Summary

Increase productivity, improve image quality, and boost your business income as Adobe Photoshop Lightroom X for Wedding and Portrait Photographers introduces the best practices for establishing an efficient, effective digital workflow. Whether you are a professional or aspiring wedding or portrait photographer, you'll discover the proven, streamlined digital workflow needed for business success, using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 software. This clear, concise guide covers all aspects of working with digital images -- from capturing unforgettable images with the lens to sharing images with clients through prints, slideshows, web galleries, or electronic archives. You learn to import and efficiently organize images. Proven methods demonstrate how to edit photo shoots with thousands of images into the few hundred best photos in only 15 minutes. You learn how to place client galleries online within hours after an event and fulfill print or digital orders. In addition, you discover how to safely back up images at all stages of workflow and efficiently archive work. Author Scott Rouse uses his extensive experience in Lightroom to introduce less familiar, but exceptional tools for photographers that help you best manage digital assets. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom X for Wedding and Portrait Photographers enables you to increase efficiency, image quality and business profitability, all while spending less time behind the computer.

Author Biography

Gene McCullagh is an Adobe Community Professional and an Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop Lightroom, Photoshop, and In Design. A freelance photographer based near Dallas, Texas, he belongs to the Professional Photographers of America (PPA) and the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP). Gene is the Manager and Co-Founder of the Dallas Fort Worth Adobe User. Group (DFWAUG). He has been involved with Lightroom since the original beta release and enjoys teaching photographers about this versatile tool. In addition to running Lightroom Secrets, Gene also contributes to blogs, moderates on the Adobe forums, and helps users at Adobe's Lightroom Community Help site. He has published several feature articles in Photoshop User magazine.

Introduction	p. xi
Getting Started	p. 3
Whaf s New In Lightroom 4?	p. 5
New Process Version	p. 5
Soft Proofing	p. 6
Maps	p. 7
Books	p. 8
Video	p. 9
Other New Features	p. 10
The Lightroom Way	p. 15
Nondestructive Change	p. 16
The Catalog Concept	p. 16
Lightroom Logic-A Modular Approach	p. 18
Go with the Flow	p. 20
A Quick Walkthrough	p. 21
Let's Go	p. 23
Getting Images into Lightroom	p. 25
The Import Dialog	p. 25
Source	p. 28
Devices	p. 28
Files	p. 29
Action	p. 36
The Grid and the Loupe	p. 37
Options and Destination	p. 42
File Handling	p. 44
File Renaming	p. 46
Apply During Import	p. 48
Destination	p. 49
Import Presets	p. 53
A Word about File Formats	p. 54
Using the Side Door: Other Import Methods	p. 55
Drag and Drop	p. 55
Auto Import	p. 56
Importing from Another Catalog	p. 61
Shooting Tethered	p. 71
LetÆs Get Organized!	p. 81
Library-Part One	p. 83
Where Do I Put My Catalogs?	p. 83
Interface Overview	p. 84
Top Panel	p. 85
Left Panel Group	p. 88
Right Panel Group	p. 109
Library-Part Two	p. 129
The Filmstrip	p. 129
Main Window	p. 131
Secondary Window	p. 132
Navigation Controls	p. 135
Quick Filter	p. 137
Visual Feedback Features	p. 137
Main Display Area	p. 141
Filter Bar	p. 142
Image Display Area	p. 145
Toolbar	p. 162
The Road Ahead	p. 166
Organizing Your Images-The "Where"	p. 167
Where	p. 168
Catalog	p. 169
Collections	p. 191
Stacks	p. 211
Organizing Your Images-The "What"	p. 217
What	p. 217
Keywords	p. 218
Metadata	p. 242
A Wealth of Information	p. 246
Map	p. 247
The New "Where"	p. 247
The Toolbar	p. 248
Working with the Map View	p. 251
Embedded Data	p. 251
Searching	p. 254
Manual	p. 255
The Location Filter Bar	p. 257
Reverse Geocoding	p. 260
Saved Locations	p. 261
Public	p. 262
Private	p. 265
Other Options	p. 267
GPS Tracklogs	p. 268
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly	p. 275
Reviewing Your Shoot	p. 275
Grid and Loupe	p. 276
Survey View	p. 280
Compare	p. 282
Marking Your Selections	p. 283
Flags	p. 283
Stars	p. 291
Color Labels	p. 292
Select, Add, Subtract, and Intersect	p. 297
Filtering	p. 298
The Filter Bar	p. 298
Quick Filter	p. 307
Sources	p. 308
Time to Check the Map	p. 310
What's Your Preference?	p. 311
Preferences	p. 311
Catalog Settings	p. 318
Identity Plate Setup	p. 321
Watermarks	p. 323
Layout Overlay	p. 324
File Naming	p. 325
Other Templates	p. 327
Develop Presets (Settings)	p. 328
Index	p. 331
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