Designing Beautiful Wedding Albums in Lightroom Classic
Learn how to create beautiful wedding albums in Lightroom CC! Join Scott Kelby as he shares his favorite design tips, tricks, and techniques for creating wedding photo books with high impact. Scott takes you through the process, from beginning to end, showing you how to get started with your book, maximize the Lightroom interface for an efficient workflow, how to add photos, customize pages, work with text, and all the while sharing his insights into how to design your layouts like a pro. You’re going to fall in love with the process once you realize how much control you have over the design, and your clients will fall in love with your albums.
Release Date: 2016-02-11
Lessons
Introduction
Join Scott as he introduces the class and discusses what will be covered in the lessons that follow.
Duration: 1 mins 5 seconds
Starting Out
The best way to start a book in Lightroom is to gather up all of the final images and put them into a collection before switching to the Book module. From there Scott takes you through the settings you need to start your book.
Duration: 8 mins 15 seconds
Putting the Book Together
With your book choices made it is time maximize the Lightroom interface for working and to start putting the book together.
Duration: 12 mins 18 seconds
Layout Tips
Scott shares some tips for adding wedding-themed graphics to pages, creating powerful two-page spreads, and how to quickly switch between page views.
Duration: 10 mins 55 seconds
Adding Text
The Book module has a number of options for adding text and customizing its appearance.
Duration: 3 mins 35 seconds
Design Aspects
Scott shares his tips for designing a classic and elegant album.
Duration: 10 mins 46 seconds
Favorite Layouts
We all have our favorite layouts and Scott shares his 7 favorite layouts for wedding albums.
Duration: 4 mins 51 seconds
20 More Layouts: Part 1
Here are more layouts that you can add to your book and customize to fit your style.
Duration: 18 mins 6 seconds
20 More Layouts: Part 2
Scott wraps up his walk through of customizing 20 different layouts you can use in your books.
Duration: 13 mins 21 seconds
Less is More
Here are a few key ingredients to a high impact wedding album.
Duration: 14 mins 25 seconds
Speeding Up the Process
With your collection created, the photos roughly in order, and your custom layouts created, you are ready to automate the process of putting your book together.
Duration: 12 mins 44 seconds
Designing the Cover
From choosing the photo, to customizing the layout, to choosing a font, Scott walks you through the process of designing your book’s cover.
Duration: 11 mins 3 seconds
Final Steps
There are a few things you want to do before sending the book to Blurb to be printed.
Duration: 4 mins 57 seconds