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.

Lightroom is broken into 5 different modules, each designed to perform specific tasks in the photographic workflow. This video will provide a brief introduction into each module and their workflow function.

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

There are some key Lightroom 3 functions that you will be controlling from the Catalog Settings including, Lightroom’s catalog backup settings, preview cache settings, import sequences, and metadata handling, and more.

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.