After a session, I insert my memory card into a card reader, create a new folder on my external hard drive, and download all of the images into that folder. There are several ways to go about this, but here is the best method that I have found. Now that we have a basic understanding of what Lightroom is, I want to jump in and spend the rest of this article covering what steps to take to prepare your photos for editing. This will be explained further in future parts of this series. Secondly, you never save your adjustments as you are probably accustomed to in other types of software, since you are never reaching a point when all of your edits are locked in to the original image. You don’t have to worry about ruining the photo as any step can always be undone. First, you can completely alter the appearance of your photo without ever actually changing the original image. The adjustments that you are making are written to a completely separate file as a list of instructions, so that what you see in Lightroom is a preview of the original image combined with the list of changes made to it. What this means is that the changes you are adding to your image in Lightroom are not actually being performed to the original file. One of the most important things to know about Lightroom, is that it performs nondestructive edits. Lightroom is Adobe’s all-in-one photography software, designed for organizing, editing, and sharing your photos. This is the first of what will be a multiple part series of articles on Lightroom basics. Because of this, I wanted to create a simple beginner’s guide to using Lightroom. I have found that there are so many new photographers who either feel too overwhelmed to start learning the intensive software, or they still aren’t confident that they have been using it correctly. Lightroom has so many possibilities, that even after years of using it, I still am consistently learning something new. It is easy to feel overwhelmed with the many different features of Adobe Lightroom.
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