The Book Module in Lightroom is a tool that lets you define where you print your books, if you want to, something that not all software of this type offers. It is not perfect, but surely is a tool photographers should explore further.
The final Adobe Lightroom 5 has been available for some time now and people talk about the new features, some of which, like the Advanced Healing Brush, make Photoshop less needed for editing. There are also some other tools that photographers of all levels will love.
Stuff like the Offline editing with Smart Previews, which lets you easily work with images without bringing your entire library with you, might just be what a generation essentially posting to the web might need. You just generate smaller stand-in files called Smart Previews, make adjustments or metadata additions to Smart Previews and your changes will be automatically applied to the full-size originals later. But you can use those Smart Previews for a lot of things now. Like the Web...
When I read the note from Adobe regarding the Book Module I thought that we had really some revolutionary options there, but we don't! Let me explain!
Adobe mentions this: "Improved photo book creation – Create beautiful photo books from your images. Lightroom includes a variety of easy-to-use book templates, and now you can edit them to create a customized look. Upload your book for printing with just a few clicks."
Stuff like the Offline editing with Smart Previews, which lets you easily work with images without bringing your entire library with you, might just be what a generation essentially posting to the web might need. You just generate smaller stand-in files called Smart Previews, make adjustments or metadata additions to Smart Previews and your changes will be automatically applied to the full-size originals later. But you can use those Smart Previews for a lot of things now. Like the Web...
When I read the note from Adobe regarding the Book Module I thought that we had really some revolutionary options there, but we don't! Let me explain!
Adobe mentions this: "Improved photo book creation – Create beautiful photo books from your images. Lightroom includes a variety of easy-to-use book templates, and now you can edit them to create a customized look. Upload your book for printing with just a few clicks."
