Lightroom 4 Essentials: 03 Creating Prints and Books

Focuses on the Print module in Lightroom 4, which can be used to create high-quality prints and proofs and design custom layouts for books and other print projects.Creating Prints and Books is part of author Chris Orwig's investigation of Lightroom 4, the image management and editing tool from Adobe, and focuses on the Print and Books modules, which can be used to create high-quality prints and proofs and design custom layouts for books and other print projects. Chris briefly reviews how to correct and paint away gamut issues and other problems in the Develop module and shows how to take advantage of templates and collections. The course also shows how to adjust print job settings for contact sheets, single image prints, and print packages, and the final chapters guide photographers through the step-by-step process of building and printing a book from Lightroom. For more training on Lightroom, watch Photoshop Lightroom 4 Essentials: Organizing and Sharing with the Library Module and Photoshop Lightroom 4 Essentials: Enhancing Photos with the Develop Module. Topics include: Creating better prints by soft proofing Choosing a soft proof rendering input Creating a custom template Customizing the print layout style Adjusting print to JPG settings Reviewing prints Creating collections for a book project Using Auto Layout Using guides and cell controls Swapping image position in a book Changing the book background Working with typography Adding captions Designing a book cover Exporting to PDF Ordering from Blurb