So just to finish off this session one, I'd like to just have a last look around the library and see if there's anything that we've missed in our travels and mention that as well. So, starting up in the top left hand corner, we've got the identity plate here. That's something of note, I can go into my Lightroom menu and my identity plates set up. And I can by default, you'll see it's viewed in the Lightroom identity plate here. I can change that to the Lightroom mobile, which will just go ahead and pull out my name and details from my Creative Cloud account. I can personalize that if I want, I can go ahead and just text My name by default I can add photography if I wanted to cite David Howard on photography, I've got the option to use a graphical identity plate, I can click there and go ahead and upload a JPEG or a PNG file if you want to transparency in it.

I can change the fonts and so forth. So lots of just fiddly kind of customizations. I'm perfectly happy with just the default Lightroom plate for now. So I will leave it there. So working our way down, we've looked at navigator we've looked at where it shows us our zoom view, we've looked at the catalog tab that gives us an overview of the current catalog the folders, with all their intimate detail, we've looked at collections. Now I'm going to hold off on public services.

For now we'll do publish services in session four, where I look at export and output. But just quickly public services. I'll give you just a quick overview. It's basically where we can create automated exe exports that go either to our hard drive or they can be connected into social media so you can upload directly to Facebook or Instagram, Adobe Stock photos, Flickr and a number of other services. So I won't get into that right now because there's lots of export related issues that I'll save to session four. So continuing our way down the line.

The left hand side, you've got this little feature here, see, what's the number one and two. This is the a jewel monitor support. So right now I'm only using one monitor. But if I wanted to run a second monitor, I can click on two there, and another window pops up. And it's basically now going to ask me to set up this window with whatever mode I want. So you can see right now it's in loop view, giving me a large image, I could have it in grid view, in which case my main picture switches back to loop, or I could have loop here.

Then I can just go ahead and drag this off onto a nother monitor, and it will display accordingly. Now, there's a little bug with this feature that I'll just show you just when I exit this, I'm just going to go back to grid, maybe it will happen, maybe it won't. But what happens sometimes is after you've had that second floating panel open, when you come back the area of the screen underneath that it becomes locked and you can't but it doesn't seem to be happening now. So that's good, but just in case it does have preempted it. So moving our way down the left, we've got jewel monitor support right there. Something else of interest.

If you look at the display of my little thumbnails, my little thumbnail slides if you like, you can see there's a bunch of different icons over the top, you've got the star rating show up, you've got these little badges here they're called, which indicate this one means there's key words on the image. This one means it's in a collection, this one means it's got develop adjustments on it, you've got these little arrows that enable you to swing the image around if so required, if it's coming in on a wonky angle, you preview flags, and you've got these numbers across the top as well for each image. Now there's a few different ways we can view this display. This is called compact view, where it's just got some information but not too much. If I press the J key, then it goes into what's called expanded view.

And now we've got a lot more information. We've got the pixel dimensions, the file name The format and so forth. And then if I press the J key one more time, it goes into just a completely clean view. So there's no information at all on top and then j again, and we're back to minimal view. So just pressing J, J, J, three times, cycles through those three modes. I generally have it on this compact view during the recording of these videos and during most of my classes, but you can certainly have it on whichever view, you find the most useful.

Now, if you wanted to customize these views, you can just right click on any image and the context menu that appears if you go all the way to the bottom, you've got your view options here. And the View Options menu lets you customize these cells within an inch of their lives you can control so the thumbnail badges for example, you can say I can turn those on and off. If I like them, or if I don't like them. I do I'd probably turn them off to be honest, if I wasn't doing that. So much public demonstration, I guess it's handy to have them on. So people can glean as much information about my images as possible.

But I think if I was just working alone without any need to have other people seeing what I was doing, I'd probably turn them off because they're a bit distracting. But I'll leave them on for now. I can move my information up and down. If I want the stars at the top rather than say right now, you can see it's got the bottom label is this writing it's turned on. The top label is fall name and it's turned off if I turn it on. Now you can see the file name comes to the top if I wanted to change that to writing.

Now I've got writing at the top, change the bottleneck to flight filename, change, sorry, the bottom label to file name. Now I've got the file name at the bottom. So neither here nor there, really whichever way you prefer to view that. I'm just going to turn my top label off, set it back to file name and set that one back to writing whereas writing disappeared on me writing and libel notes on name writing. Writing in libel, actually, it's writing in libel. So if I had a color label that would display as well.

Anyhow, I digress. So loop view, I can also actually, so compact expanded cells. If I change to my expanded cells, I can control how they display as well. And I'll just show you the loop view features. If I go into loop view for a moment, just by double clicking on an image to see if I press the eye for information, this information appears to the the upper left hand corner, file name, the date, pixel dimensions, if I press it a second time, it comes up with my camera metadata, and if I press it a third time it goes back to clean. So if I just go back into my view options there.

It's happening now I think that little bug that I described before is happening from the area that I had, say I can't click on there. That's because of the second panel, and I think they say the solution is to bring it up and turn it off again. And now I'm back. I'm glad that happened. I'm glad that happened. So I could demonstrate that for you.

So I can also go into loop view. And I can control my loop info one, and loop info two. So I showed you that info as I cycled through. So if I shows the overlay there, so by default info, one is file name, copy, name, capture date, and so forth. And info two, if I press I to cycle through that info to sorry, so there's info one, there's info two, and I can customize them to a pretty significant level. I mean, look at all those options.

You know, I mean, this To be honest, I don't really bother playing around with any of this but you may find use for it. I have done a bit of private training with clients with particularly specific requirements where they have needed to be able to see particular information and we have set this up for them so they can do that. So all that customization is available there, and I'm going to take my view back to there. So that's some more information about what we can customize the appearance the overlay, I think we've hit most of the things now customizing the toolbar, I guess if there's certain tools missing, I just clicked that little arrow there and I can go into my view modes, so I can see my pegboard. Say my painter tool was missing. I'd be like, Oh, where's my painter, love the painter.

There it is turn it on, and the painter comes back. So lots of control. I might have mentioned all of this before, but let me just reiterate. While we're talking about format and layout, obviously, I press F we go to full screen, I press f1 back, but I can also go tab, the tab key gets rid of my left and right panels. I can go Shift Tab, and that gets rid of left right top and bottom. And I can press T for tools to get rid of the toolbar.

Just there. I can also manually collapse these tabs on the left on the panel, sorry. So I click on this little arrow. If I just want to collapse that one, just clicking it goes away, and then click and it comes back. Now the default behavior of this is a little bit different. Let me just put it in the default, it's actually by default, it's in a mode called Auto Show hide.

So what happens there is when you hide a panel, and you put your mouse near it, it just jumps out automatically, and then you move away and it disappears again. Now, initially, that seems like a good useful feature, but to be honest, it becomes a little bit of a pain when it jumps out when you don't want it to. So what you need to do is right click on that little arrow there and change it to manual. And then it will only disappear when you click like such and it will stay disappeared until you click again. So I like to do it that way. It's a it's actually a big issue with the bottom one because sometimes when you hide if you've got your bottom panel in auto show, hide You hide it.

What happens is sometimes you're trying to go to your toolbar, and it pops up over the top of the toolbar. So it's a fiddly little situation there that can be quite frustrating. But this I think it's a bit of a bug in the interface. But it's been there for a long time, the solution simply is to right click, and make sure you go into manual mode and that will not happen. Okay, lots of fun things we can do customizing our interface. That's nice the way these things cycle through in threes.

If I press L, it goes into what's called lights down mode, you can see it's just darkened off the background, but I can still finally see it. And the focus is just on my images. If I press L again, it goes into lights out mode, so completely blackens out the background, and then l a third time and we're back. So that's L L L if you just want to bring your focus just into a particular group of images that you're looking at. So there's there's numerous times where that can be a helpful thing to do. Pairing images and so forth.

So I think that's most of the things that I may have overlooked. We've certainly talked about all those panels quick develop keywording keyword list metadata. Comment I've mentioned comments, comments are something that come into play with exports are with sort of public services. So if you were to add US public services to export to Facebook, you can actually track your comments on your photos here to see how people have liked your photos and the various things that happen on Facebook are all available there for you to interact with. Yeah, well, I reckon that pretty well covers everything. If there's anything I've overlooked here in the library module and in my introduction to Lightroom, please feel free to email me you'll have all my contact details from your registration for these videos.

So feel free to email me and ask me, you know, some small questions and if I if there's any logical reoccurring questions, then I'll be more than happy to make another video and drop that in with the collection in session one and obviously the same will apply to the other sessions as well. Okay?