Photo Editing

In this video, we are going to cover the basic interface shortcuts which will get you where you need to go in Lightroom in a jiffy. While you may not be able to memorize these shortcuts in a single pass, come back and review this video from time to time. Review along with practice, will help you to internalize all of these shortcuts.

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.

This video will walk you through each view mode in the Library Module, as well as provide you with the view mode shortcut keys.

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.