The first 4 lectures have introduced Lightroom and its overall interface.  In Lesson 5 we start working on our Lightroom Workflow.  Selecting images, flagging images, keywording images, and more will help you speed up your "after shoot" workflow.

As you grow with Lightroom you'll find your libraries expanding.  Hundreds if not thousands of photos in your library.  How do you find a single image from a shoot months ago?  Easily!  Lightrooms filters and smart collections will help you find images fast no matter how large your library is!

Over the course of a year you can accumulate a lot of images if you're shooting often.  In my case, I make a new library every year.  And even breaking libraries up by year, some of mine are pretty large, yet I can still find the exact image I'm looking for in moments.

Bad photos happen.  Hopefully you shot multiple frames while on location, so you have some images to work with.  But what if all of your shots of a scene you really want to work out yields poor results.  Can anything be done?  Can you turn a bad photo into an okay photo?

When we take our photos we want to share them as well.  Our images aren't meant to be hidden away in our Lightroom libraries.  Fortunately Lightroom gives us powerful export features so we can prepare our images for print, our own websites, social media sites, and more.  This lecture covers creating your own image export presets.

Not only is Lightroom a powerful workflow and editing tool, it can also tie together with many of today's photography editing software.  Launch Photoshop, Aurora, Luminar, and more from Lightroom and when you're finished your edits you can save the final product back to Lightroom.  It is the ultimate photo management tool!

Photographers can create Panoramic images and HDR images from within Lightroom itself.  There are many other photo editors out there for Panoramas and HDRs, but it's nice to have the functionality built into Lightroom as well.

The editing features found within Lightroom are robust enough to allow most digital photographers to work exclusively in Lightroom.  In this lecture we talk about a few additional editing tools available to us.

In this lecture we walk through a single photo edit together and see what we can make out of an image.

Another image editing walk through together.  Often less is more.  You don't always need to spend a lot of time editing, especially if your original image is a good one.  Slight adjustments may be all you need!

Bulk editing photos is another way to streamline your workflow process.  But be careful!  Bulk editing images might leave you skipping over images that need a little more attention.  Lightroom speeds up your workflow immensely, but sometimes it can leave you overlooking glaring issues when you're just focusing on speed!

We've spent almost all of our time in the Library and Develop Modules for a reason.  That's where almost everything happens.  But we've got some other modules as well.  The Map, Book, Slideshow, Print, and Web modules are also available.  This lecture is a quick overview of what each does, and why you might be as underwhelmed as I am when it comes to these modules.

Back to the beginning.  Many courses start off with your catalog setting and preferences.  This course jumped into playing with our images almost immediately (because we're all impatient sometimes).  So, what do we need to know about the preferences?  We'll take a look in this lecture!