Adobe Lightroom 6/CC: Up To Spee‪d‬

The Adobe Lightroom 6/CC Up To Speed guide helps you to get up and running quickly with Adobe’s powerful photo editing and management system.  This handy step-by-step guide is written from scratch, starting with basic Lightroom topics and moving on to more advanced features of the program, designed to help you to become more productive more quickly.   Though comprehensive, the information in this book is presented in a clear, concise manner with screenshots providing helpful visual guidance all along the way.

In no time at all you’ll be navigating Lightroom’s interface, importing, rating, and filtering your photos, managing your photo library, making exposure and color adjustments, fixing common image problems, printing your photos, creating photo books and presenting your images on social media and the Web. 

Some of the topics include:

Creating a Lightroom Catalog

Determining Folder Organization

Setting Import Preferences

Importing your Photos into Lightroom

Switching View Modes

The Lightroom Interface

Using Grid View and Loupe View

Using Compare View

Using Survey View

The Module Picker

Setting Interface Preferences

Working with the Folders Panel

Creating and Renaming Folders

Moving Folders and Photos

Renaming and Deleting Photos

Synchronizing Photos

Using Watched Folders

Rating, Flagging and Rejecting Your Photos

Labeling Your Photos

Using Auto Advance

Rating & Ranking Groups of Photos

Filtering by Flag, Rating or Label

Using Dual Monitors

Adding Keywords and Metadata

Finding Images Using the Filter Bar

Sorting Images

Creating and Using Collections

Creating Smart Collections

Creating Quick Collections

Creating Collection Sets

Using Face Detection

Geotagging Images with the Maps Module

Exporting to a Hard Drive

Creating a Watermark Preset

Publishing to an Online Service

Backing Up Your Lightroom Catalog

Using Multiple Catalogs and Multiple Computer

Merging Catalogs

RAW vs Non-RAW Processing

Choosing a Camera Profile

Viewing Before and After

Using Solo Mode

Creating Virtual Copies

Using Third-Party Plug-ins

Adjusting Image Exposure, Contrast, and Clarity

Adjusting Image Clarity

Adjusting Vibrance and Saturation

Using Clipping Indicators

Adjusting Shadows and Highlights

Adjusting the Blacks and Whites

Using Auto Tone

Reset an Image to its Default Settings

Adjusting White Balance

Changing Color in an Image

Converting an Image to Black and White

Using Split Toning

Using the Adjustment Brush

Using the Graduated Filter

Cropping a Photo

Straightening an Image

Using the Spot Removal Tool

Using the Red Eye Tool

Making Lens Corrections

Fixing Perspective Problems

Removing Haze with Dehaze

Adjusting Contrast Using the Tone Curve

Using the Histogram to Adjust Exposure

Synchronizing Adjustments Across Multiple Images

Using the History Panel

Creating Snapshots to Save Image States

Creating a Panorama

Using HDR

Soft Proofing your Images

Using Lightroom Mobile

Adding a Post-Crop Vignette

Working with Grain

Reducing Noise

Sharpening an Image

Using the Radial Filter

Creating a Slideshow

Creating a Web Gallery

Creating a Photo Book

Printing your Photos

And More…..