Teach Yourself VISUALLY Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2

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Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 2
by Lynette Kent
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Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 2
by Lynette Kent
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About the Author
Lynette Kent (Huntington Beach, CA) studied art and French at
Stanford University. After completing her master’s degree, she taught
at both the high school and community college level. A fervent Mac
user since 1987 and unconventional computer person, she now teaches
and writes books and magazine articles on digital imaging and
photography, and often presents computer graphics hardware and
software at trade shows. She enjoys photography as well as painting
with traditional watercolors, and often combines both arts using the
computer. Her books include Teach Yourself VISUALLY Mac OS X
Leopard, Adobe Photoshop CS3: Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks, and
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also one of the leaders of the Adobe Technology Exchange of Southern
California, a professional organization for photographers, graphic
designers, and fine artists.
Author’s Acknowledgments
Special thanks go out to acquisitions editor Jody Lefevere for asking
me to write this book; to project editor Sarah Hellert for her literal
and meticulous unscrambling of chapters; to copy editor Scott Tullis
for making sure the text was understandable and legible; and to tech
editor Chris Bucher for overseeing the accuracy of the steps and
technical terminology. Thank you to the graphics department for
handling all the variances I kept asking for. I particularly want to thank
George Jardine of Adobe for his time-consuming and thoughtful
answers to my often confusing questions on organization and file
naming. His insight truly helped me find ways to help my readers
understand the Lightroom concept. Thanks also go to Colin Smith for
his direct help on various topics. And of course thanks go to the
Adobe team for always being so responsive to all the questions from
the beta testers.
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Table of Contents
1
chapter Introducing Photoshop Lightroom
Understanding Lightroom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Understanding Lightroom’s Structure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Using the Lightroom Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Open Lightroom and Click the Modules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Enlarge the Central Viewing Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Create a Practice Lightroom Catalog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Locate the Practice Lightroom Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Remove the Photos from the Practice Catalog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2
chapter Getting Your Photos into Photoshop Lightroom
Understanding Lightroom Catalogs and Image Storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
An Overview of Lightroom’s Import Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Understanding File Formats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
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Import Photos at Their Current Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Import Photos from a Memory Card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Import Photos and Change Format to DNG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Be Consistent with File Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Import Photos and Change Names. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Rename Photos after Importing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Understanding Lightroom’s Naming Template Presets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Create Your Own Naming Template Preset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Create a New Catalog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Import Photos from an Existing Catalog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Automate the Import Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 R T
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Back Up During Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 I
Build a Lightroom Library with External Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Combine a Travel Catalog with Your Main Lightroom Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
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3
chapter Viewing and Organizing Your Photos
Locate the Parts of the Library Module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Change the Library Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Using a Second Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Adjust the Lights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Change the Display of the Side Panel Sections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Change Your Library View Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Customize the Library Toolbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Rename a Group of Photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Tag Your Photos for Easier Sorting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Filter Your Photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Organize Your Photos with Folders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Synchronize Folders That Have Changed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Group Your Photos into Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Create a Smart Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Group Collections into a Collection Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Make a Quick Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Convert a Quick Collection to a Permanent Collection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Add Keywords to Your Photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Add Keywords with the Painter Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Create Custom Keyword Sets and Hierarchical Lists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Create an Image Stack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Remove or Delete Photos from Lightroom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
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Table of Contents
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chapter Personalizing Lightroom
Understanding Lightroom Presets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Set the Essential Lightroom Preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Customize the Catalog Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Quickly Change Your Lightroom View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Understanding Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Apply Metadata in the Library Module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Synchronize Metadata between Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Create a Copyright Metadata Preset. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Design a Personal Identity Plate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Modify the Module Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Create a Graphical Identity Plate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
5
chapter Setting the Stage for Digital Photo Developing
Focus on Your Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
ColorVu
Understanding Monitor Calibration Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Color calibration
Calibrate and Profile Your Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138