- [Instructor] Customizing the Develop module
is very similar to working in the Library module.
For example, you can click on the edge
of any side of the frame to open or close the panels,
just like if you were in the Library module,
or you could use the tab key to open and close
the side panels or the shift + tab key to open
and close all of the panels.
There's a toolbar at the bottom of the preview here
that could be toggled on and off with the T key.
And to find more Develope module tools,
you can click on the disclosure triangle here to the right.
If you press the I key,
you can cycle through the information overlay.
This is exactly the same as the Loop view
when you're in the Library module.
Let me show you how I customized the Develop module
to get the largest preview for editing.
I like to collapse the left side panel group
by clicking on it.
It's in the Auto Show/Hide.
That's why it's popping open.
So we can do a right-click on this and change it to Manual.
I like to do that
so that it'll stay closed when I close it.
And I'll collapse the top panel as well
and then take the film strip at the bottom
and make it pretty small.
This gives me a really large preview for editing.
And then I want to take the right panel group
and click right where it meets the preview area
and drag it out as far as I can extend it.
This makes for longer sliders,
which give more fine-tune control during the editing.
The next thing I want to do is change my panels
to the Solo mode.
Let me show you what happens if it's not in the Solo mode.
If I open a bunch of these Develop panels here,
we'll see that this gets really long
and it can be kind of hard to move around
and find what you're looking for.
This is the default setting.
I'm not sure why.
If you do a right-click or a control-click
on any of these panels,
you'll see the option to change it to the Solo mode.
So do that by selecting it,
and now only one of these can be open at a time.
So if I click on Basic to open it back up,
then the tone curve panel closed.
Let's do a right-click again
and take a look at the options here
under Customize Develop panel.
This is where you could selectively turn on or off
one of these panels.
I don't really recommend that you do this,
but one might go missing.
That happens occasionally.
I don't know why,
but if you discover for one of your Develop panels
is missing, come here so that you can turn it back on.
You can also shift these around
so they're in a different order.
So if you find that you're going to Effects all the time,
you can move it up here under Basic,
so that it's the second one down.
I'm going to go ahead and leave these in the default order.
So I'll click Cancel so that those changes don't happen.
Now that we've got all that covered,
we're finally ready for the fun stuff.
In the remainder of this chapter,
we're going to do a start-to-finish basic edit of this image
with the tools that are most frequently used
for pretty much every photo.