Turning Photographs Into Art Part 5: Printing from Lightroom A - Selecting, Editing and Creating a Layout

The Lightroom Interface in the Print Module
1 - Introduction: why printing your work is important
An important aspect of turning your photographs into art is printing them.  Printing is necessary because fine art photography is both a digital and a physical artistic medium.  In the case of photography, the physical medium is a digital or a chemical print.  In the case of other mediums, it can be a painting, a drawing, a sculpture or any other object or physical creation.
While today we can share digital photographs on the internet and view them on a computer monitor or on a variety of digital devices, art shows, galleries, museums and other locations where art is displayed or sold still require physical prints either matted, framed or mounted on a metal, wood or other support. You can print your work from Photoshop, Image Print and from just about any other software package.  You can also print your work from Lightroom and doing so is the focus of this essay you are reading now.  This ...