Lightroom: Mastering Adjustments and Editing

Course details

At the heart of Lightroom is a module where you can make your photos look their best by adjusting exposure, levels, noise, perspective, and more. In this course, Bryan O'Neil Hughes—the director of product management at Adobe—explores the Develop module, providing in-depth training, sharing insights, and showing some automation tricks. See how to adjust tone and temperature, how to make lens corrections to fix distortion, and how to cull your images. Discover how to make global changes to a batch and how to use adjustment brushes to limit changes. Then, learn how to use Lightroom on a mobile device. Also, find out how to bring a Lightroom project into Photoshop. Bryan closes the course by discussing social sharing processes and essential keyboard shortcuts that you can use.

Learning objectives
Adjusting photographs in Lightroom
Using the Develop module
Fixing white balance and temperature
Applying HDR adjustments
Sharpening images
Making lens corrections
Fixing perspective
Retouching images using a brush
Adjusting clarity and haze
Applying graduated filters
Culling photos in Lightroom
Sharing images
Using shortcuts in Lightroom

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - The Lightroom Develop module is your key to amazing images
02 - Develop - The heart of Lightroom
03 - Which Lightroom is best for you

1. The Edit Develop Module - Reviewing the Basics

04 - Order of operations
05 - The importance of Auto
06 - Creative profiles
07 - White balance and temperature
08 - Tone - Basic and Curves
09 - Color
10 - B&W and toning
11 - Workflow in Lightroom

2. The Edit Develop Module - In Depth

12 - HDR and post
13 - Sharpening - Global and variable
14 - Noise Reduction and grain addition
15 - Lens correction, upright, and manual perspective control
16 - Clarity, vignetting, and Dehaze
17 - Precision sliders and using the alt or opt key
18 - In-depth workflow in Lightroom

3. Edit Develop Tools

19 - Crop and draw to straighten
20 - Retouching and the adjustment brush
21 - Graduated filters
22 - Multiple graduated filters for special effects
23 - Adjustment brush tricks
24 - Develop workflow
25 - Develop tools workflow in Lightroom

4. Saving Time

26 - Match total exposure
27 - Synching settings
28 - The power of presets
29 - Applying presets on import
30 - Before, after, and history
31 - Differences between Lightroom and Classic workflow

5. Lightroom - Beyond the Desktop

32 - Syncing from Lightroom to mobile
33 - Lightroom mobile phone raw and HDR capture
34 - Quick edits
35 - Deeper edits
36 - Accessing Lightroom anywhere
37 - Sharing, collaboration, and culling

6. Beyond Lightroom

38 - When to go to Photoshop
39 - Creative imaging
40 - Retouching
41 - Magic
42 - Video

Conclusion

43 - Next steps