Workspace overview

You use each Lightroom module to focus on a specific portion of the photographic workflow: the Library module for importing, organizing, comparing and selecting photos; the Develop module for adjusting color and tone or creatively processing photos; and the Print, Slideshow, and Web modules for presenting your photos.

Each module workspace includes several panels that contain options and controls for working on your photos.

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The Lightroom workspace in Grid view

A.: Identity plate and Module Picker
B.: Panels for working with folders and collections, or applying presets
C.: Filmstrip
D.: Panels for working with metadata, adjusting images, customizing layouts
E.: Grid view or image display
F.: Toolbar

Move between modules and change screen modes using keyboard shortcuts to maximize your efficiency while working with the software. See shortcuts for each module in the Help menu.

For a video on productivity tips when working in Lightroom, see www.adobe.com/go/learn_lr_video_tips.

Switch to another module

In the Library module, display the images you want to work with, and then click a module name in the Module Picker (upper right in the Lightroom window), or use a shortcut key.

Hold down Ctrl+Alt (Windows) or Command+Option (Mac OS) and press a number between 1 and 5 to switch to any of the five modules.

Comments

camcam6 said on Sep 17, 2007 at 2:23 PM :

can you work with multiple monitors-- I find the images small to work with.

Anita Dennis said on Sep 17, 2007 at 2:32 PM :

Lightroom 1.x does not support dual monitors. To make a feature request, go to www.adobe.com/support/feature.html.

No screen name said on Nov 2, 2007 at 5:21 AM :

How do you hide Lightroom from the windows screen? I'm using windows. One website has this shortcut for Mac: Comm + H. I tried to use it in my computer as: Ctrl + H but something different popped up.
Right now I am forced to exit Lightroom from the File menu everytime I want to hide and then launch it again.

No screen name said on Nov 29, 2007 at 10:32 PM :

How about making the full size graphics resizable to large screens? I have something like a 1680 x 1050 pixel screen and your "large" size illustrations are puny and impossible to clearly read. Especially for photographers who are likely to have humungous screens have the tutorial only at low-res is silly.

Anita Dennis said on Nov 30, 2007 at 9:17 AM :

Just click "View full size graphic" above the screen shot to see it larger.

Jim Lewis said on Nov 30, 2007 at 9:59 AM :

Just click "View full size graphic" above the screen shot to see it larger. - That is what is not decent size on a 1680 x 1050 monitor. I did discover that my browser (IE7) has a zoom setting but it would be "more better" if you could tell LiveDocs what sort of monitor you planned on viewing HELP on and things could be adjusted accordingly.

P.S. From what I understand 1680 x 1050 is a puny resolution compared to what some photographers are using so maybe Adobe wants to take this into account in the design of Lightroom itself (since I'm just getting started, I'm not very familiar yet with how the program plays on a large monitor).

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Workspace overview

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