
Learn how light, color, and detail determine image quality and how to balance exposure, hue, vibrance, and sharpness using Lightroom's light, color, and detail tools.
Detail and sharpness let viewers identify subjects quickly, as seen with clearly identified flowers. Learn how blur, motion blur, and macro photography create or obscure meaning through selective focus.
Edit with Lightroom by balancing exposure, shadows, and highlights, preserving natural color and sharpness, avoiding tilt and over-editing, while using tabs to enhance the subject.
Explore how Lightroom's library view, catalogs, and filmstrip organize images, manage missing files, and import with sub folders, keywords, and collections, while preserving previews and metadata.
Move a photo back to its original folder to fix missing files, then organize with subfolders in Lightroom. Use flags, ratings, and color labels to filter and export efficiently.
Learn to use selective adjustments in Lightroom, balance tones with the histogram, and apply targeted edits with crop, spot removal, red-eye correction, graduated and radial filters, and brush masking.
Explore the Lightroom basic panel to adjust color or black-and-white, set temperature and white balance, apply profiles, and tune exposure, tone, texture, and vibrance for balanced, vivid images.
Explore the hsl color panel to modify hue, saturation, and luminance for selective color adjustments, using masking and color range tools to enhance greens, skies, and mountains.
Learn to use the effects panel in Lightroom develop, shaping edges and highlights with post carbonating, highlight and color priority, and texture with green.
Explore Lightroom's map module to tag photos by location with GPS or manual drag-and-drop on Google Maps. Switch map styles like hybrid, terrain, and satellite and use track logs.
Create a Lightroom photo book by selecting images from your collections, choosing a book type, and customizing layouts, text, borders, and covers before exporting as PDF or JPEG.
Learn to craft compelling Lightroom slideshows by organizing images into collections, applying borders, overlays, star ratings, and identity plates, and syncing music, transitions, and pacing for export-ready presentations.
Elevate product photography with studio-like lighting and post-production edits that isolate the product, reduce haze and noise, adjust white balance and exposure, and sharpen labels for a silk, commercial look.
Balance colors and lighting in a landscape by adjusting white balance, exposure, contrast, and hue, saturation, and luminance with the Excel panel, then use brushes to separate the subject.
Create a vintage Lightroom look by balancing highlights and whites, softening clarity and texture, warming colors, and applying color grading and hue shifts while preserving grain.
Learn to create a nostalgic vintage look in Lightroom by adjusting tone, shadows, highlights, whites, blacks, and warmth, then refine with color grading, grain, and calibration.
Explore how colors and temperature shape mood in Lightroom, and craft warm, cool, or dramatic looks using shadows, highlights, greens and blues, and presets.
Learn to recreate Brandon Woelfel’s dreamy neon-bouquet look in Lightroom by adjusting shadows, highlights, tone curve, white balance, and color channels, with presets as shortcuts.
Master macro photography by isolating a clover on a solid background and using Lightroom to balance lighting, boost greens, sharpen details, and crop for a clean, poster-ready look.
Master Lightroom mobile selective adjustments by using the adjustment brush, radial filter, and graduated filter to target precise areas with adjustable size, feathering, and flow.
Master the healing brush and clone tool in Lightroom to remove unwanted elements, blend edits with feathering and opacity, and apply precise selections for faces and textures.
Master Lightroom's crop tool to frame shots with templates or custom dimensions, lock aspect ratio, straighten automatically, rotate, undo, and reset to refine the crop.
Take photos with focus and exposure lock to balance blur and subject sharpness, using normal, macro, and ultra-wide shots; edit in Lightroom with lighting, white balance, color, noise, and sharpening.
Edit a daytime building photo in Lightroom using straightening, geometry, color grading, and peach-and-blue presets, then share and publish to the Lightroom community with architecture and people tags.
Learn to download and install Lightroom mobile presets, import them as user presets, organize them into online presets, apply them to images, and copy settings for quick bulk editing.
Elevate frozen landscapes by mastering lighting and contrast to distinguish sky, mountain, rocks, and water. Apply exposure and curves, color tweaks, and masking to evoke morning light.
Edit macro shots in Lightroom by cropping, rotating, and balancing light, then refine color, texture, and masking to sharpen the cactus while softening the background.
This course is constantly being revised and updated with new lessons.
Learn Adobe Lightroom Classic and Lightroom CC Mobile and Desktop!
Edit photos like a pro!
Have you ever wanted to edit your own photos? Maybe you want to enhance a photo and show it off on social media, or perhaps you want to fix the imperfections in an otherwise perfect snapshot of your life. Whether you’re a casual photographer or hoping to make a career out of it, editing photos isn’t only for the pros. You can take any photo from drab to fab with just a few tweaks and adjustments - and we’re here to teach you how.
In this course, you’re going to learn everything about photo editing in Adobe Lightroom Classic and the newer Lightroom CC Mobile and Desktop, from importing and organising your photos in the library, to balancing the colours, adding effects, and finally to getting your photos exported in the highest quality. You’ll even learn how to edit specific types of photos, like landscapes, nighttime shots and food, or how to emulate specific styles, like street and vintage photography.
Our instructors have years of experience not only in editing, but also in teaching, and the expertly-crafted syllabus is designed to be easy to follow and thorough. We’ve even included dozens of examples edited on-screen for you to study. That’s why this is the only Lightroom course you’ll ever need to make your drab photos fab!
Start editing today!
After taking this course, you will be able to:
Edit photos in Lightroom Classic and Lightroom CC Mobile and Desktop
Correct imperfections, add effects, adjust lighting and colour balance
Use all the tools available in Lightroom Classic and Lightroom CC Mobile and Desktop
Use the Library and Develop tools
Retouch and Remake photos matching certain styles
Create your own presets
Organise and publish your work