Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 B

This is another installment in my blog series about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3. First of all there is your settings under edit/ preferences which set the program to work the way you want it to. Generally these can be left alone one exception being if you are importing pictures into an even earlier version of photoshop or similar for editing. Some of the graphics options like whether you export it as a 8 bit or 16 bit image might have to be adjusted as the software might not support that type of image. Generally when you are on the main page of photoshop lightroom 3 there are 3 columns and the one on left handles importing and the one on the right handles exporting. You might it necessary to convert files as this program can import lots of different types but can't always edit them. Adobe's own DNG format is a good one to convert to. Across the top of the program are the commands Copy To DNG, Copy, Move & Add. Add doesn't physically import the file and merely links to it. Move imports to a different location and then deletes the original. Copy leaves the original alone and imports a copy. When you import something often a second file is created called a sidecar which contains information about the file. This tends to be necessary when file sizes are being kept small. There is also an option where you can tag a photo with information like keywords, copyright info & artist name. There is also an automatic uploader for sites such as facebook and flickr. The photo is optimized and uploaded almost automatically.