Photo Editing

The Develop Module view modes don’t exactly work the same way as in the Library Module. The Develop Module view for the most part doesn’t really change. However, like the Library Module, the Develop Module has “view mode” shortcuts which essentially work the same way as the Library Module view modes, where they are accessible via shortcut from wherever you are in Lightroom.

In this first video of the Lightroom 3 Interface chapter, we are going to go over the different Lightroom 3 Interface components.

The File Handling Tab in the Lightroom 3 Preferences Dialogue deals with how Adobe Lightroom handles DNG creation, metadata, file names and most importantly the size and location of your Lightroom Camera Raw Cache.

It is important to learn the External Editing preferences as it will not only help you to setup your external image editors, but also enable you to customize the file formatting, color space, bit depth, and resolution of your externally edited images.

By adjusting options in the Preset Tab of the Preferences dialogue, we are able to customize the way Adobe Photoshop Lightroom applies default develop settings to images. We can even specify certain develop settings to apply to cameras with specific serial numbers, images with a certain camera ISO setting, or even both.

It is a good idea when first learning Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 to familiarize yourself with the Lightroom 3 Preferences to customize Lightroom’s functions and run Lightroom much more efficiently on your computer.

Congrats, beacause this is the last video in the introduction to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. In this final video in this section, I wanted to briefly walk through our workflow from shooting the images, to completing them in Lightroom and Photoshop.