Quick Tips for Using Lightroom Print Templates (and other useful printy stuff)
Hi gang, and Happy Friday! On Wednesday I had posted a video (and a free downloadable template) on how to create a custom print layout template, and it generated a number of questions about templates, and importing, and stuff like that, so I thought I’d do a short video today to not only answer those question, but share some other Print module tips as well.
It’s short, but packed with goodness (and tipness, and loch ness). 😉
Hope you find that helpful.
Do you want to finally fall in love with HDR?
I did a Lightroom tutorial today over at my blog (http://scottkelby.com) on how to finally fall in love with HDR (and no it’s not that awful super-vibrant, over sharpened, fantasy-land type stuff that much of the photography community hates with the passion of a thousand burning suns. I actually think you’ll dig it. I hope you’ll dig it. You’ll dig it. 😉
Hope you all have a great weekend. Don’t forget “The Walking Dead” is back Sunday after it’s mid-season hiatus. Should be a really miserable time for everyone involved. 😉
Best,
-Scott
P.S. If you’re into Lightroom, you know you should be at the Photoshop World Conference in Orlando, Florida April 20-22nd right? Everybody else will be there. Why not you, right? Right!
How’s things?, on occasion I see a 400 server error when I browse your webpage. Just a heads up, best wishes
Great tip – thanks! One more question: If I use a custom print template/layout, fill it with photos and now want to add another page with just the same template/layout to place the rest of my images in, how do I do that? I can’t find a command that would let me add the same template again. Only thing I can do is add a completely blank page.
Thanks Scott! Learning the cmd/ctrl key trick for placing the chosen photo inside the saved template boxes is great. This always stumped me. I would go back and crop virtual copies to fit the locations I wanted them in saved templates. I am so glad I finally got to watch this clip.
Good refreshers yesterday and today, thanks Scott!
Since you posted this print template the other day I’ve tried it out and had some fun with it. I have a couple questions though. When I place it on an 8-1/2×11 page it is not centered. Your example today looked like it was centered on the page. I’ve tried every keyboard shortcut I can think of that will let me choose all of the cells at one time and center them. Not being centered causes a problem when I pull it into Photoshop. Also, is there a way to save just the cells and not the rest of the page.
Just save the layout as a template with one name, then change the page size – tweak the cells individually to be centered on the new size and save that as a second template. No group select or move, it’s just not that elegant. (His example was on a 4×5 ratio layout, I screen captured it and pixel peeped it.)
After I wrote the post I changed the page size to 8×10 and it’s centered on that size. That solved my problem. But I was still curious if there was a way to choose all the cells at one time. That’s a no. Thanks a lot for the help.