Photo Editing

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.

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.