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CHAPTER 13
EDITING YOUR PHOTOS
Th e purpose of editing is to distill your photo shoot to the very
best images. During the course of a shoot, we all make images
that don’t refl ect our best work. It is important that you remove
or separate these outtakes from your best quality work before you
begin the photo correction process. Otherwise, you will spend a
lot of time correcting images that won’t ever be used.
Mountain biker, Fruita, Colorado. Olympus E-3, 35–100mm lens,
1/200 second at f4, ISO 250
246 W HY NOT KEEP EVERYTHING?
As your photo library grows, the amount of
upkeep and work it takes to store and manage
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it grows exponentially. If a photo is out of
focus, your subject blinked during the shot,
or you forgot to take the lens cap off, delete If these photos weren’t the last ones you
the image! Th ere is no need to manage and imported, or your photo shoot spanned
sort through photos that you’ll never print, multiple cards and imports, navigate to
display online, or e-mail to a friend. If you the Folders panel, click the disclosure
are uneasy about deleting photos, burn a triangle next to the hard drive where
DVD of each shoot before you perform your your images are stored, and navigate to
edits; that way, you’ll have a full archive of the specifi c folder containing your photo
every photo you’ve taken. shoot. You created a separate folder for
each photo shoot, didn’t you?
Reviewing Images in Lightroom
Begin by isolating your recently imported
shoot from the rest of the images in your
catalog in one of two ways:
If the shoot you want to prised
the last items imported into the catalog,
clicking the Previous Import heading in
Once you’ve isolated the recently imported
the Catalog panel will display only those
photos from the rest of the collection, you’ll
images, provided they were all imported
want to begin viewin