DIGITAL WORKFLOWA Eclipse Photography Institute Workshop

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A WORKFLOW INTRODUCTION

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WHAT IS A WORKFLOW?

A Workflow is a set of repeatable actions that are designed to maintain

quality, speed up processing, and ensure consistency when working

with your digital images.

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WORKFLOW (CONT.)

Workflows exist from the moment you press the shutter until you have finished working with a file

Every Step, Every Keystroke is part of your personal workflow

This includes

How you name your file

Where you put your files

and Everything Else!

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WORKFLOW (CONT.)

Workflow is the key to modern digital photography

How many times have you been unable to find a specific photo?

What about having 10 copies of a certain image?

Workflow is the answer to these problems

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WORKFLOW REQUIREMENTS

Workflows must have a way to:

Import from Memory Card

Rename Images

Input Metadata

Rate and Categorize Images

Adjust Image Properties

Develop Images

Crop and Resize Images

Print Images

Archive and Backup Images

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WORKFLOW GOALS

To Make the Process Repeatable

To Make the Process Safe for Images

To Retain the Highest Image Quality (IQ)

To Make it Easy for the Photographer

To Make it FAST!

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ADOBE LIGHTROOMThe Photographers’ Answer to Digital Workflow

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ADOBE LIGHTROOM

An Introduction

Lightroom is a Digital Imaging Workflow Software

Built by Photographers, for Photographers

Has (most) Everything you Need, and Very Little of What You Don’t

The Fastest, Most Efficient Way to Fulfill your Digital Workflow Requirements

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HOW LIGHTROOM WORKS

Lightroom has a Unique Architecture

At its core is an Image Processor and an Image Database

These are the Guts Behind the Program

The “Modules” Access the Core for Performing Functions

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MODULES

There are Five Modules

Library

Develop

Slideshow

Print

Web

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T O P PA N E L

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L E F T PA N E L

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R I G H T PA N E L

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C O N T E N T A R E A

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T O O L B A R

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F I LT E R S E A R C H B A R

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F I L M S T R I P

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IMPORTING

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IMPORTING: THE CATALOG BEGINS

Lightroom is a Cataloging Program

Works Very Differently from Bridge

Only Sees What is Imported

Can Keep Track of Files in Different Locations

May Take Some Getting Used To

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IMPORTING BASICS

Ways to Import

From a Memory Card

From a Folder

From the Camera

Tethered Shooting

Drag and Drop

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T H E I M P O RT D I A L O G

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IMPORT SETTINGS AND CHOICES

Eight Settings Will Determine How Easy it is to Find Your Photos in the Future

File Handling

Copy To

Organize

Backup To

File Naming

Develop Settings

Metadata

Keywords

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FILE HANDLING

Different Dialog Between Files and Folders and Memory Cards

Choices to Import Photos at Current Location or Move or Copy Them!

Take Note of the DNG File Option

From Files or Folder

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COPY TO

This is Where You Specify Where You Want Your Newly Imported Files to End Up

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ORGANIZE

In the Organize Menu You Can Choose Which Dates to Import

You Also Make a Decision On How to Import

Drop Down Menu

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BACKUP TO

This Serves as a Secondary Location for Backing Up

Don’t Make This on the Same Hard Drive!!!

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FILE NAMING

The Choice With The Most Implications

Powerful Way to Immediately Get Rid of Camera File Names

DCS05004 etc.

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FILE NAMING EDITOR

Literally Hundreds of Combinations to Name Your Images Properly

Easiest to Understand In the Live Demo

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DEVELOP SETTINGS

Tool that Allows You To Make Changes to EVERY Image You are Importing

Easy to Abuse

Could Be Very Useful as Well

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METADATA

This Preset Will Apply Any Metadata to EVERY Image

Copyright Status

Creator Name / Website

Contact Info

Critically Important to Image Safety

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KEYWORDS

Just Like the Others, Applies Keywords to EVERY Image in the Import

Keywords are the Ticket to Locating Images

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A SPECIAL NOTE ON PREVIEWS

In Lightroom 1.4, You have Three Choice re: Previews

Minimal

Standard

1:1

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THE LIBRARYGateway to Image Management (and Happiness)

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LIBRARY BASICS

Like Every Module, the Library is Filled with Panels

Navigator

Catalog

Folders

Collections

Histogram

Quick Develop

Keywording

Keyword List

Metadata

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NAVIGATOR PANEL

Easy Way to Navigate Around Images

Useful in Loupe View (1:1)

Can Fit or Fill

Always Gives You a Overall View of Your Image

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CATALOG PANEL

Quick View Look at Catalog Status

All Photographs

Previous Import

Missing Files

Updated Files

A Few More....

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FOLDERS PANEL

The Folders Panel Lists All The Locations of Images In Their Respective Folders

Useful and Valid Method

Not Used in My Workflow (LR v 1)

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COLLECTIONS PANEL

My Favorite Way to Group Images

Can Make Collections From Images in Different Places

Collections and Sub Collections can Reorganize in a Flash

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CHANGES TO COLLECTIONS

Collections have been made more difficult to use

Still the easiest way to organize multiple collections of files

Smart Collections are super powerful ways to quickly organize your images

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HISTOGRAM PANEL

First Place My Eyes Go

Shows All Important Camera Data

Very Detailed

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QUICK DEVELOP

The Only Panel I Disagree With

The Develop Module Does Everything with More Options and Control

Useful For White Balance Changes Across Many Images

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KEYWORDING PANEL

Keywords Make Your Life Easier

Tedious to Input but Lightroom Helps

You can Enter Keywords Directly or Use a Keyword Set

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KEYWORD LIST PANEL

Lists ALL of Your Keywords

Not Useful Once You Get More than 100 Keywords

Better to Use the Find Panel

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METADATA PANELThe Place to Input, Edit, Sync, and Work with Metadata

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LIBRARY VIEW MODES

Grid ViewLoupe View

Compare ViewSurvey View

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G R I D V I E W + F I L M S T R I P

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L O U P E V I E W

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L O U P E V I E W 1 : 1

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C O M PA R E V I E W

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S U RV E Y V I E W

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THE FILMSTRIP

Your Constant Link Between Modules

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RATING IMAGES

As Part of the Editing Workflow, One of the First Steps is Rating the Images

Number Keys 0-5 Assign Stars to Images

Easy Way to Sort Out The Best Images

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COLOR LABELS

A Secondary Measure for Sorting Images

Useful for Categories

i.e. All Red Labels for Water Images, Green for Trees, etc.

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FLAGGING IMAGES

Lightroom Provides Two “Flags”

The Picks Flag (P) Puts a White Flag on the Image

The Rejects Flag (X) Puts a X Flag on the Image

Easiest Way to Erase Image From Lightroom

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STACKINGAn Amazing Tool

Enables Images to be Grouped by Subject Matter

Useful for Compressing Your Library

CANNOT be used in Collections only Folders and Library

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AUTO STACK BY TIME

Lightroom Has an Amazing Feature to Determine, by Metadata, when Each Shot was Taken and Stack Automatically

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RENAMING AND CONVERTING IMAGES TO DNG

Located in the “Library” Menu Bar

Two Separate Functions, Both Very Useful

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SEARCH TOOLBAR

Replaces the Find Panel of LR 1

Can Search by Almost any Imaginable Criteria

Useful for Learning from Mistakes

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LIVE DEMO :: IMPORTING AND LIBRARY BASICS

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THE DEVELOP MODULE

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THE REAL POWER OF LIGHTROOM

Many Programs (i.e. Bridge) are able to Sort, Organize, Edit, and Contain Images, But Lightroom Also is a Full-Featured RAW Processor

Lightroom is Also Non-Destructive

Uses the Same Processing Engine as Adobe Camera RAW

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RAW VS. JPEG

Quick Poll

Being Able to Manipulate Data Without Destroying It is the Greatest Strength of RAW Files

RAW’s Come With More Requirements

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DEVELOP PANELS

Navigator

Presets

Snapshots

History

Histogram

Brushes

Basic

Tone Curve

HSL/Color/Grayscale

Split Toning

Detail

Vignettes

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PRESETS

These are Essentially Actions Where You Can Set a Series of Changes and Save Them to Be Applied to Other Images

Lightroom Comes Pre-Installed with Many Creative Choices

The Navigator Shows a Quick Preview of the Change

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SNAPSHOTS

Much Like History Settings in Photoshop, This Panel Allows You to Get Back to A Certain Setting

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HISTORY PANEL

A Running Total of EVERY Action You Have Performed in Lightroom from Import to Export

Able to Change or Go Back Non-Destructively

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BRUSHES / GRADIENT / RETOUCHING

The Most Powerful New Feature of LR 2

Can Use “Brushes” to Paint on Exposure, Clarity, etc.

The Gradient Tool is Also in Here, as well as Spot Tool, Cropping, and Red Eye

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BASIC PANEL

Over 90% of My Images Go No Further Than This Panel

Very Powerful Imaging Tool

Controls Every Basic Image Editing Function

Hold Option (alt) to See Clipped Channels in Exposure, Blacks, and Recovery

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TONE CURVE

Advanced Way to Adjust Contrast and Tone

Can Be More Precise Than the Basic Panel

Localized Adjustments

First Panel that Uses Targeted Adjustment Tool

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HSL / COLOR / GRAYSCALE PANEL

HSL = Hue, Saturation, Luminance

Easiest Way in Lightroom to Convert to Grayscale

This Panel with the Targeted Adjustment Tool can Create Amazing Creative Effects

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SPLIT TONING PANEL

A Specialized Panel that Allows You to Adjust the Highlights and Shadows Differently

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DETAIL PANEL

Better Termed “Noise Reduction / Sharpening” Panel

Lightroom Can Take Out Slight Noise

Lightroom can Also Do Sharpening

Now Includes a 1:1 Preview Box

Also Chromatic Aberration Panel

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VIGNETTES

Changed from LR 1 to be a Creative Tool

Can Add Vignette Post Crop

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CAMERA CALIBRATION PANEL

In This Panel, You can Adjust Lightroom to Each Individual Channel

Advanced, and Quite Frankly, Not Worth Doing

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THE RETOUCHING

TOOLBARSSimple Editing Tools

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THE COMPARE TOOL

In the Develop Module, The Compare Tool Is To Look at Changes Between Settings

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THE CROP TOOL

The Crop Tool Also Involves the Straighten Tool

Able to Pick Crop Based on Aspect Ratio

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RED EYE TOOL

Can You Guess What it Does?

Simplicity

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CLONE / HEAL TOOL

Lightroom has a Basic Clone/Heal Tool

Easiest to See In the Live Demo

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EXPORTING

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EXPORTING CHOICES

While Within Lightroom, All Settings are Non Destructive

Once you Export, Unless to a RAW or DNG File, the Settings are “Baked” into the File

Adobe has Made it Super Easy to go from Lightroom to Photoshop and Back

You Can Export to Almost Any Format

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LIVE DEMO :: DEVELOP MODULE AND EXPORTING

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QUESTION AND ANSWERS

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SLIDESHOWOne Export Option

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THE SLIDESHOW MODULE

Quick and Easy Way to Make Instant Slideshows

Useful for Showing Images Within Lightroom

Customizable

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SLIDESHOW PANELS

Template Browser

Options

Layout

Overlays

Backdrop

Playback

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TEMPLATE BROWSER

This Area is for Saving Previously Used Templates

Can Make Large Alterations in Slideshow Look Easily

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OPTIONS / LAYOUT PANEL

In these Panels, You Can Change the Settings that Affect the Primary Image

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OVERLAY PANEL

The Overlay Panel Allows You to Put Your Name, the Rating Stars, or any Text over the Slideshow on Each Image

Useful for Establishing Copyright, or Even a Watermark

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BACKDROP PANEL

The Backdrop Panel is Where Lightroom Slideshows Really Begin to Become Amazing

We will Look at this Further in the Live Demo

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PLAYBACK MODULE

The Playback Module Allows You to Add a Song from Your Itunes Library

You can Also Adjust the Slide Duration and Fading Time

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WEBA Second Output Option

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OUTPUTTING TO THE WEB

Most Professional Photographers are Outputting their Images to the Web for Client Approval

Lightroom Has Streamlined this Process to Make it Efficient and Simple

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WEB MODULE OPTIONS

In the Web Module, You Have Five Options for Galleries

Lightroom Flash Gallery

Lightroom HTML Gallery

Airtight AutoViewer

Airtight PostcardViewer

Airtight SimpleViewer

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DIFFERENCES IN GALLERIES

The Airtight Set of Galleries are Flash Based Unique Ways to Put the Images on the Web

The More Traditional Lightroom Galleries are Familiar to those Web Galleries that Used to be Found in Bridge

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WEB MODULE PANELS

Preview

Template Browser

Gallery

Site Info

Color Palette

Appearance

Image Info

Output Settings

Upload Settings

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PREVIEW PANEL

The Preview Panel Will Show You What Kind of Web Gallery You Are Building, Flash or HTML

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TEMPLATE BROWSER

The Template Browser Comes PreLoaded with a Variety of Color Combinations, and Flash and HTML Galleries

You Can also Build a Custom Gallery and Save it to a Preset

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SITE INFO PANEL

What You Type In Here Determines the Text on Your Web Page

Always include a Mail Link in the form “mailto:EmailAddress”

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COLOR PALETTE PANEL

Quite Obviously, it Allows You to Change the Colors of Various Things on the Web Page

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APPEARANCE PANEL

The Appearance Panel Allows You to Place Your Identity Plate

It also Allows You to Determine the Sizes of the Images Presented

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IMAGE INFO / OUTPUT SETTINGS

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UPLOAD SETTINGS

In the Upload Setting Box, You Can Set the FTP Information of Your Web Host to Upload Directly from Lightroom to the Web

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LIVE DEMO :: SLIDESHOW AND WEB

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PRINTING

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PRINTING WITH LIGHTROOM

Fine Art Printing from a Computer has been a Difficult Thing to Do in the Past

Lightroom Streamlines the Process, but There are Still Some Quirks

Today, We Will Look at the Module, and How to Print a Contact Sheet and Final Image

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PRINT MODULE PANELS

Preview

Template Browser

Image Settings

Layout

Overlays

Print Job

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PREVIEW PANEL

The Preview Module Give You a White Background with Guidelines on the “Cells” To Be Used

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TEMPLATE BROWSER

Like in Other Modules, Lightroom Give You Some Templates

You Also Have the Option to Create Your Own

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IMAGE SETTINGS PANEL

Allows Control over Basic Image Settings

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LAYOUT PANEL

The Layout Panel Lets You Have Control Over How the Page is Divided Up

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OVERLAY PANEL

The Overlay Panel Lets You Include an Identity Plate or a Other Items on Your Prints or Contact Sheets

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PRINT JOB PANEL

The Print Job Panel Lets You Choose the Output Resolution, Sharpening, and Color Management Settings

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LIVE DEMO :: PRINTING

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QUESTION AND ANSWERS

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THE EXTRASBack Up, Preferences, A Final Workflow

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A BACKUP SYSTEM

Nothing is More Important

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BACKING UP

Everything We Have Talked About is Unimportant if You Lose the Images

A Ideal Backup System Would Have The Images Residing on AT LEAST Two Different Hard Drives, not in the Same Computer

One Copy Should Always Be In a Different Physical Location

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BACKING UP AND LIGHTROOM

Upon Import, Lightroom Gives You the Option of Saving to Two Different Locations! Take this Gift

Every Week or So, Make Sure Things are Backed Up Properly

Multiple Hard Drives, Multiple Places

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LIGHTROOM PREFERENCES

Lightroom has a Number of Settings and Preferences

In The Next Live Demo, We Will Go Over All of Them in Detail

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M Y C O M P L E T E W O R K F L O W

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MY WORKFLOW IN WORDS

Insert Card into Card Reader

Import into Lightroom Including

Tom Numbering

Metadata and Copyright

Generic Keywords

Edit Images Using Flags for Rejects

Erase Rejects

Pick Five Star Images

Move to Develop Module

“Develop” Image

Output Image

Print, Web, Slideshow

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LIVE DEMO :: PREFERENCES AND WORKFLOW

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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

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T H A N K Y O U !Tom Maddrey

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