1. The Lightroom Sessions A Quick Start Review – Pittwater Camera Club

2. Pittwater Camera Club - The Lightroom Sessions (5)
Aims of Session 5
Q & A from session 4 and homework
Exporting images
Types of exports
Saving export parameters as a pre-set
Setting up an export pre-set for submitting images to PWCC comps
Publish Services
Printing images on a printer at home
The print module – we’ll do everything but actually printing an image
Easy triptych
Contact sheets – printing to a file
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3. Pittwater Camera Club - The Lightroom Sessions (5)
Exporting
Export is LR’s ‘save as’
It generates a new file for use outside LR
Can export more than one file at a time
File -> Export
Brings up the export dialogue with the last used pre-set selected (if there was one)
File -> Export with previous
Uses the last used settings for a manual export i.e. does not apply if the last used was a pre- set
File -> Export with pre-set
Uses a previously saved group of settings
File -> Export as Catalogue
Creates a new catalogue file using the selected images and includes your original files, any previews, any collections they were in, the original file path, any keywords and metadata that are associated with them.
Export some images
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4. Pittwater Camera Club - The Lightroom Sessions (5)
An export pre-set for submitting digital images
the requirements are to create a jpeg file with
Colour space = sRGB
Maximum dimensions = width or horizontal (1920 pixels) x hight or vertical (1200 pixels)
Maximum file size = 500kb
The file must be named in the format ‘great_title_firstname_lastname.jpg’
Lightroom set up
In the metadata panel give the image a title – all lower case using ‘_’ rather then spaces between words
If you don’t want to use title use, for example, the “headline” attribute in the ITPC metadata fields – any unused editable field that is in the file naming editor works
Create a file name template that is compliant with PWCC naming
Create an export pre-set that meets the PWCC digital file requirements
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5. Pittwater Camera Club - The Lightroom Sessions (5)
The Print Module
Single image on a page
Contact sheets
Picture packages – multiple copies of the same image – different sizes on a page
Custom packages – multiple images – different sizes on a page
Print to paper or file (jpeg)
Image information can be added – EXIF, Title, watermarking etc.
Use paper profiles or let the printer manage colour
Set up templates so settings can be re-used that include paper sizes, printer setting, image settings and sizes etc. consistently
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Wrap up
Be consistent with image locations and naming
Standardise on an import process that works for you
Previews, file-rename, use a collection, apply metadata during import (keywords, copyright), apply develop settings?
Develop a workflow that gets you working on the better images from a shoot quicker and enables you to find images later that may have been overlooked
Ratings, workflow collections, keywording, colour labels, filters
Use the Develop tools to their fullest and switch to an external editor (PS) when you have too rather than as a matter of course.
Use the short cuts like pre-sets and profiles and AUTO
Use the export pre-sets and print templates for consistency and ‘set and forget’
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7. Pittwater Camera Club - The Lightroom Sessions (5)
Future Sessions?
Photoshop
More Lightroom
One-off seminars…e.g.
Printing at home - Paper, colour management, printers, pros and cons, etc
Photo techniques – Shooting and processing for high dynamic range, Focus stacking,
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