Contents

1 Introducing Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

What is Lightroom?

Keeping things simple

Modular design

Lightroom performance

Adobe Camera Raw processing

Color controls

Managing the image library

Where does Photoshop fit in?

Integrating Lightroom with Photoshop

If your Lightroom subscription should come to an end

What you need

Installing Lightroom

Sleep protection

Upgrading from an older catalog

Using Lightroom for the first time

Lightroom preferences

Performance preferences

Graphics card compatibility

Smart previews option

Lightroom Sync (mobile) preferences

History panel

Customizing the interface

Getting help

The Lightroom interface

Working through the book

2 Importing photos

The main Import dialog

Copy as DNG, Copy, Move, or Add?

DNG benefits

Converting to DNG after import

Import and Library module previews

Import options preferences

Importing files from a card

Activity Center

Source panel

Content area

Content area segmenting options

File Handling panel

Build Smart Previews

Suspect duplicates

Add to collection

Embedded Previews after import

File format compatibility

Why files may fail to be imported

Making backup copies of imported files

Photos shot as raw + JPEG

File Renaming panel

Renaming files later

Apply During Import panel

Destination panel

Planning where to store your imported photos

Importing to a selected destination folder

Import Presets menu

Importing video files

Adding photos to the catalog

Importing photos via dragging

Importing photos from another application

Auto Imports

Importing directly from the camera

Tethered shooting connections

Lightroom-tethered shooting

Tethered shooting alternatives

3 The Library module

About Lightroom catalogs

Backing up the catalog file

Backup strategies

Backup software

Time Machine and the Lightroom catalog

Catalog corruption

Sync catalog disaster recovery

Creating and opening catalogs

Creating a new catalog

Opening an existing catalog

The Library Module panels

Making the interface more compact

The Navigator panel

The Catalog panel

The Library module Toolbar

The Folders panel

Parent folders and subfolders

Show Photos in Subfolders

Locating a folder at the system level

The Folders panel/system folders relationship

Maintaining folder links

Maintaining volume links

Managing Folders and Collections

Folders panel search field

Marking folders as favorites

Adding Color Labels to Folders

Synchronizing folders

Finding the link from the catalog to a folder

How to organize your folders

The Filter bar

Exploring the Library module

Grid view options

Library Grid navigation

Working in Loupe view

Loupe preview updates in Library module

Loupe view options

Draw face region overlay

Working with photos in both Grid and Loupe view

Loupe view navigation

Loupe zoom views

Loupe view shortcuts

Loupe Overlay view

Grid and Guides

Layout Image

The Layout Overlay feature in use

Previews and preview appearance

Initial Import Photos dialog preview-building options

How Lightroom previews are generated

Camera-embedded previews vs. Lightroom previews

Missing previews

Preview size and quality

Working in Survey view

Working in Compare view

Compare view mode in action

Navigating photos via the Filmstrip

Working with a dual-display setup

Working with two displays

Rating images using flags

Refine Photos command

Rating images using numbered star ratings

Rating images using color labels

Color label sets

Other ways you can use color labels

Grouping photos into stacks

Automatic stacking

Making image selections

Quick Collections

Collections

Module collections

Collection badge icons

The module collections in use

Editing collections

Target collection

Collection sets

Smart Collections

Create collections from folders

Create collections from a map pin in the Map module

Library Edit Filter

Smart Collections based on Adjustments

Removing and deleting photos

Exporting catalogs

Exporting with negatives

Including Smart Previews

Including available previews

Exporting without negatives

Opening and importing catalogs

New photos section

Changed Existing Photos section

Limitations when excluding negatives

Export and import summary

Working with Smart Previews

How to create Smart Previews

Making the catalog portable

4 Develop module image editing

Smarter image processing

Steps to get accurate color

Choosing a display

Calibrating and profiling the display

White point and gamma

Matching white balances

Calibration and profiling

Process versions

Upgrading to Version 5

Process version mismatches

Camera Raw compatibility

Editing CMYK images in Develop

The Develop module interface

View options in Develop

Develop module cropping

Rotating a crop

Constrain to image cropping

Auto straightening

Crop aspect ratios

Repositioning a crop

Crop guide overlays

Canceling a crop

Tool Overlay menu

The Tool Overlay options

Quick Develop cropping

The Basic panel

White Balance tool

White Balance corrections

Creative white balance adjustments

White balance and localized adjustments

Independent auto white balance adjustments

Profiles

About profiles

Adobe raw profiles

Camera matching profiles

Legacy and Custom profiles

Enhanced profiles

Black-and-white profiles

Adjusting the profile intensity

Profile browser management

Marking Favorites

Manage Profiles

Calibration panel

The Basic panel tone-editing controls

Exposure

Contrast

Highlights and Shadows

Whites and Blacks

Auto Whites and Blacks adjustments

Auto Settings adjustments

Basic panel adjustments workflow

Histogram panel

The Histogram panel and image adjustments

Navigating the Basic panel via the keyboard

Correcting overexposed images

Correcting underexposed images

Match Total Exposures

Highlight clipping and Exposure settings

Clipping the blacks

Creating HDR photos using Photo Merge

Deghost Amount options

Creating Photo Merge panoramas

Panorama projection options

Boundary Warp slider

Panorama Photo Merge performance

Combined HDR Panorama Photo Merge

Clarity slider

Images that benefit most from adding Clarity

Negative Clarity adjustments

Dehaze slider

Dehaze adjustments

Dehaze as a localized adjustment

Negative Dehaze adjustments

Vibrance and Saturation

Quick Develop panel tone adjustments

Process version conflicts

The tone and color controls

A typical Quick Develop workflow

Editing video files in Quick Develop

Loupe view video-editing options

The Tone Curve panel

Point Curve editing mode

RGB curves

The Tone Curve regions

Combining Basic and Tone Curve adjustments

Tone range split point adjustments

Refining the tone curve contrast

HSL/Color panel

Selective color darkening

False color hue adjustments

Using the HSL controls to reduce gamut clipping

Lens Corrections panel Profile mode

Lens profile corrections

Accessing and creating custom camera lens profiles

Profile lens corrections in use

In-camera lens corrections

Removing chromatic aberration

Lens Corrections panel Manual mode

Defringe adjustments

The Defringe controls in use

Eyedropper tool

Applying a global Defringe adjustment

Applying a localized Defringe adjustment

Vignetting sliders

Transform panel

Upright adjustments

How Upright adjustments work

Upright corrections and transparency

Suggested order for Upright adjustments

Synchronizing Upright settings

Guided Upright adjustments

The Transform sliders

Effects panel

Post-Crop vignettes

Post-Crop vignette options

Assessing your images

Comparing before and after versions

Managing the Before and After previews

Reference View

Image retouching

Spot Removal tool

Visualizing spots

Creating brush spots

Retouching example using brush spots

Editing circle and brush spots summary

Tool Overlay options

Undoing/deleting spots

Auto-calculate behavior

Spot Removal tool feathering

Synchronized spotting

Synchronized settings spot removal

Auto Sync spot removal

Red Eye Correction tool

Pet Eye mode

Localized adjustments

Initial Adjustment Brush options

Editing the Adjustment Brush strokes

Saving effect settings

Localized adjustment position and editing

Exposure dodging with the Adjustment Brush

Auto Mask

Previewing the brush stroke areas

Beauty retouching using negative clarity

Hand-coloring using a Color effect

Localized Temperature slider adjustments

Localized Shadows adjustments

Clarity and Sharpness adjustments

Graduated Filter tool

Brush editing a Graduated Filter effect

Radial Filter tool

Correcting edge sharpness with the Radial Filter

Adding light flare effects

Color Range Masking

Luminance Range Masking

Depth Range Masking

History panel

Snapshots panel

How to synchronize snapshots

Easing the workflow

Making virtual copies

Making a virtual copy the new master

Synchronizing Develop settings

Auto Sync mode

Copying and pasting Develop settings

Applying a previous Develop setting

Lightroom and Camera Raw compatibility

Making Camera Raw edits accessible in Lightroom

Making Lightroom edits accessible in Camera Raw

Keeping Lightroom edits in sync

Synchronizing Lightroom with Camera Raw

Saving Develop settings as presets

Updating older presets

Managing presets

Auto Settings preset adjustments

Creating a new Develop preset

The art of creating Develop presets

Understanding how presets work

How to prevent preset contamination

Creating default Develop camera settings

5 The art of black and white

Black-and-white conversions

Black-and-white conversion options

How not to convert

Temperature slider conversions

Black-and-white profiles

Manual black-and-white adjustments

Black-and-white infrared effect

Refining black-and-white conversions

Split Toning panel

Split-toning a color image

Desaturated color adjustments

The HSL black-and-white method in detail

Calibration panel adjustments

6 Sharpening and noise reduction

Capture sharpen for a sharp start

Improved Lightroom raw image processing

Output sharpening

Default Detail panel settings

Sharpen preset settings

Sharpening portraits

Sharpening landscapes

Sample sharpening image

Evaluate at a 1:1 view

Luminance-targeted sharpening

The sharpening effect sliders

Amount slider

Radius slider

The modifying controls

Detail slider

Interpreting the grayscale sharpening preview

Masking slider

Masking slider preview mode

Applying custom sharpening adjustments

Creative sharpening using the adjustment tools

Adding localized blurring

Noise reduction

Luminance noise reduction

Color noise reduction

Noise-reduction tips

Color noise corrections

Color Smoothness slider

Selective noise reduction

Selective moiré reduction

Moiré removal on non-raw images

7 Exporting from Lightroom

Opening images in Photoshop

The External editing options

Edit in Adobe Photoshop

Edit in additional external editing program

Opening non-raw images in an external editing program

Creating additional external editor presets

External editing file-naming options

The file format and other file settings options

Camera Raw compatibility

How to use the external edit feature

From Lightroom to Photoshop to Lightroom

Extended editing in Photoshop

Linking Lightroom photos as Smart Objects

Exporting from Lightroom

Export presets

Export Location

Exporting to the same folder

File Naming

File Settings

DNG export options

Image Sizing

When to interpolate

Output Sharpening

Metadata

Watermarking

Creating watermark settings

Post-Processing

Adding export actions in Lightroom

Exporting catalog images to a CD or DVD

Exporting photos as email attachments

Third-party Export plug-ins

Exporting video files

8 Printing

The Print module

Layout Style panel

Image Settings panel

Layout panel

Margins and Page Grid

Guides panel

Multiple cell printing

Page panel

Adding a photographic border to a print

Page Options

Photo Info

Picture Package

Image Settings panel

Rulers, Grid & Guides panel

Cells panel

Custom Package

Picture Package/Custom Package Page panel

Page Setup

Print resolution

Print Job panel

Print Job panel color management

The Lightroom printing procedure

Managed by Printer print settings (Mac)

Managed by Printer print settings (PC)

Printer profiles

Print Adjustment controls

Print

Printing modes

Print sharpening

16-bit output

Print to JPEG File

Custom profile printing

Managed by Lightroom print settings (Mac)

Managed by Lightroom print settings (PC)

Rendering intent

Soft proofing for print output

Why what you see isn’t always what you get

Soft proofing in practice

Before and Proof preview

Before state options

Saving a custom template

9 Presenting your work

The Book module

Creating a new book

Book Settings panel

PDF and JPEG book export

Preview panel

Toolbar

Auto Layout panel

Auto Layout Preset Editor

Editing the book pages

Editing the cover pages

Page panel

Marking page layouts as favorites

Saving custom page layouts

Guides panel

Cell panel

Customizing page layout cells

Text panel

Text box layouts

Adding auto text

Type panel

Type panel Character controls

Target Adjustment tool options

Type panel Frame controls

Background panel

Publishing your book

Pause and resume the upload of a book to Blurb

The Slideshow module

The Slide Editor view

Layout panel

Options panel

Overlays panel

Creating a custom identity plate

Adding custom text overlays

Backdrop panel

Titles panel

Music panel

Playback panel

Pan and zoom options

Manual mode

Playback screen and quality settings

Play and preview

Navigating slideshow photos

Impromptu slideshows

Slideshows and selections

Template Browser panel

Creating a Slideshow collection

Exporting a slideshow

Exporting slideshows to PDF

Exporting slideshows to JPEG

Exporting slideshows to video

Exporting a timelapse video

Licensing audio tracks

10 Managing your photos in Lightroom

Working with metadata

The different types of metadata

A quick image search using metadata

Metadata panel

Metadata panel view modes

General and EXIF metadata items

File Name

Sidecar Files

Copy Name

Metadata Status

Cropped photos

Date representation

Capture time editing

Camera model and serial number

Artist EXIF metadata

Custom information metadata

Metadata presets

Editing and deleting metadata presets

IPTC metadata

IPTC Extension metadata

A more efficient way to add metadata

Metadata editing and target photos

Mail and web links

Copyright status

Keywording and Keyword List panels

Keeping metadata private

Synonyms: The hidden keywords

Applying and managing existing keywords

Auto-complete options

Removing keywords

Keyword hierarchy

Keyword filtering

Importing and exporting keyword hierarchies

Implied keywords

Keyword suggestions

Keyword sets

Creating your own custom keyword sets

The Painter tool

People view mode

Find Faces Again

Displaying face regions

Single Person view mode

Expanding and collapsing stacks

People view mode Toolbar

Person keywords

Exporting Person keywords

Photo filtering and searches

Filtering photos in the catalog

Three ways you can filter the catalog

Filtering photos via the Filmstrip

Adding folders as favorites

Flagged photos filter options

Edited filter options

Star rating filter options

Creating refined selections via the Filmstrip

Color label filter options

Virtual copy and master copy filtering

Subfolder filtering

Making filtered image selections

Filter bar

The Filter bar layout

Text filter searches

Search rules

Combined search rules

Fine-tuned text searches

Attribute filter searches

Metadata filter searches

Metadata filter options

Metadata filter categories

Locating missing photos

Custom filter settings

Empty field searches

Advanced searches

Publishing photos via Lightroom

Saving and reading metadata

Saving metadata to the file

Tracking metadata changes

XMP read/write options

Where is the truth?

Synchronizing metadata settings

Sorting images

Sort functions

Color label sorting

Geotagging images

GPS devices

Embedding GPS metadata in a photo

Reverse-geocoding

The Map module

Navigation

Location filter bar

Loading GPX tracklogs

Editing pins

Matching photos to a recorded tracklog

Manually geotagging photos in the Map module

Saved Locations panel

Exporting GPS-encoded files

Filtering geocoded images

11 Lightroom CC/mobile

Lightroom CC/mobile workflow

What Lightroom CC/mobile can and cannot do

Lightroom CC for Apple TV

Setting up Lightroom CC/mobile

How Lightroom CC edits are synchronized

Where Lightroom CC/mobile photos are kept

Creating a synchronized collection from Lightroom Classic CC

Working with Lightroom CC for mobile

Single image view

Edit menu settings

Manage and create presets

Lightroom CC for mobile preferences

Album/folder options

Adding photos directly via a device

Lightroom CC for mobile camera

HDR and Long Exposure

Guided Tutorials

Shared views

Watermarking in Lightroom CC for iOS

Lightroom CC for mobile searches

Lightroom CC for web view

Lightroom CC for web

Image searches

Single image view

Display options

Review mode

Refine Search tools

Uploading files via Lightroom CC for web

Managing photos via Lightroom CC for web

Lightroom CC for desktop

Migrating from Lightroom Classic CC

Lightroom CC program layout

Lightroom Help and tips

Importing files via Lightroom CC

Editing photos in Lightroom CC

Tone Curve adjustments

Split Toning

Healing Brush

Localized adjustments

Syncing profiles and presets

Batch copy and paste settings

Editing the Capture Time

People view mode

Export and Sharing options

Stacking photos

Managing photos in Lightroom CC

Selecting and rating images

Creating copies

Accessing related albums

Keywording

Removing/deleting photos

Lightroom CC preferences

12 Lightroom preferences and settings

General preferences

Show splash screen

Check for updates

Catalog selection

Import options

Completion sounds and prompts

Presets preferences

Camera-linked settings

Location section

Lightroom Defaults section

External Editing preferences

File Handling preferences

Import DNG Creation

Convert and export DNG options

DNG compression

DNG with lossy compression

Updating DNG previews for third-party viewing

Validating DNG files

Checking DNG metadata status

Reading Metadata options

Filename generation options

Interface preferences

Panel end mark

Custom panel end marks

Creating a custom splash screen

Panel font size

Lights Out

Background

Keyword entry

Filmstrip options

Interface tweaks

Performance preferences

Camera Raw and video cache settings

Lightroom CC preferences

Network preferences

Lightroom settings and templates

Accessing saved template settings

Lightroom previews data

System information

An ideal Lightroom computer

RAM

Graphics card

Hard drives

Drive configurations

Just a bunch of disks

Index