Creating Your Own Looks

You can train your own Looks so that Lightpanel can learn your editing style. Looks learn how you would edit a photo and can then apply similar edits to similar photos in the future. To train a look, the more photos you have edited the better. A minimum of 20 photos with edits is required, but in practice learning a larger collection of one to two thousand photos will create more robust Looks.

Here's how you can train your own Looks.

	Open a Lightroom catalog you have already edited in the past. Pick a job that showcases your style the most.
	In the Looks pane in Lightpanel, click on the options menu and select Add Look...
	Give your Look a Name
	Select what to learn from. If you use one catalog per job, use the catalog option. Use the selected photos or folder option if you use a single catalog for many jobs.
	Choose if you want to learn the Basics adjustments. See below for details.
	Press the Learn button. In the background, Lightpanel will study the photos and learn about the look. When it is done, your new Looks will appear in the Looks pane.
	You can set the Icon for the Look by right-clicking on the Look and selecting the Set Icon option. This will use the current selected photo in Lightroom as the icon.

Adjust Basics

This is off by default, and will only learn the edits you do in the other panes in Lightroom, such as the Tone Curve, Color Mixer, Color Grading, Effects, etc. Looks trained in the manner will not change your Basics sliders, so they will not affect corrections you have made to them. If you enable the Adjsut Basics option, the Look will also learn your corrections in the Basics pane. When you apply a look trained this way, it will change your Basics sliders.

Using Looks You Have Trained

Using the Looks you have trained is the same as using any other look; click on one to apply it to the selected photos. Looks perform better when they are applied to similar jobs as they where trained on. For example if you train a Look based on your outdoor weddings, they may not work as well when applied to an indoor wedding or other type of event.