Another tidbit I found in Julieanne Kost’s recent Lightroom seminar here in Santa Fe is a method to control the multiple dialog panels in any module of Lightroom. Especially if you are working on a laptop it can sometimes be a pain to scroll up and down - particularly with the right hand Develop Module panel. So, a trick to take care of this is to Option (Alt on PC) click on the triangles next to the panel names (i.e. Basic, Tone Curve, HSL, etc.).

When you click on the triangle all of the dialog boxes will snap closed except for the one you chose. And when you click on another dialog it will snap all of the others closed so that you can keep your workspace neat and tiddy and not have to scroll up and down. You'll also notice that that triangles switch to a dotted triangle instead of a solid triangle to let you know what more you are in.

I find this particularly useful for the right hand panels so that I can get to the history or presets quickly without having to scroll down past my massive list of presets. And each panel can be set individually so that you can customize Lightroom's panels however you like.

This is a short blog post but yet again, another hidden little trick that can make life easier while using Lightroom.

That's it for this session. See you next week.

Adios, Michael