Let's explore the catalog settings and then we're ready to start rolling start importing images into Lightroom. There's two ways you can access your catalog settings. If you remember as we're exploring the preferences in previous video, as you're going through the preferences in here, in general tab, you could go to a couple of settings straight from here. Otherwise in go to Edit menu, and cutoff settings, open Carlson whichever way you prefer. Okay, now general top will show you where the catalog is located. So if you don't know where your catalog is, so you've worked with for Lightroom already, you've played around and you have no idea what your Lightroom catalog is.

Go to your catalog settings, and much more tell you what it is. So mine is in the pictures folder. That's where it normally goes by default, as the name of the catalog, and that's the game that's what Lightroom costs your catalog by default. Okay? That's what it's created. And this is ice.

So mine is on the 1.6 megabytes because there's nothing here yet. At the bottom, you can choose the backup policy for your catalog. Now just to explain a little bit more about the catalog, catalog contains all the information about everything you do in Lightroom. Every photo has been developed, every photo book has been created, or the slideshow or the printable print has been created. It's all in the catalog. So you make sure you backup your catalog on a regular basis.

And what Lightroom does nowadays, is it creates a backup when you close Lightroom from remember in the past Lightroom would do it at the beginning when you open Lightroom so you would you would wait for a minute or two even free before you could do anything but now it doesn't when you close it. How often you do the backup depends on how often you work in Lightroom with images if you add photographer who works with Lightroom every single day, you may want to do it every day. So you may want to say that once a day when Lightroom I do it once a week, because I work on average, twice a week, maybe three times a week, but I don't have to do backup every single time. So once a week is just fine, you can do whatever time you'd like to equates as well. Okay, 500 in top in here, that's where you choose the previous size for the images, but just the preview.

So typically, you would want the preview to be the size of your screen now. Lightroom cc now has an auto option. This is new in Lightroom CC. So what it does, is it's detecting your screen resolution. So minus 72 1920 because about a full HD screen on my laptop, but I use a smaller number because notice these panels on the left hand side on the right hand side The image will only appear in here. So about 1440, that would be just fine.

Okay, preview quality, minimum is just fine. It's just a preview for the quality, okay? And then you've got this one to one previous Lightroom create hundred percent previous for you and it stores them with the catalog. So what you can do is you can tell Lightroom to delete them after a certain number of days. So you should do it after a month, because I don't know work with images more than, say for two or three weeks, then I'll just leave them and may come after them maybe months later or even years later. Whenever you preview the image 100% view here in Lightroom Lightroom will generate 100% preview one to one preview for you again.

So don't worry if you set it to say after one week. Yes Lightroom will delete them but Lightroom will recreate them for you when Preview an image in hundred percent view. Smart previews, nothing here yet. So zero bytes. I'm going to explore smart previews in the later video solely for now, input sequence number we'll just leave it as this Okay, and go to metadata tab. And in here offer suggestions for recently entered values.

Yes. So if you've had a key word they've used before Lightroom or highlighted for you, fine. Include develop settings metadata inside JPEG, Tiff, PNG and PSD files. Yes. So when you add metadata when you develop images, and natural creates metadata, in case of these file formats, you can actually have it saved into the files instead of keeping it just in the catalog. Because you can make can't write into proprietary RAW files, but you can write into JPEGs or TIFF or PNG.

So we'll have it automatically right changes into XMP When you work with raw files, especially proprietor files, like Canon, Nikon, Sony, and so on, by default, the lateral right all the changes to all the images into a catalog body can do is you can save the changes into XMP which will create what we call a sidecar file for every row file with all the information about everything you've done with the image. Now, I don't use that because I find it easier to keep everything within the catalog. Because look at that. So you have the thousand images in your catalog, and you develop them all. With this option ticked, you're going to have 1000 XML files as well. Now they're not big, but they still files automatically.

You just have one well you just have everything in your catalog. So just easier. Now this option comes in useful is if you want to share RAW files with somebody knows. So you could give them raw file and XML file, and they will see all the changes you've made. Otherwise, if you just give them profile, and this option is untagged, they won't see anything you've done, they will see just the original RAW file. Okay?

Because I don't share my raw files with anyone else again, I don't need that address lookup that's for GPS coordinates. So we'll leave it ticked. Yes, face detection. This is new in Lightroom CC, electron can detect faces in images. So I'm going to take that automatic text basis because we're going to look at it later on. And for Exif, rad data time changes into proprietary RAW files.

You can't normally write into proprietary RAW files, except for time changes. Time changes, the only piece of metadata that can actually be written into proprietary RAW file we delivered, I'll have it in the catalog. instead. Now Okay, so let's click OK. We've got For the preferences and catalog settings, and we're ready to start importing some images and looking at the interface as well to explain a little bit more about the interface.