The Photoshop Lightroom Workbook 232 The Slideshow, Print and Web modules have quite similar features and behavior. The left panel contains templates of page layouts, and the right panel contains all the options and controls for each layout. First, let’s take a look at panels and features in the Print Module, and then we will go through the correct setup for making great prints ( Figure 11.1 ) . You can create a Custom Template or Remove a Template, and you can print directly from your Collections. FIG 11.1 Print Module Main Window The Template Browser Panel The Template Browser holds several precon gured layouts for printing, or you can completely create your own custom layouts and add them to the Template Browser. You add and delete templates from this panel by clicking on the ϩ and Ϫ signs ( Figure 11.2 ) . Creating a Custom Print Template To create a new template, you can modify existing templates or start from scratch. The easiest method is: 1. Select a template from the Template Browser. 2. Use the settings in the right panel to set up the layout you want. 3. Save it as a custom template by clicking on the ϩ button on the right of the Template Browser. 4. Give the template a name and choose create. Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. The Print Module 233 5. The template will be saved in the User Templates folder of Lightroom, as displayed in Figure 11.3 . The Collections Panel You can make selections for the Print Module from the Library Module or directly from your Collections, which appear in the Print Module. You can also make print-speci c collections. Either choose the images you want to print from the Library grid mode or choose a collection from the Collections panel in the Print Module ( Figure 11.4 ) . FIG 11.2 Print Template Panel FIG 11.3 Print Template Panel FIG 11.4 Print Collections Panel Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. The Photoshop Lightroom Workbook 234 Page Setup & Print Settings Buttons On the lower left-hand corner of the Print Module are Page Setup and Print Settings. Here is where you select your paper size, orientation, color management and printer ( Figures 11.5A–C ). FIG 11.5 A&B&C Print Page Setup & Settings (A) (B) (C) The Layout Engine Panel Moving over to the right side of the Print Module is the Layout Engine. The Layout Engine contains the Contact Sheet/Grid layout and Picture Package. Contact Sheet/Grid allows you to print contact sheets of your selected images. Picture Package creates multipage layouts for an individual image in several di erent sizes ( Figure 11.6A ) . Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. The Print Module 235 (A) FIG 11.6 A&B Print Layout Engine (B) Picture Package allows you to create wallet size, 5 ϫ 7 and 8 ϫ 1 0 outputs, all at the same time. What is really neat is that Lightroom sizes the images to the page. If they don’t  t on a page, Lightroom creates a new page. You can even create custom image sizes by simply grabbing a border with the mouse and extending it as displayed in Figure 11.6B . You can shift click and drag to keep the aspect ratio. Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. The Photoshop Lightroom Workbook 236 The Image Settings Panel Image settings are used to rotate, crop and  t images in a layout ( Figure 11.7 ) . ● Zoom to Fill frames: Fills the frame, cropping the edges as necessary. ● Auto-Rotate to Fit: Rotates images to produce the largest image for the layout. ● Repeat One Photo per Page: This option allows you to repeat a photo multiple times on a page. ● Stroke Border: You can add a color border to your image to be printed by clicking on the color picker, choosing the appropriate color and adjusting the width of the border with the slider. The Layout Panel The Layout tools control margins, page grid, cell spacing and cell sizes as well as showing page bleeds. The following are the controls to use when creating custom templates ( Figure 11.8 ) : ● Ruler Units: Sets the ruler to inches, centimeters, millimeters, points or picas. ● Margins: Sets the page margins. Changing the margin will move the image in the Layout in real time. ● Page Grid: Control over the number of cell rows and columns. ● Cell Spacing: Controls the space between cells for rows and columns. ● Cell Size: Size of the image cells. The Guides Panel The Guides panel shows or hides rulers, page bleed, margins and gutters and image cells. The guides can be turned on and o for page bleed and layout purposes ( Figure 11.9 ). The Overlays Panel Lightroom provides the ability to print various metadata as an overlay from the Photo Info dialog box, along with your identity plate. Many photographers like to put their copyright or logo FIG 11.7 FIG 11.8 FIG 11.9 Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. The Print Module 237 on proof images, and this is the place to create those overlays ( Figure 11.10 ) . Identity Plate If you have created an Identity Plate, you can choose to include it in your printing by checking this option. You can rotate the identity plate with the degree option on the right by clicking on it and selecting rotate on screen 90, 180 or Ϫ 90 . To move the identity plate, simply drag it to the desired location. ● Opacity: Controls the opacity of the identity plate. ● Scale: Controls the size of the identity plate. ● Render behind image: The identity plate will appear behind the photo. ● Render on every image: The identity plate will appear centered on every photo in a multiphoto layout. It can be further scaled using the controls in the Overlays panel. Page Options ● Page Numbers: The page numbers will be printed on the bottom right of each page. ● Page Info: The sharpener setting, pro le setting and printer name will be printed on the bottom of each page. ● Crop Marks: Crop marks printed around a photo for use as a cutting guide. Photo Info You can include the  lename, title, keywords and caption excerpted from the metadata printed below each image. Select Photo Info and click the drop-down menu to the right. ● Date: Prints the creation date of the photo. ● Equipment: Prints camera information and lens information. ● Exposure: Prints shutter speed and f/stop. ● Filename: Prints the name of the image. ● Sequence: Prints sequential numbers based on how many images are printed, as in 1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4 for a sequence of 4 images. ● Custom Text: Prints any custom text entered. ● Edit: For editing Text Template Editor. Font Size You can set the size of the font chosen in points. FIG 11.10 Print Overlays Panel Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. The Photoshop Lightroom Workbook 238 FIG 11.11 Image in Print Module with identity plate, Page Options and Custom Text FIG 11.12 The Print Job Panel I n Figure 11.11 , we have an example of an image that has an identity plate, Page Options applied and photo information as Custom Text. The Print Job Panel This is really the control central for the Print Module. Color management, print resolution, rendering intents and sharpening are controlled in this panel. You decide on whether to print to a printer or to output straight to JPEG and to attach a pro le. That means that you can produce print packages for a client and allow the client to print their own photos at their local lab. You can decide to allow the printer to control color management (not recommended by D-65) or choose a corresponding paper pro le and allow Lightroom to control your color. On a Mac running OS X 10.5, you can even output in 16 bits. D-65 suggests that you let Lightroom handle color management. However, if you choose Draft Mode Printing, the printer automatically handles color ( Figure 11.12 ) . Draft Mode Printing Draft Mode Printing is good for printing contact sheets and quick prints. It is also very cool to print to PDF. You can select some or all of the images in your library and print them fairly quickly to a PDF contact sheet based on the preview resolution chosen in the Catalog Preferences. In Draft Mode Printing, the cached preview is used for the print. If you choose an image without a fully cached preview, the thumbnail data is used and the prints may su er from jaggies and artifacting. Sharpening and color management controls aren’t available while using Draft Mode Printing. In Figures 11.13A and B , we rendered a 24-page PDF from raw  les in a matter of seconds, using Draft Mode Printing. Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. The Print Module 239 (A) (B) FIG 11.13A&B Draft Mode Printing Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. The Photoshop Lightroom Workbook 240 Print Resolution The print resolution de nes the dots per inch (dpi) – not to be mistaken for pixels per inch (ppi) – for the printer. The default value is 240 ppi. As a side note, the Epson print engine can handle any resolution between 180 and 360 for matt papers and up to 480 for glossy papers. The ideal resolution for an image is the one that has the least change from the native resolution of the  le. Print Sharpening Lightroom 2.0 includes output print sharpening based on PixelGenius PhotoKit Sharpener algorithms. Output sharpening is accounting for pixels being converted to dots on paper. You can choose the type of paper you are printing to and the degree of sharpening. When Draft Mode Printing is enabled, Print Sharpening is disabled. 16 Bit Output Lightroom 2.0 includes the ability to output as 16-bit printing for Mac OS X 10.5. Color Management P r o  le: Other If you have loaded paper pro les into your computer, they will be available in Color Management under Pro le Ͼ Other. If you choose a custom printer pro le, make sure that all color management is turned o in the printer driver software. This is controlled in the Print Settings button under Color Management ( Figure 11.14 ) . Available paper profiles FIG 11.14 Color Pro les in Print Module Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. The Print Module 241 Managed by Printer If no pro les are installed in your computer, color will automatically be managed by the printer. If you use Managed by Printer, make sure to select ColorSync in the Color Management settings (Mac OS) or enable ICM Method for Image Color Management on PC. Depending on the printer driver software, you can usually  nd the color management settings below the Presets menu after the Print dialog box opens on a Mac and the Print Document dialog box opens at Setup\Properties\Advanced on a PC. Rendering Intents The printer’s color space is likely smaller than the color space of the image to be printed. The rendering intent you choose will compensate for these out-of-gamut colors. Perceptual is for strong vibrant colors. Perceptual preserves the visual relationship between colors. Colors that are in gamut may change as out-of-gamut colors are shifted to reproducible colors. Relative Colormetric is for muted colors. Relative Colormetric rendering preserves all in-gamut colors and shifts out-of-gamut colors to the closest reproducible color. This option preserves more of the original color and is a good choice when you have few out-of-gamut colors. The Print Button Choose Print ( Figure 11.15 ) to con gure your print settings after you have used all the tools in the panels and you will wind up with a gorgeous print! FIG 11.15 The Print Button Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. [...]... watermark 247 The Photoshop Lightroom Workbook 17 We will probably use these exact settings again in the future, so let’s create a custom template Choose the ϩ sign next to the Template Browser on the left-hand side of the Print Module Name the New Template and choose Create (Figure 11.29) FIG 11.29 Saving Print Template Summary Lightroom really makes printing a breeze, with all the features in the Print... printer profiles, place the profile in your computer’s ColorSync (Mac) or Color (Windows) folder On the Mac, place the ICC profile in the ColorSync folder in the main Library folder In Windows, navigate to the Color folder in C:\Windows\System32\ Spool\Drivers\Color and drop the ICC profile into the Color folder After placing the new profile in the folder, restart Lightroom, and select Other; your profile... achieve the best results and the widest gamut, it is critical to have your monitor profiled so that you can rely on the colors you see being the actual colors you are trying to print 1 First, select an image from the Library, or if the image is part of a collection, select the image from the Collections panel directly in the Print Module (Figure 11.16) 2 Next choose Page Setup from the bottom left of the. .. token will contain the year, month and day the image was shot Lightroom extracts this information from the metadata coming from the camera, so make sure your date/time is correct in the camera 5 Your cursor should be in the example window after the newly inserted date token Manually type in an underscore after the first token This will separate the tokens that we will be stringing together 6 Go down to... a cell number for each image and section borders too (the dotted lines above and below the cells) and whether there is a drop shadow on the background from the image Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark 255 The Photoshop Lightroom Workbook 5 We choose no Drop Shadow, a light border defining each section of the gallery, 6 column-wide gallery, a border around each... example to use the Identity Plate for D-65 in a web gallery would bring the user directly to the D-65 web site (5) Q How do you set the columns when creating an html web gallery? A Use the Appearance Panel and roll the mouse over the Grid Pages to select how many columns wide you want your web gallery Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark 259 The Photoshop Lightroom. .. or when they were published If we use our Indian Creek images as an example, the file name would be: 20080616_indiancreek_0001.CR2 The numbers ‘20080616’ define the date, as in June 16, 2008 Using the reverse date order ensures files are always sorted in order The ‘indiancreek’ designation defines the actual job in our naming convention The ‘0001’ defines the image number, and ‘CR2’ defines the type... profiles loaded, where do you find them in the Print Module? Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark 249 The Photoshop Lightroom Workbook A If you have loaded paper profiles into your computer, they will be available in Color Management under Profile Ͼ Other (7) Q What are the two options for handling Color Management in the Print Module? A There are two choices when it... Application Color Management, which basically means that the application FIG 11.18 Print Image Settings and Layout Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark 243 The Photoshop Lightroom Workbook FIG 11.19 Photoshop Image Size (Lightroom) manages the color, doing the conversions and handing that information over to the printer driver To utilize Application Color Management,... this watermark The Web Module Color Palette Panel The next Panel is the Color Palette You can choose colors for a variety of options Choose Colors that are different for Text and Detail Text Detail Matte is the area around the image when it is enlarged, so you might like to create a frame around the image with a different color Rollover is when you scroll over the images on the index page The Grid Lines . by clicking on the color picker, choosing the appropriate color and adjusting the width of the border with the slider. The Layout Panel The Layout tools. Settings (A) (B) (C) The Layout Engine Panel Moving over to the right side of the Print Module is the Layout Engine. The Layout Engine contains the Contact Sheet/Grid