Editing photographs – all the tools you'll ever need

I might owe you an explanation. I know that some of you think about editing in terms of picture postproduction and retouching. I come from a school of thought where "to create an edit" is to choose the best photographs from a created body of work and sequence them, especially if they will not be presented in chronological order. However, the most important thing is to sift through everything to make a selection that is interesting to look through and hopefully leaves the viewer hungry for more. Anything to do with postproduction or retouching, I will always call developing photos, which is appropriate for the Lightroom Develop module. I hope this makes things a bit clearer.

We have at our disposal a great variety of tools to suit any type of workflow, but first, let's make our workspace look the way we want.

Getting to know the toolbar

We will start with the toolbar at the bottom of the Library window and activate...