Our live online course teaches:

• Nav­i­gat­ing Light­room’s Devel­op mod­ule
• Crop­ping, straight­en­ing, and rotat­ing images
• Set­ting cam­era pro­files, white bal­ance, and expo­sure adjust­ments
• Adjust­ing detail and lens cor­rec­tions
• Using masks to make selec­tive adjust­ments
• Remov­ing objects, dust, and blem­ish­es
• Merge images for HDR and panora­mas
• Chang­ing colours and tones, and colour grad­ing
• Vir­tu­al copies, snap­shots, and syn­chro­niz­ing cor­rec­tions
• Cre­at­ing devel­op pre­sets

In-depth

In this course, you’ll learn how to nav­i­gate Light­room’s Devel­op mod­ule and make pre­cise adjust­ments to your pho­tos using the pow­er­ful tools it offers. By learn­ing how to crop, straight­en, and rotate images, you’ll be able to trans­form poor­ly com­posed shots into per­fect­ly framed mas­ter­pieces. You’ll also learn how to set cam­era pro­files and white bal­ance, which can help you achieve accu­rate and con­sis­tent pho­to colours. By mak­ing expo­sure adjust­ments, you’ll be able to res­cue over- or under­ex­posed shots and get the per­fect look for your images.

You’ll also learn how to make detail and lens cor­rec­tions, which can help you fix com­mon prob­lems like dis­tor­tion, chro­mat­ic aber­ra­tion, and vignetting. By using masks to make selec­tive adjust­ments, you’ll be able to apply edits only to spe­cif­ic areas of your pho­tos, giv­ing you pre­cise con­trol over your edits. And by learn­ing how to remove objects, dust, and blem­ish­es, you’ll be able to clean up your pho­tos and elim­i­nate dis­trac­tions that can ruin an oth­er­wise great shot.

You’ll also learn how to merge images for HDR and panora­mas, which can help you cap­ture a broad­er range of tones and cre­ate stun­ning, high-impact images. By chang­ing colours and tones, and colour grad­ing your pho­tos, you’ll be able to cre­ate a cohe­sive look and achieve the per­fect mood for your images. You’ll learn how to use vir­tu­al copies, snap­shots, and syn­chro­niz­ing cor­rec­tions to make non-destruc­tive edits and keep your work­flow effi­cient. And by cre­at­ing devel­op pre­sets, you’ll be able to quick­ly apply your favourite edits to mul­ti­ple pho­tos at once, sav­ing you time and stream­lin­ing your work­flow.

Important Details

Software and hardware requirements:

• Func­tion­al com­put­er (Mac or Win­dows PC) with a fast inter­net con­nec­tion.
• Up-to-date instal­la­tion of Adobe Light­room Clas­sic (down­load tri­al or license here)

Prerequisite skills:

This les­son assumes you have a work­ing knowl­edge of your com­put­er and its oper­at­ing sys­tem.

Make sure you know how to use the cur­sor, the stan­dard menus and com­mands, and open, save, and close files and appli­ca­tions. Can you scroll with­in a win­dow to reveal con­tent beyond the dis­played area? Do you know how to access con­tex­tu­al menus by right-click­ing?

Please review these basic com­put­er skills in the doc­u­men­ta­tion includ­ed with your com­put­er before par­tic­i­pat­ing in this les­son.

Course location:

• Live online video course via Microsoft Teams (down­load here).

What’s provided:

• Zip archive con­tain­ing a vari­ety of exam­ple pho­tos to work on.