Adobe Lightroom Essentials

Lightroom Classic is a great solution for image organisation and management, rapid editing and adjustment, and sharing and presentation.

While Photoshop allows you to make incredibly complex edits to individual images, Lightroom offers a far simpler solution for photographers to manage their image catalogue, make bulk edits and adjustments, and rapidly output the final product.

Our one day introduction course gets you up and running on this powerful application in no time at all.

We teach you how to use the interface to manage your image catalogue, edit metadata, detect faces, make adjustments to exposure or colour temperature, crop, and make localised corrections.

Private Courses

This course is available as a private event. A private event can be held at one of our venues, your location, or somewhere else if you prefer.

Objectives

• The Lightroom Essentials course will enable you to start using Adobe Lightroom Classic to manage, edit and output your images with confidence.

You Will Learn To

• Work with the Lightroom interface
• Create and Edit Catalogues
• Importing photos
• Search and Categorise Images
• Work with Smart Collections
• Apply none destructive adjustments
• Work with location data for images
• Create Books
• Create Slideshows
• Prepare for Print and Web
• lots more.

Target Audience

• Lightroom Essentials is suitable for anybody who wants to use Lightroom Classic to manage and edit their images more efficiently. No previous experience is needed.
  • This course is a beginners Lightroom course. You should however be comfortable using a computer to perform functions such as copy and paste, and opening applications and files. You should also be comfortable using the internet, for example for browsing and interacting with websites.

What's Included

• Comprehensive course materials and exercises

Course Content

Intro To Lightroom Classic

• What is Lightroom Classic
• Lightroom Classic versus Photoshop
• The Lightroom Interface
• Lightroom Preferences
• The Lightroom Workflow

Catalogues

• What are catalogues
• Importing photos
• Renaming files
• Backing up catalogues
• What are Smart Previews

The Library Module

• Viewing with Grid and Loupe Views
• Full Screen and Lights Out
• Understanding the Catalog and Folders panel
• Working with the Filmstrip
• Comparing two images
• Renaming and moving items
• Deleting photographs

Oraganizing Your Photos

• Flags, Stars and Labels
• Creating, importing and applying keywords
• Finding and Filtering
• Using smart collections
• Using Face tags

Lightroom To Photoshop

• Editing a RAW file in Photoshop
• Open as a Smart Object in Photoshop
• Multiple images as layers in Photoshop

The Develop Module

• Develop module interface
• Correcting exposure and contrast
• White balance correction
• Clipping on Highlights and Shadows
• Adjust Hue, Saturation and Lightness
• Applying adjustments to multiple images
• Creating Black and White photos
• History and snapshots

Basic Retouching

• Cleaning up with the Spot removal tool
• Fixing Red Eye
• Radial and Graduated Adjustment Filters
• Sharpening Images
• Noise Reduction
• The Adjustment Brush
• Cropping in Lightroom

Map Module

• Geotagging images in the Map Module
• Location filter bar
• Location Metadata
• Sync Metadata
• Editing Pins

Book Module

• Creating a Book Project
• Book Settings
• Auto Layout
• Editing Book pages and Guides
• Customising Layout
• Editing Type and Background
• Publishing the Book

Slideshow Module

• Creating a Slideshow
• Layout and using templates
• Slideshow Options
• Slideshow Overlays
• Backdrop Panel
• Adding titles
• Adding music
• Playback the slideshow
• Exporting the slideshow

Print Module

• Using Print templates
• Page and Print Settings
• Print Collections
• Layout Styles
• Image Settings
• Using Guides
• The Page Panel
• Print Job panel

Web Module

• Template Browser
• Previewing
• Layout Styles
• Site Info
• Colour Palettes
• The Appearance Panel
• Image Info
• Output Settings
• Upload Settings