Hi everyone, welcome back to this Lightroom CC Training Course for Beginners.
My name is Jesus Ramirez, and you can find me on Instagram @JrfromPTC.
In this video, we're going to discuss the Lightroom interface.
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Now that we have images to work with let’s look at the Lightroom CC interface.
You’ve seen the import button and the “My Photo” panel that contains all the phots,
albums, and folders.
You’ve seen the Filmstrip.
Below the Filmstrip, you have different options of viewing the photos in it.
To select a view, you can click on its corresponding icon, or use a keyboard shortcut.
When you hover over a button, Lightroom CC gives you a tooltip displaying its name and
the keyboard shortcut if it has one.
The first view is the Photo Grid, then you have Square Grid, and the Detail Grid which
is default.
You can sort the images, by capture date, import date, modified date, and star rating.
You can reverse the order of the sort by selecting this option.
You can also flag your photos.
This Let’s Lightroom know which photos you like and which photos you want to reject.
The Z key flags a photo as picked, and the X key flags a photo as rejected.
You can also give your images a star rating from 0 to 5.
You can use a keyboard shortcut to assign a star rating.
Simply press a number key between 0 and 5.
So, if I press one on the keyboard – that gives this photo a one star rating and doing
so displays overlay on the screen.
I can press 5 on the keyboard to give this photo 5 stars.
On the bottom right-hand side of the application frame, we have the different zoom levels.
Fit fits the image on screen.
So Lightroom will zoom out to reveal the entire image.
No matter how large it is.
Fill, fills the image on screen by its width.
If your photo is too tall, you will have to pan up and down to see those areas.
One to one shows us a 100% view of the image.
The actual size.
This is the view that you want to work in when you make adjustments in the Detail panel.
And I’ll explain why, when we discuss the Detail panel.
Then we have the “Hide Filmstrip” button; you can click on it to hide it or
You could press the / key to enable or disable the filmstrip.
That is the same key as the question mark.
The show original icon is the last on the list.
If you tap on this icon, you will disable all adjustments, and you will see the original
version of the photo.
The Info icon reveals information about your photo.
For example, this photo was shot with a mobile device using the Lightroom Mobile camera,
and GPS was enabled.
So, you can see exactly where this photo was taken.
You can also add keywords or tags to your photo.
Keywords help you organize your images.
In the top center, you have the search bar, and this is a smart search bar that looks
through the visual contents of your photo.
I have not tagged or added any keywords to the photos that I have uploaded to Lightroom
cc.
But if I type a keyword search, such as “cat.”
Lightroom CC will return photos that it thinks are of cats.
Lightroom CC does an excellent job finding photos that match my query, but it is not
100% accurate.
It also brought in a photo of a squirrel.
But as you can see Lightroom analyzes the contents of the image, so even if you don't
add any keywords to your photos you can use the search to find the images that you're
looking for.
Also, keep in mind that Lightroom searches through the album or folder that you have
selected.
Notice that as I click on the different albums, the label in the search bar changes.
You can refine your search by taping on this icon.
You can refine it by, star ratings, flags, photos or video, keywords, cameras used, these
are the different types of cameras that I've used to shoot the photos that have been uploaded
Lightroom.
And the locations of where my photos were shot.
On the top right-hand side, you have a share button.
This is how you would save your image as a jpg after you adjust it.
We will discuss exporting photos later in this training video.
The cloud icon shows you your cloud storage.
And the different ways that you can connect into Lightroom CC.
You can click on these links to download the mobile apps or to login into Lightroom Web.
By clicking on this link, the browser opens my Lightroom CC web account.
You can see the folders we created and the photos we imported.
If we had made an adjustment, we would also see them applied to the photos on here.
Any adjustments that we applied from the web app will also be reflected in the desktop
app.
I’m going to close the browser and go back into the Lightroom CC desktop app.
Notice that the changes I made in the Lightroom CC web app are reflected in the Lightroom
CC desktop app.
Finally, on the far right-hand side, you have the editing tools.
This is where you will spend most of the time in this training video.
In the next video, we will discuss the Light and Color panels.
If this is the first video that you watch, remember that we have a complete series.
There is a link to the playlist in the description.
Also, if this is your time at the Photoshop Training Channel, don't forget to click on
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Thank you so much for watching, and I will talk to you again in the next video.