Organize, edit, and share your photographs with Lightroom Classic.
What is Lightroom?
Lightroom is a computer
programme from Adobe Systems that handles most of the work you need to do to
your digital camera files. It is both a library and a tool to adjust the photos
to your liking. You can also output finished images from Lightroom to send on
directly to your clients. In addition, you can make prints with Lightroom, as
well as web galleries and slideshows. Watch the movie in Figure 1 to see what
Lightroom can do for you.
FIGURE 1 This movie
demonstrates the integrated workflow that Adobe Lightroom offers
How does Lightroom compare to Photoshop?
Almost everyone who
visits this site will be familiar with Photoshop, but a lot of you will not
know much about Lightroom. You might be wondering what the differences are.
There are several important distinctions.
Photoshop lets you work
on one image at a time. While Photoshop does have some automation tools like
Actions which can run on a set of images, at its core it really only works on
one at a time. This is fine when you are making a single finished image, but it
is less efficient if you need to work on lots of pictures.
Lightroom is fully
non-destructive. The image editing tools in Lightroom work in a totally
different way than the main Photoshop tools. Lightroom cannot change the
original pixels in your images.
Lightroom's adjustment
tools are exactly the same as the ones in Adobe Camera Raw, which comes with
Photoshop. In fact, what Adobe has done in creating Lightroom was to take the
tools from Camera Raw and build an entirely new programme around them - a programme
that is built especially for the challenges of digital photography.
Lightroom is designed to be a total workflow environment for your
digital photography.
Let me give you a basic
idea of how Lightroom is put together. You need to understand that Ligthroom is
a guided workflow tool, and that the functions are divided into 5 different
main modules, along with import and export .
Lightroom Modules
Lightroom is made up of
5 main modules: Library, Develop, Slideshow, Print and Web. Each of these is dedicated to the tasks
associated with the name.The Lightroom team assumes you will be doing one of
these tasks at a time (even if you switch back and forth a lot). Each module
has a different set of left-hand and right-hand panels and menus. And each
module has its own pre-sets to help streamline the work you do there.
In addition to these
modules, there is also an Import function that is
like a module. The Export and Publish tools also behave like modules. They are
dedicated to a particular function, and have their own pre-sets.
The Guided Workflow
Lightroom has been
designed to help the photographer create an integrated workflow. The
programming team has made a number of assumptions about how you can best work
with your pictures. As you learn the programme, it is good to have an
understanding of what the programmers had in mind when they made decisions
about how it would work.
In general, Lightroom
works from top to bottom, and from left to right. It is not always the case,
but you see it a lot.
Keyboard shortcuts are
important workflow tools. A lot of thought went into these, so you should learn
to use them.
FIGURE 3 Lightroom
generally works from left to right and top to bottom. So files are first
organized in the Library, and then taken to Develop for optimization. In
Develop, you generally work down the list, starting with Basic adjustments, and
then moving down as you need more control. (The icon-based tools at the top of
the column and an exception to this rule)
Lightroom is built on
the concept of an image library. In the case of Lightrooom, the image files are
like the books, and the folders you use to store your images are the shelves.
The Lightroom catalogue is like a library's catalogue, helping you find the
right 'book' whenever you want it.
Here are some key points
The movie in Figure 4 illustrates several key points about working with catalogues.
A catalogue enables you
to view and search your photos even if the drives that store the photos are not
connected to the computer at the moment.
A catalogue only shows you photos you have
'imported' or indexed with the catalogue, rather than showing you all images in
a folder.
FIGURE 4 To use Lightroom,
you first need to understand the Library concept it uses. This movie outlines
that structure.
When you work with
catalogue software, you are making changes to the catalogue itself, rather than
directly to your image files. So when you add a keyword to an image, it is not
added to the file unless you tell the programme to make the change to the
file.
And when you make an
image adjustment to a photo, you are not actually changing the original file -
you are reinterpreting the file inside the programme. If you want to have a
copy of the file that shows the changes you made, you ned to export a new
version f the file. The movie in Figure 5 shows you how both of these essential
concepts work in Lightroom.
FIGURE 5 This movie
outlines the difference between working on the catalogue and working on the
files.
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