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[What's New in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4]
Hi, and welcome.
My name is Julieanne Kost, and in the next few minutes, we're going to take a look
at some of the more advanced features in the book module.
Now the first thing that I want to talk about is adding a background.
So let's go ahead and scroll down here to this double-page spread.
And I want to see it a little bit larger,
so I'll use the keyboard shortcut commend R or CONTROL + R
to see the double-page spread.
Now I do like the fact that there's a photo here, but what I would like
is I would like to have a photo that spans the entire page,
and then I just want the text to kind of overlay on top of that,
and I would like the photo to be screened back.
So the easiest way to do this would be to scroll down to the background panel.
You'll notice that I can apply a background globally,
so if I wanted, say, a light gray to be the background on all of my pages,
I would click this on and then select that light gray as my background color
by clicking on the color swatch here.
But what I'd prefer to do in this scenario is actually drag a photo into this area,
which will apply that photo at a lower opacity to the page.
So all I need to do is select the photo that I want, and in this case
let's go ahead and pick this scene and drag and drop that right there.
Now I no longer need the pigeon here, so let's delete that,
and you can see that I can see through to that background layer.
Now one thing that might happen when you're working with your book
is if you have your guides turned on, you might see this gray area,
because it's showing you where the photocell is on that page.
So you can simply turn off your guides by clicking here
or by using the keyboard shortcut COMMAND + SHIFT + G to toggle those
all on and off at once.
So that's a really nice way to create a background of a screen image.
And, of course, you could do this manually, right?
I could make a virtual copy of an image if I wanted to,
take that into the develop module,
and use my curve in order to screen back the image and
bring back that photo and just use a template that has text as well as a spread,
but this is kind of a quicker option, I think, in my opinion.
The other thing that we need to talk about is we need to talk about favorites.
So let's zoom back out here, and let's go to our page panel.
Now I think, as you start creating books, there are going to be
certain templates that you're going to use more often than other ones.
So in order to add a template to your favorites, you'll want to use
the disclosure triangle here, but now you're not going to want to click on any of these.
Right? Because if I click on these and I have a page selected,
it's going to change the template.
If I don't have any pages selected, it will add a new page.
But what I would do is I would navigate to the one I want.
Let's say, for example, I like this one right here.
If I want to make that a favorite, I would right mouse click and
add this layout to my favorites.
Then those favorites appear up here in your Favorite panel, so now
you don't have to scroll through as many layouts.
If you wanted to remove a layout from your favorites,
you just right mouse click and remove the layout from the favorites.
Again, don't click on it--right mouse click, or if you're on the Mac
you can control click to remove that from your favorites.
So that's going to be really helpful when you're applying different templates
to your images while you're here in this view,
but don't forget when we first started creating our book,
when we went to Auto Layout and we changed our preset,
one of the options up here was to select Random from Favorites.
So--you know--my first book layout was extremely tidy.
I had--you know--two verticals or two horizontals together
right after one another.
But if you want to kind of mix it up a little bit,
you can go ahead and select Random from Favorites and then choose
the number of photos, because maybe you just want it to randomize
between all of your favorites that have one image per layout
or two images per layout.
And, of course, you can add multiple ones to make it a little bit more varied.
What you don't want to do is you don't want to add, like, the option for four
if you don't actually have any favorites that include four images in a single layout.
Otherwise you'll get an error message, so just make sure that you have layouts
for the number of photos that you check.
All right. Let's cancel out of here.
I want to talk a little bit about making changes in the develop module.
So let's select this image right here,
and I'm going to tap the D key in order to go to the develop module.
And it just so happens that all four of the images that are
next to each other on the page are next to each other on the filmstrip.
So I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to select all of the images in my filmstrip,
and I'll turn on Auto Sync.
And then we'll come over here to my presets,
and I have a few presets for a single color split toning.
So let's make sure that they're all black and white, first,
by clicking on that preset, and then I'll use my sepia tone.
And because I have Auto Sync turned on, that preset has now
been applied to all four of those images.
Now I will remember to turn off Auto Sync so the next time I come in
the develop module I don't accidentally do something that I don't want to do.
But my point here is that when we return back to the book module,
you'll notice that all of those images have been updated.
So this is a great thing, but you really do have to kind of pay attention to it.
For example, on page 1, you'll notice that these two images
have a different crop, and that's because I cropped this image for another demo
that I was doing on the soft proofing in the develop module.
Because I changed the crop of the original,
and that original image was in my book collection,
when I made my collection it, of course, obeyed the crop that I had told it to crop to.
So I'm going to select this image, tap the R key in order to go
right back to the develop module and give me the crop tool,
and I'm going to change the aspect ratio back to the original.
Then, of course, I can modify this crop.
What I'm looking for is just to make sure that it's at the same aspect ratio
as all of the other images in my filmstrip down here,
so that when we go back to the book module,
those two images now look the same.
Of course, if I wanted two different crops--one for the develop module demo
and one for my book demo--all I would have to do is create a virtual copy,
and then I could use the virtual copy in my book module
with a different crop aspect ratio.
So, pretty easy to solve.
All right.
Now, I know that some people are going to want to create their own templates,
so I just want to show you a quick work-around.
I'm going to scoot over to the print module for a minute,
because what I discovered was there wasn't a template for what I wanted.
And what I wanted was I wanted a layout that just had nine images in it,
and there isn't one.
So if we just quickly select, say, nine images here,
you can see that what I've done is I've used the layout style
with just a single-image contact sheet.
I've gone to Layout, and I've changed the page grids
so that there's three rows and three columns.
There's a little bit of vertical spacing in between them.
And then down here in the print job, I've set it up so I'm not printing
to a printer, but instead I'm printing to a JPEG file.
That way I can fill any of these templates with any of the images that I want,
print it to a JPEG, import that JPEG back into Lightroom,
and just use that JPEG as a single image in my book.
Likewise, I'm not stuck with just using the single image contact sheet.
You can see here I have another template that has four images,
and I could simply drag and drop my images into this template
in any order that I want to.
In fact, I can come down here to my page;
I could even add a background color if I wanted to.
And that little grid there is just my grids and guides showing,
so we can turn that off; obviously that wouldn't print.
But, again, I could go down to my print job
and print this out as a JPEG.
And I was paying attention when I was first creating these templates,
so you'll notice right down here that for the custom file dimensions,
I've made these 12 by 12 inches.
So the biggest book that you can print currently in the book module
is 12 by 12 inches, so I know that I could use this for the 12 by 12
or the 7 by 7 because I'm exporting it out at 300 pixels per inch.
So, really, you actually have a lot of flexibility, right?
Because I think you guys know that--you know--you can change
any of the cells here.
You can move them around. You can overlap them.
You could right mouse click and send them back and forwards.
So, tons of flexibility here.
But that did just remind me of a question that I got regarding resolutions.
So the last thing that I want to show you--I'm just going to go back
here to the library module, and I'm going to select another book
that I created called "The Red Thread" because I want to show you
that in this case--let's look at all of the images--you'll notice
that a lot of these images have this exclamation mark.
So that tells me that the resolution of that photo isn't really up to par
with what should be printed to Blurb.
And, in fact, if you click on that warning, it will tell you
that it's going to print at 155 ppi, but the recommended resolution is 200 ppi.
So it's just a warning and, honestly, I printed the book anyway,
and I absolutely love the book.
And not only did I print the book to Blurb, but you can see here
that I also printed the book to PDF, and so now what I've done is
I've just dragged it onto my tablet using the Acrobat Reader,
and I can go ahead and look at that book not only in my printed copy
but also on my tablet device.
Excellent. My name's Julieanne Kost. Thanks for joining me.
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