Now the next output module along the module picker is the print module. But just before I jump in there I just like to add one more thing to the slideshow movie I just made and that is the ability to create a saved slideshow so I overlooked that I talked about saving templates. But when you create a save slideshow, what this does is it basically size another collection. So I'm going to click that. And I'm just going to call this one slideshow test, slideshow test and it's going to go inside the collection so this is an unusual idea. Putting a collection inside another collection normally we put them inside sets, but you can actually save a slideshow or a web gallery or a print template inside a slideshow so I'll show you what happens when I click Create down here in my slideshow collection which is just a regular collection.

There is now a saved slideshow called slideshow test. So what this is is the entire slideshow with every single setting every single image and then I can just return to that very easily and pick up where I left off. So this is a little different to creating a template, because the template doesn't actually save the images as well that you've got in it. Whereas creating the slideshow also includes the images. So just thought I'd mentioned that. Now I'm going to stick with this same slideshow collection as I head over to the print module.

And I'm just going to jump down and choose a portrait orientation image to start with. So as I said, the print module like the slideshow and web has a template browser, and boy does the print module have a template has a look at all the templates you get to start with, and you've got room to save your own. So a classic so let me say let me just start by saying the primary role of the print module is to print to your printer that is your home printer or office printer, work printer, whatever it may be. you're connected to that printer, you can prepare prints from here, and then you can hit print down here and make a print. So You've got all the abilities here to create templates and so forth to send. So one large with stroke is a classic if you want to do you know, just like a full, I guess a full screen print you've got, you can grab your borders here and scale them up and down.

And it's all very flexible and intuitive. Some of these templates include, like you got like a greeting card one here, or I can lay it up like this so I can print great, it's good sit for an a4 sheet right now. So that would print on a4. And I could cut it up and fold it and I've got these lovely greeting cards. And of course, whatever image I want to pop on there will be the one that ends up being printed. So a range of different templates there for different sort of purposes.

You've also got contact sheets. So I click on the contact sheet template, you'll see by default, it just enters my currently selected image. But if I got Command A to select all the images down in my filmstrip, you'll see they'll flow in to my contact sheet here. And you'll also notice it says page one of two Because there's more than enough images to fit there. And if I move to the next image, you'll see it floating over or flowing rather, over on to the next page. And back.

So we got the contact sheet, very intuitive how I can just grab these borders to make them bigger and make them smaller, nice, interactive, easy sort of workflow. So lots of different templates there. Pardon me. So you've also got your print settings, your page setup and your print settings. Now, when you click these buttons, we actually exit Lightroom. And we go into our print drivers.

Because Lightroom is not capable of sending data directly to the printer, it has to go through your operating system print drivers. So whether that's Windows or Mac, you'll be confronted with this situation there. So you'll have to format for you know, your particular printer, choose your paper size and so forth there. And then you'll have your print settings as well, where you can go in choose your printer here, if you've got any presets and so forth. So there's not There's not a lot of printed setup on this particular computer. This is more of a, actually an office computer.

So the big print is on here, but you can see that's where you would access all of that. So I'm just going to leave that for now and move on. So we're looking at our template here. Now the nice template is the four wide or just quickly hit that one for wide lays out these nice kind of four panoramas if you like. And what's really cool is how you can move the images around within the within the frame just to get a little bit of a more precise, I guess view there of the image. So I'm going to go over here to my layouts.

And you can say that I can very easily add rows or columns. So we got four rows here and it's going to slide that up. Now we've got five rows. I'm going to slide that column one up. Now we've got two columns. I'm going to grab these borders and bring them together.

So it's a lovely little interface, just very intuitive and straightforward to use. Now, this is Copying layout style here, you've actually got a few other options, you've got a thing called custom package. So when we go into custom package, sometimes we end up with these little frames here. from the previous time we've used it sort of cases them up. So I'm just going to throw those guys out for the moment. But the way the custom package works is I can basically drag and drop images onto the page and I can scale them up or down and I can basically create a custom lap to print as it ends up.

So just a case of dragging and dropping your images on if you want it to duplicate hold down the Option key and drag and it will drag a duplicate and you can do your little layout there. I think if I select all of those, maybe shift will let me select all those images not want actually just wanted to scale them up to match that and you know, you can do a layout like that. So that's that's in the custom package and if you wanted to change one there Just press Delete to remove that maybe we'll pop that one up there and get something like that. So custom package is something else you can do in the print module and print that to your printer. So rulers and guides is all just the you know what you've what you want to show in the print, do you want to guides, rules and so forth.

You've got your page blade, you've got your page grid, you've got your image cells. So all those different things just relate to the view. So I guess turning all that off, is going to give you a more realistic view of what it's going to look like in print. But obviously, the rulers and the page blade, and the grid is helpful just for for doing your layout. And it even tells you when you turn the dimensions on the size, these images will actually be on that a4 sheet. Now print job is the interesting one print job is where we can control all these technical specifications for the data that goes to the printer so we can choose a resolution.

I think I've probably said enough Previous video, the default print resolution is 300 pixels per inch. And it pretty much is for most purposes. But you do get this school of thought with your inkjet printing that 240 pixels or 360 pixels per inch are possibly more suitable. And it gets pretty kind of technical here and I'm not going to get too deep into it, but the theory is a certain print because the printers have 300 of 360 ink heads in them, I believe. So your print resolution will divide evenly into that ink head resolution. But in all honesty, if you were to print it 300 pixels per inch versus 240 or 360, I don't think you're going to see an enormous difference, but by all means, test that for yourself and see what you think.

So you've got your print sharpening. This is the sharpening that's applied to the images in output. So a good rule of thumb as always, I think anything less than I forgive it low, between a four and a three, give it standard And larger than a three, I would give it a high amount of sharpening, you can choose your media type day or paper matte or glossy, you've also got the option for 16 bit output. This is another one of those wacky things that is, you know, lots of claims about how infinitely superior 16 bit data is. But very, very little evidence to support that To be honest, other than sort of graphs and histograms. It's rare that you'll see this meaningful benefit in print.

But if your printer supports 16 bit output, then why not do it? I mean, maybe do some tests is a better idea, why not print one with it, one without it and see if you can see any difference and if you think it's better than use it, but this you know, this is one of those issues that's been argued visually about for well over 20 years now and we're no closer to a resolution as to the benefits of 16 bits. So I'll leave that for now. Now, color management wise, if you are not using custom printer profiles, then just leave that up managed by printer Let the printer take control of the color conversion. But if you have profiles for your printer, then you can choose the profiles here. So we looked at my 9600 Kent's input, same profile earlier on in when we were soft proofing.

So I can choose that here to go to my printer as well. And I've also got my rendering intense perceptual, or relative colorimetric, with perceptual generally being the preferred choice for colorful photographic prints. Now, it's I do talk in more detail in my color management video about color management issues, but let me say this, if you are not using color management, then let the printer manage it and do your color management in the printer. But if you are using custom profiles and you turn them on here, it's critical that you turn Color Management off in your print drivers because you don't want the file being double handled. So one or the other. Either let the print up manage color or let your profile manage color.

But if your profile is managing Color, then you must turn Color Management off in the print drivers. So no color adjustment is usually the setting you're looking for. Certainly in the Epson drivers no color adjustment is the setting. Now this last setting down here is really had a lot of color management people just slapping their foreheads in exasperated when Adobe edited, printed justments. So I've mentioned earlier on, it's the biggest color management problem in this day and age is everybody's got their monitors too bright. So invariably, that prints are going to be too dark because with such a broad monitor, no print, no printer in the world can match it.

So out of sheer frustration with trying to tell people at Adobe have just said, Well, how about we just add this print adjustment slider. So if your prints are too dark, then brighten them up, dial this up until you're happy? So it's it's really not I mean, it's it's it's the ridiculous solution really. But it's out of sheer desperation. Adobe thought we've got to try something because no one's listening. No one's turning them on.

It's a brightness down So hopefully you've got a well calibrated monitor, or at least you've got your brightness dialed down to around 50%. So you shouldn't have to worry about this printer adjustment at all. So there's all the options in the print module for your templates, for your printer drivers for your layout, and so forth. Now, the last thing I'll mention is if you produce a lovely layout like this, and you think, gee, I wish I had a nice printer printed to it, but I don't, then what you can do is you can say don't print a Printer, print to JPEG file, and then you choose the JPEG file and then you save that, and then you take it down to your local printer or to your friend's house or to wherever a better printer is lurking. So printing to JPG file is an interesting alternative to the regular print to my connected printer.

I'll just show you one more thing I think of it actually if I go into the contact sheet, and go select all so we've got all our contact sheets on and I'll just turn that dimensions off. It's a bit distracting, obviously See it's got the file name by default at the bottom, but I think I can change that. So photo info file name, I can change that to caption or date and equipment or anything else. And of course watermarking is lurking in there as well wouldn't be a print module without watermarking. And I can drop my graphic logo on there that we made earlier on. There it is on top there as well.

So wherever you save your watermarks, they reappear. But the thing I wanted to show you is in the print, when we do a contact shape, you've got the option to do draft mode printing. Now notice everything else has turned off now. So the what draft mode printing means is that Lightroom is not going to bother processing all these raw files just to make this little postage stamp size print. Lightroom is going to say well, you know what the data in your preview in Lightroom standard size preview, there's more than enough information there to produce a perfectly good print at this size. So draft mode printing actually won't process the rough at all, it'll just use the Lightroom JPEG preview, which in all honesty is perfectly adequate.

So there's all the things you can do in the print module from contact sheets and greeting card templates to nice big fine art prints. So hopefully you enjoy that. Obviously, once you're ready to go, boom, you just hit print and we print or if you hit print on your back into your print drivers here, just to make sure you've selected the right settings there and then hit print.