All right, well, here we are. After two-thirds of a day, we're finally going to actually work up some images here at some point. We, this first section here was meant to be a little introduction to the develop module. We did that a little bit earlier today, but we can reiterate some of those points here just so people know we're in the library develop, library module here, excuse me, on my computer. If we skip over to the develop module, and we'll pull back out to these guys, and because it's compressed on this laptop here, it usually looks bigger, and you can see more in the panels on either side on your own laptop, or on your own monitor, but again, this is kind of your overall, overarching access to all of the different modules in Lightroom here at the top. So, we'll close that off. We've got our film strip here in the bottom, and if I go back to the library for just a second, we've got our raw images here. I'm going to cruise down to a collection of raw images I put together that a...

re options for us, working these up, just so I'm selecting that, and then, I'm going to back into the develop module, and I can just hit the D key to go in the develop module. So, we have all our presets over here. Interesting little thing is if you mouse over one of these presets, you notice how the image now changes both in the navigator window, just above, and also, in the main image window. So, you can actually kind of see the different presets there, and let me close that off because I've got a thousand presets, I think. Snapshots I don't generally use, and the reason I don't use snapshots that much is because you have to click back to each of those snapshots, and then you don't see the finished image. I'd rather create, so, in my process for working up images is kind of like my editing process. I'll take it so far, and then, especially if it's a portrait, I might create a virtual copy, and then take it a little further, and then create another virtual copy and take it a little further. That way, I can see all three images together in the library module and compare them on the same screen, which is much easier for me to figure out, "Well, that was way too far. "Maybe this is where it should be." So, we'll go through that, and collections are there, and I actually selected collections. So, we're in a collection right now. Okay, so, and then, on the bottom, nothing's really changed down here. If I click this panel off, you can see more of the toolbar down here. So, this is, basically, the window versus the grid. R and A is reference view. That's actually a new thing. You can actually reference a photo from the film strip to the reference photo. Wow, I haven't actually seen that before. They just updated Lightroom like six days ago, and I'm still finding little nuggets here. This Y, Y is before and after, and sometimes, as we'll see in the black and white moto, we'll use this tool to see which colors I'm converting into black and white and how light or dark they are. So, that's kind of a cool tool. If we go back to the main one, you've got your flags here, your ranking, your color of that image. You'll see this one's red. Some of these are green. Green signifies that I've worked them up already. The arrow keys just go between images. Play, this basically puts you right into slideshow mode. Zoom to fit, that, basically, just zooms the image preview to whatever you want. You can show a grid or not show a grid. You can see how big or small your grid is there and adjust that. Soft proofing is something that's in here, and you can actually choose to soft proof the image for, this is a profile for, this is a, I think it's an Ilford Gold Fibre Silk profile. I could choose Adobe RGB or whatever profile I want here. I just soft proof how it's going to look in that different color space. Gonna turn that off right now, and you can tag or untag so you show or don't show any of these options in your toolbar here. Just thought I'd show you the tool bar because there's a lot of good stuff in there, and as you'll see, for some of these, especially these tools up here, the adjustment brush, the graduated filter, this toolbar will change depending on which tool you have selected, and there might be items we'll look at in there along the way, but for the most part, down here, you actually have another filter. So, you can filter for three stars or whatever you want. If you have dual monitors, you can actually use this to put up your grid of images in library module in model, monitor, and have your develop module on the other, which is very useful.

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Michael Clark is an internationally published outdoor photographer specializing in adventure sports, travel, and landscape photography. He produces intense, raw images of athletes pushing their sports to the limit and has risked life and limb on a variety of assignments to bring back stunning images of rock climbers, mountaineers, kayakers, big-wave surfers and mountain bikers in remote locations around the world.

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Introduction to the Develop Module in Lightroom®

Introduction to the Develop Module in Lightroom®

Lesson Info

20. Introduction to the Develop Module in Lightroom®

Lessons

Class Introduction

Shooting Workflow: Set-up The Camera

Shooting Workflow: Histograms and Exposure

Shooting Workflow: Sensor Cleaning

Overview of Color Management

Color Management: Monitor

Color Management: Workspace

Color Management: Monitor Calibration

Color Management: Do I Need This?

Introduction to Lightroom®

Download & Import Images With Lightroom®

Lightroom® Preferences

Six Ways to Speed-up Lightroom®

To DNG or Not to DNG?

A Logical Editing Process in Lightroom®

File & Folder Naming in Lightroom®

Batch Renaming in Lightroom®

Entering Metadata in Lightroom®

Managing Images in Lightroom®