- [Instructor] The library module is where many
of your Lightroom classic sessions will start and end.
It's where you'll do all of the file management tasks,
like key wording and metadata entry,
or managing folders and files like moving, deleting,
and renaming them.
You'll also use the library module to find, sort, group
and rate your images.
Let's take a tour starting in the upper left hand corner.
This is what we call the nameplate or activity center.
If I hover my mouse over it, it highlights and we get
a triangle and that's a clue that there's something there.
So if I click on it, we'll see the activity center.
The address lookup and the face detection are both paused,
we'll cover the face detection a little bit later.
If we hover over to the right of the nameplate
and do a right click or a control click,
there's some hidden features here.
We can change the identity plate
to just say Lightroom classic,
or we can even personalize it.
I'm just going to switch it back to the Adobe ID,
so that it shows my name.
Just below the identity plate is the left panel group.
The top panel in the left panel group is
the navigator panel.
And the preview here will change, as we hover over
the images with our mouse in the film strip at the bottom.
This is also where we can change the zoom factor.
So, if I click one to one, it's going to zoom in
on this picture and then I can use this box
and the navigator to move around the scene here.
I don't usually use this too often.
I'm going to click this back to fill or fit
and then close the navigator panel,
so that I have more room for the other panels below.
The catalog panel contains a small set
of auto-generated smart collections of the photos
in the catalog.
If you click on the all photographs,
it'll show you all the photographs in your catalog
and to the right, it tells us how many images are
in the catalog.
The folders panel provides a direct access to the folders
that contain your photos.
You can think of this as a mirror of the hard drive.
It shows only the drives and folders
that Lightroom knows about from the import process.
We can see that I have my photos
on the external photos drive.
I can collapse that with this triangle.
If you import photos from multiple different drives,
there'll be listed here in the folders panel.
We can use this disclosure triangle to open the folders
and see the folders that are nested inside of there.
This is also a way that we can jump out,
take a shortcut out to our hard drive.
If you hover over a folder and then right click
or control click for your contextual menu,
you can come down to the bottom here
where it says show and finder.
And if you're on a Windows machine,
that'll be show and explore.
That jumped us out to the hard drive to the exercise files
and to the chapter three folder that I clicked on.
Let's go back to Lightroom here by clicking on it and take
a look at just a couple more things here
in the folder panel.
You might find that you have a ton of folders,
and sometimes it's hard to find what you're looking at
or looking for.
So, there's ways that you can put labels on these.
Again, we'll do a right click or a control click,
and we could add a color label to chapter two, say,
because we've already finished chapter two,
we could give it the color label blue,
and we'll see that blue color right here on the right.
And then now we're working on chapter three,
so we could do a right click, and we could mark this
as our favorite and that puts a star on the folder.
Just below the folders panel is the collections panel,
and this contains a set of smart collections
that comes with Lightroom.
If I click on the disclosure triangle,
we'll see what's in there.
Any collections you create will also be added to this panel
and we'll be covering all of that a little bit later.
Below the collections panel is
the published services panel, and this is a way
to create managed exports for different connected services,
like Flickr and Adobe Stock or even local folders.
I don't cover how to do this in this course though.
Now, let's go to the center content area
where your photos display.
Right now, this photo is being displayed in the loop view.
If we're in the grid view, which all changed to,
with the grid icon here in the toolbar,
when you're in the grid view,
you can turn on a library filter bar,
which shows up at the top of the content area.
Use your backslash key to turn on the filter bar.
This provides a wide range of criteria to search
and find photos that are showing in the content area.
We can turn off the filter bar again with the backslash key.
Now, let's move over to the right panel group.
At the top, we have the histogram that displays a graph of
the tonal values and the selected photo
and the capture settings right below the histogram.
Under the histogram, we have a quick developed panel.
This allows for the application of develop settings
and presets while you're in the library module.
But in this course, we'll do all of the editing
in the develop module.
So, I'll close that, and we'll open the key wording panel.
This provides a display of keywords that are applied to
the selected photos,
or you could add keywords if you forgot to do that
during the import.
So, we could click in this field and type in desert
and maybe comma landscape to apply the keyword
to that image that's selected.
Below the key wording panel is the keyword list.
The keyword list displays all of the keywords contained
in your catalog.
You can even use this panel to quickly find all photos with
a specific keyword.
So if we come here to where it's got Bondai beach,
when I hover over it, we see this arrow.
If I click on the arrow, it's going to collect
in the content area, all the photos with that key word.
And now if I want to get back to seeing all
of my photographs, I need to click away,
and then back on all photographs,
Let's go back to this desert photo that we have selected,
and I'll double click on it to take it back
into the loop view.
Below the keyword list is the metadata panel.
This shows metadata that was captured in camera
and any metadata that was added by Lightroom.
If you forgot to add a metadata preset during the import,
you could do that here at the top,
where it says preset none.
I could click on this, it'll find any presets
that have been saved and apply that preset to this image.
Below the metadata panel is the comments panel.
And this is used with published service connections
and the cloud based Lightroom.
If you want to learn more about sharing
and receiving comments from visitors,
watch my course Lightroom: Social Sharing.
Now, that brings us back down to the film strip
for the round trip to her of the library module.