Adobe Lightroom Essentials Course

Adobe Lightroom Tutorial Essential Training Course by Daniel Walter Scott

What you'll learn

Best practices for white balance, temperature & color correction.

Unlock the power of masking.

You’ll cover all types of photography genres including Portrait, Landscape, Wedding, Night, Wildlife, Automotive, Event, Architectural, Drone, Travel, Product F

You’ll know how to color grade like a professional, simple grades and then moving into distinctive powerful color grades to make your images really pop.

You’ll retouch images, making skin smoother, eyes & teeth whiter. Make hair, eyes and lips standout in portraits.

Learn how to remove parts of an image.

Learn how to color grade videos.

You’ll even learn when and how it might be appropriate to jump out to Adobe Photoshop.

Do you have noisy, grainy images? After this course, you’ll know what tools and techniques to use to remove it.

Learn how to add the noise, grunge & grain back in for a powerful visual statement.

Need to work fast? You’ll learn where to find and how to use the best Presets, LUTS & Profiles.

You’ll take your skills and apply your edits in bulk to a huge group of images all at once.

Learn Lightroom's amazing organizational abilities. Quickly sorting, comparing, searching, grading & backing up images.

You'll learn the best settings for printing your images and sharing on social media without losing details and how to package up a shoot and easily share with a

Requirements

Adobe Lightroom CC Desktop (not Lightroom Classic)

No prior knowledge or experience with Lightroom is required

No prior knowledge or experience in Photography is required

Description

Hi! My name is Dan Scott and together you and I are going to take your photographs and transform them into beautiful dynamic images using Adobe Lightroom CC.I am an Adobe Certified Instructor and I've been working as a creative professional and photo retoucher for over 16 years. I enjoy combining creative work with teaching.I've won many Adobe teaching awards and recently reached a huge milestone….I have now had over a million people worldwide who have studied using my online courses like this one!What’s in the course?You will learn 'best practice' for:• White balance• Temperature and color correction• MaskingWe will cover all types of photography:• Portrait• Wedding• Landscape• Wildlife• Automotive• Event• Architectural• Drone• Travel• Product• FoodYou will learn to color grade like a professional, making simple and powerful color grades which will make your images pop!You will learn how to:• Soften and smooth skin texture• Highlight eyes and whiten teeth• Enhance hair and make eyes and lips really stand out in a portrait• Remove unwanted elements from a photograph• Color grade videos• Reduce noise and graininess from photosThe same great tools you will have worked with for photographs will also work with video clips.You will learn how and why to switch between Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom to achieve optimal results.One of the most exciting features is learning about presets which will speed and enhance your workflow.Lightroom is a powerful tool for organising, sorting, color grading and backing up your images.Who will benefit from this course?This course is aimed at people who are brand new to image editing and photography in general.We start right from scratch and work through topics step by step. It doesn't matter whether you are using an expensive 'state of the art' digital SLR camera or a very basic mobile phone - Lightroom will work well for both!During the course, we will be working with Adobe Lightroom CC, not the older version known as Lightroom Classic. Many of the techniques we will learn will work with both versions of Lightroom software but our focus will be on Lightroom CC desktop.I will be setting class projects throughout the course so that you can practice the skills you have learned. By working on these projects you will create stunning images to add to your personal portfolio or CV.Whether you have never used Lightroom or you have opened it and struggled - follow this course with me and together we will take your images and transform them into beautiful, dynamic photographs by using Adobe Lightroom CC.I'll see you in class!

Overview

Section 1: Getting Started

Lecture 1 Intro to Lightroom Tutorial Training Course

Lecture 2 Getting started with Lightroom Essentials training course

Lecture 3 What is Lightroom compared to Classic Camera RAW Photoshop & Bridge

Section 2: Software Overview

Lecture 4 Compete run through of Lightroom process

Lecture 5 Class Project 01 - Reckless Blind Editing

Section 3: RAW

Lecture 6 What is a raw photo in Lightroom

Section 4: Navigation

Lecture 7 Navigating Lightroom is kinda weird

Section 5: Auto light & color to multiple images in Lightroom

Lecture 8 Auto light & color to multiple images in Lightroom

Lecture 9 Resetting all and individual changes in Lightroom

Lecture 10 Setting Light Exposure Contrast and highlights

Lecture 11 Class Project 02 - Light Correction

Section 6: Color Corrections

Lecture 12 What is Color Grading vs Color Correction

Lecture 13 Auto Temperature & White balance in Lightroom

Lecture 14 White balance eyedropper in Lightroom

Lecture 15 Class Project 03 - Color Correction

Lecture 16 Apply Custom Settings To Multiple Images

Lecture 17 Saturation vs vibrance lightroom

Lecture 18 How change specific color using Color Mixer in Lightroom

Lecture 19 Target Adjustment with color mixer in Lightroom

Lecture 20 How to use Lightroom Remixes

Lecture 21 Share your own work in Lightroom remixes

Lecture 22 Class Project 04 - Color Mixing

Section 7: Organization

Lecture 23 How to import & find photos in Lightroom

Lecture 24 How to organize lightroom photos using Albums

Lecture 25 Storing Lightroom Images locally vs cloud

Lecture 26 How to delete images permanently in Lightroom

Lecture 27 Pause Syncing in Lightroom before cloud storage

Lecture 28 How to compare two images in Lightroom

Lecture 29 Sort by flagged images in Lightroom

Lecture 30 How to use stars to grade your images in Lightroom

Lecture 31 How to rotate images left or right in bulk in Lightroom

Lecture 32 Auto add your copyright info using Info Panel in Lightroom

Lecture 33 Amazing AI search in Adobe Lightroom

Section 8: Saving/Exporting/Sharing

Lecture 34 Saving for print web or social media from Lightroom

Lecture 35 What to use when saving for Instagram in Lightroom

Lecture 36 How to share multiple images with clients & family in Lightroom

Lecture 37 How to add watermark in lightroom

Section 9: Cropping & Straightening

Lecture 38 Rotate flip & cropping overlay in Lightroom

Lecture 39 How to straighten images in Adobe Lightroom

Lecture 40 Aspect ratio & cropping multiple images in Lightroom

Lecture 41 How to crop multiple images at once lightroom

Section 10: Masking

Lecture 42 Add & invert a Linear mask in lightroom

Lecture 43 Class project 05 - Linear Mask

Lecture 44 Multiple radial masks & deleting masks in Lightroom

Lecture 45 Class project 06 - Radial Mask

Lecture 46 How to use Brush Mask in Adobe Lightroom

Lecture 47 Class project 07 - Brush Mask

Lecture 48 How to use the Select Subject mask in Lightroom

Lecture 49 Select background minus using brush in Lightroom

Lecture 50 Class project 08 - Select Background

Lecture 51 How to select sky in Lightroom

Lecture 52 Class Project 09 - Sky Selection

Lecture 53 Replace sky in Lightroom using Photoshop round trip

Lecture 54 Selecting just one person in Lightroom

Lecture 55 How to smooth skin in wedding photos Lightroom

Lecture 56 Class project 11 - Skin Smoothing

Lecture 57 How to whiten eyes & enhance eye color in Lightroom

Lecture 58 How to change hair eye & lip color in Lightroom

Lecture 59 Class Project 12 - Changing color

Section 11: Fixing Images

Lecture 60 Lightroom noise reduction

Lecture 61 What does dehaze do in Lightroom

Lecture 62 Class Project 13 - Dehazing

Section 12: Effects

Lecture 63 Use Clairy to enhance images

Lecture 64 Difference between Clarity Sharpening Texture & Contrast in lightroom

Section 13: Retouching

Lecture 65 Skin Retouching in Lightroom

Lecture 66 Class Project 14 - Skin Retouching

Lecture 67 How to Remove Objects in Lightroom

Lecture 68 Class Project 15 - Removing Objects

Lecture 69 How to use Healing Brush in Lightroom

Section 14: Point Curve

Lecture 70 How to use Point Curve in Lightroom

Section 15: Profiles Presets & LUT

Lecture 71 Lightroom Profile vs Preset vs LUT

Lecture 72 Free Lightroom Presets

Lecture 73 Create & Bulk Apply your own Lightroom preset

Lecture 74 Magic Adaptive Presets in Lightroom

Section 16: Color Grading Styles

Lecture 75 Color Grading intro with Orange & Teal in Lightroom

Lecture 76 Class Project 16 - Orange & Teal

Lecture 77 Batman Dark moody Tone Cinematic Color Grade in Lightroom

Lecture 78 Class Project 17 - Moody

Lecture 79 High Contrast Black & White Lightroom Presets

Lecture 80 Class Project 18 - Black & White

Lecture 81 Duo Tone Spotify Color Grade in Lightroom

Lecture 82 Class Project 19 - Duotone

Lecture 83 Color Grading Secrets Full Process Reductive Lightroom

Lecture 84 Class Project 20 - Reductive Color Grading

Section 17: Photoshop

Lecture 85 When should I start using Photoshop instead of Lightroom

Section 18: Video

Lecture 86 Can you edit videos in lightroom

Lecture 87 Class Project 21 - Video Grading

Section 19: What next

Lecture 88 What next after your Lightroom Essentials course

This course is really aimed at people new to photo editing software and photography in general. We’ll start right at the beginning and work our way through step by step.,ou might be using the biggest fanciest camera in the world or shooting on your phone that’s held together mostly with sellotape. It doesn’ matter, Lightroom is amazing for both.