Lightroom 4: Streamlining Your Digital Photography Process

Chapter 9: PRINT: Make Professional Prints Yourself Or At A Lab

Prior to our digital age, the intrinsic nature of viewing a photograph has always meant viewing a print. I believe a photograph isn’t truly finished until it’s printed. The content of this chapter presumes you want to print your own photos or have them printed by someone else; we’ll look at both scenarios.

If you’re a wedding or portrait photographer, you’ll first be concerned with presenting proof images to clients prior to making the final prints. Lightroom excels at this. If you’re a nature or landscape photographer, you’re probably most interested in the perfect reproduction of fine detail and subtle tones within each individual photograph. Lightroom handles this with grace. Whether you need to print one photo or lots of them, you’ll quickly find Lightroom’s capabilities are up to the task.

⌘+Option+6 or Ctrl+Alt+6

Go to Print module

Lightroom’s Print module provides some of the most modern, sophisticated and automated controls available for printing. In particular, the resizing, sharpening and color management controls are made as simple as they can be. And, of course, you can save print layout templates for repeated use. In this chapter we’ll go through all the features of the Print module and I’ll do my ...