Adobe Lightroom Masterclass - Beginner to Expert

About this course

Adobe Lightroom is a powerful, intuitive program used for enhancing, organizing, and editing your photos. Users can render enhancements on everything from smartphone photos to raw DSLR images. This course explores many of the exciting features this program offers. Take a look at just a brief summary of the course content below. Section 1: Introduction Students are provided with an overview of learning objectives and some of the key features that the course will explore. Section 2: Fundamentals Students learn to create and configure catalog settings and Lightroom preferences. We also introduce students to the Import Dialog and many of the important customization presets that can be applied to images. This includes file handling, file renaming procedures, metadata presets and other import options. Section 3: File Formats and Color Space This section provides an in-depth overview of file formats and color spaces relevant to photography and Lightroom. We explore the various pros and cons of compressed vs. RAW data formats. Students learn to effectively work with color profiles intended for both screen and print publishing. We provide a comparison of key color spaces including, sRGB, Adobe RGB, ProPhoto RGB, CMYK and Lab Color. Students also learn to configure Lightroom's External application list, to export and edit images from Lightroom to third party applications. Section 4: Basic Configuration Students learn to customize and configure the Lightroom interface using the preferences panel, identity plates and image watermarks. Section 5: Library Module This section introduces students to one of the most important modules in Lightroom, the Library. Here, students will import a gallery of images into Lightroom and apply several sorting attributes to filter and organize images. Students learn to work with keywords, keyword sets, color labels, flags, and metadata. Fro

Course objectives

• explore Lightroom's features
• improve photo editing skills
• learn effective image organization techniques