Another reason Lightroom is so great is because you can have a split screen view up to photos. So once you've edited one photo, and you're happy with the look and the colors, you can then copy over those settings. But you'll notice later when we try and do this, that just copying those settings doesn't always make an image feel cohesive. Once the settings have been copied, we need to adjust from there. That's why it's so great to have the side by side view, we can see our first photo and then match our second photo using our first as the reference photo for our color matching. So this is how to set it up.

So festival, we're going to want to import our photos into Lightroom. So let's do that we go to File, Import photos in video. And then we select our source from the left panel here, we navigate to where our photos are. I've already imported them in and waiting. We're working on these photos here. So once these photos are in our library, we can Select the first photo here we want to work on, and we can hit D on our keyboard, we can hit the develop tab at the top.

And that's going to take us into the options to be able to customize our photo. Now once we're in the develop module, to get the split screen view up, all we're going to want to do is click this little button here it says AR N A. Once we click that, you're going to see it splits into two screens. And then with our photos down here at the bottom, you can just click and drag and put that into the left reference view. Now if you want your reference view to be stacked, so top and bottom, all you have to do is click the little arrow to the side and hit top at the bottom, and then it's going to stack those back up for you. But I would prefer it left and right.

So that's how we set up the reference view in Lightroom.