Up and Running with Lightroom 4

An introduction to the Lightroom capabilities for organizing, enhancing, and sharing photos.In Up and Running with Photoshop Lightroom 4, author Jan Kabili introduces the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom features for organizing, enhancing, and sharing digital photos and video clips. The course shows how to import photos and video clips from a camera and from a hard drive, explaining how Lightroom catalogs work along the way, and how to manage and organize photos and video clips with the Library module. The course also covers enhancing photos in the Develop module, including cropping, adjusting exposure, recovering details from highlights and shadows, sharpening and adding clarity, and correcting part of a photo, as well as enhancing video clips. The course concludes with a look at sharing photos: posting them on Facebook, creating photo books, exporting, and printing. Topics include: What is Lightroom used for? Importing photos and videos Organizing your library with collections Adding keywords and ratings to photos Cropping and straightening photos Adjusting color and white balance Reducing digital noise Working with video Making changes with the Adjustment Brush and Graduated Filter tools Sharing photos on Facebook Printing photos