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[Julieanne Kost, Senior Digital Imaging Evangelist] Hi, and welcome.
My name's Julieanne Kost, and we're going to take the next few minutes
to take a look at the book module.
Now, this video is going to cover the basic workflow
from start to end.
I'm not going to cover too much or go too much in depth
on actually--you know--manipulating the layouts
and changing layouts, nor the advanced features,
but I really want to make sure that we understand the workflow.
So let's start here in the library module.
And it's really up to you how much time you want to put into
creating the collection of images and organizing them
into kind of a storytelling order before you go to the book module.
I prefer to do it in the library, because I can see more images at a time
and it just makes more sense to me,
but we can always modify that order once we get over to the book module.
The other thing that I did do before I went to the book module
with this collection of images is I entered in captions
for each one of the photographs into the metadata, and
I just did that over here on the right-hand side.
You can see, if we go down to metadata and I click on an image,
we can see that it has a caption right here.
So the nice thing about the book module is it will actually
look for captions if I tell it to and then apply those right underneath each one of the photographs.
So we'll see that in just a moment.
So let's take this collection and move to the book module.
Now I'm going to start on the right-hand side underneath the book settings.
You can see her for Book we have two options.
We can output to Blurb or to PDF.
And we chose Blurb because recently they've made huge improvements
in their binding and in their endpapers as well as their paper quality,
and all of the folks on the testing team really found it to be a positive experience.
So let's look at what the options are as far as sizes go.
There's five different sizes.
We've got a small, square book, which is 7 by 7,
a standard portrait, which is 8 by 10,
a standard landscape, which is 10 by 8,
a large landscape, and a large square.
And I actually have an example here of the standard landscape book
that I created, and you can see that we can see those
gray endpapers there,
and then we can go ahead and turn the page and you can see
this is the book that I laid out, and I'm very, very happy
with the quality here.
All right. Let's take a look at some of the other options.
For example, the cover.
Now, mine was a hardcover book, but I could have also chosen
a soft cover, or I could have chosen a hard cover with a dust jacket.
And I think you know what that is; that's the paper wrapped on top of a hard cover
that folds into the inside of the book.
In fact, you can get a good visual here at the top.
You'll see that this would be the front cover, and
then this is the part that wraps around to the inside.
And, of course, we can put photographs and we can put text
in all of these different areas that are highlighting,
and we can choose different templates.
In fact, Lightroom is going to ship with over 180 templates.
Now, today those templates aren't going to be modifiable,
but I've laid out now five different books, and I haven't felt
extremely constrained by these templates because they are so varied.
You know, I guess it's really just a trade-off.
You know, the control versus the flexibility.
So if you're a designer who is used to designing in a product like InDesign,
then probably you would want to stay in InDesign, and maybe
the book module wouldn't be for you because it doesn't have as much flexibility.
But for me, it was really, really easy to use, and even though I know InDesign,
I think it speaks volumes that I actually hadn't produced a book yet in InDesign.
Yet as soon as the book module came to Lightroom, I've now gone ahead
and published books of my own.
Okay, so getting back to the book settings here.
We can also choose our paper type.
So there is a premium lustre, a matte, an uncoated, and a pearl photo,
and you can actually go on the Blurb website, and they will send you
a little swatch kit that you can then take a look at
each of these paper types.
There's one paper type that we don't offer, and that is the standard paper type
just because I don't think it meets the quality that you're going to want
as our customer.
In addition, you can see that they'll send you the endpapers that you can choose from
and then also some canvases.
There is also an option for a logo page.
I have that turned on because it actually reduces the price of the book,
so I kind of like that feature.
All right. Let's go now to the Auto Layout area.
I could simply tell Lightroom to auto-fill the book,
and, in fact, if we come over here and we go to Book
and we go to Book Preferences, you'll notice that I have an option
to start new books by auto-filling, which is a great option.
I have it turned off because I didn't want this book to auto-fill
the second we got over here because I wanted to talk through
all of these other options, but you can certainly turn that on.
There's also an option for your default photo zoom.
So if the aspect ratio of your photo doesn't meet the aspect ratio of the cell,
you can choose to either Zoom to Fit, in which case there won't be any cropping,
or you can choose to Zoom to Fill.
I'm going to go ahead and leave it Zoom to Fit.
I'd rather see my whole image and then decide if I want to fill this cell
by cropping my image on kind of a page-by-page basis.
All right, there are also some text options here.
I want to fill the text boxes with my caption metadata, right?
I went to all that work in the library module to add all my captions,
so I would love to have the book module grab that information from the metadata
and add the caption underneath every single image.
I could also use the title metadata if I wanted to,
or I could use filler text.
The thing with filler text is it actually
puts a little bit of text in each one of your captions,
and then you would go in and manually overwrite that caption and type in your own text.
And so it is a good idea if you want to be reminded where all of your captions are.
Just as a side note, the little filler text that it does put in there--
that text won't print.
So if you accidentally forget that you haven't added a caption
to a photo and it just has that filler text,
it's pretty much like a guide, and you don't have to worry about it.
It won't actually print.
But I want the caption metadata, and I'm going to constrain my captions
to text-safe areas, so that if I have a photo that bleeds,
like it has a full bleed--it goes all the way top, bottom, left, and right--
I want to make sure that the caption is inside the area that is title-safe or text-safe
because when the book gets bound, sometimes they trim
the top and the bottom and the sides, obviously,
and when they do those trims, I want to make sure that my text doesn't
accidentally get trimmed off.
All right. So those are the preferences.
Now, before I simply click Auto Layout, I want to take a look at
the presets and maybe modify one.
So let's select Edit Auto Layout Preset.
And you'll notice that we've got left pages and right pages.
Now I'm just going to set my pages to be the same.
So, for example, I want photos on both sides of my pages.
Not everyone wants that, so they might leave the left side blank
so that you only have photos on the right-hand side.
For this book that I'm laying out, it's fine with me to have photos on each side.
And the way that I laid out my book in my collection was I basically put
two horizontals and two verticals next to each other,
so I know that I'm going to want two images per page.
So here, underneath the right-hand side, I'm going to put Fixed Layout
and then I'm going to select two photos.
And since the majority of my photos are actually vertical,
I'm going to pick one of these vertical templates, like this one.
Once I've got that selected, I can again choose to zoom my photos to fill or fit.
I prefer the fill.
If I choose fit, I have an option to match the long edges.
If you choose to match long edges, what Lightroom will do is
if you have an image that--maybe you have a vertical image and a horizontal image
on the same page--it's going to actually change the size of the larger image
to match the smaller image, and it just kind of--it kind of makes the weight
of the two images closer than if you have this huge horizontal
and this little vertical or vice versa.
But I'm going to turn that off and set my zoom back to fill.
I want to add the photo captions, I want to align them with the photo,
and I'm going to use a text style preset.
Some text styles for captions as well as titles ship by default,
but I've actually created my own, and I did that just using the Type options here,
which we'll talk about in another video.
But for now, I have edited my preset so I could either save this as a new preset
or update the preset that I have.
I'm going to choose to update the preset and then click Done.
So now we are ready to have Lightroom do our Auto Layout, so we'll click that
and you can see that Lightroom's making as many pages as it needs to
and it's also laying out that book for me.
So now let's take a minute and talk about how to
view maybe a single page versus a double-page spread
versus this multi-page view.
Well, in our toolbar we have icons for all three of those views.
So, for example, if I wanted to view the spread
of page 2 and page 3, I just need to highlight that and then
click here in order to zoom into that spread view.
If I want to see a single page, I can click on the single page icon,
and if I want to see the whole flow of the book, the multiple pages,
I can click on the first icon.
Of course, there are keyboard shortcuts for all of this, which I really think
help navigate much more quickly,
so I'll just point those out.
They're all right next to each other.
So COMMAND or CONTROL + E shows you the entire book.
COMMAND + R will go to a double-page spread.
And COMMAND + T will show you a single page.
Once you're viewing a single page, you can then use your arrow keys
to move from page to page.
If I use COMMAND + R to go to the double-page spread and I use my arrow keys,
then I move from one spread to the next.
And if I use COMMAND + E that takes me back to view all
of my multiple pages in my book.
When I'm viewing multiple pages, I can use the plus key in order to
increase my thumbnail size, or I can use the minus key
to decrease my thumbnail size.
Of course, if I tap the tab key, then my panels are hidden
on the left- and right-hand side, which gives me a little bit larger area to view my images,
especially if I wanted to start making changes.
I might use the plus key in order to just zoom in a little bit in this view.
All right, let's tap the tab key in order to bring back those panels,
and I'm going to scroll down just a little bit until we hit this first page
that has two horizontal images.
I just want to show you really quickly how easy it is to change a template
for a page.
There's a little disclosure triangle right here when I highlight the page.
When I click on it, it shows me all of the different templates that I can choose from.
So, for example, here are all the templates for my one photo up on a page,
and you can see that some of these templates have areas for text;
some of them have kind of this funky border on each of the images;
some of them have a full bleed; some of them are off-centered left or right.
There's, like I said, 180 different templates to choose from.
If you want to move to two photos per page,
here are all your options there.
We've got three photos per page and four photos per page, and obviously
they get more and more complex as you add more photos.
In fact, we even have a multiple photos, and look at all the photos.
You can make a nice grid and put a ton of images on a single page.
So if I just want to change this so the two photographs aren't sitting next to each other
but instead are stacked on top of each other, I'll just click on two photos
and then click the template I want, and Lightroom will automatically change that for me.
You might also notice that if I double-click on a page,
my captions all came over as well.
Again, that was work that I did up front.
All right. Let's view all of the images.
Now, I'm not going to go into how we can manipulate these layouts right now.
What I want to do is kind of jump ahead so that we complete the whole workflow
by just imagining that we are actually finished at this point
and we want to save this book.
So up at the top you'll notice that this is an unsaved book right now.
So I need to come over to the right-hand side and create a saved book.
This is the exact same thing as if I use the plus icon on my collection area and create a book.
We'll go ahead and name this--we'll call this Venice Demo Book, and I can save this
either as a top level on my collection or inside another collection.
And I'll go ahead and choose Create.
You can see in my collection area I have a new icon here,
and this is the icon for my book projects.
You'll notice that in Lightroom 4, when you work with the output modules
we are working a little bit differently in that we're going to ask you to save
your specific projects that you create.
And the nice thing about that is, for example, if I go to the library module now
and I'm working on, maybe, a different folder full of images
and I've moved to a different project,
when I come back to this Venice Demo Book, you'll notice that I can
click on it and it will show me all the pictures that are in that collection
or in that book, but also I can click on the little arrow icon and it
will open up that book.
So from now on no matter what I do in this book, it will
automatically be saved.
Every change that I make is a part of this book.
So then as the last step, if this book is complete and we're happy with it
I can choose to either export the book to PDF
or I can send the book to Blurb.
And even though I'm going to send this book ultimately to Blurb,
it is kind of nice to have the option to create a PDF file,
because then I can just print that out and kind of use it as a proof
and go through it and make sure that I've got everything right
and maybe step away from it for a day and then come back to it.
So for me it's a great way to proof the book, but ultimately my goal would be
to send the book to Blurb.
That wraps up the workflow segment of the book module.
My name's Julieanne Kost. Thanks for watching.
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