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- Upgrading from an Earlier Version of Lightroom? Read This First!
- Making Your RAW Photos Look More Like JPEGs
- Setting the White Balance
- Setting Your White Balance Live While Shooting Tethered
- Seeing Befores and Afters
- Applying Changes Made to One Photo to Other Photos
- How to Set Your Overall Exposure
- Adding Punch to Your Images Using Clarity
- Making Your Colors More Vibrant
- Using the Tone Curve to Add Contrast
- Adjusting Individual Colors Using HSL
- Adding Vignette Effects
- Getting That Trendy, Gritty High-Contrast Look
- Virtual CopiesThe No Risk Way to Experiment
- Editing a Bunch of Photos at Once Using Auto Sync
- Save Your Favorite Settings as One-Click Presets
- Using the Library Modules Quick Develop Panel
- Adding a Film Grain Look
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Using the Library Module’s Quick Develop Panel
There’s a version of the Develop module’s Basic panel right within the Library module, called the Quick Develop panel, and the idea here is that you’d be able to make some quick, simple edits right there in the Library module, without having to jump over to the Develop module. The problem is, the Quick Develop panel stinks. Okay, it doesn’t necessarily stink, it’s just hard to use, because there are no sliders—there are buttons you click instead (which makes it frustrating to get just the right amount)—but for just a quick edit, it’s okay (you can see I’m biting my tongue here, right?)
- Step One: The Quick Develop panel (shown here) is found in the Library module, under the Histogram panel at the top of the right side Panels area. Although it doesn’t have the White Balance Selector tool, outside of that, it has pretty much the same controls as the Develop module’s Basic panel (including the Recovery, Fill Light, Clarity, and Vibrance controls). Also, if you press-and-hold the Option (PC: Alt) key, the Clarity and Vibrance controls change into the Sharpening and Saturation controls (as seen on the right). Instead of sliders (which give us precise control over our adjustments), the Quick Develop panel uses one-click buttons (just to make us crazy). If you click a single-arrow button, it moves that control a little. If you click a double-arrow button, it moves it a lot.
- Step Two: There are only two situations where I’ll use the Quick Develop panel: One is where I see a messed-up thumbnail, and I want to see if it can easily be fixed, before I invest any time into it in the Develop module. For example, in the Grid view, click on an underexposed photo, then go over to the Quick Develop panel and click the Exposure double right-arrow button two times to get it closer to being properly exposed. Now you can make a better decision about its fate, without having to pause your sorting process by leaving the Library module and jumping over to the Develop module.
- Step Three: The other time I use the Quick Develop panel is when I’m in Compare or Survey view (as shown here), because you can apply Quick Develop edits while in these side-by-side views (just be sure to click on the photo you want to edit first). For example, there’s a magenta color cast on these photos, so her gown looks kind of pinkish. So, while in Survey mode, click on the third photo, then keep an eye on the color of her gown. To get it back to white, I had to click the Temperature double left-arrow button two times, and then click the Tint double left-arrow button once. Now that I know the adjustments I need, I could return to Grid view, select all those similar photos, and fix them all at once with just those three clicks. Also, when you’re correcting multiple photos using Quick Develop, every image gets the exact same amount of correction (so if you increase the exposure by ⅔ of a stop, all the selected photos go up by ⅔ of a stop, regardless of what their current exposure is). But, it’s not that way when you do the same thing in the Develop module using Auto Sync. There, if you set the exposure of one photo to +0.50, every selected photo’s exposure is also set to +0.50.
- Step Four: If you’ve selected a bunch of photos, but only want certain edits you made applied to them (rather than all your Quick Develop edits), then click the Sync Settings button at the bottom of the right side Panels area. This brings up a dialog (shown here) where you can choose which Quick Develop settings get applied to the rest of the selected photos. Just turn on the checkboxes beside those settings you want applied, and then click the Synchronize button.
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