Photoshop Lightroom The Complete Manual

Learn how to improve both your photography and photo editing skills! Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a must-have program for photographers both amateur and professional. It’s vast range of features and added extras are head and shoulders above the competition; but despite its expansive image editing capabilities, it’s still a friendly and easy to use program. There’s plenty here to sink your teeth into and with the help of this book you can unleash the power of Lightroom and your imagination to create some spectacular photos. 100% unofficial.

Photoshop Lightroom • Welcome to one of the most powerful photo processing programs around!

Lightroom Updates and Improvements • Back in October of 2021, Lightroom underwent a major update for its 2022 iteration of the software. Both the desktop version and the mobile version shared the same major advancement in its toolset. Until now, the updates have been fairly minor, with a few tweaks to tools and ongoing bug fixes. The 2022 release heralded changes that are worthy of a deep dive into them to see what they are all about. Let's kick off with some of the minor updates first, then we'll look at the good stuff.

Do More With Masking • With the most recent update of Lightroom Classic and Lightroom to the 2022 version, you now have even more editing capabilities at your fingertips. A number of features that debuted in Photoshop have been implemented here as well. Read on to find out more.

1 Color Grading

2 Customize Metadata

3 Additional Library Filters

4 New Presets

5 Masking

6 Select Subject (simple)

7 Select Subject (complex)

8 Select Sky

9 Brush

10 Linear Gradient

11 Radial Gradient

12 Color Range

13 Luminance Range

14 Depth Range

15 Intersect

New Masking Tools Workflow • So now you know more about the Masking functions that have been implemented in Lightroom, here you can see it in action as we walk you through some of the main features that you can easily incorporate into your daily editing routine.

Lightroom Tips and Tricks • We know that Lightroom, in its various forms, is a vast and multi-faceted tool. It's no surprise then that there are any number of hidden tricks and tips, that can expand and enhance your workflow experience. We have a few tricks we can share with you to help you on your way. They are very simple, but as you may have already surmised when using Lightroom, the simple ones are often the most useful and the most powerful.

Get More Out of Your Photos • When processing an image in Lightroom, half the battle is knowing enough about the many tools on offer to help you extract as much detail from your photos as possible. In the following section we show you just a few of those essential tips to help you along.

1 Quick Develop Additions

2 Solo Mode

3 Quick Keywords

4 Panel Reset

5 Tone Curve Finesse

6 Black and White Preview

7 Set Default

8 Split Toning Display

9 Lights Out

10 Spot Removal Delete

11 Cropping

12 Visualise Highlights and Shadows

13 Grad Filter Control

14 Apply on Import

15 Visualise Fringing

16 Graduated Filter Intensity

17 Smart Preview edits

18 Switch Brush with Eraser

19 Use Luminance

20 Visualise Sharpness and Noise

Striking Image Conversions • Lightroom offers some impressive results from very little effort on the part of the user. The conversion from the before image to the after image took just ten minutes and a few clicks of the Mouse button. Read on and we’ll show you how.

Get Started with Lightroom Classic • Before we start looking at organising, editing and publishing photos, let’s take a moment to understand what...