Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 C

This is another blog post in my series about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 based on a video training program I try and do each day. First of all there is a series of menus at the top of the screen but generally you won't use them as you will either use the keyboard shortcuts or the tools on the main screen which are more efficient. There are some options which say fit, fill etc, fit makes the whole photo fit the screen and fill makes a portion of the photo fill the screen. There are also options 1:1 which enlarges the photo to the number of pixels and an enlarge option where you choose how much you want it enlarged. When you have a photo enlarged you can categorize it either with 5 colours or on a rating of 1-5. In practice you will rate photos 4 or 5 or probably not categorize them. You can also flag, unflag or reject pictures. There is a keyboard shortcut of selecting a picture and choosing 1-5 to categorize by number and 6-9 to categorize by colour. Note purple doesn't have a shortcut. You can also use shift + click to select photos in a series or control + click to select photos not adjacent to each other. You can also make collections where the photos don't have to each other on the hard drive and simply, select your pics, go to the + buttons by collections and name it. Similarly you can create collection sets and smart collections. Collections sets are where you select sets of collections to make a set and smart collections require you to select criteria you work from left to right in column choosing criteria then choosing equal to, greater than etc then entering a figure. You can also do it based on colour codes or flags etc. You can also stack photos which helps with organizing them and you select the photos the choose stack which is in the + menu by collections. There is also categories and metadata in the right part of the screen with the various elements being in a list. There is a select button next to metadata where you can choose simply by clicking and/or filling in fields. Of course clicking decides whether it is displayed or not. You can select more than one and have it applied in multiples. You can create different levels of keywords by using the right arrow key prior to entering a keyword to put it up one level.