Using The Library Module in Lightroom

Video Transcript

"BRANDON SARKIS: My name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today, I'm going to be showing how to use Adobe's Lightroom software. All right now, we're going to look at some of the details of the library window. The left hand side, you're going to see your navigator here. You can click on this, or to expand, or collapse this little preview window. A couple of options here, you have your fit option, your fit view, your fill view which is going to fill up the screen with your image, or if it's going to fit the image to the screen. And your image is a real time, one to one, 100% view. You also have a three to one over here which is 300%. You can actually click and change this one to make it anything from eight to one, or one to four, or whatever you want. We're just going to go back out to fit, which is where I usually keep it. Well, the fill is good because my picture has the same aspect but if they weren't, that's how you would do. Library, if we can go over here, you're going to click on this. We're going to see all of the photographs in the library. You can scroll through your little library list here, last import, deleted stuff. This is your finder. You can click in here. You can search wherever you want. You can search by name, or you can search by whatever you tagged. Then, you can search by date range. You can search by all known dates, today, this week, this month, this year, last week, whatever. These are actual folders. These are actually file folders in your--on your computer. These aren't just photo folders to every folders. You could actually get photos out of a particular folder this way, which is kind of interesting. A bonus is your collections. I don't have anything in there. This is basically your albums, or collections of photos. Below that, we're going to have our keyword tags. You can see there's some photos in here I tagged, hdr, edited photos, scene. So click on scenes, there's all of my scenery pictures. You click on sky. It's all my sky photos. We'll close that--or all the ones I tagged as such. We can open up our metadata browser here, and we can go through, you know, that's my Rebel XTi camera. We can go to here to my [INDISCERNIBLE] 40 and see what pictures I've taken with it. We can go to the Samsung GX10. It's where pictures I've taken with that. We can go through lens and apertures, shutter speed, ISO, everything to sort our photos. On the left hand side--or the right hand side here, we're going to have our histogram at the top. That's, basically, to show you the balance, and the color, and the picture. Whoa, it went kinda crazy here. Our metadatas are going to be right here. Our quick develop settings are right there."