So in this session, I'd like to explore the develop module and all the possibilities of image adjustments. So let's get over there. Now, if I click up here on my module picker from the library, let's go to the develop module. And here we are in the develop module with an image that's got adjustments on it already. You can see over here in the basic tab, you can see the adjustments that I've made to this image. And you can also see over here in that left hand panel, you've got my history, where I can step back through all the various things I've done.

Now, there's a great little keyboard shortcut that I'll just give you straight up in the develop module, and it's the backslash case. So in the library module, you may recall the backslash case shows and hides the library filter. Let me just remind you of that, I can go into my metadata there and backslash will show and hide the library filter. Now in the develop module, the backslash k does something very different. The backslash k gives you a before and after before For an after, so you can see the original image now adjustments and the current image with adjustments. There's a couple of different ways that can be achieved down here on the toolbar this little little why side by side, you click that, and you get a side by side before and after as well, or click back to there.

Well, that's the Y key. So it's often useful when I'm demonstrating things to show a side by side before and after. But to be honest, when I'm working, I tend to just use the backslash key for my before and after like that. So I want to start I don't want to get too deep into operations in the develop module. In this first video, it's more of an overview just to give you some orientation. And I want to have a look at some of the adjustments that I've actually made to this image and I want to have a look at the what's on the various panels.

So the first thing I can do down here, if I click Reset, if I click Reset down in the bottom right hand corner, you'll see all the adjustments I've made to the image gone so you can see all my sliders The basic tab here leveled out again. Now I want to take you down the left hand side now in the develop module you say there's the navigator they're behaving as ever in the navigator tab same as it did in the library. So if we just jump up to another got a tub there you see we can move perspective around like such. And back, I've got all these presets all these Lightroom presets up in the preset tab, I can go down and I can apply these color presets. I can get these aged photo I've got a bleach bypass, I've got a cold tone. That's quite nice that bleach bypass actually, isn't it?

Let me just have another look at that. Yeah, like that. So we got this cold tone. We got this cross process we got this cross process, too. And we got this cross process 3d give me all these wacky looks. We got this one they call the direct positive, all polar and yes the year so To be honest, I don't really have to do with these presets, they're a little bit like Instagram filters, I reckon.

So, not particularly interested in all of that. So I'm just going to go back and I'm going to click Reset, to take this image back to its original appearance. And if I wanted to go all the way back to the edit that I made, I can you can see, I can just cycle through my history here. And if I can find where we were, I think just before I reset the settings, say there, what clipping was the last thing I did. So if I click on that, what clipping it's going to take me back to my edit in the image. So this is something people often struggle to get their head around in Lightroom, how fluid, the appearance of images, it's never really set in stone, I can always go back and change my mind at any time.

Now, the history states are great because I can step back and I can see all the various things I did before I added vibrance before I added clarity, and so forth and so on. But what's also useful because there's so many states here there's so many different history states that you may have to go wandering through or can be hard to find. find what you're looking for. So for that reason, there's also snapshots. snapshots are just like another menu for history states, but they, they just, they just a more significant moment in time, I guess. So by making a snapshot, when I click snapshot, it's going to give the snapshot the current date, the date and time.

So we can just call it there. And I'll just, I can maybe why don't I call it first edit. Sorry, I can't speak and type at the same time or I'll misspell something for sure. So I'm just going to call that one first edit. So by making that snapshot there, I can just very easily returned to it. So it's a good idea to make snapshots now.

I can reset the image and I can do a whole bunch of crazy stuff and I can make it too light. I can make it too dark and I can mark up the color and I you know, I can go to my presets and I can I can do this preset and that way they're not particularly useful presets out what am I doing crazy out of control business here and then I think what am I doing? Let's just get back to my First edit and bang, we're back to there. So the beauty of making presets is they enable you to return to a particular moment in time very quickly and easily. And generally it's it's a significant moment in time. So, this is your overview of the develop module before we go diving deeper into it.

And looking at all the individual adjustments I've got, as I said, navigate up presets, history and snapshots on the left levels. I got my collections down here. Over here on the right are all your image adjustment tabs, we've got a histogram up the top here, then we've got our basic time curve HSL. So all the coming videos in this section will be going through each of these individual tabs. And without any further ado, I think we'll start doing that. Okay.