Lightroom Classic CC and Photoshop: Photography Workflow Strategies

Learn the best practices for a modern photo workflow featuring Lightroom Classic CC and Photoshop CC, from capture and management to enhancement and output.

Many long-time digital photographers use a workflow that involves Adobe Camera Raw (ACR), Bridge, and Photoshop. If that describes you, chances are you're working too hard. Times and tools have changed, and a smarter way to work is to replace Bridge and ACR with Lightroom Classic CC.

In this course, Bryan O'Neil Hughes describes a modern photographic workflow that pairs Photoshop with Lightroom Classic CC. Learn the differences between a Bridge and ACR workflow and a Lightroom Classic CC workflow, and see how to take advantage of Lightroom Classic CC's features to work more efficiently.

And because the world is going mobile, Bryan also shares insights into where Lightroom for mobile fits into today's photographic workflow.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know to use this course
• Exercise files

1. Capture: It's All About the Input

• Capture has changed
• Thinking ahead: Getting the most out of your camera

2. Lightroom Import and Library

• Import: Best practices
• Library overview, differences from Bridge, and tips and tricks
• File handling (virtual copies and collections)
• High dynamic range (HDR) images
• Panorama
• Archiving and backup

3. Lightroom Develop

• Lightroom and Camera Raw: Similar but different
• Synching, presets, and timesaving
• Tools overview and differences

4. Photoshop's Role

• Smart Objects and Smart Filters
• Selections, edits, and timesaving tricks
• Layers and masks
• Brush-based tonal tools (Dodge, Burn, and Sponge)
• Sharpening globally and locally
• Fixing panoramas
• Warping: Liquify & Puppet
• Resizing and rescaling
• Video, Camera Raw, and focus blending

5. Beyond the Desktop

• Getting to Lightroom files beyond the desktop
• Creative Cloud mobile app
• Using Lightroom Mobile for sorting and editing
• Using Photoshop Mix for detailed edits
• Using Photoshop Fix
• The magic of CC Libraries
• Lightroom for Web
• Publishing to Behance
• Slate

6. Workflow

• Workflow demo: Putting these techinques to work

Conclusion

• Next steps