Adobe Lightroom Classic: Zero to Sixty

Explore catalogs in Adobe Lightroom Classic to understand how they organize and manage your photo library.

Create a new Lightroom Classic catalog and keep one catalog, learning how it indexes and links to local image files. Import options include add, copy, move, or copy as dng.

Organize your Lightroom library to ensure a smooth workflow, using catalogs and user-created collections to tag and retrieve images quickly, while understanding how folders differ.

Relink unlinked Lightroom images and folders using the locate prompt, find missing photos, and rename files to restore correct paths and prevent smart preview warnings.

Master collections in Lightroom Classic, including regular and smart collections and collection sets, to organize images safely without touching originals and keep every photo in at least one collection.

Learn to use Lightroom's metadata search to filter by date, camera, lens, and keywords, save custom searches, and safely delete photos from disk outside collections.

Learn to tailor the library grid and loop view in Lightroom Classic, adjusting compact vs expanded cells, clickable items on hover, color labels, image info tool tips, and view options.

Master the Lightroom Classic toolbar—rating, rotation, flagging, and grid/loop views—plus comparison with ranking and zoom, the multi-image viewer, and face detection for naming and searching people.

Master white balance with color temperature and tint, using the eyedropper and neutral gray card, then refine contrast, dehaze, and vibrance for natural colors.

Explore the tone curve, the most powerful Lightroom tool, to adjust input-output values, remap brightness, control highlights and shadows, and save custom curves or presets 2-point and 3-point s-curves.

Learn color grading in the develop module with shadows, midtones and highlights using color wheels, blending and balance. Explore noise reduction, de-noise, super resolution, sharpening, and masking for sharper results.

Use the crop overlay in the develop module to adjust aspect ratio, apply custom shapes, rotate overlays with shift+o, and correct the horizon with auto or the angle slider.

Learn to use masking in Lightroom Classic to enhance sunrises, refine edges with radial gradients and luminance ranges, subtract areas, intersect masks, and selectively edit people, teeth, eyes, and clothing.

Learn step-by-step portrait and landscape edits using global adjustments and ai masking in Lightroom classic, including subject isolation, hair highlights, eye and teeth tweaks, and lens corrections.

Export a variant from Lightroom to a separate file for a specific job, keeping edits away from the original. Delete the variant after the job completes.

Explore export formats such as avif, psd, tiff, png, and dng, and master metadata, content credentials, watermarking, resizing, and batch exporting in Lightroom Classic.

Thank you for joining Adobe Lightroom Classic: Zero to Sixty; you will feel comfortable and confident using Lightroom for everyday photography, manage images effectively, and craft amazing edits.