Lightroom Classic Basics for Photographers
In this class, Matt Kloskowski walks you through the key things you need to know to get up and running right away. You'll learn the easiest and quickest way to get your photos into Lightroom. If you've ever had trouble organizing, Matt makes this a total breeze. Then you'll learn how to organize your favorites, the most important settings for editing those photos, and finally how to share them with everyone else.
Release Date: 2014-02-14
Lessons
Intro and What We Will Cover
<p>Matt introduces the class and goes over what we'll cover.</p>
Duration: 1 mins 15 seconds
Where To Put Your Photos
<p>The most important thing when you start using Lightroom is where to put your photos. You'll learn how to get started the right way, with a folder structure that can grow with you.</p>
Duration: 3 mins 5 seconds
How To Get New Photos In To Lightroom
<p>Once you come back from a photo shoot, you'll want to get moving quickly and get your photos in to Lightroom. </p>
Duration: 7 mins 21 seconds
How To Get Existing Photos In To Lightroom
<p>Chances are that you've got photos taken before you started using Lightroom and you want to get them in your photo library as well.</p>
Duration: 4 mins 17 seconds
Sorting Through to Find Your Favorite Photos
<p>One of the main advantages of Lightroom over other programs is sorting and organizing your photos. In this lesson you'll find out the easiest ways to do that.</p>
Duration: 4 mins 52 seconds
Organizing Your Favorite Photos
<p>Once you've found your favorites, Matt shows you how to use Collections (kinda like Albums) to organize them so they're just one click away.</p>
Duration: 4 mins 23 seconds
Editing Basics
<p>You'll love the power of the Basic panel for editing your photos. There's a ton of different things we can do, but the Basic panel still remains one of the most useful.</p>
Duration: 9 mins 32 seconds
Selective Editing Tools
<p>Once you've done some global edits, you can hone in and do selective edits with Lightroom's tools as well.</p>
Duration: 8 mins 5 seconds
Semi-Advanced (but not so advanced) Editing Tools
<p>Matt finishes up the Develop module by going through some of the more advanced (but not that advanced) editing tools that you may come across. </p>
Duration: 10 mins 14 seconds
Sharing Your Photos Online
<p>Whether it's simply saving a JPEG or sharing your photos online via email, Facebook or Flickr, Lightroom has built-in ways to do this automatically for you.</p>
Duration: 9 mins 46 seconds
Sharing Your Photos in Print
<p>It's all about the print. Between the photo books and the Print module, you'll learn how you can get great prints that look just like they do on your screen.</p>
Duration: 11 mins 2 seconds