Quick Develop

Before we proceed to the “Develop Module” of Lightroom, I want to point out that we also have a number of options to edit our pictures in the Library module.
The options under the “Quick Develop” category are useful when you want to perform basic modifications to one or more pictures, but this is rarely used to apply any changes to individual photos.

For example.
Select all the photos you want to adjust the exposure of (1) and click the more or less “exposure” (2).
Click the black arrow next to the category (3) to fully unfold the list of various options.

The purpose of the “Quick Develop” options is that you take a cursory look over your images and determine whether basic changes can be done.
The “Auto Tones” (1) will independently evaluate each selected photo and the required tone arrangements are automatically applied.
The “Resete All” button (2) takes the photos back to their initial values from the changes made in the “Quick Develop” module.
Changes made with the options in “Quick Develop” module and “Develop” are not always permanent. Clicking on the “Reset All” button at any time, restores all the modified pictures to restore the original view. Even if you have closed Lightroom.

Synchronization

If you wish to apply the same changes to other photos, we must first save changes for the synchronization.
First, select the picture where the changes are made (1), Shift-click or Ctrl-click the pictures you want to apply the same changes (2) and click the button “Sync Settings” (3).

This opens a dialog where you choose to preserve settings and then click the “Synchronize” button.

The working environment

When we select the “Develop” module, we see that the window is divided into three parts.
On the left, we have the Navigator window and on the right, we have the Histogram window.
In the middle we find the photo selected in the Filmstrip.
The Navigator window is important when you are using one of the predefined settings.
The Histogram window is important because this gives us information about the number of pixels of each luminance value in a photograph.
A histogram has three layers of color, red, green and blue.
Where all three channels overlap, it is shown in gray.
Yellow, magenta and cyan appear when two of the RGB channels overlap.
Unless you are going to use the pre-sets given by Lightroom, most changes that you wish to make in your photo can be done with the commands on the right side of the window. I will call this the Histogram side.
In the following lessons we’ll go over some of these.

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