Hello, I'm Helen Bradley. Welcome to this video tutorial. In this tutorial we're going to have a
look at Lightroom 4 and we're going to create a framed photo with our own name across
the bottom ready for print or web.
In this video tutorial I'm going to show you how you can create a framing effect like
this one in Lightroom. And the nice thing about this in Lightroom is that you can
save it as a template so you can use it over and over again.
So I'm going to start with a custom package. And I'm just going to get rid of
everything here and we'll get started.
So the first thing to do in the Print module in Lightroom is to select what
you want to print
and how you want to print it so I'm just going to bring in this panel here. So
the first thing I'm going to do is set up landscape paper. If you're working on a
Mac you have a couple of selectors here. But basically
the option that you want to do is to select Landscape and the size paper
you're using and your printer so I have that set up here.
If you want to print to a JPG so that you're not going out to a printer
instead you can select to print to a JPG file and then you can add your own
custom dimensions in here
and then set it to for example three hundred PPI.
And you can send this then out to a file that you can then print on a
professional service or you may want to take it to the web at that stage. But whichever
option you choose setting up your paper is the first thing to do after you
have actually set up
or selected that you're going to make a custom package.
Now I have this image here on the filmstrip that I want to use, so I'm just going to drag
and drop it into here. That's one of the benefits of using the custom package
is that you can drag and drop. And if you ever find the Print module a little bit
confusing in Lightroom I suggest that you select one of these options and focus on
learning it. And custom package is probably the easiest and most flexible to use so I'm
just going to drag this out. Now you can see that Lightroom is just
making my image fit this placeholder and it will scale it in proportion so I
don't need to worry about any of that.
I'm thinking that my image is either wider or taller than this. It's going
to be one dimension out I suspect and it's obviously wider than the
holder.
But if I hold the
Ctrl key down I can just drag it into position. And I want a bit more of her. I
want her to be leading us into the photo a litte bit more so I'm just going to put
her there.
And now we need to look at the thing along the bottom
which is in fact an identity plate so we can just select here.
Now this is the identity plate I've already created, but let's see how we
would create one of our own.
I'm just going to click in here on this little disclosure triangle and choose
Edit.
And this allows me to create an identity plate. So I'm just going to
delete what's in there and we'll type our own. So I'm going to start by
putting Caps Lock on
and choose my font which is going to be Myriad Pro. And I'm going to choose a
sort of dark gray so that I can see it
and click in here and start typing.
And then I'm going to save this so I'm going to Save as and I'm going
to call this
Helen Bradley
Photography
and click Save.
So this means that I can save it and use it over and over again so I've just
clicked and here it is here.
And we can size it, scale it if we want to. There's an opacity option here
where we can make it
more or less opaque. And we can scale it to
a big size or a small size and just pull it into position.
The other thing that we can do in Lightroom which is really handy if you don't like the
color of the type you still just create the one text
identity plate but you can overwrite its color here. So for example we could go
and choose
an orangey red
perhaps to match the color here
and then that's what our identity plate would be. So we can overwrite the
color with whatever color it is that we want
and now we can just print to file or we can go and print to the printer. So that's
how you create this sort of museum framing with your own name in Adobe
Photoshop Lightroom. I'm Helen Bradley. Thank you for joining me for the video
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