So I'm pretty new to photo editing and I'm self teaching myself to use Lightroom 5. I was wondering what settings and preferences I should use in Lightroom so that when I edit photos I can print accurately or upload to the web? I have an understanding that those are two different things and I would appreciate suggestions on how to do both accurately.
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Fred Kingston_RIP
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It's pretty easy... those are two separate functions in LR...
1. There is a special Printer module/mode to select to print photos to your printer, and/or print to a disk file for sending to a commercial printing site...
2. Printing to a web site is achieved by EXPORTing an image to a disk file in the Library module... It prompts for file names, destinations/dialogue, and if you scroll thru the options, it has pre-set selects for creating a file for web pages...
There are a couple brazzillion YouTube videos in the ether, and simple google search will produce enough to keep you so busy watching videos, you'll need a vacation to find the time to do any real printing...
The Adobe videos with Julieanne Kost are particularly good...
1. There is a special Printer module/mode to select to print photos to your printer, and/or print to a disk file for sending to a commercial printing site...
2. Printing to a web site is achieved by EXPORTing an image to a disk file in the Library module... It prompts for file names, destinations/dialogue, and if you scroll thru the options, it has pre-set selects for creating a file for web pages...
There are a couple brazzillion YouTube videos in the ether, and simple google search will produce enough to keep you so busy watching videos, you'll need a vacation to find the time to do any real printing...
The Adobe videos with Julieanne Kost are particularly good...
It's pretty easy... those are two separate functions in LR...
1. There is a special Printer module/mode to select to print photos to your printer, and/or print to a disk file for sending to a commercial printing site...
2. Printing to a web site is achieved by EXPORTing an image to a disk file in the Library module... It prompts for file names, destinations/dialogue, and if you scroll thru the options, it has pre-set selects for creating a file for web pages...
There are a couple brazzillion YouTube videos in the ether, and simple google search will produce enough to keep you so busy watching videos, you'll need a vacation to find the time to do any real printing...
The Adobe videos with Julieanne Kost are particularly good...
I'll have to check those videos out. I know there is the little tab at the top that says "Print" if that's what you are referring to but I would also like to know about things like external editing preferences (color space, 8 bit vs 16 bit, resolution) and what settings should I be using for those while editing? Sorry if I'm asking questions that may have already been answered but this is so new and pretty confusing.
Fred Kingston_RIP
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There have actually been several books written covering that page... just so you know...
Watch the videos...
Watch the videos...
BackdoorArts
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I used to use Adobe color space but switched to sRGB when I started doing prints as all printers will cover that, but Adobe may exceed the ability of some printers. There's the Soft Proofing function to check if your Adobe images run outside of your printers' color profile (watch videos). I keep then in 16-bit for editing, export a size specific JPEG from a PSD file and print from that. You want to get your printer profiled if you really want accurate prints from what you're seeing.
As Fred said, books have been written, videos created - there's way too much behind this to do it in a forum.
As Fred said, books have been written, videos created - there's way too much behind this to do it in a forum.
sonicbuffalo_RIP
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David Busch's books, like the one I'm reading on the D7100 spends quite a bit in one chapter talking about Adobe's color scheme, and the industry's standard color limitations. Very interesting for how abbreviated it was covered.