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1 T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S www. scottkelbybooks. com CHAPTER Importing Getting Your Photos Into Photoshop Lightroom Getting Your Photos Into Photoshop Lightroom How to Automate the Importing of Photos by Using a Watched Folder Save Time By Creating Your Own File Naming Templates Choosing Your Preferences for Importing Photos CHAPTER Library Organizing Your Photos The Best Way to View Your Photos Making Your Own Custom Loupe View in the Library or Develop Module Sorting Your Photos Creating Descriptive Names for Your Color Labels Keeping Things Organized by Making Collections Staying Organized by Assigning More Keywords When To Use a Quick Collection Instead Stay Organized By Grouping (Stacking) Similar Photos Working With, and Adding to, Your Photo s Embedded Metadata...81 If Your Camera Supports GPS, Prepare to Amaze Your Friends Finding the Photos You Want, Fast! Adding Your Studio s Name and Logo for a Custom Look The Hidden Power of the Filmstrip Renaming Photos Already on Your Computer Moving Photos and How to Use Folders Working with Multiple Libraries How to Automatically Back Up Your Database Changing Those Ornaments Below the Last Panel CHAPTER Quick Develop Making Minor Adjustments Doing Quick Fixes to Photos Right within the Library Module How to Apply that Same Fix to a Bunch of Other Photos Saving Your Quick Developed Photos as JPEGs viii The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers

2 www. scottkelbybooks. com T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S CHAPTER Editing Essentials How to Develop Your Photos Setting Your White Balance in the Develop Module Making the Essential Adjustments Taking the Changes You Made to One Photo and Applying Them to Others The No Risk Way to Try Different Versions of Your Photo Using the Tone Curve to Add Contrast Seeing Before/After Versions While You Edit Saving Your Favorite Settings as Presets Boosting (or Reducing) Individual Colors Using Auto Sync to Fix Lots of Photos at Once Importing Develop Module Presets from Someone Else When to Jump to Adobe Photoshop, and How and When to Jump Back Saving Your Photos as JPEGs, TIFFs, PSDs, or DNGs How to Photos From Photoshop Lightroom CHAPTER Problem Photos Correcting Digital Camera Dilemmas How to Undo Any Change at Any Time Sharpening and Reducing Noise Fixing Chromatic Aberrations (a.k.a. That Annoying Color Fringe) Removing (or Adding) Edge Vignetting Cropping and Straightening The Ultimate Way To Crop Basic Camera Calibration in Photoshop Lightroom Great Trick for Dust Spotting Your Photos Removing Spots and Other Nasty Junk Removing Red Eye Adding Photoshop Automation to Your Lightroom Workflow CHAPTER Gorgeous B&W Converting from Color to Black and White Basic Black and White (The One-Click Solution Using Quick Develop) The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers ix

3 T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S www. scottkelbybooks. com Better Black and White By Doing It Yourself Adding a Split Tone Effect to Your Black-and-White Photos CHAPTER Slideshow Sharing Your Photos Onscreen Making an Instant Slide Show Slide Show Essentials (Plus How to Get the Right Photos Into Your Slide Show) Customizing the Look of Your Slides Using a Photo as Your Slide Background Saving Your Custom Slide Show as a Template Adding Music and Choosing Your Playback Options ing Your Slide Show CHAPTER Print Printing Your Photos Printing Made Really, Really Easy Adding Text to Your Print Layouts Printing Multiple Photos on One Page The Final Print Settings and Color Management Adding Cool Frame Borders to Your Prints CHAPTER Web Getting Your Photos on the Web Before You Start Building Your Web Gallery, Do This First! Customizing Your Web Gallery Putting Your New Gallery on the Web CHAPTER Wedding/Portrait Workflow What to Do, in What Order, and When to Jump to Photoshop It All Starts with the Shoot Workflow Step Two: Right After the Shoot, Do This First Workflow Step Three: Make Your Life Easier by Making Four Collections x The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers

4 www. scottkelbybooks. com T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S Workflow Step Four: Picking Which Photos Make the Album Workflow Step Five: Presenting the Photos in Your Studio Workflow Step Six: Editing in Photoshop Lightroom and Photoshop Workflow Step Seven: Letting Your Clients Proof on the Web CHAPTER Landscape Workflow Working with Outdoor and Landscape Shots Workflow Step One: Importing and Organizing Our Shoot Workflow Step Two: Processing Our Image in Photoshop Lightroom Workflow Step Three: Finishing in Photoshop Workflow Step Four: Printing the Final Image Where to Go Next for More Photoshop Lightroom Learning INDEX The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers xi

5 Chapter 1 Getting Your Photos Into Photoshop Lightroom Importing getting your photos into photoshop lightroom Now, do we really need an entire chapter just on importing photos? Nope. We could just skip it, but then the book would start with Chapter 2, and you d be sending s to the book s publisher complaining that your book is missing Chapter 1. See, that s the key word there missing. You wouldn t think I intentionally skipped it you d think that there must have been some mix-up at the printing plant, and your copy accidentally wound up without a Chapter 1. So, you d take it back to the bookstore and you d ask for a replacement copy. You d get home and find out that, once again, Chapter 1 was missing. Then you d start to think that this is no coincidence. It must be some sort of a printing conspiracy (orchestrated by a covert government agency), and that right now, somewhere in the Midwest, there s an unmarked warehouse chock full of Chapter 1s. You d then start to call me names. Unspeakable names. Names that would make you feel ashamed and dirty, but you d do it anyway because you d feel so certain that this was all part of a carefully crafted strategy designed to keep you from knowing the contents of Chapter 1. Obviously, there s something in Chapter 1 that they don t want you to know. Suddenly that missing Chapter 1 is worth fighting for. You deserve a Chapter 1, and to know exactly what s in it. So, because I care about you, my reader, the way I do, I stood up to the man on your behalf and demanded that this book have a Chapter 1, and that it would be on importing photos, because there s more to it than it first seems. See, it all makes perfect sense once you look at it calmly and logically. Getting Your Photos Into Photoshop Lightroom Chapter 1 1

6 The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers Getting Your Photos Into Photoshop Lightroom At its heart, Photoshop Lightroom is a very slick photo database, and one of the coolest things about it is it keeps track of all the photos you import, even if they re not on your computer any longer. For example, if you imported photos that you keep on an external hard drive, even when you unplug that drive, their thumbnails are still in Lightroom s database, so you can still work with those photos, and when you reconnect the drive, it reconnects to the real photos. Not too shabby. But this all starts with getting your photos into Lightroom, so let s get to it. Step One: The photos you bring into Photoshop Lightroom are probably coming from either your camera (well, your camera s memory card), or they re already on your computer (everybody s got a bunch of photos already on their computer, right?). We ll start with importing photos from your camera s memory card. If you have Lightroom open, and you connect your memory card reader to your computer, the Import Photos dialog you see here appears. (Note: If you don t actually want to import the photos from your memory card right now, just click the Cancel button and this dialog goes away. At the end of this chapter, I ll show you how to stop that Import Photos dialog from showing up automatically if it s driving you crazy.) If you cancel the Import Photos dialog, you can always get back to it by clicking on the Import button (found at the bottom of the left side Panels area in Lightroom s Library module) or pressing Command-Shift-I (PC: Ctrl-Shift-I). If your memory card reader is still connected when you do either, the smaller Import dialog (shown at the bottom here) appears. Click the top button to import photos from your memory card, click the bottom button if you want to choose files already on your computer. In our case, click the top button. 2 Chapter 1 Getting Your Photos Into Photoshop Lightroom

7 The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers SCOTT KELBY SCOTT KELBY Step Two: I recommend turning on the Show Preview checkbox at the bottom left of the Import Photos dialog so you can see a preview of the photos on your memory card. This way, you get to pick and choose which photos you want to import (or you can just import them all, but at least this way you ll have a choice, right?). When you turn on the Show Preview checkbox (shown circled here in red), a Preview section appears on the right side of the dialog (as seen here). The little slider that appears below the right side of that Preview section controls the size of the preview thumbnails, so if you want to see these thumbnails larger, just drag that slider to the right. Step Three: By default, every photo in this Preview section has been selected to be imported (that s why there s a marked checkbox in the top-left corner of every thumbnail). If you see one or more photos you don t want imported, just turn off their checkboxes. Now, what if you have 300+ photos on your memory card, but you only want a handful of these imported? You just click the Uncheck All button at the bottom of the Preview section (which unchecks every photo), and Commandclick (PC: Ctrl-click) on just the photos you want to import. Then, turn on the checkbox for any of these selected photos and all the selected photos become checked, and will be imported. One more tip: if the photos you want are contiguous, then click on the first photo, pressand-hold the Shift key, scroll down to the last photo, and click to select all the photos in between at once. Continued Getting Your Photos Into Photoshop Lightroom Chapter 1 3

8 The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers Step Four: On the top left of this same Import Photos dialog, go to the File Handling pop-up menu (shown here) and choose how you want Lightroom to handle the photos on your memory card. You don t want to choose Import Photos at their Current Location because it s way too slow, and way too risky to work directly off your memory card. You don t want to Move Photos from the card to your computer because you re moving the originals off the card, so you ll have no backup if something goes wrong during import. So, there are only two File Handling choices I recommend when importing from a memory card: (1) Copy Photos to a New Location and Import (as shown here), or (2) Copy Photos as Digital Negative (DNG) and Import (DNG is an open source archival format for RAW images developed by Adobe to ensure that years from now we ll still be able to access our RAW photos. For more on DNG, visit products/dng). Step Five: Both of my recommended choices (Copy or Copy as DNG) just make a copy of the selected photos on the memory card, and then write those copies to your computer. Neither moves your originals off the card, so if there s a serious problem during import (hey, it happens) those originals on the card can act as your backup (at least, for now). By the way, by default Lightroom puts these copies into your Pictures (PC: My Pictures) folder. If you want them saved elsewhere, click the Choose button (as shown here) to pick a different location but here s a tip: put all the photos you import into Lightroom in one main folder (you can have as many subfolders as you want). This will keep your file structure simple and backing up much easier. 4 Chapter 1 Getting Your Photos Into Photoshop Lightroom