Document Outline

• Legal notices
• Contents
• Chapter 1: What's new
  • New features summary
    • GPU-related enhancements
    • Face recognition
    • HDR photo merge
    • Panorama merge
    • Cure pet eye effect
    • Filter brushes
    • Slideshow-related improvements
    • Improvements to the Web module
    • Support for touch-enabled computers
    • Other enhancements
• Chapter 2: Lightroom on mobile
  • Work with Lightroom on mobile
    • Sign-in
    • App interface
    • Organize
    • Edit photos
    • Sync and Share
  • Syncing Lightroom - Desktop and the Mobile app
    • Set up Lightroom for sync
    • Setting up Collections
    • Lightroom mobile preferences
• Chapter 3: Workflows
  • How to manage all your photos with Lightroom
  • Import photos from a camera or card reader
  • Smart Previews
    • About Smart Previews
    • Advantages of Smart Previews
    • Creating Smart Previews
    • Working with Smart Previews
    • Deleting Smart Previews
  • Viewing and organizing photos in the Library module
    • 1. View photos.
    • 2. Select photos.
    • 3. Find and filter photos.
    • 4. Organize your photos.
    • 5. Add metadata and keywords to photos.
    • 6. Make quick adjustments to photos.
  • Editing photos in the Develop module
  • Export photos from Lightroom
  • Edit Lightroom photos in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements
  • Print photos from Lightroom
  • Create web galleries in Lightroom
  • Create slideshows in Lightroom
• Chapter 4: Workspace
  • Workspace basics
    • Lightroom application interface
    • Managing panels and the screen view
      • Open or close a panel
      • Open or close one panel at a time
      • Scroll through a group of panels
      • Show or hide panel groups
      • Set how panel groups show or hide automatically
      • Resize the width of a panel group
      • Remove or restore a panel from a group
      • Change the Lightroom screen mode
      • Turn off all settings in a panel
      • Dim or hide the Lightroom interface
    • The toolbar
      • Show controls in the Library module toolbar
      • Show or hide the toolbar
      • Change toolbar icons
  • Setting preferences for working in Lightroom
    • Open the Preferences dialog box
    • Restore preferences to default settings
    • Reset presets to their original settings
    • Restore prompts you chose not to display
    • Change the interface font size or the panel end marker
    • Change the language setting
  • Displaying the Library on a second monitor
  • Personalizing identity plates andmodule buttons
  • Using the Watermark Editor
    • Create a copyright watermark
    • Manage copyright watermarks
    • Apply a copyright watermark to images
  • Color management
    • The color conundrum
    • How Lightroom manages color
    • Calibrate your monitor
    • Install a color profile
• Chapter 5: Importing photos
  • Import photos from a folder on a hard drive
  • Import photos from a tethered camera
  • Import photos from iPhoto (Mac OS)
  • Import photos from other catalogs
    • Import photos from a different Lightroom catalog
    • Import photos from Photoshop Elements
  • Specify import options
    • Back up photos during import
    • Ignore duplicates when importing
    • Specify initial previews
    • Rename photos when importing
    • Apply Develop settings to photos when importing
    • Apply metadata and keywords to photos when importing
    • Naming options
    • Import using presets
    • Import photos using fewer options
  • Set import preferences
  • Supported file formats
    • Camera raw formats
    • Digital Negative format (DNG)
    • TIFF format
    • JPEG format
    • Photoshop format (PSD)
    • CMYK files
    • PNG format
    • Video files
    • File format exceptions
  • Import photos automatically
    • Enable automatically importing photos
    • Specify auto import settings
    • Set up watched folders
    • Select a destination folder for auto-imported photos
    • Apply Develop settings and metadata to auto-imported photos
  • The Filename Template Editor and Text Template Editor
    • Open the Filename Template Editor and choose presets
    • Open the Text Template Editor and choose presets
    • Create and save filename and text template presets
    • Rename filename and text template presets
    • Delete filename and text template presets
• Chapter 6: Viewing photos
  • View photos
    • Filmstrip
      • About the Filmstrip
      • Hide or show the Filmstrip
      • Change the photos displayed in the Filmstrip
      • Change the size of Filmstrip thumbnails
      • Scroll through photos in the Filmstrip
      • Show ratings and picks in Filmstrip thumbnails
      • Rearrange thumbnails in the Filmstrip and Grid view
    • Loupe view
      • Zoom an image
      • Set the zoom levels for the pointer
      • Switch between zoom levels
      • Pan the image
      • Temporarily zoom in to pan the image
      • Display the Info Overlay on a photo
      • Change the info displayed in the Info Overlay
    • Grid view
      • Show photos in the Grid view and the Filmstrip
      • Navigate between photos
      • Rearrange photos in the Grid view
      • View raw+JPEG photos
      • Change the thumbnail size in the Grid view
    • Switching between Grid, Loupe, Compare, and Survey views
  • Browse and compare photos
    • Filter photos in the Filmstrip and Grid view
      • Apply filters
      • Control filter behavior for a folder or collection
    • Selecting photos in the Grid view and the Filmstrip
    • Comparing photos in the Library module
      • Compare photos in the Compare view
      • Compare photos in the Survey view
  • Setting Library view options
    • Set Library view options for the Grid view
    • Change the Grid view options
    • Set Library view options for Loupe view
    • Change the Loupe view info overlay
• Chapter 7: Managing catalogs and files
  • How Lightroom catalogs work
    • What's in a catalog?
    • The Lightroom catalog versus a file browser
    • The advantages of the catalog-based workflow
    • Best practices for working with Lightroom catalogs
  • Creating and using catalogs
    • Create a catalog
    • Open a catalog
    • Upgrade a catalog from an earlier version of Lightroom
    • Copy or move a catalog
    • Export a catalog
    • Delete a catalog
    • Change the default catalog
    • Customize catalog settings
    • Optimize the catalog
    • Adobe also recommends
  • Back up a catalog
    • Plan your backup strategy
    • Schedule catalog backups
    • Back up a catalog automatically
    • Back up a catalog manually
    • Restore a backup catalog
  • Locate missing photos
  • Create and manage folders
    • Add an existing folder that contains images
    • Add a subfolder
    • Add a parent folder
    • Move folders
    • Rename folders
    • View the contents of a folder
    • Synchronize folders
    • Locate missing folders
    • Delete folders
    • View volume information
    • Choose how a folder name displays
  • Manage photos
    • Rename photos
    • Move photos to a different folder
    • Open a photo in its folder in the Library module
    • Open a file in Explorer or Finder
    • Rotate photos
    • Flip photos
    • Rotate or flip photos using the Painter tool
    • Remove photos from catalogs
    • Update photos changed by another application
    • Convert photos to DNG
    • Create virtual copies
  • Keep folders in sync
  • The Volume Browser
• Chapter 8: Maps
  • Work with the Map module
    • View photos on a map
    • Navigate the map
    • Work with photos and GPS data
    • Save locations
• Chapter 9: Organizing photos
  • Face recognition
    • Index faces
    • Tag images
      • Tag images individually
      • Confirm name suggestions
    • Tag images in the Loupe view
      • Tag detected faces
      • Tag undetected faces
    • Disable automatic face indexing
  • Photo collections
    • Types of collections
    • Work with collections and collection sets
      • Create a collection
      • Create a collection set
      • Delete a collection or collection set
      • Add photos to a collection
      • Identify photos in a collection
      • Remove photos from a collection
      • Copy or move photos between collections
      • Sort collections
      • Rename a collection or collection set
      • Set a target collection
    • Work with the Quick Collection
      • Add photos to the Quick Collection
      • View photos in the Quick Collection
      • Remove photos from or clear the Quick Collection
      • Convert the Quick Collection to a collection
    • Work with smart collections
      • Create a smart collection
      • Edit smart collections
      • Share smart collection settings
    • Export a collection as a catalog
  • Grouping photos into stacks
    • About stacks
    • Stack photos
    • Unstack photos
    • Add photos to a stack
    • Expand and collapse stacks
    • Remove or delete photos from a stack
    • Rearrange photos in a stack
    • Split a stack into two stacks
    • Automatically stack photos by capture time
  • Flag, label, and rate photos
    • View ratings, flags, and labels
    • Set rating stars
      • Set rating stars in thumbnails in the Grid view
      • Set rating stars using the Painter tool
      • Set rating stars in the Library toolbar
      • Set rating stars in the Metadata panel
      • Change ratings
      • Remove ratings
    • Flag or reject photos
      • Flag photos in the Library toolbar
      • Flag photos using the Painter tool
      • Quickly unflag or reject photos
      • Select flagged photos
    • Set labels and color groups
      • Set color labels in the Library toolbar
      • Set color labels using the Painter tool
      • Edit color label sets
      • Delete or rename color label sets
  • Keywords
    • About keywords
    • View keywords
    • Create keywords
      • Edit keywords
      • Rename keywords
    • Add keywords to photos
    • Copy and paste keywords
    • Remove or delete keywords from photos or the catalog
    • Import and export keywords
    • Create and apply keyword shortcuts
    • Add or remove keywords using the Painter tool
      • Quickly assign keywords from keyword sets
    • Keyword sets
      • Create keyword sets
      • Choose keyword sets
      • Edit keyword sets
      • Rename or delete keyword sets
    • Check and correct keyword spelling (Mac OS)
      • Highlight misspelled words (Mac OS)
      • Check spelling as you type (Mac OS)
    • Type special characters (Mac OS)
  • Metadata basics and actions
    • About metadata and XMP
      • Specify where to write metadata changes
      • Save metadata changes to a file manually
    • View photo metadata
    • Add and edit IPTC metadata
    • Change the photo capture time
  • Work with video in Lightroom
  • Finding photos in the catalog
    • Find photos using the Library Filter bar
      • Search for photos using the Text filter
      • Find photos using the Attribute filters
      • Find photos using Metadata filters
      • Customize the Library Filter bar
      • Save Library Filter bar settings as a preset
      • Apply a Library Filter bar preset
      • Delete a Library Filter bar preset
      • Rename a Library Filter bar preset
    • Find photos using collections
    • Find photos using keyword tags
  • Advanced metadata actions
    • Copy and paste metadata between photos
    • Synchronize metadata between photos in the catalog
    • Synchronize Lightroom metadata with Camera Raw and Adobe Bridge
      • Automatically save metadata changes to photos in Lightroom
      • View unsaved metadata
      • Resolve metadata conflicts between Lightroom, Adobe Bridge, and Camera Raw
    • Metadata panel actions
    • Create and apply metadata presets
      • Create a metadata preset
      • Apply a metadata preset
      • Apply a metadata preset using the Painter tool
      • Edit a metadata preset
      • Rename or delete a metadata preset
  • Using the Quick Develop panel
    • Adjust photos in the Library with Quick Develop
    • Reset Quick Develop adjustments
• Chapter 10: Processing and developing photos
  • Develop module tools
    • Develop module panels and tools
      • Show or hide the Develop toolbar
      • Tools in the tool strip
      • Additional Develop module buttons and tools
      • Select tools and options
    • Create and apply Develop presets
      • Preview and apply a Develop preset
      • Create and organize Develop preset folders
      • Create a Develop preset
      • Update a Develop preset
      • Delete a custom preset
      • Determine where custom presets are stored
      • Import and export a Develop preset
    • Undo image adjustments
    • View Before and After photos
    • Copy settings to the Before or After version of a photo
    • Editing HDR images
  • Cure red eye and pet eye effects
    • Cure red eye and pet eye effects
    • Still having trouble?
  • Create panoramas
  • HDR photo merge
  • Working with image tone and color
    • Adjust image color and tone
      • Set the white balance
      • Choose a white balance preset option
      • Specify a neutral area in the photo
      • Fine-tune the white balance using the Temp and Tint controls
      • Adjust overall image tonal scale
      • Adjust the tonal scale using the histogram
      • About histograms
      • Adjust images using the histogram
      • View RGB color values
      • Preview highlight and shadow clipping
      • Set overall color saturation
      • Fine-tune the tonal scale using the Tone Curve panel
      • Fine-tune image colors with HSL sliders
      • Make adjustments in the HSL panel
      • Make adjustments in the Color panel
      • Adjust the color calibration for your camera
      • Save default settings for cameras
    • Work in grayscale
      • Convert a photo to gray tones
      • Tone a grayscale photo
      • Working with single-channel grayscale images
  • Apply local adjustments
    • Apply an adjustment brush or filter effect
      • Modify a Graduated Filter or Radial Filter using brush controls
      • Edit an Adjustment Brush or Graduated Filter/Radial Filter effect
    • Work with multiple local adjustments
    • Create local adjustment effect presets
  • Retouch photos
    • Adjust crop and rotation
      • Crop a photo
      • Crop to a specified aspect ratio
      • Switch crop orientation
      • Straighten a photo
      • Clear or undo a crop or straighten adjustment
      • Rotate or flip a photo in the Develop module
    • Sharpening and noise reduction
      • Sharpen a photo
      • Reduce image noise
    • Correct lens distortion and adjust perspective
      • About lens distortion
      • Correct image perspective and lens flaws automatically
      • Correct chromatic aberration
      • Remove red-green and blue-yellow color shifts
      • Remove global purple and green fringes with the eyedropper
      • Remove global purple/magenta and green fringes
      • Remove local color fringes
      • Correct image perspective and lens flaws manually
    • Vignette and grain effects
      • Apply a postcrop vignette
      • Simulate film grain
  • Retouch with the Spot Removal brush
  • Upright automatic perspective correction | Lightroom 5
    • About Upright perspective correction
    • Using Upright modes to correct lens distortion
    • Copy or sync Upright settings
    • Before-and-after examples
  • Enhanced Spot Removal tool | Lightroom 5
    • About the enhanced Spot Removal tool
    • Using the Spot Removal tool
      • Keyboard shortcuts and modifiers
    • Cleaning up a photo with the Visualize Spots feature
  • Radial Filter | Lightroom 5
    • Applying a Radial Filter to enhance a photo
    • Keyboard shortcuts and modifiers for the Radial Filter tool
  • Develop module options
    • Process versions
    • Soft-proof images
    • Apply Develop adjustments to other photos
      • Copy and paste Develop settings
      • Apply Develop presets using the Painter tool
      • Synchronize settings across multiple photos
      • Apply settings of previously selected photo
    • Manage image history and snapshots
      • Create snapshots
      • Add a snapshot
      • Delete a snapshot
      • Track image adjustments in the History panel
• Chapter 11: Exporting photos
  • Export files to disk or CD
    • Export Location
    • File Naming
    • Video
    • File Settings
    • Image Sizing
    • Output Sharpening
    • Metadata
    • Watermarking
    • Post-Processing
  • Post photos online using publish services
    • Email photos from Lightroom
      • Send photos as email attachments
      • Configure email account settings for Lightroom
    • Publish from Lightroom to Facebook
      • Create a Facebook connection
      • Add and manage photos in a Facebook collection
      • Upload to Facebook
    • Publish from Lightroom to Flickr
      • Create a Flickr connection
      • Add and manage photos in a Flickr photoset
      • Upload to Flickr
    • Publish from Lightroom to Behance
      • Create a Behance connection
      • Add and manage photos to the Work in Progress Behance folder
      • Upload to Behance
    • Publish from Lightroom to Adobe Revel
  • Export to Hard Drive using Publish Services
    • Set up a Hard Drive connection
    • Add and manage photos in a Hard Drive folder
    • Export photos to Hard Drive
  • Presets for export, and other settings
    • Export photos using presets
      • Export photos using presets
      • Save export settings as presets
    • Export photos using the previous settings
    • Create export actions
    • Export plug-ins
      • Manage export plug-ins
• Chapter 12: External Editors
  • External editing preferences
    • Set preferences for working with camera raw files in external editors
    • Choose an external editor
    • Create an external editor preset
    • Edit an external editor preset
  • Open Lightroom photos in external applications
    • Open photos in Photoshop Elements
    • Open photos in Photoshop
      • Open photos for editing in Photoshop
      • Open photos as Smart Objects in Photoshop
      • Open photos as layers in Photoshop
      • Merge photos as panoramas in Photoshop
      • Merge photos to HDR in Photoshop
    • Open photos in third-party imaging applications
• Chapter 13: Slideshows
  • Slideshow module panels and tools
  • Specifying the slide layout
    • Choose a slideshow template
      • Premade slideshow templates
      • Preview and select a slideshow template
    • Specify how photos fill a slide’s image cell
    • Add a border or cast shadow to a slideshow image
    • Set the slide margins
    • Set the slide background
      • Add a background
      • Add a color wash to a slide background
    • Rotate slides
    • Rearrange slide order
    • Create custom slideshow templates
      • Save custom slideshow templates
      • Create and organize template folders
      • Update custom templates
      • Delete custom templates
      • Import and export templates
    • Save slideshow settings as a slideshow collection
  • Adding overlays to slides
    • Add your identity plate to a slideshow
    • Display a copyright watermark in a slideshow
    • Display ratings in a slideshow
    • Add text and metadata to slides
    • Add a drop shadow to text in a slideshow (Mac OS)
    • Move and rotate text and other objects in a slide
    • Scale the text and other objects in a slide
    • Remove text and other objects from a slide
  • Play and export slideshows
    • Set slide and transition duration
    • Add beginning and ending slides
    • Play music with a slideshow
    • Randomize the slide order
    • Preview a slide show
    • Play a slideshow
    • Play an impromptu slideshow
    • Export a slideshow
      • Export a slideshow as PDF
      • Export a slideshow as JPEGs
      • Export a slideshow as video
• Chapter 14: Printing photos
  • Print module basics
    • Print module panels and tools
    • View different pages in the Print module
    • Select a printer and paper size
      • Select a paper size
      • Choose a printer
  • Print module layouts and templates
    • Laying out photos in a print template
      • About print templates
      • Choose a print template
      • Specify how photos fill an image cell
      • Specify rulers and guides
      • Modify page margins and cell size (Single Image/Contact Sheet layouts)
      • Print a contact sheet
      • Customize package layouts
    • Printing overlay text and graphics
      • Print your identity plate
      • Print borders in Single Image/Contact Sheet layouts
      • Print borders and strokes in Picture Package and Custom Package layouts
      • Print a colored background
      • Print photos with a copyright watermark
      • Print filename, caption, and other information (Single Image/Contact Sheet layouts)
      • Print page numbers, print info, and crop marks (Single Image/Contact Sheet layouts)
      • Show cut guides (Picture Package and Custom Package layouts)
    • Work with custom print templates
      • Save custom print templates
      • Create and organize template folders
      • Update custom templates
      • Delete custom templates
      • Import and export templates
  • Print job options and settings
    • Specify options in the Print Job panel
      • Print in draft mode
      • Print to JPEG
      • Set print resolution
      • Sharpen a photo for print
      • Print 16-bit color
      • Set print color management
    • Save print settings as a print collection
• Chapter 15: Photo books
  • Create photo books
    • About the Book module
    • Create a photo book
• Chapter 16: Web galleries
  • Web module panels and tools
  • Web gallery layouts
    • Choose a web gallery template
    • Rearrange web gallery photo order
    • Choose colors for gallery elements
    • Specify the appearance of Lightroom HTML galleries
    • Specify the appearance of Lightroom Flash galleries
    • Display a copyright watermark in web photo galleries
    • Add titles, description, and contact information to web photo galleries
    • Add your identity plate to web photo galleries
    • Display photo titles and captions in web photo galleries
  • Web gallery templates and settings
    • Create custom web gallery templates
      • Save custom web gallery templates
      • Create and organize template folders
      • Update custom templates
      • Delete custom templates
      • Import and export templates
    • Save web settings as a web collection
  • Preview, export, and upload web photo galleries
    • Preview a web photo gallery
    • Save a web photo gallery locally
    • Upload a web photo gallery
    • Create and manage FTP presets
      • Create an FTP preset
      • About specifying a server path
      • Edit an FTP preset
      • Delete an FTP preset
• Chapter 17: Keyboard shortcuts
  • Keyboard shortcuts
    • Keys for working with panels
    • Keys for navigating modules
    • Keys for changing views and screen modes
    • Keys for using a secondary window
    • Keys for managing photos and catalogs
    • Keys for comparing photos in the Library module
    • Keys for rating and filtering photos
    • Keys for working with collections
    • Keys for working with metadata and keywords in the Library module
    • Keys for working in the Develop module
    • Keys for working in the Slideshow module
    • Keys for working in the Print module
    • Keys for working in the Web module
    • Keys for using Help