output, there have been enough changes that I recommend updating your series.