When you calibrate a monitor correctly you ensure the brightness, contrast and colours are all accurately displayed. The solution to this problem is monitor calibration. In short, it’s unlikely you’re seeing an accurate display of the photo. It’s also possible people using the computer will adjust these characteristics, especially if it’s a shared computer.
Then with use over time the colours will probably shift, along with the brightness and contrast. When a computer monitor leaves the factory, the colours it displays should be accurate to a small tolerance, although this isn’t always the case. The first common mistake when soft proofing images is not to use a calibrated computer screen. Common Soft Proofing Mistakesīefore we look at soft proofing in Lightroom there are a couple of common mistakes I want to help you avoid. The reason I recommend Lightroom for soft proofing is that it has several excellent features to help you. This means it has a similar contrast and colour to what you see on your computer screen. Soft proofing helps you to produce an accurate print.
The guides you see on the right side of the Lightroom UI in Figures 4 and 5 will help you to line up the images.Soft Proofing is a process where you simulate using software how your photo will look when printed. The same vertical image with Zoom to Fill Frame selected. I want to max it out to the point where the entire screen is filled with my image ( Figure 5, below).įigure 5. Select the Zoom to Fill Frame checkbox to make sure your vertical images fill the frame. If I don’t, my vertical images are not going to take up much of the frame.įigure 4. The first thing I want to do is I want to make sure I have the Zoom to Fill Frame checkbox selected ( Figure 4, below). There we see kids and families with signs, excited for the cyclists to make this ride. In between I have got all the images in chronological order, showing the day-everything from support teams, to breaks where the two different riding groups stopped for some carbs and water, and so on, all the way to where everybody's coming to the finish line and you see all the crowds. It ends with all the guys at the finish line with the big, giant fake check showing how much money they raised ( Figure 3, below).įigure 3. You can see in Figure 1 that I’ve got about 40 photos.
One of the guys actually ran the course instead of riding a bike.įigure 2. You can see from the first photo, shown in Figure 2 (below), that the ride started very early in the morning, before daylight. Here are the photos we’ll use to build our slideshow. Our Projectįigure 1 (below) shows photos that I shot last fall of a benefit cycling ride.įigure 1. We’ll also focus on some of the new features, particularly the ability to synchronize music very simply. Here we’ll look at what is available on the slideshow, and why you might use it for your video productions. The slideshow capability has been in Lightroom for quite a few versions now, but they have updated it with a number of really nice, new features.
In this tutorial we’ll look at the newly updated slideshow feature in Adobe Lightroom 6-also known as Lightroom CC, depending on whether you buy it standalone or whether you download it as part of your Creative Cloud subscription service. But you can also do it in Adobe Lightroom. There are a variety of ways to do this online through different websites. You can do this, of course, in your NLE, or in After Effects. You have no video or audio, but your client wants you to produce something that is going to take all the images from a particular event and put them to a nice soundtrack with motion, some transitions, and some titles. There are many times where you are going to want to create a slideshow of just images.