The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 book for digital photographers /
Presents step-by-step instructions on using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5, covering such topics as organizing photographs, making adjustments, editing, converting from color to black and white, and printing photographs.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
New Riders,
©2014.
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Colección: | Voices that matter.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Importing : Getting your photos into lightroom. Before you do anything, choose where to store your photos
- Next, do this: set up your folder organization (it's really important)
- Getting photos from your camera into lightroom
- Using smart previews to work without an external hard drive attached
- Importing photos already on your computer
- Save time importing using import presets (and a compact view)
- Importing video from your DSLR
- 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 filen aming templates
- Choosing your preferences for importing photos
- The Adobe DNG file format advantage
- Creating your own custom metadata (copyright) templates
- Four things you'll want to know now about getting around lightroom
- Viewing your imported photos
- Using lights dim, lights out, and other viewing modes
- Seeing a real full-screen view
- Using guides and the resizable grid overlays
- Lightroom killer tips
- 2. Library : How to organize your photos. Folders and why I don't mess with them (this is really important!)
- Sorting your photos using collections
- Organizing multiple shoots using collection sets
- Using smart collections for automatic organization
- Keeping things tidy using stacks
- When to use a quick collection instead
- Using target collections (and why they're so handy) ; Adding specific keywords for advanced searching
- Renaming photos already in lightroom
- Adding copyright info, captions, and other metadata
- If your camera supports GPS, prepare to amaze your friends
- Organizing your photos on a world map
- Finding photos fast!
- Creating and using multiple catalogs
- From laptop to desktop: syncing catalogs on two computers
- Backing up your catalog (this is very important) ;
- Relinking missing photos
- Dealing with disasters
- Lightroom killer tips
- 3. 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
- Lightroom killer tips
- 4. Editing essentials : How to develop your photos. Are you seeing different sliders? Read this first!
- Setting the white balance
- Setting your white balance live while shooting tethered
- My editing your images cheat sheet
- How to set your overall exposure
- 60 seconds on the histogram (& which slider controls which part)
- Auto tone (having lightroom do the work for you)
- Dealing with exposure problems (the highlights and shadows sliders)
- Setting your white point and black point
- Adding "punch" to your images using clarity
- Making your colors more vibrant
- Using the tone curve to add contrast
- Two really handy uses for RGB curves
- Adjusting individual colors using HSL
- How to add vignette effects
- Getting that trendy high-contrast look
- Creating black-and-white images
- Getting great duotones (and split tones)
- Lightroom killer tips.
- 5. DJ develop (part deux). Making your RAW photos look more like JPEGs
- Seeing befores and afters
- Applying changes made to one photo to other photos
- Virtual copies: the "no risk" way to experiment
- Editing a bunch of photos at once using auto sync
- Using one-click presets (and making your own!)
- Using the library module's quick develop panel
- Using soft proofing to make your images look good in print and on the Web
- The "previous" button (and why it rocks!)
- Lightroom killer tips
- 6. Local adjustments : How to edit just part of your images. Dodging, burning, and adjusting individual areas of your photo
- Five more things you should know about lightroom's adjustment brush
- Selectively fixing white balance, dark shadows, and noise issues
- Getting creative effects using the adjustment brush
- Retouching portraits
- Fixing skies (and other stuff) with a gradient filter
- Custom vignetts & spotlight effects using the radial filter
- Lightroom killer tips
- 7. Problem photos : Fixing common problems. Fixing backlit photos
- Reducing noise
- Undoing changes made in lightroom
- Cropping photos
- Lights out cropping rocks!
- Straightening crooked photos
- Finding spots and specks the easy way
- Oh hallelujah, it's a regular healing brush! (Finally!)
- Removing red eye
- Fixing lens distortion problems
- Auto correcting perspective and other lens problems using upright
- Fixing edge vignetting
- Sharpening your photos
- Fixing chromatic aberrations (a.k.a. that annoying color fringe)
- Basic camera calibration in lightroom
- Lightroom killer tips
- 8. 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
- Lightroom killer tips
- 9. Jumping to Photoshop : How and when to do it. Choosing how your files are sent to Photoshop
- How to jump over to Photoshop, and how to jump back
- Adding Photoshop automation to your lightroom workflow
- Stitching panoramas using Photoshop
- Creating HDR images in Photoshop
- Lightroom killer tips
- 10. Book of love : Creating photo books. Before you make your first book
- Building your first book from scratch
- Adding text and captions to your photo book
- Adding and customizing page numbers
- Four things you'll want to know about layout templates
- Creating & saving your own custom layouts
- Creating cover text
- Custom template workaround
- Lightroom killer tips.
- 11. Slideshow : Creating presentations of your work. Creating a quick basic slide show
- Customizing the look of your slide show
- Adding video to your slide show
- Getting creative with photo backgrounds
- Working with drop shadows and strokes
- Adding additional lines of text and watermarking
- Adding opening and closing title slides
- Adding background music
- Choosing your slide duration and fade length
- Sharing your slide show
- Lightroom killer tips
- 12. DSLR: the movie : Working with video shot on your DSLR. Working with videos
- 13. The big print : Printing your photos. 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 and color management settings
- Saving your page layout as a JPEG
- Adding custom borders to your prints
- Lightroom killer tips
- 14. The layout : Creating cool layouts for Web & print. Here are some of my layouts for you to use
- Bonus: 24 cool lightroom 5 develop module presets
- 15. My portrait workflow : My step-by-step process from the shoot to the final print. Workflow step one: It all starts with the shoot
- Workflow step two: Right after the shoot, do this first
- Workflow step three: Finding your picks & making a collection
- Workflow step four: A quick retouch for your selects
- Workflow step five: Emailing your clients the proofs
- Workflow step six: Making the final tweaks & working with Photoshop
- Workflow step seven: Delivering the finished image(s)
- 10 important bits of advice for new lightroom users
- Want to learn more?