Lightroom Classic Essential Training

Learn the essentials of Lightroom Classic. Find out how to organize, edit, and publish photos with this popular cloud-based app.

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.

Introduction

• Organize, edit, and share your photos
• Using the exercise files
• Which Lightroom should you use?
• Is this the right Lightroom Classic course for you?

1. Understanding the Lightroom Classic Catalog

• What is a catalog?
• How to create a catalog for this course

2. Getting Photos Into Lightroom Classic

• Tips for organizing your photos
• Import photos from your computer
• Create copyright metadata preset
• Apply copyright and keywords during import
• About image previews
• Import with drag and drop
• Import photos from a memory card

3. Exploring the Lightroom Classic Workspace

• Lightroom Classic workspace tour
• Exploring the Library module
• Viewing photos
• Viewing photo information
• Comparing photos

4. Review, Keyword, and Rate Images

• Keywording photos
• People view face recognition
• Review and rate images

5. Get Organized

• Group photos into stacks
• Regular collection
• Smart Collection
• Collection set
• Find photos with filter bar

6. Develop Module and Basic Photo Editing

• Tour of the Develop module
• Customize the Develop module
• Choosing a profile
• The Basic panel
• Fine-tune the black point and white point
• The Effects panel
• Crop tool

7. Develop Module and Advanced Photo Editing

• The Tone Curve panel
• The HSL/Color panel
• Split toning
• The Detail panel
• The Lens Corrections panel
• The Transform panel
• Spot Removal tool
• Selective editing tools
• Working with virtual copies
• Creating black and whites
• Batch edit multiple images

8. Getting Photos Out of Lightroom

• Create a watermark
• Exporting edited photos
• Lightroom and Photoshop
• Edit in Photoshop from a layered Photoshop file

9. Connecting Classic to Lightroom (Cloud)

• Understanding the Lightroom ecosystem
• Sync a Lightroom Classic catalog with Lightroom
• Sync a Lightroom Classic collection with the Lightroom cloud
• Create a public link to share online
• Managing photos synced from Lightroom mobile

10. Troubleshooting

• How to find missing photos
• Lost photos, collections, or edits

Conclusion

• Next steps