In this Lightroom video tutorial, I'll show you how to change and refine your page layouts. After an overview of page layout options, you'll learn how to choose a page layout and refine it with cell padding, add two page spreads, and select and change layouts of multiple pages at once. I then cover flagging layouts [...]
I haven't written many tutorials about Lightroom Book module on this blog, so I thought I'd share a video tutorial on some basic skills: swapping and replacing photos, usage badges, adding more photos to your book collection, removing photos, selecting and moving one or more pages, adding and removing pages, zooming a photo to fill, and [...]
My favorite layout style in Lightroom's Print module is the Custom Package, which allows us to layout multiple photos on the page. These can be laid out on top of each other, they can overlap, text can be added, etc.. Here are a couple examples -- a tryptic that I designed to print, and a collage [...]
In this video tutorial, I give you an overview of Lightroom's output modules, to give you an idea of what you can do with each. This is video #2 in my 12 hour series of 55 videos, Lightroom 4: Producing Great Output (A Workshop on Video) , available on DVD or by download. (UPDATE: Here's the [...]
In this third article of a three-part series on sharpening in Lightroom, I explain output sharpening. Here are the other two articles: Part 1: Overview of the Three Step Sharpening workflow, and Capture Sharpening in Depth Part 2: Creative Sharpening - Sharpening Eyes and Other Local Elements To summarize the first two steps in the [...]
“How large can I print my photo?” is a question I get from Lightroom users all the time. The ultimate answer of course is – it depends. In the end you will need to do your own tests and find out what you are satisfied with. Below is some information that [...]
When you click in a photo in the Book Module, a Zoom slider appears, which shows you how far, in percent, you are zoomed in on the photo, and allows you to zoom in more or less. This slider is for enlarging the photo in the cell on your Book page, not for zooming in [...]
When designing a book in Lightroom, I move between multi-page, spread and page view a lot. There are icons in the toolbar to select these: However, knowing some handy shortcuts speeds up my work a lot. Ctl/Cmd E: Multi-Page View Ctl/Cmd R: Spread View Ctl/Cmd [...]
Starting with Lightroom 4, you can email photos directly from Lightroom rather than having to export jpegs to your hard drive, and then outside of Lightroom, attach them to your email. It has some limitations that I’ll discuss, but I find that it often saves me a lot of time. Instructions in this article apply to [...]
(Updated 1/30/12) Soft proofing is new in the Develop module of Lightroom 4 (the Beta at this point). It allows you to get a better idea of what your photo will look like in print when printing with profiles, and what it will look like when you export to sRGB or another color space. If your [...]
You have pulled together your photos and designed the slideshow using the Slideshow module, and it looks fabulous! Short of exporting it to a PDF or MP4 movie, how do you save it so you can be sure it will be there any time you visit the Slideshow module, and so you can continue to revise [...]
In previous posts this past week I have explained how to add beginning and ending title slides to your Lightroom slide show, and how to add section title slides. In this post I will explain how to add photo-specific titles and other information to your photo slides. To add titles (or captions), you first have to [...]