Customizing Lightroom to YOU

hi everyone anthony morgante here you know i think my email inbox is kind of like a canary in the coal mine in that i get an idea a little bit ahead of time about what equipment and software photographers are starting to use at least i get this idea of what people are using before those mainstream photography blogs start writing about it recently i've been getting a ton of emails from photographers concerning lightroom more specifically lightroom classic now you know a few years ago lightroom or adobe alienated a lot of photographers when they went to that subscription only model a lot of photographers left adobe in lightroom and started using other applications it appears to me that many photographers are circling back and starting to use lightroom again also there's a lot of new photographers out there and they're using lightroom right from the beginning now i've done videos like the one i'm going to be doing today in the past where i talk about how one could customize lightroom's workspace since we have so many new users of lightroom and we have a lot of photographers that are circling back to lightroom classic from the last time they used it was a older version i thought it was fitting to do a new video talking about how you could customize lightroom classics workspace now lightroom classics workspace isn't as customizable as some of those other applications out there such as capture one exposure x7 where you could really change it completely with lightroom you could do some stuff to it and hopefully these things you can do will help you with your workflow right now i'm in lightroom i'm in the library module and as you look at it you know lightroom has these four panels top bottom left and right and you can close those down just click on that little triangle and you can close down like the top panel each of those panels have those little triangles you also could use function keys the f5 key closes down the top panel f6 the film strip f7 the left panel and f8 the right panel you could close them all down at once and open them all at once by holding in the shift key and hitting the tab key you can see i just opened them all and closed them all so that's one way you could customize those panels usually personally when i'm in the library module i like all four open when i'm in the develop module i prefer to have the left panel closed so you can see how that's closed for me now and sometimes when i'm doing videos i like the film strip closed as well with the film strip closed it just gives you a little you the viewer a bigger view of the image i'm working on so that is usually how i go about keeping those panels organized or opened or closed also as as far as the panels themselves they have these tabs and you can see that over here we have a catalog tab we have folders tab and so on if i scroll down you can see there's a collections tab and you could change that as well let me show you let me close down that folders tab in the catalog tab let's say you never use published services you don't need to see that tab there just right click next to any of these tabs and you can see that they each have check marks next to them just click on publish services to remove that check mark and you remove it so you could get rid of the tabs you don't use um this is valid really on any of the panels in any of the modules if i go over to the develop module in the left-hand panel same thing over here i could right click and you can see the check marks are there it's a little different on the develop modules right panel i'll talk about that in a moment also there is something called solo mode for example let me open up catalog and let me open up collections so those are both open at the same time i could open them all at the same time i want to just do that you can see there's a lot of scrolling involved now with solo mode what will happen is if i right click and go into solo mode only one tab will be open at any one time right now folders is open if i open up catalog you can see it close folders and open catalog if i open collections it closed catalog and open collections and that too that solo mode is available on every single tab as well same thing on the right hand side i'll right click over here you can see we have the check marks you could remove any of those tabs you don't want we have solo mode as well now i did mention that in the develop module the right tab is a little bit different in that if i right click on one you can see that there aren't those individual tabs listed with check marks next to them instead we have customize develop panel from here we could remove it so let's say i never use transform i could check that click save and it removed the transform tab right click on any of them again go back to that customize develop panel and i could bring it back the added thing you could do to the right panel of the develop module is you could reorder things so if i want calibration further up i can move it further up if i want it anywhere or any of these i could reorder them so you could reorder these tabs on the right hand panel the develop module maybe in the order that you most often process an image if you want to get it back to default just click default order to usually i just use the default order also in the top module area here we have library develop map and so on so you never use the web module just right click up there you see the check marks are there click on web you got rid of it as well you could add it back like that and so on so you could remove modules you don't use the image itself you can see it's on a darker gray background you could change the color or shading of that gray right click right on it and you can see i could change it to white i could change it to light gray medium gray now those people that are like experts in color they recommend that when you're processing an image that it be surrounded with a medium to dark gray that will help your eyes not be fooled when you're processing an image so if you're using white or black you might get the colors or tone off from the way you really probably should be so i use dark gray i think by default medium gray is what is on in lightroom i just prefer dark gray unfortunately you can't change that you can't make that different from module to module the module when you do that it's the same across all the modules now down here let's go over the library module down here we can see we have all these different functions that we could do just clicks we give it a star rating flag it and all that stuff you can control what's down here this is called the toolbar first of all if you don't see that hit the t key on your keyboard it will turn that toolbar off and on and this little triangle right here click there and you can see there's check marks next to some of these those are the ones that are showing if i want to add sorting i could just click on there and now it's added if i want to click slideshow i could click that and it's added if i want to turn that off like i don't use slideshow and so on so you could add and remove things from the toolbar and that is specific to what module you were in so the choices are different from module to module and i'll just finish up by mentioning that in case you didn't notice when i am in the develop module what i prefer is my left panel to have all of these open or all of these available i should say that is preset snapshots history and collections i don't run solo mode on the left panel of the develop module on the right hand panel i do run solo mode and i keep them in the default order so with solo mode if i have the basic tab open and then i click let's say on effects it closes down the basic tab and opens up the effects tab that's the way i prefer to keep my develop module and again i don't usually have this one open though have that one closed so then when i hover over there it pops in like that so hopefully that helps you organize lightroom's workspace again it's kind of limited compared to some other applications out there if there's anything i didn't talk about in this video uh way you could customize something specific in lightroom let me know in the comments below and thank you for watching my videos i really do appreciate it i'll talk to you guys soon

Channel: Anthony Morganti

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Length: 9min 3sec (543 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 12 2021