Let's look at some of the preferences in Lightroom. Not everything but some of the important preferences. On Windows, you go to Edit preferences on a Mac, you find it on their Lightroom preferences. Because on a Mac, every application has its own menu item, the name of the application which appears in the top left corner, you're going to see Lightroom in the top left corner. Before file today, go to Lightroom preferences on a Mac on Windows edit preferences. We'll start from the beginning start for the general.

So we'll run through some of them. So language, okay, I'm limited English fine shows busting during startup. It's up to you really is this box that appear that says Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Honestly in the limit and automatically check for updates, you can have Lightroom check for this automatically. This is something I would recommend if you run in Lightroom, six or five. If you run your Lightroom CC, you get an updates for creative cloud application.

So you don't need you don't want tour and updates through Lightroom. You want to do it through Creative Cloud. So that's why I've got it unchecked in here. Default catalog, we're starting. starting up, use this catalog, you can load your most recent catalog, you can have Lightroom ask you which one you want to load if you have multiple catalogs, or you can load a specific catalog. So this is the catalog I'm using at the moment, which is in the pictures folder.

As I mentioned in previous video. I typically have set up as load most recent catalog, because I'll have one catalog where I work with images on a regular basis and have another catalog which I use just for courses. My training when I deliver my Lightroom or my Adobe certified Lightroom courses here in Britain, so I use it as loads most recent catalog. Input options show input dialog when a memory card isn't that sounds like a good idea. So when you plug in a memory card that will show the input dialog box Now, depends how you use it. I've got a friend who doesn't want to see the input data books every time he plugs in memory card, because sometimes he just doesn't want to work in Lightroom just wants to maybe copy some files.

But if you want Lightroom to launch an open input dialog box, every time you plug in the memory card, you can take this box. I leave it unchecked in here. Because often, the input dialog box doesn't appear. Sometimes it doesn't doesn't doesn't. Probably something like a glitch in software, which I guess will be will be fixed in the next update, probably some way to limit select the current previous input to the connection or input detect. What's going to happen is when you input images, lateral show is previous input here in the catalog pane in here.

So for example, you have none. Well, here's the way I use it quite often. I will import images Not just once but maybe two or three times in the same folder into cuts into Lightroom. Like for example, say I have the images I take on certain month and I have the images that are taken say in one week and another week so it's important to free times so it is pretty simple to check the last input of images. So I'm going to leave it okay. Ignore cannot wait for the next one, namely folders.

When you input images from memory got much more it know the folder names. Okay. Now I've got I've got it's unchecked, because the way I input images into Lightroom is I don't rely on the name of the folder on the memory card. I just create my own folder. So if you're going to create the own folder There was going to be a folder with the date or the specific name, you don't have to worry about it, you can leave it to JPEG files next to raw files or separate photos. If you should both RAW and JPEG Lightroom, by default will only import raw images, it will not input JPEGs.

But if you do show the RAW and JPEG, and you want to import RAW and JPEG files, I don't know why you would want to do that. But if you do want, you could do it. You just take this box. It's actually important JPEGs and raw files for you. It doesn't do it by default. We deliver the compression section here.

It's just about the sound. So for example, when you learn when Lightroom finishes importing images, you can have a sound play. I told us that you could have sounds for different completion. Okay. We're going to skip the catalog settings because we're going to look at catalog settings in a separate video. Slowly with for now.

Okay, now the preset stop in the preset stop. I always have everything unchecked in here because we don't really want to have any automatic adjustments to anything, just so we can have more control in Lightroom I think this one is normally ticked sound ticket, right? We don't want to apply auto tune adjustments either No. Now for the location, the presets by default when you when you have presets, so you download presets from somewhere or you buy them or you create your own presets, which I'm going to show you as well. By default Photoshop Lightroom will keep them in an Adobe folder in Lightroom folder, but you can have them stored with the catalog. This may come in handy if you move between the computers or if you're going to install another version of Lightroom or install software on your computer.

And you want to take the presets with you Just to make it easier, you can actually keep them in the same location as your catalog. Otherwise, you just click this button show Lightroom presets folder, and Lightroom will show you where the presets are located. So in my case, they here in the Adobe sub folder somewhere here. That's the Lightroom sub folder here. Okay, so you can take them with you and you can just restore the status for everything else. Okay, we'll be moving on to next top but in next video so in the next video, we're going to move on to external editing