If only that would apply to flying my plane as well… Good to use on your wide angled shots where the earth horizon seems curved.
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For most of my aerial shots where the horizon might be a bit slanted it is very handy to use the Level function.
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You can tell Lightroom to do a Full or Auto transform which will make it look more natural. However, just watching Ms Kost’s video on this subject showed there are better ways of utilising the Upright facility. The Upright tool analyses your images and detects skewed horizontal and vertical lines, and even though it can be very useful, it might look a little bit unnatural, given that we have got used to the way it “normally” looks. When you photograph a building, most of the time the outside walls seem to be tilting inwards towards the top. It’s also handy to directly publish the much smaller Smart Previews to Facebook and other sites. And as soon as the drives are connected again, the RAW files will be updated with the changes you have made. If you want to have access to your photos that may be residing on an external drive which is not always connected, you can generate Smart Previews which will allow you to still be tweaking them. Also: make use of the Visualisation Tool to spot all your spots! This can be extremely handy to remove any splotches or unwanted features or persons from your images. So the car is gone but for a good result you still need to fiddle around with the lines in the car park to make it look believable. Please note: this is the initial result after one click only. Have a look at the red car in the centre. See below for an example of how this Advanced Healing Brush works. There is however a one click healing brush mode that is a bit like the Content Aware mode in Photoshop.
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Now, this Book module was also available in the previous edition of Lightroom so that is not a particularly compelling reason. I did not say just buy Blurb but it would make for a better integration…. It might not be a bad idea for Adobe to fully integrate the Blurb plug-in into Lightroom. In Lightroom 5 the Book module has been upgraded in a few minor ways, like the page numbering system, text input and crop overlays. It would be handy if the Book module already indicated a possible conflict with later e-book printing. To create a book for iPad is generally easy except for text boxes that all needed adjusting. Sometimes text formatting and text placement is more fiddly than it should be and can trip you up when you generate an e-book.
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There were a couple of moments of frustration when I discovered there is no easy way to Undo the last few actions, unlike the facility you have in the Develop module where you can try out certain things, and turn them back if you don’t like them. See below the cover of the book I made for a construction project for which I did the aerial views. The pages can be auto-populated with all the photos, corrections can be quickly made because you are already in Lightroom and there is a huge selection of templates and formats available. I had watched an excellent tutorial by Julianne Kost on this Book module (all of her tutorials are absolutely brilliant!) which convinced me this is a piece of cake.Ī bit of familiarity with previous editions of Lightroom helps of course, but generating a photo book of any size is indeed amazingly simple. I have had no previous experience with self publishing but I am pretty familiar with the publishing world itself.
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I have just finished my first photo book using the Book module which can print to PDF and to Blurb, arguably one of the better known self-publishing platforms.
#Lightroom 5 reviews upgrade
Let me just highlight a couple of things that made the most recent upgrade compelling for me. There were even modules which I had not used yet… My reasoning? Lightroom did pretty well everything I needed it to do: it’s a great editing place for my Nikon 600 images with all the tools that I as an aerial photographer could possibly need. When we reviewed Lightroom 4 I pretty much vowed to myself I won’t bother with the next upgrade.