Lightroom Tiny Tip: Clean Up The Top Panel

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The Lightroom User Interface can be exceptionally overwhelming with so many different toolbars and panels.

One change I like to make to customize my Lightroom set up is to clean up the top panel of my workspace and eliminate unused options. It may be a small change, but the minimalist in me loves it.

Get rid of the “Book | Print | Map” options or whichever you don’t use by Ctrl-click-ing (Windows) or Command-click-ing (Mac OS) to bring up the option the check or un-checkmark which options you want visible.  I rarely use anything but Library and Develop so that’s what I keep shown, while everything else goes away.  

And to take it a step further, I often will close this panel altogether by clicking the arrow at the top, because most often I will use the keyboard shortcuts G and D to toggle between Library and Develop mode.

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