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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP LIGHTROOM

A Professional Photographer’s Workflow

MICHAEL CLARK

A complete worklow with Lightroom Version 2.0 and Photoshop CS3

WORKFLOW

DIGITAL

SERIES

Table OF COnTenTs

About the Author.......................3

Credits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

From The Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Macintosh and PC key codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Workflow Outline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

Photoshop: Spotting Images .............106

Photoshop: Noise reduction - Noise Ninja...107

Photoshop: Photoshop Workflow . . . . . . . . . 109

Photoshop: Using Actions in Photoshop..... 110

Photoshop: Running a Batch Action........ 112

SHOOTING WORKFLOW

Pre Shoot Camera Check .................9

Digital Camera settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Camera Maintenance...................15

Sensor Cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

White Balance........................17

Noise & ISO sensitivity..................19

Exposure and Histograms................20

Color Spaces.........................23

EXTENDED WORKFLOW:

Backing Up Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Archiving and Cataloging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Registering the Copyright............... 115

Storage Options and Recommendations . . . . 115

Never Ending Saga ................... 118

RESOURCES & REFERENCE:

Essential Lightroom Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Resource List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

COLOR MANAGEMENT:

What is Color Management ..............24

Basic Outline.........................25

Photoshop Color Settings ................26

Monitor Calibration ....................28

DIGITAL WORKFLOW: ADOBE LIGHTROOM

Downloading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Lightroom: Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Lightroom: Preferences..................36

Lightroom: Catalogs....................40

Lightroom: Digital Asset Management.......41

Lightroom: Six ways to speed up Lightroom...42

Lightroom: Importing Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Lightroom: Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Lightroom: A Logical Editing Process........57

Lightroom: Batch Rename................58

Lightroom: File and Folder Naming.........59

Lightroom: Entering Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Lightroom: Library Filter .................62

Lightroom: Developing RAW Images........63

Lightroom: Converting to Grayscale . . . . . . . . 85

Lightroom: Creating Panoramas . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Lightroom: Merge to HDR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Lightroom: Open as Layers in Photoshop. . . . . 89

Lightroom: Open as Smart Object . . . . . . . . . 89

Lightroom: Exporting Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Lightroom: Creating a Slideshow . . . . . . . . . . 92

Lightroom: Printing with Lightroom . . . . . . . . . 96

Lightroom: Creating Web Galleries........101

About the Author

Michael Clark is an internationally pub-

lished outdoor photographer specializing in adven-

ture sports, travel, and landscape photography. He

produces intense, raw images of athletes pushing

their sports to the limit and has risked life and limb

on a variety of assignments to bring back stunning

images of rock climbers, mountaineers, kayakers,

and mountain bikers in remote locations around the

world. He uses unique angles, bold colors, strong

graphics and dramatic lighting to capture leeting

moments of passion, gusto, lair and bravado in the

outdoors. Balancing extreme action with subtle de-

tails, striking portraits and wild landscapes, he cre-

ates images for the editorial, advertising and stock

markets worldwide.

As a former physicist Michael has worked on both

sides of the technical revolution – helping reine the

technology and using it for his current profession. Mi-

chael has worked as a professional photographer since 1996 and added digital photography to his reper-

toire in 2003. He has been featured in Outdoor Photographer (September 2001), Nikon World Magazine

(Summer 2006) and New Mexico Magazine (2007) for his work with extreme sports.

He contributes to National Geographic, National Geographic Adventure, Sports Illustrated, Outside, Men’s

Journal, Backpacker, Outdoor Photographer, Digital Photo Pro, Climbing, Bike and The New York Times

among many others. A sampling of Michael’s advertising clients include Nike, Nikon, Adobe, Patagonia,

Propel/Gatorade, Pizer, DuPont, Prana, Arc’teryx, Camelbak, La Sportiva, Gregory Packs, and Butterield

and Robinson.

"You have some ine images, no doubt about it. I especially like the way you portray the climber's

on the face of the wall - the angles really give a feel for what it is like to be there. You have some

ine work!"

- Kent Kobersteen, Renowned National Geographic Photo Editor

"Your images are among the most consistently high quality I receive, and I look forward to each

submission you send."

- Stephen Miller, Photo Editor of Rock and Ice Magazine

Disclaimer: In the spirit of full disclosure I feel that I must tell the reader that I shot Demo Images for

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Version 1.0 in the Spring of 2006. Processing my images after that as-

signment was my first real world introduction to Lightroom. I am not an employee of Adobe nor do

I have any affiliation with Adobe but I still have a close professional relationship with Adobe. This

workflow is a result of my own efforts to speed up and economize my workflow so that I can spend

less time in front of a computer processing images and more time behind the camera creating images.

Credits

I would be remiss if I did not give credit to those kind and generous folks who have helped

me build my workflow and this document.

First and foremost to my dear friend Leslie Alsheimer who has encouraged me to create

this document and has both assisted me on numerous photo assignments and also greatly

enhanced my knowledge of the entire digital process over the last five or more years.

Also, a big thank you to George Jardine of Adobe ( pictured above while shooting demo

images for Adobe Lightroom ) who hired me to shoot demo images for Adobe Lightroom and

was kind enough to demonstrate the software to me personally as well as spend time on the

phone answering my many questions about the latest version of Lightroom.

Lastly, to the Board of ASMP New Mexico who spurred me on by asking me to make a

presentation on Adobe Lightroom and the current status quo of digital workflow.

As a former physicist, I also have to credit all of my mentors and professors at the UNIvER-

SIty of tExAS At AUStIN who spurred on my sense of curiosity that has carried over

into my career as a professional photographer. Optics, light and general relativity were a

large part of my studies and as such give me a depth of understanding far beyond the av-

erage photographer. That curiosity may also explain why I have spent so many late nights

fiddling with the latest software to see if I can make my workflow faster and more efficient.

From the Author

Thank you for purchasing this Adobe Photoshop Lightroom overview and workflow. We appreciate your sup-

port! This workflow has been updated for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Version 2.0 and Photoshop CS3.

This worklow covers a large part of the digital experience - at least how I deal with digital imaging. It

is not an exhaustive work, nor its it meant to be. I am sure some of you may have different methods and

experiences than those that I have laid out in this worklow. Your methods are just as valid as mine. For

some of you this might be a worklow that you incorporate into your digital photography exactly as it is

presented which is great. But for most of you, I hope you can ind tricks and tips that can be integrated into

your worklow to suit your speciic imaging needs. There is no worklow that works perfectly for everyone

and I hope you can learn from my worklow to help perfect your own.

As Photoshop in it’s entirety is far beyond the scope of this worklow we go over some basic Photoshop skills

and leave the rest to more advanced books and training. A certain level of Photoshop skill is assumed for

this worklow but even so the examples are very clearly laid out so that you can follow the worklow easily.

And in general, my basic digital worklow does not involve that much Photoshop work - which speaks to

how powerful Lightroom really is. I do continue working images up in Photoshop quite often after they are

processed in Lightroom but those are advanced imaging techniques that are better suited to a workshop

than a worklow eBook.

Digital Photography is still in its infancy and I am certain years from now this time will be considered the

dark ages of digital photography. Even though digital has been around now for over ifteen years, it has

only recently started to be widely accepted by professional photographers and photo buyers. There is

still a lot of work to be done to make the worklow and capture process easier, higher quality and more

consistent. With that said, I have to say I am very excited about Lightroom 2.0. It makes many complex

Photoshop tasks (like masking, layer adjustments, burning and dodging and so many others) a very simple

and non-destructive task that can now be taken care of within Lightroom. I have no doubt that it will help

myself and many other photographers take their images to a new level and with less time in front of the

computer than it would take to do the same local adjustments in Photoshop.

Please consider this worklow (as is any) a work in progress. I would appreciate it if you do not distribute

this worklow to any one else without my permission – this took many hours to put together and represents

over ive years worth of hard work learning the digital game. I appreciate your honesty and integrity

regarding this eBook.

As I am not perfect I apologize up front if there are any spelling or grammatical errors. If you have any cor-

rections, comments or suggestions please e-mail me at mjcphoto@comcast.net.

It is my sincere hope that this workflow will allow you to spend less time in front of your computer and more

time out in the world exploring and having adventures that you will not soon forget! Thanks again for your

support!

Cheers,

Michael Clark

ItED. ovERALL LAyoUt (ExCLUDING CovER), MAC vS. PC AND CoLoR MANAGEMENt

ExCERPtS by LESLIE ALShEIMER.

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