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The role of albums

The role of albums - Lightroom Tutorial

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The role of albums

- One of the first ways to organize images is albums. These are effectively playlist or collections of pictures that you organize thematically. This could be based on location, or perhaps images that you want to put into a portfolio. What you name an album and how you use them is really up to you, but let me show you a few ways that they come in handy. You'll find albums over here in the sidebar. Earlier, we made one when we were importing called night photography. If you skip that step, you can just click on the plus menu here and create an album. Now, night photography is pretty straightforward. What I'm going to do is select the pictures that belong in there. So let's adjust this here. And I could see more images at a time. And I want to focus on some of these here. So if I Shift + Click, I could select a range of images and drag it into that album. Let's get a few more here of the moon from a different night.…

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