Using the Control Bar in Develop 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. Okay, the next thing we're going to discuss is the control bar in the develop module. So we'll see right here at the bottom, we have a split pane feature to cycle between "before and after" views. We can change the exposure of that. At one side, the view stays the same, the attribute changes. You can click on this to rotate through side by side, or splits, and do horizontal splits or vertical splits. You keep clicking to roll through it, or you can type the arrow next to it, and pick the one you want. This next feature is going to be our crop overlay. So it puts a grid--actually, let me darken this so you can actually see the grid. There we go. It puts a grid on the picture so it breaks it up into squares just to make it easy to crop and give you an idea of how to keep everything nice and framed out. So we'll just crop this part. We'll undo that. There's also the "red eye reduction" which I went over a little bit earlier, pretty simple. There's no red eye to speak of it right here. But if this were an eye, you would just click and drag and let it go, and it would take care of that for you. This next feature right here is for cloning. I touched on this earlier as well too. So if you had a spot, or you had a glare, or something, or a piece of color that was out of place, you can just click at one piece and clone and fix that. It will correct all of that out of the way and that's pretty much everything. You change your cursor size here. Other than that, there's not really much to do in this control bar. So that's it for the developer tool bar."