How To Organize Lightroom’s Develop Panel
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Happy ‘House Arrest’ Monday (LOL!!). While we have this indoor time together, here’s another thing that we’ve been putting off — getting our Lightroom Classic Develop Module more organized. Super easy to do. Here we go:
STEP ONE: Here’s Lightroom Classic’s Develop Module, and the right side panels are in their default view and order from top to bottom. The first thing you might consider is hiding any panels you don’t use. For example, I don’t use the Calibration panel at all (I’m guessing many of you don’t either), so there’s no sense in seeing it, and having it take up physical and mental space in our Lightroom lives.
STEP TWO: Now we Show/hide panels and rearrange their order all in one place. Right-click (or Ctrl-click) on the title bar for any of the panels and from the pop-up menu that appears, choose ‘Customize Develop Panel’ as shown above.
STEP THREE: When this gloriously simple window appears, turn off the checkbox beside any panel you want hidden from view. Don’t worry — you can always see it again by coming back to this window and turn on the checkbox back on. Don’t click the Save button quite yet.
STEP FOUR: To put the panels you use most at the top of the stack of right side panels (so you do a lot less scrolling), click on the panel’s name and drag it into the order you want it to appear in the panel. You’ll see a yellow line appear as you drag (as shown above where I’m dragging the HSL/Color/B & W panel from it’s default position as the third panel from the top, and I’m dragging it down so it’s third from the bottom. Now click the Save button.
STEP FIVE: When you click the Save button, a dialog pops up letting you know you’ll need to Quit and Restart Lightroom for your changes to take effect. Just click the Relaunch button (as shown here).
STEP SIX: That’s it — now your Develop Module panels are organized to suit your workflow.
Hope you found that helpful. 🙂
See you online today for my free Webinar open to everybody! We’re even live streaming it on my Facebook page. 11:00 AM ET. Wishing you and your family good health. 🙂
-Scott
