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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Acknowledgments
Other Books by Scott Kelby
About the Author
Table of Contents
Seven (or So) Things You’ll Wish You Had Known Before Reading This Book
Chapter 1. Importing: Getting Your Photos into Lightroom
First: Move All Your Photos onto One External Hard Drive
What to Do When You See a Question Mark on Your Photos Folder
You Need a Second Backup Hard Drive
And You Need a Cloud Backup, Too
Get Your Photos Organized FIRST, Before You Launch Lightroom
Importing Photos Already On Your Hard Drive
Choosing How Fast Your Photos Appear
Importing from Your Camera (Easy Method)
Importing from Your Camera (Advanced Users)
Using Lightroom with a Laptop? You’ll Love Smart Previews
Save Time Importing Using Import Presets (and a Compact View)
Choosing Your Preferences for Importing Photos
Converting RAW Photos to the Adobe DNG Format
Four Things You’ll Want to Know Now About Getting Around Lightroom
Viewing Your Imported Photos
The Two Flavors of Full-Screen View
Chapter 2. Getting Organized: My System for a Happy Lightroom Life
Four Important Things to Know First!
Want a Happy Lightroom Life? Use Just One Catalog
Where to Store Your Catalog
How to Make a Collection from a Folder
Organizing Photos Already On Your Hard Drive
Why You Need to Use Pick Flags Instead of Star Ratings
Organizing Photos You’re Importing from Your Camera
Two Tools to Help You Find Your Best Shots: Survey and Compare View
Smart Collections: Your Organizational Assistant
Reducing Clutter Inside Your Collections by Using Stacks
Adding Keywords (Search Terms)
Face Tagging to Find People Fast
Renaming Your Photos
Finding Photos Using a Simple Search
Lightroom is Automatically Organizing Your Images on a Map
Map Organizing Even If Your Camera Doesn’t Have GPS
Making Collections from Locations on the Map
Dealing with “The File Could Not Be Found” Message
Lightroom Is Automatically Organizing Your Photos by Date Behind the Scenes
Backing Up Your Catalog (This Is VERY Important)
Chapter 3. Advanced Stuff: That Next Level of Importing & Organizing
Shooting Tethered (Go Straight from Your Camera, Right Into Lightroom)
Using Image Overlay to See If Your Images Fit Your Layout
Creating Your Own Custom File Naming Templates
Creating Your Own Custom Metadata (Copyright) Templates
Using Lights Dim, Lights Out, and Other Viewing Modes
Using Guides and Grid Overlays
When to Use a Quick Collection Instead
Using Target Collections (and Why They’re So Handy)
Adding Copyright Info, Captions, and Other Metadata
From Laptop to Desktop: Syncing Catalogs on Two Computers
Dealing with Disasters (Troubleshooting)
Chapter 4. Customizing: How to Set Things up Your Way
Choosing What You See in Loupe View
Choosing What You See in Grid View
Make Working with Panels Faster & Easier
Using Two Monitors with Lightroom
Choosing What the Filmstrip Displays
Adding Your Studio’s Name or Logo for a Custom Look
Chapter 5. Editing Your Images: How to Tweak Your Images Like a Pro!
My Lightroom Editing Cheat Sheet
If You Shoot in RAW, You Need to Start Here
Setting the White Balance
Setting Your White Balance Live While Shooting Tethered
Seeing a Before and After
Want to Copy a Particular Look? Reference View Can Help
Auto Tone (It’s Finally Actually Really Kinda Pretty Good)
Expanding Your Tonal Range by Setting Your White and Black Points
Controlling Overall Brightness (Exposure)
My Power Trio: Combining Whites + Blacks + Exposure
Adding Contrast (Important Stuff!)
Dealing With Highlight Problems (Clipping)
Fixing Backlit Photos and Opening Up Dark Areas
Clarity: Lightroom’s Detail Enhancer
Making Your Colors More Vibrant
Removing Haze
Automatically Matching Exposures
Putting It All Together (Here’s the Order I Use for My Own Editing)
Chapter 6. Painting with Light: The Adjustment Brush & Other Toolbox Tools
Adjusting Individual Areas (Dodging & Burning)
Five More Things You Should Know About Lightroom’s Adjustment Brush
Selectively Fixing White Balance, Dark Shadows, and Noise Issues
Retouching Portraits
Richer Skies Using the Graduated Filter
Making Tricky Adjustments Easily Using Color and Luminance Masking
Spotlight Effects (and Off-Center Vignettes) Using the Radial Filter
Chapter 7. Special Effects: Making Stuff Look…Well…Special!
Applying Filter-Like “Looks” Using Creative Profiles
Virtual Copies—The “No Risk” Way to Experiment
Changing Individual Colors
How to Add Vignette Effects
Getting That Trendy High-Contrast Look
Creating Black-and-White Images
Making Great Duotones
Creating a Matte Look
Using One-Click Presets (and Making Your Own!)
Sun Flare Effect
Cross-Processing Fashion Look
Creating Panoramas
Adding Beams of Light
Creating HDR Images
Making Streets Look Wet
Chapter 8. Problem Photos: Dealing with Common Image Problems
Fixing Backlit Photos
Reducing Noise
Undoing Anything (or Everything!)
Cropping Photos
Lights Out Cropping Rocks!
Straightening Crooked Photos
Removing Stuff with the Spot Removal Tool
Finding Spots and Specks the Easy Way
Removing Red Eye
Automatically Fixing Lens Distortion Problems
Fixing Lens Problems Yourself Using Guided Upright
Fixing Edge Vignetting
Sharpening Your Photos
Fixing Chromatic Aberrations (a.k.a. That Annoying Color Fringe)
Basic Camera Calibration in Lightroom
Chapter 9. Exporting Images: Saving Jpegs, Tiffs, and More
Saving Your Photos as JPEGs
Adding a Watermark to Your Images
Emailing Photos from Lightroom
Exporting Your Original RAW Photo
Publish Your Images with Just Two Clicks
Chapter 10. LR with Photoshop: How and When to use Photoshop
Choosing How Your Files Are Sent to Photoshop
How to Jump Over to Photoshop, and How to Jump Back
Keeping Your Photoshop Layers Intact
Adding Photoshop Automation to Your Lightroom Workflow
Chapter 11. Photo Books: Creating Beautiful Books with Your Images
Before You Make Your First Book
Making Your First Book In Just 10 Minutes
Using Auto Layout to Automate Your Layout Process
Making Your Own Custom Pages
Adding Text and Captions to Your Photo Book
Adding and Customizing Page Numbers
Four Things You’ll Want to Know About Layout Templates
Customizing Your Backgrounds
Helping with Layouts and Printing Outside of Blurb
Creating Cover Text
Custom Template Workaround
Chapter 12. Printing: Unlocking the Power of the Print
Printing Individual Photos
Creating Multi-Photo Contact Sheets
Creating Custom Layouts Any Way You Want Them
Adding Text to Your Print Layouts
Printing Multiple Photos on One Page
Saving Your Custom Layouts as Templates
Having Lightroom Remember Your Printing Layouts
Creating Backscreened Prints
The Final Print & Color Management Settings
Saving Your Layout as a JPEG (for Photo Lab Printing)
Adding Custom Borders to Your Prints
Chapter 13. Video: Working with Video Shot with Your Camera
Trimming Your Video Clips
Choosing the Thumbnail for Your Video Clip
Pulling a Photo from Your Video Clip
Editing Your Video Clip (the Easy, but More Limited, Way)
Serious Video Clip Editing (Using Lots of Goodies!)
Let’s Make a Short Movie (and Even Save It in HD Quality)!
Chapter 14. Going Mobile: Using Lightroom on Your Phone/Tablet & More
Four Really Cool Things About Lightroom CC on Your Mobile Device
Setting Up Lightroom on Your Mobile Device
How to Sync Collections over to Lightroom CC (Mobile)
Working with Your Albums
Adding Pick Flags and Ratings to Photos
Editing Your Images on Mobile
Cropping & Rotating
Sharing Your Lightroom Albums on the Web
Sharing a Live Shoot to a Phone, Tablet, or the Web
Lightroom Mobile’s Advanced Search
The Built-in Camera (It’s Pretty Sweet!)
The Desktop Version of Lightroom Mobile is Lightroom CC
Chapter 15. My Workflow: Here’s my Typical Start-to-Finish Project
It Starts with the Shoot
Workflow Step One: Importing Your Images
Workflow Step Two: Sorting Your Images
Workflow Step Three: Editing Your Selects
Workflow Step Four: Getting Client Feedback
Workflow Step Five: Printing the Image
Other Ways You Can Continue Learning with Me
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