Viewing your photos with the Grid and Loupe views

In this movie, we'll take a look at how we can navigate to different folders in order to view our photographs. We'll also explore how we can view our images in different ways. Alright, well let's begin by taking a look at the panels that we have on the left. And if your catalog panel is closed, go ahead and open it up. Up top, you have the ability to click on all photographs. That will show you each and every photograph and video file which you have imported into Lightroom. If you want to get to a specific folder, what we need to do is to go to the folder panel, so let's open that up.

Here I have my folders on my hard drive. It's showing that it's green. That shows me that I have lots of space left on that hard drive. If it changes to yellow or red, it's showing me that I'm running out of space. Next, I have exercise files. I'll go ahead and click on the triangle icon to open these folders up. And as I do this, what we can do is we can click on a folder, say like the 01 Library. By default, it's showing me this folder and all of the other subfolders, yet what I only want to view are the files which are located in this Viewing folder which I've created here.

If I want to get down to a subfolder and just view those images inside of that, I can click on that one. In other words, whenever you have a parent folder, it's gonna show you the parent folder and all of the subfolders and everything inside of it. Alright, well, let's go to this Viewing folder, so we can see these images. And let's scroll through what we have here. We can scroll by using the scrollbar on the right of our thumbnails, or by using the scrollbar which is located right underneath the filmstrip thumbnails. Here we can drag this to the left or right.

If you have a three-button mouse, you can actually just position your cursor over the thumbnails and then use that. You can see I'm just scrolling with that third button. Up here, I can do the same thing. That's a nice quick way to scroll through images. Now with these photographs, let's say that what we wanna do is view one of them larger. We can click on an image. You can click on the thumbnail here in the grid view or down bellow. Notice how I can click between images in either location. Then if we wanna view this image larger, we can use the icons which we've already learned.

Click on the Loop icon to view it in the Loop view, or click on the Grid icon to view this in the Grid view. If you wanna speed up the way that you navigate between Grid and Loop, what you can do is click on an image, then tap the E key to navigate to the Loop view, or tap the G key to go back to the Grid view. That give you just a quick way to change between your views. And what you'll find is, in Lightroom, you're gonna be switching between those quite often, so I recommend you write those down.

G for Grid, E for Loop. Yet another way to go between these two is to select an image, then to double-click that image. That will take it to the Loop view. Double-click again, it will take it back to the Grid view. So here we've learned three techniques for going between Grid and Loop. Let me reiterate those. First one is to click on the icons that we have right here. The next one is to press the E key for the Loop, the G key for the Grid, and then last but not least, to double-click, and then double-click again.

That gives us the ability to change between those different view modes of our photographs here in our Library module.