Lightroom Foundation

Adobe Lightroom Classic (formally known as Lightroom CC (confusing isn't it?!)) is becoming more and more popular with photographers and is increasingly being seen as the main retouching program.

Lightroom goes hand in hand with Photoshop and together sets the industry standard of image editing.The software allows you to sort, rename, edit, tag, as well as make exposure and other batch image adjustments, non-destructively.

This course will take you from the setting up of this affordable piece of software, looking at importing your images, to editing and organising them. The Develop module is where you can correct and process RAW and JPEG files, as well as apply a range of effects, all covered in detail.

The course will also look at how images can be exported directly from Lightroom to websites, Facebook, used in album design or made into prints.

Course Content:

Library Module

• Import / Export
• Creating metadata presets
• Captions and keywords
• Renaming files
• Organising in collections and smart collections
• Editing using flags, filters and ratings

Develop Module

• Histogram
• Tone adjustments, corrections for under / over exposure
• White balance & adjustment
• Contrast & clarity, vibrance and saturation
• Using tone curves
• HSL / Colour / B&W
• Sharpening
• Noise reduction
• Lens corrections
• Effects
• Virtual copies
• Camera calibration
• Cropping and straightening, aspect ratios
• Spot removal and Localised adjustments
• Graduated filters and the adjustment brush
• Linking Lightroom with Photoshop
• Output
• Export
• File formats and their usages
• Size and resolution
• Overview of Map, Book, Slideshow, Print and Web Modules

Requirements:

We recommend a Laptop with Lightroom Classic CC installed. Lr4, Lr5 or Lr6 also suitable.

Don't have your own Laptop?

If you don't have your own laptop then there's no need to worry. You can hire one of our Mac laptops for £25 per day. Send us an email for more details [email protected]