To add pages to your photobook, go to Multipage view. Right click on a page, such as, then select Add Page from the context menu. You can change the layout of any of your pages by using the steps detailed for the front cover. If you unclick Photo Cells, as an example, the grey area and crosshairs go away. You can see where each guide is positioned on your page layout by unchecking, then rechecking the guide, such as Photo Cells. Interested in learning more? Why not take an online Adobe Lightroom course? There should be a checkmark beside "Show Guides." We are going to keep ours the same as it is right now. When you see grey areas with crosshairs that indicates image areas while as rectangles with lines represent text areas. When you do that, the cover layout fills the work area, as shown below.Ĭlick the arrow in the bottom right hand corner (shown above) to change the page layout.Ĭhoose the layout that you want by clicking on it. Now double click on the front cover of your book in the work area. NOTE: If you can see the overlay that details the dimensions and price of your book in the work area, you need to turn that off temporarily by going to View>Show Info Overlay and clicking to remove the checkmark beside it. To create a custom layout, right click on the header of the Page panel. You can also choose if you want a photo caption or one photo per page. You can choose to have a blank page on the left or right hand side of your book and the photo on the left or right side. This is where you will choose a layout from the preset menu: When you are finished, close out the preferences box, and go to the Auto Layout panel in the right panel group. Next, go to Book>Book Preferences to set options for your book. Now go to the Toolbar and select Multi-page view. It is the first view on the left. Next, select your options for size, cover, paper type, and logo page.īased on your selections, Lightroom provides an estimated price, as shown at the bottom of the panel pictured above. Select Blurb from the book menu. Blurb is a publisher that allows you to send your files directly from Lightroom. Next, go to the Book Settings panel in the right panel group.
When we click the Clear Book icon, our work area looks like this:
Creating Layoutsįor the purpose of this article, we are going to with a blank slate so you can learn how to put a book together from scratch. That said, click the Clear Book button in the header bar. It is pictured below and is located in the upper right hand side of the work area.
In the upper left hand corner of the work area, you can see the dimensions, the total number of pages, and even how much it will cost to publish the book. Once you have created the collection and made sure the collection is selected in the Catalog panel, go to the Book module. It looks like this:Īs you can see in the above snapshot, all the photos in your collection have been placed on what will become pages in your book. In this article, we are going to focus on creating photobooks using the Book module. You will learn how to:Ĭreate a duplicate copy of your photobookīefore you start to create a photobook, it is best if you create a standard collection and add all the photos you want in your photobook to the collection. It will save time and aggravation later on. It is fun to create, and Lightroom gives you several ways to create. You can create slideshows, prints, photo displays for your website, and photobooks.