PRINT - Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3: Streamlining Your Digital Photography Process - page 302

Anchoring a cell places it and the photo it contains in the same position on all
pages. With this feature, along with the fact that you can overlap images, you
can create all kinds of elaborate layouts, including customized background, logo
or branding elements, etc. that extend far beyond what you can do with identity
plates or watermarks.

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Note that the option for Lock to Photo Aspect Ratio is not available in Custom
Package. You can, however, Rotate to Fit and Rotate Cells in Custom Package.

I hope the functionality of ered by the addition of the Custom Package inspires
you to put together all kinds of creative print layouts that were dii cult or
impossible before. Instead of simply having photos in your catalog, imagine
having a set of additional graphics, created in Photoshop, that you use to combine
with your photos to make exciting print layouts.

Save a template
Particularly with Print layouts, if you spend any signii cant amount of time
working on a layout, be sure to save a template when you're done. If you make
changes to the layout and want to update the template with the new settings, use
the Template Browser menu options to Update with Current Settings.

The Print Job panel
At er laying out your page(s), coni gure the
options on the Print Job panel (see Figure
6-36). h e choices you make here will
determine the destination and quality of
the printed output.

Print To:
h is popup menu allows you to spool the
job to your printer or to generate a jpg
i le. (Printing jpg i les from Lightroom
is very useful when preparing i les to be
printed by a lab or service bureau, which is
explained in detail at the end of this Print
section.) Changing the Print To: setting
will determine the options available below.

Figure 6-36

Draft Mode Printing
When Drat Mode Printing is enabled, Lightroom outputs the image data
from the photo previews, not from the full-resolution i les on disk. h is can