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- [Voiceover] The library module is your home base
in Lightroom.
It's where you will view and organize your photos
into folders and collections
before bringing them into the other modules.
Throughout this chapter,
I'll be demonstrating many of the ways you can
organize, label, sort,
and even find files inside of the library module,
and to start, let's take a look at the folders panel.
This is where you will be most of the time.
So I'm going to go through how to rearrange
and organize your folders and photos.
The folders that you see
in the folders panel in Lightroom
mirrors what you have on your computer
for whichever folders or images
that you've imported.
Lightroom does not have any mysterious way
of organizing your images.
What you see here is exactly how it's set up
inside of your computer.
If I were to right click over one of these folders,
I can select show in finder,
and it's going to show me that folder
exactly where it's located inside of my computer,
and one rule that you need to follow
when using Lightroom
is to only move and relocate folders and photos
within Lightroom.
If you start moving your photos in their folders,
like I have here with my desktop folder open,
Lightroom's not going to know what happened
to that folder,
but if I move things around inside of Lightroom,
then it knows and it remembers
where those things got moved to.
This litle plus the icon gives you a few different options.
With the root folder display,
you can select a few different ways
to actually view those names of the folders.
The default and the most simplest
and cleanest method is the folder name only,
but you can actually see the path
and where those are located on your computer
if you'd like to as well.
The show photos and sub folders options
is checked by default.
If I were to uncheck it,
now I'm only seeing the photos in those specific folders.
Here it shows me that my raw photos folder
has zero photos,
but that's because there are sub folders
inside of each of those folders containing images,
so it's only going to show me a number
when I get to that folder containing those images.
I prefer to keep this option checked.
It gets a little complicated and confusing
when you keep seeing zero
next to each of those folders,
and I want to make sure that I'm not
removing any folders that actually contain
hundreds and hundreds of images.
If you need to relocate folders around,
it's as simple as dragging and dropping.
I'm going to move this folder titled Thousand Acres
into my 2016 folder.
So I just click it and drag it and release.
A window's going to pop up informing me
that I am going to be moving some files
on my disc.
They're going to show that they're moved here
in Lightroom,
but they're also going to be moved on my computer.
I did this intentionally,
so I'll go ahead and click move.
And now those photos are in their new folder.
When you click on a folder,
you'll see all of the photos contained
inside of that folder itself.
Right now, I'm viewing my images in Loup view.
If I'd like to view them in Grid view,
I can press G,
and to get back to Loup view,
you can use the keyboard shortcut E,
or press the space bar.
You can also decrease or increase the size
of your thumbnails by using the plus and minus keys.
You can also choose the sort order of your images.
Up at the menu, go to view, sort,
and then select an option.
You can also access this down in the tool bar.
If you don't see the tool bar,
press the T key,
and if you don't see the sort option,
go to the little drop down arrow on the right,
and make sure that sorting is selected.
You can also create a manual sort
by dragging and dropping.
Another thing you can do is remove photos
from the catalog,
and you can even delete them off of your disc
if you'd like.
To remove photos, select them inside of the Grid view,
right click, and choose remove photos.
Lightroom then asks if I would like to remove them
or delete them.
Removing the photos doesn't actually delete the photos
off of my computer.
It's just telling the catalog
that I don't want to see them inside of this folder.
If you'd like to keep those photos,
then I'd highly recommend just selecting remove.
But if they're images that obviously are just trash,
or maybe a corrupted file,
then you may want to delete it.
Here I'll click remove.
You can also remove folders,
and this is a good option
if you have a folder that is no longer
on your computer.
This folder was either deleted or moved
inside of my computer,
and not inside of Lightroom,
but I don't really need it in Lightroom,
so I'm going to right click,
and select remove.
A warning pops up just telling me
that those photos are going to be removed,
and I'll just go ahead and click that button
to make that folder disappear.
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