Lightroom Classic Essential Training

Course details

Lightroom Classic is an extremely popular photo management, enhancement, and publishing program that is fully integrated with Adobe Creative Cloud. In this course, photographer and instructor Theresa Jackson invites you to learn the essentials of Lightroom Classic. Discover how to get photos from your computer or hard drive into Lightroom Classic, organize them into collections, and add ratings and keywords to enable smart search. Then dive into the photo editing workspace, the Develop module, where Theresa shows how to make both simple and complex adjustments, from cropping to lens corrections. Finally, learn how to export your final images from Lightroom and troubleshoot common issues, such as finding lost photos. Theresa also shows how to sync your collections with the cloud, so you can access your work on any device.

Learning objectives
Importing photos
Viewing and comparing photos
Adding keywords and ratings to images
Organizing photos into stacks and collections
Photo editing in the Develop module
Advanced photo editing: Split toning, lens corrections, and more
Exporting photos
Syncing Lightroom Classic with Lightroom cloud
Troubleshooting Lightroom Classic

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Organize, edit, and share your photos
02 - Using the exercise files
03 - Which Lightroom should you use
04 - Is this the right Lightroom Classic course for you

1. Understanding the Lightroom Classic Catalog

05 - What is a catalog
06 - How to create a catalog for this course

2. Getting Photos Into Lightroom Classic

07 - Tips for organizing your photos
08 - Import photos from your computer
09 - Create copyright metadata preset
10 - Apply copyright and keywords during import
11 - About image previews
12 - Import with drag and drop
13 - Import photos from a memory card

3. Exploring the Lightroom Classic Workspace

14 - Lightroom Classic workspace tour
15 - Exploring the Library module
16 - Interface preferences
17 - Viewing photos
18 - Viewing photo information
19 - Comparing photos

4. Review, Keyword, and Rate Images

20 - Keywording photos
21 - People view face recognition
22 - Review and rate images

5. Get Organized

23 - Group photos into stacks
24 - Regular collection
25 - Smart Collection
26 - Collection set
27 - Find photos with filter bar

6. Develop Module and Basic Photo Editing

28 - Tour of the Develop module
29 - Tool strip
30 - Customize the Develop module
31 - Choosing a profile
32 - The Basic panel
33 - Fine-tune the black point and white point
34 - The Effects panel
35 - Crop tool

7. Develop Module and Advanced Photo Editing

36 - The Tone Curve panel
37 - Color Mixer - Point Color
38 - Color Mixer - Mixer
39 - Color grading
40 - Detail panel Manual Noise Reduction
41 - Detail panel Denoise
42 - The Lens Corrections panel
43 - The Transform panel
44 - Lens Blur
45 - Repair image with Healing tools
46 - Generative AI remove
47 - Masks for selective edits
48 - Masks with artificial intelligence
49 - Working with virtual copies
50 - Creating black and whites
51 - Batch edit multiple images
52 - Understanding HDR

8. Getting Photos Out of Lightroom

53 - Create a watermark
54 - Exporting edited photos
55 - Lightroom and Photoshop
56 - Edit in Photoshop from a layered Photoshop file

9. Connecting Classic to Lightroom (Cloud)

57 - Understanding the Lightroom ecosystem
58 - Sync a Lightroom Classic catalog with Lightroom
59 - Sync a Lightroom Classic collection with the Lightroom cloud
60 - Create a public link to share online
61 - Managing photos synced from Lightroom mobile

10. Troubleshooting

62 - How to find missing photos
63 - Locate missing photos
64 - Lost photos, collections, or edits

Conclusion

65 - Next steps