AV News 192 - May 2013
If your camera does not support GPS then you can manually tag coordinates
onto a Google map, simply by dragging and dropping a thumbnail of your
image or images from the bottom of the screen onto the correct location on
a Google map. This action will automatically add the Longitude and Latitude
coordinates into the image metadata. Map views can be changed very simply
to show six different styles i.e. hybrid, road, satellite, terrain, light or dark.
Maps can be zoomed in
or out therefore if you
need to either tag or
locate those images
taken at a precise
location then it is very
easy to do so. You can
also view the map to
see
thumbnails
of
images
taken
at
specific locations.
Map mode is new to Lightroom version 4. Note: because map view uses
Google maps you do need to be online for the map view to work. You can
view or filter search the world map, zoom in to countries visited, and see
thumbnails of images taken at any location, the scope of this function
cataloguing precise locations is bewildering.
If you've ever thought about producing an
illustrated book using your own photographs
then the 'Book' button allows you to create
books very quickly from Lightroom Library
images. This function allows images to be
placed on either left or right pages leaving the
opposite page for text, or you can have images
on both left and right pages, a