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Welcome to Lightroom Essentials, the Develop Module.

I'm Juan Pons.

In this class I'm going to show you

all the amazing capabilities of the Develop module

from basic editing to making your images

the best that they can be,

and not only will I show you how to correct

common issues with your images,

I'll also show you how to express your creativity

with artistic effects.

I'm a professional nature and wildlife photographer

and I've been teaching photography

and leading photo workshops around the country

and around the world for over ten years.

If you're into nature and wildlife photography like I am,

you may want to check out one of my other

classes here on Craftsy, "Photographing Wildlife".

I've been using Lightroom since it was first released,

and it quickly became my principal tool

for developing and enhancing my images.

I look forward to sharing my knowledge with you

as we work with some of my favorite images.

I'll be using Lightroom 5,

which works exactly the same way on both the Mac and the PC.

If you're using a different version of Lightroom

the concepts I'm going to teach you will still apply.

You may just not have all the exact same

controls and sliders as I'm going to demonstrate.

This class is made up of seven lessons

and as information builds as we go,

I suggest that you watch them in order.

However, all the sections will be indexed

so you'll be able to easily jump between the sections

using the Craftsy platform.

This class is designed for students

already familiar with Lightroom

since we will be focusing on Lightroom's Develop module.

If you're looking for a course

on getting started with Lightroom,

make sure to check out The Essential Guide to Lightroom

here on Craftsy.

Also make sure to check out the class materials

for a list of my favorite Lightroom keyboard shortcuts.

Let's get started on this first lesson.

We will cover the nondestructive editing process,

familiarizing ourselves with the Lightroom interface,

and developing an efficient editing workflow.

The reason I like Lightroom so much

is because of it's nondestructive editing process,

and what this means is that your original files,

your raw files that you took,

are never edited or modified in any way, shape, or form.

Any modification or adjustments that you make to your image

are recorded by Lightroom

and can be reapplied or replayed at any point in time.

We're gonna cover the history feature in Lightroom

in a later lesson,

but if we look at this image down here of these river otters

you'll see all the different steps that I took

in my editing process with this image.

You can see every single little step

as Lightroom records it.

As you can see

nowhere in the interface is there a save button

or a save keyboard shortcut

and the reason for that is because

Lightroom is continuously saving all those history states,

so there's no need for you to ever hit that save button.

Now one last thing I want to mention is about shooting raw.

I always recommend that you shoot raw.

I know a lot of people like to shoot JPEGs

because it stores more images on the card

but raw is going to provide Lightroom

with a lot more information

and it's gonna allow you to make

much better and cleaner edits.

In the end, you're gonna end up with much better images.

In order to get the most out of Lightroom

and really work with it efficiently

we need to understand the interface.

The first thing I want to talk to you about

is the keyboard shortcuts.

There are literally hundreds and hundreds

of keyboard shortcuts within Lightroom

and learning them is gonna speed up your use of Lightroom.

Now it's gonna take you a little while

to learn all of these shortcuts,

but Lightroom has a very handy and easy way

to look up the shortcuts that you may want to use.

Let's take a look.

When you're looking at Lightroom and working with Lightroom

at any point in time

you can hit command or control question mark

to bring up a handy little cheat-sheet

of the most commonly used shortcuts

in the module that you're in.

In this case, since we're talking about the Develop module,

these are the shortcuts that apply to the Develop module.

If you were in the Library module

and you hit command question mark or control question mark

you would see the Library shortcuts.

This is extremely handy

and something that you probably want to reference

at the very beginning.

To dismiss this dialog box all you need to do is click on it

and make it go away.

Now let's go around the entire interface

and look at all the different elements

that encompasses the main interface to Lightroom.

At the very top the first thing that you see

is the main toolbar

and this main toolbar really serves as a visual indicator

into which module you're in in Lightroom,

are you in the Library, Develop, Book, or Slideshow module.

You can tell which module you're in because that module

is highlighted or a little brighter on the screen.

You'll also notice the center part of the screen

where it actually shows you the image that you're working in

probably the most important part of the whole interface.

On the left side we have our left panel

and I call this the selector panel.

In here you have a bunch of different sections

starting with the navigator

and the navigator gives you a preview or a thumbnail

of the image you're working with.

It also allows you to select the magnification factor

when you're zooming in to an image.

Below that you have your presets and your snapshots

and then the history.

Below that you also have your collections

where you can choose the images

that you want to be working with.

On the bottom we have our filmstrip

which shows your the images that have been selected

for us to work with.

When you were in the Library module

and you picked the images to work with

the filmstrip will show you the images that were selected,

so you can move between them pretty easily

by just clicking on the different thumbnails.

On the right hand side, it's what I call the action panel,

and this is where all the action happens.

This is where you're going to be doing all your editing,

all your manipulation of your images,

and all the correcting.

Now oftentimes I like to have the image

take up as much of my screen real-estate as possible

so I will minimize some of these different panels

and elements on the screen

so you can customize the experience to the way you work.

So typically, for example,

I don't like to have the filmstrip at the bottom

because I'm usually working one image at a time,

so I can click at this little triangle

at the very bottom of the filmstrip

to make the filmstrip go away

and that gives me a lot more room.

If I, for example, wanted to get rid of

the history panel on the left,

I can click on that little triangle and make that go away

and my image becomes even bigger

so I can work on this image

while it's taking up a bigger portion of my screen.

Now let me talk to you about some of the basic interfaces

in Lightroom to make you familiar with those.

The first one is the little disclosure triangles

and these little disclosure triangles,

you'll see them on both panels on the left and on the right,

and they allow you to open up and close

different areas that you want to work with.

So for example, if I want to see the basic panel

I can click on the little triangle

and the basic panel opens.

If I want to close that one

I can click on the triangle again

and it will collapse and close itself.

Another item to pay attention to

is all the built-in menus within the system.

You'll see, when you see a word

that has two little arrows next to it,

what that means is that there is a menu there.

You can actually click on that word or on the little arrows

and you'll get a menu with a number of different

selections that you can choose from.

So always be looking for those.

Now let us talk a little about working with the sliders

because sliders are gonna be the bread and butter

of using Lightroom.

There are three different ways of working with the sliders.

You can grab the little knob on the slider itself

and manipulate it by moving it left to right.

You can click on the number section

where it gives you the value

and type in a specific value, let's say point one,

and hit return and it enters that value.

But oftentimes what I find myself using is

the third way to manipulate the sliders,

and that is by clicking on the value itself

and then using my up and down arrows on my keyboard

and what that will allow me to do is

increase or decrease that value in 1/10ths of an increment.

So for example, in this case, you can see my exposure value

is set to .1 stops, if I hit my up key

on my keyboard it'll go to .2, .3, and so forth.

Oftentimes I find this to be a much more effective way

to work with the sliders

because it is sometimes hard to be very precise

as you move that little knob back and forth

and get exactly the value that you want.

The Lightroom interface has been specifically designed

to help you develop an efficient editing workflow

and an efficient editing workflow will help you

with enjoying the process that much more,

to be more consistent with your work

as you work with multiple images,

and allow you to work with your images much more rapidly.

Let's take a quick look

at the editing workflow in Lightroom.

As you can see here on the right hand panel

we start with the basic panel

and we're gonna cover all of these things in later lessons

but I encourage you to follow the workflow

as has been suggested with the Lightroom interface

because it's going to make your process

that much more efficient and faster.

And also it's gonna allow Lightroom to work

that much faster with your images.

I would encourage you to start with the white balance,

then work on your exposure, and your presence,

all these basic editing items.

From there we're gonna do more advanced editing processes

like adjusting your tone curve,

working with hue saturation and luminance,

even applying creative effects.

And then near the end we're gonna be

doing some sharpening and noise reduction.

In our next lesson we're going to

get to the heart and soul of Lightroom: the basics panel.

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