How to Make Lightroom Templates

Creating Lightroom templates facilitates your design.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a graphical utility designed to help photographers and other professionals create marketable images. Lightroom templates make this process easier by making image cells, overlays, printing and other settings standard in the template, streamlining the process for multiple images. Lightroom software makes it easy to create multiple templates and stores them in a folder to ensure users can find and choose the templates easily.

Things You'll Need

• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Lightroom

Instructions

1. Locate the "Template Browser" in the left pane of the window. Choose one of these templates from the "Lightroom Templates" to modify.

2. Click "Print" in the upper, corner of the screen to open the "Print" module.

3. Locate the "Image Settings" pane in this module. Choose the image dimensions to which you want all images in this template to conform.

4. Locate "Rulers, Grid, & Guides" pane in this module. Click the check boxes accordingly for each item you want to show in the template. Rulers show ruler markings on the top and left sides of the image. Grid creates a grid overlay to help you line things up on the image. Guides are movable lines to help you line things up within the image. None of these options print, but show only in the template on the screen.

5. Click the "+" button on the Template Browser on the left side of the screen.

6. Change the title of the template to something memorable, such as "Full-Sized Sheet Template." Specify a folder to house it in such as "User-Generated Templates."

7. Press the "Enter" key to save.

Tips & Warnings

• If you happen to create the wrong size grid or have other issues with the template you just created, you can always go back in to the Template Browser and change the template to suit your needs.

References

• Adobe Help