
Organize and edit photos in Lightroom CC: import, albums, keywords, flags, and ratings; apply presets, color corrections, and selective edits; work with RAW, healing brush, and cloud sharing.
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Explore the Lightroom workspace, navigate the left pane, grid views, and editing tools, using keyboard shortcuts to organize, tag, and enhance photos with metadata and machine learning insights.
Add photos from desktop or external drives using the add photos option, review the import, and create or add to albums such as Italy food pics.
Organize your Lightroom photos by creating albums and folders to group images by event or theme, such as Italy, and sort by capture date for easy navigation.
Explore how to view and filter photos by date in Lightroom, using capture, modified, imported, and recently added dates, and expand year and month groups to quickly locate specific periods.
Learn to organize photos in Lightroom by starring and flagging, using grid views and shortcuts to rate, reject, filter by stars, and create albums.
Search photos by built-in and user-created keywords to organize your collection. Create keywords, apply them to images, and use keyword filters with geotagging to find pasta, Italian food, and more.
Enable people detection to let Lightroom analyze photos, group similar faces, and create models. Name each person to enable easy searching and filtering by people as photos sync.
Explore advanced filters in Lightroom to refine searches by edited status, file type, camera, location, and sync status, and see how metadata‑driven albums and people tagging organize your photos.
Explore editing with Lightroom presets to quickly enhance color and lighting, apply and compare presets, create your own presets, and manage them for efficient photo editing.
Explore how profiles act as a starting point in Lightroom, not affecting all editing options, then use color and monochrome categories, adjust degrees, and favorite options for quick access.
Explore Lightroom web version, a cloud-based view that syncs with desktop, enabling album creation, grid views, filtering by stars or flags, and keyboard shortcuts, with some features missing.
Master Lightroom CC lighting tools to adjust exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, and blacks, then use curves to target blue and red tones and save presets.
Learn to correct color casts with white balance in Lightroom CC by adjusting temperature and tint, using auto, as shot, and eyedropper to neutral gray for accurate color.
Compare raw photos with JPEGs to reveal Lightroom's expanded editing options, especially under lighting and color panels, including deeper white balance controls like Cloudy.
Explore saturation in Lightroom, using the color mixer to adjust hue, saturation, and luminance for individual colors, making greens pop, isolating yellows, and even creating grayscale effects.
Boost color in Lightroom CC by using vibrance to enhance non-skin tones while keeping skin tones natural; compare with saturation and adjust temperature for a balanced look.
Explore advanced color grading in Lightroom CC, isolating highlights, shadows, and mid tones with hue, saturation, and luminance using color wheels and blending controls.
Crop and rotate your photo using the crop tool, adjust aspect ratio (from original to square or other sizes), and straighten or flip the image to create a new composition.
Explore how Lightroom uses texture, clarity, and sharpening to make images pop, emphasizing mid tones, highlights, and edge contrast, with guidance for busy scenes versus close-ups.
Master the dehaze tool in the effects panel to reduce or enhance haze, then adjust levels and shadows to emphasize the forest scene's deer.
Learn how to create a vignette in Lightroom to draw focus to your subject, adjust midpoint, roundness, feathering, and highlights for emotional photos.
Create custom black and white images by applying the black and white filter, then use the black and white mixer to adjust underlying colors for texture, contrast, and sharpness.
Master the healing brush in Lightroom CC by using healing and clone modes to remove blemishes, lens flares, and reflections, while adjusting brush size, feathering, and sampling.
Learn to use the clone tool in Adobe Lightroom CC by sampling a source, setting a destination, and adjusting size and feather to blend a new object.
Apply targeted edits in Adobe Lightroom CC with the brush tool to selectively adjust exposure, color, shadows, highlights, hue, luminance, saturation, and clarity using brush and gradient controls.
Use the linear gradient tool to selectively adjust sky color and lighting, then fine-tune with saturation and exposure, rotating and erasing areas as needed.
Learn to use the radial gradient tool in Lightroom to selectively adjust color and lighting, applying texture, hue, saturation to targeted areas such as grapes, with brush and erase options.
In this class you will learn how organize your photos including how to create Albums, rate your photos, filter by keyword and other metadata. We will also cover editing, enhancing, sharpening and touching up your photos which will include options for affecting lighting and color correction. The class also breaks down the powerful touch up features including the healing and clone brush. We also go explore the sharing and exporting options including creating your very own personal web gallery to showcase your photos. See below for a detailed outline of each topic.
· You will learn how to organize your photos in Lightroom
· You will learn how to star, filter and flag and sort your photos
· You will learn how to create and share albums (online and desktop)
· You will learn how to enhance and edit your photos from basics to more advanced tools
· You will learn about advanced filtering options for better organization
· You will learn how to apply color correction, lighting, levels and curves
· You will learn how to work with specialized tools such as the linear brush tool, gradient brush tool and masking options
· You will learn how to adjust the hue, saturation, vibrance and luminance your photos
· You will learn how to sharpen your photos to make them pop
· You will learn masking to better control your edits and enhancements
· You will learn how to remove "haze" from your photos
· You will learn how to create a Web Gallery
· You will learn how to export your photos for sharing and saving to your desktop