What is a catalog?

- In this movie, I want to talk about the Lightroom catalog.…Now, what is the catalog and why does it matter?…Well, a good place to begin, is to step back for a moment,…and just talk about Lightroom.…Now, what is Lightroom, but a tool…which really revolves around the camera…and the content that we create with this tool,…whether that's photographs or video files.…And the way that Lightroom is built,…is it's built on having these various modules,…as you can see here in this slide.…And we have different modules,…like the library module, which we can go to…in order to organize and manage our photographs,…or we could jump over to the develop module.…

That's where the magic takes place.…This is where we get to correct and enhance our pictures.…And it's all of these modules together…which makes Lightroom so strong.…And, if we were to distill Lightroom,…and what it actually does, to three things,…this is what I would say.…I would say, Lightroom gives us the ability…to manage and organize our files,…to make improvements, and also, to share.…