Welcome back, this video we're going to talk about...

the weirdness of navigating Lightroom...

it's a little bit strange compared to...

other creative programs or any other program...

it's got its own little way of doing things, they get easy as you use it...

by the end of this course you will master it...

let's go through some of the interesting things that it does.

First up, make sure you can see loads of stuff...

if you can't, go back up to here, and say, 'All Photographs', please...

just to see everything you've got so far, and let's look at the first one...

let's open up an image, any image...

I'm going to pick a dove chick...

and I just double click it to open it...

you can double click it to go back to Grid view...

double click it to open it, double click to go in, double click, you got it...

double clicking, now zooming in and out, now there is a couple of ways...

the boring way, Fit is just going to try and squeeze it into your screen...

and then 100% is like as good as the pixels can be...

any more, if you zoom in twice as much...

you'll start to see a lot more details, but you'll start to see some of the pixels.

So this is the boring way, zoom in and out...

we don't want the boring way, we want the good way...

so I've gone back to Fit, and let's do it the fancy way...

the way I do it is...

I hold down my 'Command' key on a Mac, 'Ctrl' key on a PC...

and just drag around something, so give that a go...

'Command' key on a Mac, just hold it down, 'Ctrl' key on a PC...

and just drag around something, and you're in...

to get back to Fit, the default is, Always Fit, hit 'spacebar'...

it kind of just toggles between where you were...

back to Fit, it's just really handy...

if you're kind of like-- remember, hold down 'Command' key, 'Ctrl' key on a PC...

drag around something really detailed...

and you're like, "Oh yeah, that's great, great"...

but you're making changes, making editing changes...

but you want to see what it's doing to everything as well...

so 'spacebar', toggle in, toggle out, toggle in, toggle out...

you get the idea, that's the way I do it...

If you are not quite a shortcut person there is...

there's about 10 different ways, I'm just going to give you two...

you pick one for the rest of the course.

So we're going to go 'spacebar', back to 'Fit'...

remember, my Command or Ctrl key is one way...

the other way is just to click hold for a little bit...

can you see the cursor change...

so click hold for a little bit and then just drag right or left...

right or left, up to you, same thing happens though...

once you've let go spacebar, back to where you were...

'spacebar', back in, there you go.

There are other ways of doing it as well...

if you find another way and you're like, "Huh, that's the way for me"...

good, and congratulations...

one of the many ways of zooming, took me a little while to get used to it...

so spacebar, come all the way out.

The next thing I want to show you is...

well actually, just to mention, the hand only appears when you're zoomed in...

you see that, like I didn't do anything...

I just hit space bar to get back to my old zoom level...

or let's go to the caveman way, let's go zoom in to 400%...

so you see, the hand appears, just appears all by itself...

it's best about to get back out to Fit.

Another thing we have talked about is Grid view versus Detail view...

so we're in Detail view now, hit 'G' on your keyboard...

go back to Grid, so G and D, look at your keyboard now...

look down there, look at that D, and there's a space...

and there's a G probably, I don't know what language your keyboard's in...

but what's in between? F, wonder what happens when we hit that one...

hit that one, go...

you have to have something selected, hopefully, we're at full screen.

This is handy when you are doing that, like, have I made it better or worse...

like I often hit F to go full screen and then I slide back off, way back here...

and I'm like, "Oh, looks terrible, what have I done?," or, "I'm a genius"...

so slide back in here, so F is just a nice way...

of kind of looking at the entire screen all together...

back to D or G, gets you back to kind of this, you know, these different ones...

so here you go.

They're all down here, if you want the long way, there's two grids...

so if you tap G twice you get this one, which I quite like...

or the other one, which is more rectangles...

and gives you a bit more information, both are useful, D and F...

look at them, right next to each other on the keyboard...

it won't go from F to D, will it, F to D? It won't, how about that?

All right, so those are our settings, kind of for different views...

one thing you can do is, see this film strip down the bottom here...

sometimes it's really nice to see it, sometimes it's just a bit distracting...

so let's say we're working on this image here...

and actually we don't want to see this film strip...

you can just pop it in down here...

see this little option, just collapses it down.

up, down, up, down, you can still do your edits...

but sometimes it's not really helpful to see, sometimes it is...

because you're actually in Detail view...

and you're actually just having a hunt through stuff...

what you can do is, like there's dove chick here...

if I'm in the middle here I can use my left and right arrows...

I don't even have to click on it down here but I'm working on this...

and I'm doing my contrast, and I'm zoomed in, and I'm like, "Oh great"...

here he is, just use my left and right arrow...

and it will just toggle through the different images...

down here on my film strip...

which can be handy when you're zoomed in to like...

just to make sure the focus is, you know, which image has the best focus...

just left and right on your arrows, on your keyboard.

All right, that's going to be it, just enough to get us going...

if you're like, "Wow, it's all too much too early," don't worry...

I'll mention them all throughout the course...

remember there's a shortcut sheet...

and there's probably another four or five ways of doing everything...

so if you find it, awesome, all right...

for now though, let's carry on with the course...

actually, before I go, he doesn't look as friendly in this, does he?

Beautiful bird.

You'll also notice that there was a bit of a delay here...

it's another thing to notice, pixelated, not pixelated...

it just happens, it tries to load things really quickly so you can...

you know, like scrub through things really nice and fast...

and it takes a little while to get the, like high quality version...

it's a bit of a trade-off of speed...

and then loads it up, you might not even notice...

you might have a better computer than me, it might be fast...

you also might be on a really bad computer and it may take...

a really long time to load and adjust these things...

and yeah, RAM is what you need, lots of it...

all right, that is it, navigation in Lightroom, and its weirdness, over.