Chapter 3. Library Organizing Your Photos

The first module you wind up using in Adobe Lightroom is usually the Library moduleit's where you go to sort and organize your photos. Now, here's the thing. While what you're supposed to do here is organize your photos, very few people have the intestinal fortitude to actually do itto actually go through all their images, and tag each and every one with keywords and custom metadata. My hat's off to these meticulous people (freaks), but I'm not one of them. That's because as soon as I import my photos, I take a quick look at 'em, separate the good from the bad, and then start messing with the good ones in the Develop, Slideshow, and Print modules. Those are the party modules. That's where the fun is, so I hang out there (it's kind of like the Rain^® Nightclub in Vegas, only without all the celebrities, flashing lights, music, and liquor. Okay, there's some liquor, but not all that much). You know who uses the Library module to its fullest extent? People who have a metabolic predisposition to become serial killersthem and molecular biologists. I don't know why. Anyway, maybe I'm just speaking for myself here, because honestly, I couldn't keep track of all my photos if they had my name and phone number embedded in them with a microchip tracking device. I guess it's because I don't care about my bad photos. I only care about my good photos (you know, the ones that are "large and complex"), so I don't want to waste my time tagging photos I'm probably never going to use for anything other than my work in molecular biology.