When
you’ve got an image open in Lightroom and you double-click on it, you enter
into Loupe View. Loupe view is nice because you can zoom in and scroll around
to check out your image which is really handy before you take it into the
Develop module and work on it. The
information you see hovering over your photo is called Info Overlay. If you don’t
see any info here just tap the Letter I on your keyboard. If nothing happens
you might have to hold the Shift key and tap the I key. I always took this for granted but some people
do not know they can actually choose what info appears over your image. This
info shown here can be very helpful. You actually have three choices here that
you can scroll through.
The
first one is usually just your image with no data, then you have two other
views that you can change to your own personal preferences. I have one set up
with shoot date, time, and camera and I have the other one set up with shutter
speed, ƒ- stop, ISO and lens settings. There are a ton of different settings
that you can choose from.
To change these settings, press and hold
the Control key and tap the letter J on your keyboard. A dialog box pops open
and up on the top you’ll see Grid View and Loupe View. Make sure your in Loupe
View you see two sections called Loupe Info 1 and Loupe Info 2. Click on the
dropdown menus and play around with them, I’m sure you’ll find options that
will work great for you. Just find something you like for each and close the
dialog box and your all set…..Nice huh?
