Lightroom 3 Essentials

Introduction
Welcome
Using the exercise files

1. Getting Started
Creative tip: Using Lightroom
An overview of Lightroom
Photographic workflow puzzle
Why use Lightroom?
Lightroom and Photoshop

2. Setting the Stage
The Lightroom interface
Essential interface shortcuts
Using the interface shortcuts
Customizing the identity plate and module pickers
Using a graphic identity plate
Changing the panel end marks
Creating a custom panel end mark
Changing the image background
Modifying other interface preferences

3. The Library Module: Importing Images
Importing and file formats
Importing preferences
Introducing the Import dialog
Catalog, import, and preview preferences
Importing photos from a folder
Creating a metadata preset
Importing photos from a CF card
Using Auto Import
Using multiple hard drives
Creative tip: Discard

4. The Library Module: Tethered Capture
Introducing tethered shooting
Working with tethered shooting

5. The Library Module: Essentials
Working in Grid view and Loupe view
Navigating and zooming
Shortcuts in Loupe view and Grid view
Customizing Loupe view and Grid view
Comparing two images
Surveying multiple images
Working with the toolbar in Grid view and Loupe view
Working with folders and files in the Library module
Using dual monitors

6. The Library Module: Working with Catalogs
Introducing catalogs
Working with catalogs
Exporting catalogs
Updating legacy catalogs
The relationship between the raw and DNG catalogs
Working with raw files in Lightroom
Working with DNG files in Lightroom
Creative tip: Using the right gear

7. The Library Module: Processing Images
Using Quick Develop in the Library module
Synchronizing processing settings across multiple images
Making incremental adjustments
Applying white balance and auto tone adjustments

8. The Library Module: Organizing Images
Introducing flags, stars, and labels
Working with flags, stars, and labels
Adding images to a Quick Collection
Integrating collections with your workflow
Grouping images with collections
Using Smart Collections
Sorting images
Renaming images
Stacking images

9. The Library Module: Working with Metadata
Adding keywords
Working with the keyword list
Synchronizing keywords
Keywording with the spray can
Working with the Metadata panel
Adding copyright metadata

10. The Library Module: Finding and Sorting with Filters
Filtering overview
Locking library filter options
Filtering based on text
Filtering by metadata
Filtering your photos using the Metadata panel
New filtering criteria in Lightroom 3

11. The Library Module: Exporting Images
Exporting images
Export quality and watermark options
Exporting movies
External editing preferences and considerations
Editing preferences
Editing photos in Photoshop
Opening an image as a Smart Object in Photoshop
Including multiple images in Photoshop as layers
Merging multiple images in Photoshop
Creating a panorama
Working with a CMYK photo

12. The Library Module: Publishing Services
Setting up Flickr services
Uploading photos to Flickr
Working with comments
Publishing to a folder
Creative tip: Visual poetry

13. The Develop Module: Introduction
Develop module overview
Working with legacy Lightroom files
Comparing the before and after
Resetting images to their default settings
Using the Develop module presets
Using Snapshot and History
Using the Histogram
Working with collections
Introducing virtual copies
Creating virtual copies
Introducing the Develop module tool strip

14. The Develop Module: Basic Controls
Understanding white balance and color temperature
Correcting white balance with a ColorChecker
Using the White Balance tool
Creative uses of white balance
Demystifying the tone controls
Using the tone controls
Recovering detail in highlights
Working with vibrance and saturation
Making color adjustments with the Vibrance and Saturation sliders
Creative uses of vibrance and saturation
Understanding clarity
Working with clarity
The standard Basic panel workflow
Synchronizing basic settings across multiple images

15. The Develop Module: Cropping
Creative tip: Why crop?
Cropping an image
Straightening with the Crop tool
Working with the Crop Overlay tool
Changing the aspect ratio of an image
Auditioning different aspect ratios
Quickly changing crop orientation
Using Crop to improve a composition

16. The Develop Module: Retouching
Retouching with the Spot Removal tool
Retouching away dust on a lens
Fixing red-eye

17. The Develop Module: Using the Graduated Filter
Introducing the Graduated filter
Darkening a sky with the Graduated filter
Enhancing a landscape with the Graduated filter
Improving a portrait with the Graduated filter
Increasing color variety and saturation with the Graduated filter
Creative tip: Tenacity

18. The Develop Module: Using the Adjustment Brush
Adjustment Brush overview
Essential Adjustment Brush shortcuts
Enhancing makeup color
Whitening and brightening teeth
Improving eyes
Softening and smoothing skin
Brightening and improving shadows
Darkening lips and cheeks
Correcting overall exposure
Subtly correcting exposure

19. The Develop Module: Modifying Tone Curve
Demystifying the tone curve controls
Increasing contrast and color with the tone curve controls
Correcting exposure with the tone curve controls
Creative tip: Shoot what matters

20. The Develop Module: Using HSL and Color
Understanding the HSL controls
Using the HSL Target Adjustment tool
Brightening tones with HSL
Using HSL to increase warm tones
Using HSL to increase warm and cool tones
Creative color with HSL
Desaturating color with HSL
Using the Color panel

21. The Develop Module: Converting to Black and White
Introducing black-and-white conversion
Understanding Black & White Mix
Converting to black and white
Black-and-white workflow with virtual copies
Enhancing black-and-white images with the Adjustment Brush
Using presets to convert to black and white
Creating a black-and-white collection

22. The Develop Module: Split Toning
Understanding split toning
Advanced split-toning tips
Split-toning a color image

23. The Develop Module: Improving Details
Introducing noise reduction
Introducing sharpening
Sharpening in Lightroom
Advanced sharpening in Lightroom and Photoshop
Removing chromatic aberration

24. The Develop Module: Vignettes and Effects
Using the Lens Correction controls
Enhancing images with lens correction
Synchronizing vignette settings across multiple images
Combining lens correction, Lightroom, and Photoshop
Adding a post-crop vignette
Adding film grain with the Effects panel

25. The Develop Module: Camera Calibration
Understanding Camera Calibration in Lightroom
Creative color with Camera Calibration

26. The Develop Module: Workflows
Basic Develop module workflow
Workflow for converting to black and white
Workflow project: Surfing
Workflow project: Portrait
Workflow project: Portrait details
Creative tip: Go outside

27. The Slideshow Module
Creating a collection to make a slideshow
Selecting the best images for the slideshow
Customizing the layout of the slideshow
Customizing the background of the slideshow
Customizing overlay elements for the slideshow
Creating titles for the slideshow
Playing back the slideshow
Previewing the slideshow
Exporting the slideshow to different formats

28. The Print Module
Creating a collection of images to print
Laying out images into preset templates
Customizing the layout of a single image
Choosing page options for a single image
Specifying the print job options for a single image
Creating a custom package
Creating a picture package
Printing one image quickly
Creating a custom print template
Effective print workflow

29. The Web Module
Creating a collection of images for a web gallery
Using web gallery templates
Customizing a web gallery
Uploading a web gallery
Creating color and black-and-white galleries
Uploading color and black-and-white galleries
Online web gallery resources
Domain name and hosting overview

30. Final Tips
Online resources and the Lightroom Newsletter
Goodbye