From the course: Lightroom: Mastering Adjustments and Editing

Develop: The heart of Lightroom - Lightroom Tutorial

From the course: Lightroom: Mastering Adjustments and Editing

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Develop: The heart of Lightroom

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They're the same feature names, they work the same way. The interface is slightly different, but for all intents and purposes, what you learn in one applies to the other. And the Develop or Edit modules are really where the power comes in with Lightroom. That's how you change your image, that's how you bring emotion to your image, is through Develop or Edit, it's the editing steps. And so, it's really important to understand And so, it's really important to understand that everything that we do can be undone later, and that's because of Lightroom's architecture. What happens whenever you edit a file in Lightroom, in Classic or Lightroom, is that you're simply associating a little text file with your original image. with your original image. You're always working on the original, and the text file tells those sliders how to move. Now, what that means is you don't ever have to worry about layers, you can always undo what you do, and you can always redo what you've done. You can copy the instructions from one image You can copy the instructions from one image over to another, you always have a safety net, you can always go back. It's a very elegant system. It works exactly as you'd expect it to. And for the sake of this course and learning all of these editing steps, mastering the Develop module, I want you to remember that you can always undo. There's always a safety net, so have fun with this and understand that this is where the core and understand that this is where the core of your work is done in Lightroom. It's where all of the power is, and it's where the fun is as well.

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