Lightroom Essentials: Everything you need to know

Here's a quick overview of the Lightroom interface.

How best to view while you work.

Solo will make it easier to see what controls yo are using. Quick Develop is a set of Presets.

How to keep your photos organised and search through them.

Keywords will make it so much easier to keep track of all your images.

Metadata is all the information that Lightroom can read from your images - the date the shot was taken, the camera settings and so forth.

Shortcuts will show you how best to learn the shortcuts in Lightroom.

The most important adjustment is exposure - but it's not just one simple slider!

This time we're working on an image that is already reasonable, but bringing it to life.

In this session we have a night scene that has some minor problems.

This is your first assignment - an image to work through by yourself!

If you want to get certified for your Lightroom skills, look on the OPI web site...

http://www.onlinephotoinstitute.com/exams.php

When you have finished this course you have the option to sign up for an exam (at an additional cost). To do the exam you'll be working on a set of images that you'll need to adjust and export - pretty much like the assignment projects in this course, except that you'll send your work in and get feedback from the grading panel as to what you did well or not-so-well. Each exam you pass takes you closer to earning the OPI Diploma in Photography.

We'll work on this image in black and white to better understand the underlying structure.

This night scene requires noise reduction.

Having been working in black and white, this time we'll add some colour back in!

Here's your next assignment...

In this session we'll learn how to bring our the textures in the paintwork of this old car.

Here we'll really get to grips with making the colours pop!

This time we're going to apply colour selectively.

The next assingment for you to work through.

The tools we'll use for retouching can be used in all sorts of other images.

A second retouching exercise.

An assignment to test your ability to take the methods you've learned in the previous two sessions and apply them to a differnt sort of portrait. This is the last assignment in the course.

Lightroom has lots of options for exporting your images.

Learn how to use Soft Proofing so that you images print out the way you expect them to.

Here we cover the options around the print dialogues.

Using Lightroom to make a photobook to be published as a PDF or by Blurb.com.

What the Map module reveals to us.

A quick introduction to the web module.

Making a slideshow in Lightroom