Learning Lightroom CC

Learn how to make your photos look their best using Lightroom CC. This course provides an approachable introduction to editing, organizing, and sharing your photos in Lightroom CC.

Get started with Lightroom CC, the powerful, cloud-centric system from Adobe for editing, organizing, and sharing your photos. In this course, photographer and instructor Jan Kabili provides an approachable introduction to Lightroom CC. Jan showcases Lightroom CC on the desktop, but the techniques she covers in this course can help you work with Lightroom CC on your phone or tablet and on the web. She demonstrates how to import photos and leverage intuitive editing controls to make your photos shine. Learn how to adjust lighting, color, and perspective; edit parts of a photo using local editing tools; apply creative photo editing techniques such as split toning; and lots more. To wrap up, Jan shares tips for organizing and sharing your work.

Introduction

• Editing, organizing, and sharing photos with Lightroom CC
• Using the exercise files

1. Getting Started

• Adding photos to Lightroom CC on your computer
• Adding photos to Lightroom CC on your phone
• Getting to know the interface

2. Improving Your Photos

• Choosing a profile
• Cropping
• Working with the editing controls
• Adjusting lighting
• Controlling white balance
• Applying the Clarity and Dehaze effects
• Adjusting color saturation and vibrance
• Adjusting perspective with geometry controls
• Sharpening
• Pulling it all together

3. Editing Part of a Photo

• Removing unwanted content with the Healing tool
• Painting adjustments with the Brush tool
• Adding lighting effects with radial gradients
• Selective editing with linear Gradients

4. Creative Photo Editing

• Getting great looks with presets
• Controlling colors with the Color Mixer
• Making custom black-and-white photos
• Getting creative with split-toning
• Copying edits to other photos

5. Organizing and Sharing

• Organizing your photos into albums
• Flagging and rating your photos
• Finding photos with auto search
• Finding photos of people
• Saving photos
• Sharing photos and albums

Conclusion

• Goodbye