Appendix. Lightroom Preferences and Settings

Photograph: Antelope Canyon, Arizona © Martin Evening 2009
Canon EOS 1Ds MkIII | 12 mm | 200 ISO | f9 @ 1 sec

I reserved the appendix as a special section of the book that would allow me to go into more detail about certain aspects of Lightroom, including how you can customize the program to suit specific ways of working. This particular section provides a more detailed summary of the Lightroom Preferences. The preference options described in this section can be accessed by choosing Lightroom Preferences (Mac) or Edit Preferences (PC) (or use the (Mac) or (PC) keyboard shortcut). Where relevant, I have included references to earlier sections in the book. The latter section provides information and details on the Lightroom settings, such as the template settings files and catalog folder. I decided to keep these topics separate, mainly because I did not want to clutter the earlier chapters with information that might have been too distracting. This is an unashamedly technical section aimed at advanced users, although I have tried to keep the explanations as clear and simple as possible. Some of the information and tips mentioned here may go out of date as later updates of the program are released, so please bear this in mind as you read through the following pages.