Using the Control Bar in 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. Now, we're going to discuss the control bar you'll see in the bottom of the library view. You'll see it right here on the left hand side, you're going to see your grid view, which is what I usually use to look at all my photos at once. You can go through there, and you can make the thumbnails larger, or smaller, as you see fit. You can see I got something with a smaller size right now. Next to that, you're going to see your loop view, which is the same thing as in utility key, which I showed you earlier. You click on it. It zooms in. You click on it again. It zooms back out, waiting for it to zoom back out now. Sometimes, it takes a second. There we go. This is going to be your compare view. So you would select one photo as the photo to look at. The other one is a candidate. This is just--by default, it takes two pictures that are side by side to each other. This is a good way to look at two pictures that look very similar though. This next one here is going to be your survey view. That's if you want to see what several different pictures look like, laid out on a page at once, pretty handy. It's almost like a light table, and you can use the arrows here if you have multiple photos to go through and select. I've only got two. So scrolling through, it just goes to the multiple photos. Let me go back to my grid view here. And let's see, the next thing I'm going to show you is the little--the painter, which is really, really cool. So we're going to click on that and we're going to adjust the keywords here. So you can see how--you can just highlight something. So you can add a new keyword here. So I'll type in a test and that's how you--well, I just turned it off. Hold on. Now, I'm just dragging the photo around. That's not right. Let's go down here and click on it again to get it to work, okay. So now, you'll see a little spray can icon. So I'm just going to click and drag, and you'll see how they turn white on the edges. Every photo I click and drag this over gets tagged with the word test. And when I stop, you'll see an eraser. So if I want to erase a tag, I can just go back and undo them. You'll see there's a little white ring around the edges, erases and undoes that tag. You could also hit command Z if you wanted. And you can see that it alternates between one or the other. So I can hit done when I'm done. Let's see, I can sort these alphabetically, A to Z, or Z to A. Let's see, I can go through and I can--it's like how I want them sorted by pick. Here, I'll show you how to make the thumbnails larger, or smaller. It's probably too big to be useful. But at least I know I can do it. And there we go. Make them small all the way again, and that's pretty much everything. Now, you can see also, here, you can go by different sort of features, which is nice. It shows you the name and everything right here. This also shows what you can see on the cell. So you can see your rating and you can see your color labels. You can see those at the bottom."