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.

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
• Color grading
• 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