The Ultimate Adobe Lightroom CC Course: Complete Beginner

Explore the differences between Adobe Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic CC, learn when to use each, and practice importing, editing, and exporting the 25 JPEG images from a zip file.

Learn to import photos into Lightroom CC from camera card, phone, or computer, then sync across devices and organize a first batch toward albums and ratings.

Rate images with five to one stars in Lightroom CC and sort by rating across albums and devices. Undo ratings and sort by date, name, or custom order.

Master basic adjustments in Lightroom CC, including tone curve, exposure, color temperature, vibrance, saturation, and clarity, to fine-tune winter photos and preview before/after edits.

Learn to edit in Lightroom CC by adjusting exposure, contrast, shadows, and blacks, then use the color mixer to enhance orange hues, add clarity, and apply a light vignette.

Learn to crop and rotate in Lightroom CC, set aspect ratios (original, 1x1, 4x4), auto straighten, then fine-tune with the center-circle slider and grid until lines are parallel.

Learn to use the healing brush and clone in Lightroom CC to remove objects, match texture and lighting, adjust size, feather, and opacity, and visualize spots to fix dust.

Use the brush tool in Lightroom CC to apply local adjustments by painting over areas, then adjust exposure, temperature, tint, and more; control brush size, feather, flow, and density.

Learn to use the radial gradient tool in Lightroom CC to apply adjustable, non-destructive lighting to local areas by dragging a circular selection, adjusting exposure and temperature.

Explore Lightroom on the web versus desktop, highlighting sign-in, cloud-based non-destructive edits, and the same editing tools across exposure, color, presets, and sharing workflows.

Discover the man in the box, a simplified photo organizing system that makes Lightroom workflow quick and easy, saving hours and letting you chase the light and create beautiful images.

Learn the man in the box system to cut filing time, reduce time spent organizing, and boost productivity for editing, chasing light, and sharing your work.

Learn to simplify photo organization by using a single 'box' approach in Lightroom, reducing micro decisions and energy spent on finding images.

Explore how adobe lightroom cc acts as the cloud box with a smart 'man in the box' that automatically organizes your photos, enabling fast search by field, date, and people.

Ditching keywords shows that machine learning automatically tags images and enables search by terms, so focus on taking great photos rather than manual tagging.

Organize client portraits in a dedicated client images folder with date-based albums and client names in Lightroom CC. Apply the man in the box theory to speed search and delivery.

Learn to use Lightroom presets to quickly apply edits to a cat image, including comprehensive and selective presets, non-destructive copies, and a turquoise and red with heavy vignette look.

Learn to use the Lightroom CC selective brush to adjust the cat nose, painting a mask and tuning exposure, blacks, shadows, contrast, saturation, and color temperature for a natural look.

Apply a brush adjustment to brighten and redden the tongue in a cat image, refining exposure, magenta tint, shadows, and saturation for a lifelike result.

Apply a radial gradient in Lightroom to brighten the chest, adjust feather, exposure, and temperature for a natural look, compare before and after, then prepare for export.

Edit a landscape image in Lightroom CC using presets and local adjustments, then complete the beginner assignments to reinforce the skills.

Apply local adjustments with the brush tool after presets, practicing precise edge-aware painting, avoiding halos, and enhancing exposure to make the subject pop.

Fine-tune your brush adjustments in Lightroom CC with one-to-one zoom, feathered edges, and non-destructive edits to remove halos and enhance the subject, as part of presets part 3.

Explore using the linear gradient tool to create a straight horizon, enhance the sky with vivid colors, adjust temperature and tint for sunset warmth, and feather transitions to avoid halos.

Master a technique to create a natural horizon transition in Lightroom by painting with a large soft brush at low flow to blend sky and water, reducing magenta halos.

Enhance sunset colors by drawing out authentic hues rather than adding unreal tones. Use targeted brush tweaks and healing brush to create natural light on sky and water, removing distractions.

Discover how to create a dramatic spotlight in Lightroom CC by adjusting exposure, applying a radial gradient, and careful brush work to light the subject and darken the background.

Explore tone and color using curves and color adjustments in Lightroom to maximize image quality, and apply these techniques to a provided sample image for hands-on practice.

Explore the parametric tone curve in Lightroom CC to adjust shadows, darks, lights, and highlights for precise exposure, including practical steps to compare before and after.

Explore the red, green, and blue channels in the tone curve, using the red channel point curve to push shadows toward green and highlights toward red, while keeping midtones neutral.

Explore how the tone curve blue point curve in Lightroom lets you adjust the blue channel precisely, creating cooler shadows while preserving skin tones and contrasting with temperature adjustments.

Master the tone curve in Lightroom, using parametric and point curves across color channels to shape shadows and highlights, then apply the techniques to create a final masterpiece.

Create your own Lightroom CC masterpiece by cleaning distractions, adjusting exposure and blue tones, and simulating light guiding a hallway with radial gradients and healing brush edits.

Amplify clarity and dehaze using Lightroom's detail controls to reveal texture and reduce haze in a still life image, then explore split toning and sharpness for vivid results.

Discover how to use clarity and dehaze in landscape photography to enhance edge detail, adjust contrast, and achieve a natural look, with creative ideas and before and after comparisons.

Edit the owl portrait by applying clarity and texture to feathers, neutralizing color cast with selective brush adjustments, and using radial gradient and vignette to sharpen eyes.

Apply dehaze and clarity in the Lightroom edit dialog under effects to remove haze, boost midtone contrast, and reveal details in before-and-after comparisons across still life, landscapes, and portraits.

Demonstrates solving a color and white balance assignment in Lightroom by duplicating the image, selecting a neutral gray, adjusting temperature toward blue, and noting subtle green/magenta shifts.

Compare vibrance and saturation in Lightroom to see their color effects. Vibrance preserves skin tones and tonal range, boosting color; saturation intensifies all colors and can make reds unnaturally bright.

This lecture explains the limitations of vibrance adjustments in Lightroom CC's color menu and demonstrates a brush-based workaround to selectively boost blue saturation, achieving near-target saturation without affecting skin tones.

Explore the color mixer in Lightroom and learn to selectively adjust color channels. Apply targeted tweaks such as making yellows greener without altering other colors.

Learn to work with raw files in Lightroom CC, including importing DNG raw images and the expanded white balance options that differ from JPEGs and support Kelvin-based edits.

Discover what a profile is and how to use it, complete assignments, and set up a profile album with tutorial images to practice applying profiles in Lightroom.

Explore how Lightroom profiles interpret sensor data from raw images, apply color or monochrome presets, and control their influence with amount, gradients, and histograms that reflect changes.

Import the Joy image, straighten and crop it, remove distractions, center the subject, adjust color and noise, and refine exposure, then apply an artistic profile and compare before and after.

Explore color profiles in Lightroom, starting with the default profile, and apply edits through the edit tabs or presets for creative control.

Explore detail, optics, and geometry and learn to use these three tools to their greatest effect in your photography.

Decide how sharp the image should be for the display context, then sharpen the focal edges while avoiding artifacts or overdoing it.

Explore noise reduction and color noise reduction in Lightroom CC, learning how luminous noise affects exposure and how color noise affects color consistency, with live demonstrations.

Explore advanced sharpening in Adobe Lightroom, mastering radius, detail, and masking to control edge sharpness, texture, and subtle skin detail for portraits.

Master advanced luminous and color noise reduction in Lightroom CC by balancing detail and smoothness, adjusting detail and contrast, and tuning color noise for your preferred look.

Discover a practical Lightroom noise reduction workflow that balances luminous and color noise while refining detail and contrast for clean, natural-looking images.

Explore optics in Lightroom CC by removing chromatic aberrations and enabling lens corrections, applying built-in lens profiles or manually selecting a make and model to fix distortion and vignette.

Explore geometry in Lightroom CC to correct image perspective using upright, five options (guided, auto, level, vertical, full), with manual transformation, distortion control, and constrain crop for clean edges.

Learn how to correct perspective in Lightroom CC by using crop auto straighten, level, vertical, and full options, and the guided tool with four lines for accurate horizons and structures.

Apply targeted sharpening, noise reduction, and lens corrections to enhance a capstone image; use radius, masking, radial and linear gradients, and brush adjustments to create natural, dramatic tonal range.