- [Instructor] Lightroom Classic's interface is organized
by what we call modules.
They're listed in the upper right-hand corner here.
There are seven modules,
but we'll be spending all of our time in the first two,
the Library and the Develop module.
Right now, we're in the Library module,
and we can tell that because the word Library is highlighted
while the others aren't.
Lightroom Classic offers three different screen modes
to help maximize your screen acreage,
and this could be really helpful
if you're working on a smaller laptop screen.
Right now, I'm in the Normal mode.
The Shift F keys will toggle you through those screen modes.
So Shift F takes us to the fullscreen
with the menu bar at the top.
And one more Shift F takes us to the Fullscreen mode,
which is great for a smaller monitor, but you lose the menu.
If you hover your mouse across the top,
that menu will pop back down.
Since I'm on a little larger screen,
I'm going to go ahead and Shift F a couple more times to get
back to the fullscreen with the menu bar,
and we'll work with this setting.
The interface is built around a large center content window
with collapsible panels on all four sides.
If you look close to all the edges in the center,
you see a triangle.
Clicking on that triangle will collapse that panel
at the top.
Clicking again, we'll open it back up,
and this works on all four edges.
If I click on this and then click on it again,
it'll come back open.
In this case, it came back open into an Auto mode,
and we can tell that if you look really close,
that triangle is made up of dots instead of being solid.
That means if I take my mouse away from that panel group,
it automatically hides,
and then if I want to open it back up,
I have to come back over here and click on it to open it,
click on it again, so it's not auto,
so it won't hide when I take my mouse across.
I find this really distracting and not helpful for me,
so I like to change that preference.
If you do a right-click or a control-click
right on that triangle,
you can switch it from this Auto Hide mode to Manual mode.
I want to come over here to the right-hand panel group
and do the same thing.
I'm going to do a right-click or control-click
and change this to Manual,
so that I have to click on them to open and close them.
Or I could use the Tab key.
The Tab key will hide both side panel groups.
Tab key again opens them back up.
These side panel groups change
depending on the module that you're in.
So right now, we're in the Library module.
I'll switch to the Develop module,
and notice that we still have side panel groups,
but the contents of those panels are different.
Let's go back to the Library module
and take a look at the film strip along the bottom.
The film strip displays thumbnails of the image grouping
that you're working with,
and right now we have the image grouping
of all of the photos that are in the catalog, 245,
and we see that because I have All Photographs
highlighted here on the left hand side.
If I come down here and click on Chapter Three folder
in the Folders panel,
now our film strip only has the 13 images
that are contained in chapter three.
We can change the size of the film strip at the bottom
by hovering the mouse right until we see those arrows,
and then clicking and dragging up
to make the film strip icons larger
or pulling it down to make them smaller.
The same thing works with the left panel groups as well.
You can spread that out
if you need more room to read the names of your folders.
At the bottom of the center panel is a toolbar.
This is a slightly darker gray area here.
We see the toolbar.
The toolbar changes depending on the module you're in.
So let's switch to the Develop module,
and we'll see that we have a different set of tools in here.
You can find more tools by clicking on the triangle
over to the right-hand side.
Wherever you see a triangle and Lightroom Classic,
you should just click on it
and see what happens or what's there.
So the one with the checkmark is already here.
If we say, choose Zoom,
now we have an option to zoom in and out on our image
with this tool here.
Let's go back to the Library module
and see that we have those same options to add tools here.
You can open and close the toolbar
or show and hide it with the T key,
which makes a lot of sense, T for toolbar.
I want to go back to the All Photographs
and pick a prettier looking photo for this last example.
I'm going to double-click on it
so that it fills the center panel,
and then we're going to dim the lights
so that we can focus on it better.
And that's the Lights Out mode with the L key.
So one tap with the L key dims everything around the photo,
and one more tap with the L key turns it to black.
So this helps really focus on the image
that you're looking at.
I'll tap the L key one more time
to bring the lights back on.
And that's a quick tour of Lightroom's workspace
with the center content window, framed by panel groups.
This layout is consistent throughout Lightroom Classic,
and the consistency should help you feel comfortable
finding your way around the interface
in a short amount of time.