Let's explore more of the preferences inside of Lightroom. There's nothing new here in Lightroom cc so far, just for the I would mention. So moving on to external editing. When you work in Lightroom, you can also edit images from Lightroom with an external image editor. And by default, Lightroom will use Photoshop and Lightroom will find whichever is the latest version of Photoshop you have installed. So good Photoshop CC 2015.

But could be any version could be CC, you could be six or CS five. Why would you want to use a Style Editor when you work in Lightroom? Well, maybe to take advantage of features that are not available in Lightroom. Like for example, well, we can create panoramas now in Lightroom CC, but it's still not as good as the ones in Photoshop, because you get much more control in Photoshop. Okay. So you want to do some professional retouching or you want to work with layers, which we don't have in Lightroom, that's where Photoshop comes in.

So when you work with external editor like Photoshop, you get to choose some options. You get to choose the file format you want to work with. So you can choose between TIFF or PSD to the only formats are supported in here, because these are the only two formats or the main two formats that support layers and all sorts of facts like latest holes and filters and Smart Filters and so on. And they also will typically please these uncompressed and TIFF can be uncompressed as well or you can apply compression, but Lightroom and Photoshop will only allow you to use a lossless compression here. So you can choose between TIFF or PSD Okay, so, I usually use TIFF because I want to share files with someone and if someone doesn't have Photoshop, they won't be able to open PSD files, whereas they can easily open tips but you just for color space, which is prophoto RGB because the best part RGB has the widest possible colors face.

It covers all possible colors can be captured by the cameras. sRGB is a smallest, Adobe RGB is bigger, and prophoto. RGB is the biggest. I'll even say here the 16 bit prophoto RGB is a recommended choice for best preserving color details from Lightroom. When we talk more about rolling JPEG and dng later on, I'll give you more information about these features. For Bit Depth 16 bits, because it's the highest and sometimes people ask Yes, your raw files from the camera are only 12 bits or 14 bit but it's still higher than eight bit so you 16 bit so you don't lose some of the information from the camera for resolution 300 DPI 300 pixels per inch.

It's 240 by default because they used to 14 states, but we use 300 in Europe 240 will be fine as well. If you've chosen TIFF for the file format, you will have a compression drop them in you. If you've chosen PSD, they won't be here. Because I'm using TIFF. I've set the compression to none. So there's no compression at all.

So get the highest possible quality TIFF file, like a PSD file. You can also add an external editor another one if you wanted to. So you could have say Photoshop Elements for example. Over here, then stuck with original stuck original will be ticked by default when you work with image in Lightroom. And then you edited in Photoshop from Lightroom or the image editor of your choice. Once you save the file, it will appear automatically back in your catalog in Lightroom.

And this option ticked and will appear next to the original image. Don't be stuck together. So leave it ticked because this will make it so much easier for you to find the image you've worked with in Photoshop. So leave it as this. And for naming conventions for file naming, you could choose how you want to To files, he could just click Edit here and pick your own naming conventions. But I was going to leave it here.

That's fine as it is, don't worry about it. 500 is the next step. This is for the importing dng files mainly. I'm going to talk more about dng later on, but I do use the site Just so you know, straight away. So when use dng, which is a row format, which is file extension, stick to lowercase because a lot of cases was widely supported across all different platforms. You can just compatibility.

What it means is, okay, if I save the file as a DNG file, and someone wants to open it was the version of camera processing engine, they need to have to open the file. Now, if you're sharing files with other people, you may want to use a low version for camera like five or four. So people don't have to have quite a recent version of camera seven. It's not new, because we have a Camera eight. So it's not the latest. Now the reason why I use camera seven is because I don't share dng files with anyone else.

If someone wants my file, I will give them high resolution JPEG, maybe a TIFF. So only I edit dng files. And they could use a lower version I used to use lower version, but if it is, if you set the camera to the highest like 7.1 later, you get the smallest file size for DNG file, the more compatibility that you want the lower version ago, the bigger file, there's quite a big difference. I'll give an example. My original RAW files are typically about 25 megabytes. When I used to use camera five or six, the DNG files would be about 25 megabytes as well.

So same However, when he's in Camaro Simon, my dng files are now around 18 To 19 megabytes, so the about 20% smaller and it's still dng files still uncompressed. So I'll leave it on the maximum if you're not going to share dng files with anyone or if you if you do, but you know, they have Photoshop CS six or CC or Lightroom five or six or CC, you can do that as well. On 7.1 JPEG preview, you can embed JPEG preview in the DNG file, which will make the J pal a bit bigger. So I'll just use medium size it's just a preview anyway. Okay, and bedfellow data limited ticked, amateurs no RAW file. You can embed your original RAW file in a DNG file if you want to see if you don't want to panic a bit and you're not sure okay, select Convert to dng but what about my Canon or Nikon or Fuji or Sony files, you can embed your raw file and you can then later extract it as well.

I don't I have full confidence in dng. It's such a great format. So like it. Now I'm going to skip all the rows in here about some naming conventions, we just leave it limit video file size. That's fine. That's okay.

I'll skip to interface. Not much in here. You can choose now, panel landmarks. I'll show you what they look like. They appear at the bottom of the panel. So there's one here on the left hand side, you may haven't gone on the right my screen is too short is upon landmarks.

You just turn them off. font size for the interface. Oliver automatic, okay. Lights out. We'll just leave it I'll show looks like in the later videos, you can always come back and change it. For button we'll leave it okay.

There is no fill color. Okay, to entry separate us using commerce. It's a common convention, not just in Lightroom. When you add keywords is separated with commas. It's everywhere in Photoshop on the web in web design, as well. So live it is commerce and live autocomplete text and keyword tax field text.

What is going to do is if you've typed certain keyword before and start typing again, Lakshmi will show you like a drop down. So you don't have to type the entire name, you can just start typing it and then double click on it or press Enter on a keyboard. That will helpful it will save save you time leave it ticked. filmstrip show badges Yes, appears at the bottom of the screen. I don't have a search sensor here at the moment. So I'm going to keep everything ticked, except for ignoring clicks on badges.

So I've noticed will be ticked for two weeks, just some tweaks, so you can zoom click point to center. So if you want to zoom to the center of the image, you can take it otherwise when you click on the image is going to zoom in to the area where you click in. So I'm going to leave it as it is. And you system provinces performance moving. We'll just leave it here for now. We're almost done here performance the next step This is new in Lightroom CC, so you won't have it in previous versions Lightroom cc can now use your graphics processor.

Okay, I've had a disabled here, because I've had some issues with graphics processor, it really depends on what graphics card you're using. If you see in blue screen when you go to develop module and trying to edit the image and you don't see the image or you see just a blue box, disable use graphics processor. Okay, as a tip for you Lightroom mobile Lightroom mobile as we escape it here, because Lightroom mobile is only for critical add members. And it's only works with the Creative Cloud. So I'm just going to leave it at least for now, just so everyone can follow along. And then I may create a separate video series for Lightroom mobile because there's so much to cover and network just going to leave it here as it is going to click OK to accept the default preferences and the next video, we're going to Look at the catalog settings.