01 Getting Started

• Workflows
• Example Lightroom workflow
• Configuring your computer for Lightroom.
• Installing Lightroom
• Lightroom Fundamentals
• Saving and backing up your work
• Essential troubleshooting
• The Lightroom workspace
• How to ensure accurate color for your photos

02 Import

• IMPORT: Indexing photos and videos with Lightroom catalogs
• Overview of Import workflow
• What to do before importing
• Importing files for the first time: Add
• Copy files from a camera
• What happens during an import?
• The Import windows
• FROM: Select a source
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• Import method
• Main preview area
• TO: My Catalog or folder Destination
• File Handling
• File Renaming
• Apply During Import
• Destination
• Import Presets
• Show fewer options: The Compact Import Window
• Import from Another Catalog
• Tethered Capture
• Tethered Capture Setup
• Auto Import
• Next steps

03 Library

• LIBRARY: Managing your photos with Lightroom
• Edit a shoot
• Working in Library
• Catalog panel
• Library previews
• Navigator
• Library View Modes
• Grid view
• Selections: Choosing the photos to work with
• Rotating and flipping photos
• Stacks: Grouping items together
• Loupe view
• Compare view
• Survey view
• Using the Secondary Display with Library
• Folders panel: Work directly with folders on your hard drives
• Managing photos and video files in Library
• Synchronize Folder
• Collections: Organize things however you like
• Collections panel
• Quick Collection
• Smart Collections
• Output Module Collections
• Collection Sets
• Managing the Collections panel
• Introduction to Publish Services
• Attributes: Tag photos with identifying marks
• Filters: Show photos and videos based on criteria
• Example Filter workflows
• Quick Develop
• Keywords: Tag your photos for search
• The Keywording panel
• Keyword List
• Working with metadata
• The Metadata panel
• Metadata presets
• Metadata Status
• Using the Painter
• Working with video in Lightroom
• Example video workflow
• Next steps

04 Develop

• DEVELOP: Making your photos look their best
• Example Develop workflow
• Make a plan for processing
• The Develop workspace
• Understanding the Process Version
• Default and Auto settings
• Histogram
• The Basic panel: Essential adjustments for every photo
• Tone Curve: Modify tones based on ranges of luminance
• Targeted Adjustment Tool (TAT)
• HSL / Color / B & W: Adjust color by range
• Split Toning: Apply creative color treatments
• Detail: Fine-tune sharpening and noise reduction
• Lens Corrections: Fix image problems caused by the lens
• Effects: Add vignettes and simulate film grain
• Camera Calibration: Precisely control raw image rendering
• Before/After
• Crop Overlay: Cropping and straightening your photos
• Spot Removal: Retouching photos in Lightroom
• Heal Dust Spots
• Red Eye Correction
• Local Adjustments: Dodging, burning, and so much more
• Working with Graduated Filters
• Apply a graduated filter
• Working with Radial Filters
• Apply a Radial Filter
• Working with Adjustment Brushes
• Navigator panel
• Presets: Apply multiple Develop adjustments with one click
• Set Default
• Snapshots
• History: Track changes and go back to any point
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• Virtual copies: Create multiple versions of a single photo
• Apply settings from one photo to others
• Soft proofing
• Soft proofing a photo
• Converting color photos to black and white
• Next steps

05 Export

• EXPORT: Creating new copies from Lightroom
• Basic export workflow
• Export methods
• What to do before exporting
• Email photos
• Working in the Export window
• Export to
• Export Location
• File Naming
• Video
• File Settings
• Image Sizing
• Output sharpening
• Metadata
• Watermarking
• Working in the Watermark Editor
• Post-Processing
• Export presets
• Burn a CD/DVD
• Export plug-ins
• Publish Services: Synchronize your photo collections
• Publish to Flickr
• Publish to Hard Drive
• Changing Publish Services settings
• Edit in other programs
• Edit in Photoshop
• Open as Photoshop Smart Objects
• Next steps

06 Map

• MAP: Plot your photo locations with GPS coordinates
• Working with photos that already have GPS data
• Adding GPS coordinates to photos using the map
• Adding GPS coordinates to photos using a track log
• Navigator
• Saved Locations
• Collections
• Metadata
• Map display
• Location Filter
• Map Toolbar
• Sync Metadata
• Keeping your location data private
• Next steps.

07 Book

• BOOK: Design and order photo books in Lightroom
• Publish a book
• Create a new book with a custom layout.
• Preview panel
• Collections: Create and manage Saved Books
• Book previews
• Book Toolbar
• Book Filmstrip
• Book Preferences
• Book Settings
• About Book templates
• Auto Layout: Create a book with one click
• Working in the Auto Layout Preset Editor
• Page panel: Add or change pages
• Guides
• Cell panel
• Text panel: Add text to photos and pages
• Type: Style your text
• Background panel
• About covers
• Create Saved Book
• Send Book to Blurb
• Next steps

08 Slideshow

• SLIDESHOW: Present your photos and videos on screen
• Make a Slideshow
• Preview
• Template Browser
• Collections
• Slideshow Toolbar
• Options
• Layout
• Overlays
• Backdrop
• Titles
• Playback
• Preview and Play Your Slideshow
• Impromptu Slideshow
• Create Saved Slideshow
• Exporting Slideshows
• Next steps

09 Print

• PRINT: Make professional prints yourself or at a lab
• Making a print
• Preview
• Template Browser
• Collections
• Page Setup
• Main preview area
• Print Toolbar
• Layout Style
• Single Image / Contact Sheet
• Image Settings
• Layout
• Guides
• Picture Package
• Image Settings
• Rulers, Grid & Guides
• Cells
• Page
• Custom Package
• Print Job
• Print and Printer
• Print to JPEG File
• Create Saved Print
• Print troubleshooting
• Next steps

10 Web

• WEB: Create browser-based photo galleries
• Build a Lightroom Web Gallery
• Preview panel
• Template Browser
• Main preview area
• Web Toolbar
• Layout Style
• Customize your Web gallery
• Site Info
• Color Palette
• Appearance
• Image Info
• Output Settings
• Upload Settings
• Create Saved Web Gallery
• Preview in Browser
• Export
• Upload
• Next steps

11 Catalog

• Working with lightroom catalogs
• Advanced photo management techniques
• Catalog Settings
• Catalog backups
• Maintaining catalog integrity
• Upgrading catalogs
• Using multiple catalogs
• Export as Catalog
• Import from Catalog
• Working with Lightroom on multiple computers
• Road Trip Workflow
• Next steps
• Favorite Shortcuts