Adobe Lightroom CC Guide

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Overview of Adobe Lightroom CC

Overview of Adobe Lightroom CC

Adobe Lightroom CC is an all-in-one photo service that allows you to access, edit, organize, and share

your photos from your computer, mobile device, or web browser. The changes you make on one

device automatically synchronize so you can access the latest photo edits from anywhere (Figure 1).

This guide is a quick introduction to the Lightroom CC interface, and how you can add images to the library. In other

guides in the series, you’ll learn the basics of how to edit, organize, share, and use Lightroom CC images in Photoshop.

Figure 1 Synchronized photos across your computer and mobile devices

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Overview of Adobe Lightroom CC

When you first launch Lightroom CC, you’ll see a default image collection in the workspace. You can follow along using

those photos or download the assets used in this and the other Lightroom CC guides in this series. You can also work

through the steps using your own photos.

These guides use both the Lightroom CC desktop and mobile apps. If you haven’t already done so, create and/or sign

in with your Adobe ID and download the apps for desktop and mobile devices:

• Search bar and Filter Find photos by metadata and keywords in the Search bar, or click the lter icon to

search by rating, keywords, and other seings.

• Sharing Save photos to the desktop, or share via Facebook.

• Cloud Provides updates on storage, links for device connections, and sync status.

• Tools panel Access photo edit controls like Light, Color, Eects, Detail, Optics, and Geometry. Other tools

include Crop & Rotate, Healing Brush, Paint Brush, Linear and Radial Gradients.

• View mode Display photos in a thumbnail grid, square grid with status info, or individual detail view.

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Overview of Adobe Lightroom CC

• Sorting Provides options to display by capture, import, or modied date, or by star rating.

• Flag and Rating Apply ags to pick and star to rate individual or groups of photos.

• Zoom Change image sizes for thumbnail, grid, or detail view modes.

• Keywords and Info Use these panels to apply title, caption, copyright, keywords, and other information to your

photos.

The Lightroom CC mobile workspace shares many of the same features and tools, panels, and settings but arranged on

you’ve imported the photos, you can consider deleting or moving the originals from their source, such as the memory

card. When you add photos to Lightroom CC, they’re automatically available on all your devices. Lightroom sorts

photos by the date on which they were taken.

In this section, you add photos from a computer, camera, and/or mobile device, and then view your photos on other

Figure 3 Lightroom CC iOS mobile interface

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Overview of Adobe Lightroom CC

1. Start Lightroom CC and sign into your account on

both your desktop and mobile devices.

2. Follow these steps to select photos from your com-

accessible on your computer.

• In the Import dialog box that opens, select the

images or folders you want to add, and then click

Review for Import (Figure 5).

• You’re looking at previews of your images

(Figure 6). In this screen, you can select the

images you’d like to add to Lightroom CC. Click

to uncheck any photos you don’t want to include,

and then click Add Photos.

Review for Import (Figure 5).

• You’re looking at previews of your images

(Figure 6). In this screen, you can select the

images you’d like to add to Lightroom CC. Click

to uncheck any photos you don’t want to include,

and then click Add Photos.

Figure 4 The + Add Photos button

Figure 5 The Import dialog box

Figure 6 Import previews

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• Tap the Add Photos icon, then Camera Roll. Or, tap the camera icon to take a photo with the in-app camera

(Figure 7).

in the desktop app and Ctrl-click (Windows) or

Command-click (Mac OS) and select the images, then

choose Edit > Delete Photos.

A dialog box opens asking if you want to permanently

delete photos (Figure 8). If so, click Delete Photos to

remove the photos.

4. When you’re nished editing the Lightroom CC library

on the desktop, check your photo collection on your

Your photo library is now synchronized.

teaching materials and connect with the creative

education community on the Adobe Education

Exchange: https://edex.adobe.com/.

If you’ve already used a previous version of Lightroom, you might know that the application now comes in two distinct

• Lightroom CC, an all-in-one service where your photos are stored in their full resolution centrally in the cloud,

and synced with your computers and devices when you’re working on them.

• Lightroom Classic CC is a database application containing a catalog and records for each of your photos and

videos you may have imported. A record in the catalog includes a reference to where the photo lives on your

system; your instructions for processing the photo—for instance, the adjustments you applied; and photo

metadata, such as keywords and ratings.

You can easily migrate your catalogs from Lightroom Classic CC to Lightroom CC (Figure 9). When you do so,

Lightroom CC brings in each of your photos included in the catalog and uploads it to the cloud in its full resolution for