Best Way to Learn Lightroom CC

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Best Way to Learn Lightroom

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Welcome to this complete course lesson about Best Way to Learn Lightroom. I’m so excited to have you here before we jump into the lessons.

I just want to say hello and introduce myself. If you haven’t taken work for me.

1. Introduction

Since 2017 we’ve been creating top-rated lessons and course on YouTube. That teach people like you amazing creative skills.

2. Why update your Adobe Software

We’ll be using the latest 2019 version of Lightroom Classic CC. If you’re using an older version of Lightroom classic or even a previous version of just Lightroom.

Please make sure your lightroom version is updated. Otherwise, Adobe will sue you for using older version of lightroom or there other software.

You’ll be able to follow along if you’re taking this lessons with a newer version in the future.

What is the Best Way to Learn Lightroom?

Are there any course requirements or prerequisites?

  • You don’t need any experience with Lightroom or photo editing
  • You will need the Lightroom Classic CC and/or Lightroom CC application to follow along

3. What is in this lesson of Lightroom Classic CC

We’ll make sure to update the course with any important changes or additions that Adobe as we designed this course to take you from an absolute beginner with no experience all the way up to the advanced user.

Feeling comfortable and confident using this amazing tool.

You can see from the course outline that we start with importing and organizing the photos.

4. Welcome to the Lightroom Course

  • Welcome to the Course
  • IMPORTANT: Lightroom Classic CC vs Lightroom CC
  • Download Your Practice Photos ( CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD )
  • Join the Official Student Photography Group ( FACEBOOK GROUP )

5. Importing, Organizing & Filtering Photos

6. Editing Your Photos – The Develop Module

  • Crop & Rotate
  • White Balance Adjustments
  • Exposure Adjustments
  • Color, Saturation & HSL Adjustments
  • Sharpening & Noise Reduction
  • Vignettes, Grain & Dehaze
  • Exporting Photos
  • Instructor Note – Get More Resources and Tips
  • Lens Corrections: Chromatic Aberration & Profile Corrections
  • Split Toning
  • Removing Blemishes with the Healing Brush
  • Graduated, Radial & Brush Filter Adjustments
  • Brush & Filter Presets
  • Range Masks for Pin Pointing Your Adjustments

7. Editing Your Photos – Advanced Tips & Techniques

  • Installing, Using and Creating Presets to Speed Up Workflow
  • Camera Color Profiles
  • Batch Editing: Speed Up Your Workflow
  • Stitching Together a Panorama
  • Layering an HDR Photo
  • Automatically Fix Exposure & White Balance

8. Advanced Portrait Editing Techniques

  • Enhancing Eye Color & Changing Eye Color
  • Whitening Teeth
  • Smoothing Skin
  • Removing & Smoothing Wrinkles
  • Enhancing Lips & Changing Lipstick Color
  • Enhancing Cheeks & Face Contouring
  • Full Portrait Edit

9. Full Photo Editing Sessions Using Lightroom Classic

  • Editing a Portrait of a Woman
  • Editing a Night Photo
  • Editing a Long Exposure Photo
  • Editing a Product Photo
  • Editing a Sports Photo
  • Editing a Nature Photo
  • Editing a Landscape Photo
  • Editing a Travel Photo
  • Editing a Couples Portrait
  • Editing an Architecture Photo
  • Editing an Aerial Photo
  • Editing a Street Photo
  • Editing a Macro Photo
  • Editing a Pet Photo
  • Editing a Maternity Photo
  • Editing an Action Shot
  • Editing an Interior Nursery Photo
  • Editing a Portrait of a Man

10. How to Use Lightroom Classic CC- Map, Book, Slideshow, Print & Web Modules

  • The Map Module
  • The Book Module
  • The Slideshow Module
  • The Print Module
  • The Web Module

11. Lightroom CC Mobile – Cloud Version – Basic Editing

  • Introduction to the Lightroom CC Sections
  • Download Your Practice Photos
  • Import and Organize
  • Crop and Rotate
  • White Balance and Saturation Adjustments
  • Exposure Adjustments with Light and Tone Curve Settings
  • Adjusting Colors with the Color Mixer
  • Photo Effects – Clarity, Dehaze, Vignette, and Grain
  • Split Toning
  • Details – Noise Reduction and Sharpening
  • Optics – Remove Chromatic Aberration and Lens Corrections
  • Geometry Adjustments
  • Export Your Photos

12. Lightroom CC Mobile – Local Adjustments and Advanced Tips

  • Healing and Clone Brushes – Remove Blemishes
  • Brush Adjustments
  • Radial and Linear Gradients
  • Speed Up Workflow with Presets
  • Editing Photos in Your Web Browser

13. Lightroom CC Android Phone – Advanced Portrait Editing Techniques

  • Enhancing Eyes & Changing Eye Color
  • Whitening Teeth
  • Smoothing Skin
  • Removing & Smoothing Wrinkles
  • Enhancing Lips & Changing Lipstick Color
  • Enhancing Cheeks & Face Contouring
  • Advanced Portrait Edit – Start to Finish

14. Lightroom CC Phone – Full Photo Editing Sessions

  • Editing a Car / Landscape Photo
  • Editing a Starry Sky Photo
  • Editing a Woman and Her Dog
  • Editing a Rose Photo
  • Editing a Wildlife Photo
  • Editing a Snowy Landscape
  • Editing an Icy River
  • Editing a Surf Shot
  • Editing a Night Photo
  • Editing a Portrait

We don’t spend too much time there as I know you want to jump right into editing.

So the bulk of this course covers all of the different ways you can edit your photos to make them look awesome.

We go over all the tools in the development module and then show you How to export high-quality images. So you can share them with your family and friends.

15. Learn Photo Editing From Scratch – Step by Step Lessons

When I learn Lightroom for the first time I loved watching tutorials by photographers that show the entire process of editing a photo from scratch.

And so that’s why later in this course I’ve added several complete and it’s showing you different styles of editing.

That way you can see how you can use the tools that you learned earlier in the class and put them together to edit the complete photo from scratch.

Make sure you download the practice photos in the next lesson which we’ll be using throughout the rest of the course.

16. Basic Photography – Photo Editing Lessons to Next Level

Also I want to clarify that if you’re in the photography, you may find some of these lessons are familiar.

We’ve included the basic editing lessons for your photography.

But in this class, we’ve added more advanced lessons. The additional full editing demonstrations that really take your skills to the next level.

So, if you’re wondering should you both OS’s.

I would say yes to you.

This Lightroom class would really take your editing skills to that advanced level.

Our Promise to You!

We’ll be here for you every step of the way. If you have any questions about the course content or anything related to this topic, you can always post a question in the course or send me a direct email us.

We want to make this the best course on how to use Adobe Lightroom. So if there is any way we can improve this course, just tell us and we’ll make it happen.

And remember if you ever get stuck just post a question throw our email or contact us. We will respond as fast as we can to help you out.

I’m excited to get going. Thank you for reading this full Best Way to Learn Lightroom Full Course Guide.

Peace Out.

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