Adobe Lightroom Classic Course: From Beginner To Pro

Explore Lightroom's library module, the core photo importer and viewer that handles imports from cards, drives, and computer folders, organizes catalogs, folders, and collections, and supports keyword tagging and publishing.

Explore Lightroom's library module as a photo importer, viewer, organizer, and searcher, using keywords, color labels, and star ratings; create smart collections and search by metadata, attributes, and text.

Import photos in Lightroom's library module using the folder option, select a folder, and build previews while applying metadata templates and presets during import.

Learn to import photos in Lightroom's library module using the import button, choosing copy, move, or add, optionally copying as DNG, renaming files, applying metadata, and selecting a destination folder.

Create and manage Lightroom catalogs to organize photos by shoot, import folders, and apply nondestructive edits, while backing up catalogs to keep projects clean and portable.

Master Lightroom collections in the library module by creating regular, smart, and quick collections to group and view photos by criteria without affecting the original catalog.

Create regular collections in Lightroom Classic to group horse photos by selecting and dragging them into a collection, while noting that deletions affect only the collection, not the catalog.

Create smart collections in Lightroom Classic by applying green labels and rules to automatically group portraits across folders. Use rating criteria to refine the collection and quickly access favorites.

Explore Lightroom's color mixer for selective hue, saturation, and luminance adjustments. Use color grading for shadows, midtones, and highlights, and apply precise masking to target skin tones or specific colors.

Adopt a divide-and-conquer editing framework in Lightroom Classic for post-processing, using masks and gradient tools to edit each image segment, then review cohesion to realize a clear vision.

Edit a portrait in Lightroom Classic by isolating the subject with masking, adjusting white balance, curves, and gradient masks, and fine-tuning skin tones, color grading, and cropping.

Learn Adobe Lightroom Classic street photography editing from a Venice scene, covering denoise, color grading with blues and oranges, and masking and gradients to make the subject pop.

Learn how to retouch portraits in Lightroom Classic, from noise reduction and blemish removal to skin smoothing, masking, AI-based skin fixes, color grading, and 4x5 Instagram cropping.

edit a wedding photo end-to-end in Lightroom Classic, from profile corrections and cropping to selective color, masking, and subtle color grading for a vintage, distraction-free result.

Learn to edit a landscape in Lightroom Classic: assess histogram, balance exposure, correct lens distortion, apply selective masks and gradients, adjust color and contrast, sharpen and dehaze.

Master landscape editing in Lightroom by selectively boosting reds, oranges, yellows, greens, and blues, with masking sharpening and subtle vignetting to unify foreground, middle ground, and background.

Discover Adobe Lightroom Classic's May 2025 landscape masking update that automatically detects sky, vegetation, water, and natural ground, enabling single-click masks and quick exposure, highlights, and saturation adjustments.

Edit a Florence street scene in Lightroom, applying lens corrections, noise handling, four-by-five cropping for Instagram, white balance, and foreground/background masking with a tone curve and color grading.

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