THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE LIGHTROOM CLASSIC TRAINING
This training is updated to include all the features of the latest version of Lightroom Classic 9.3 (released June 2020)
Do you need to Learn Lightroom Classic? I mean, really learn it. Are you frustrated because your Lightroom catalog is a mess? Maybe you just want to make your photos look better (how about a LOT better, like the ones you see “rockstar photographers” doing). Imagine having all of your photographs perfectly organized and being able to find what you want instantly. Imagine being able to quickly make your photographs look pristine or even push it a little bit beyond the normal, with confidence.
Maybe you have tried other training and it was incomplete, scattered and confusing. You just wished someone would tell you HOW to do it but also explain WHY something works, so you can reproduce it on your own library of photographs. I’m going to guess you are also tired of heady, overly technical instructions and just want a knowledagable friend to sit down and explain Lightroom Classic to you.
This is the A-Z Lightroom training. LIBRARY // DEVELOP // OUTPUT. Three complete courses in one, with zero overlap.
This is what makes this training so unique. You have an award winning (3X Guru award, Time Magazine, PPA awarded) expert, who is known for his calm,
conversational style, that is friendly and easy to understand and follow. This training is now in its 8th version and has been completely (every single lesson) recoded from the ground up for Lightroom Classic. We didn’t assume we know everything about your needs. We asked our very large community (you were possibly one of them) specifically what they struggle with the most and need to learn. We received hundreds of responses and acted on it. As a result, we beefed up the areas that people struggle with the most and produced this, what we believe to be the most complete, finest Lightroom Classic training anywhere.
In 140 digestible lessons, we will go though Lightroom Classic together in depth. This 15+ hour course will train you as well as serve as a valuable reference library for the future. We go beyond just the tools (they are all explained of course and all the latest features are covered in depth. ). You will learn workflows and strategies. How to build catalogs and organize your photos. How to find anything. How to migrate to different computers or hard drives. How to find missing images. How to clean up your Catalog and how to structure it in the first place. Workflows and steps to fix and polish your photos and videos (yes, videos). How to add the finishing touches to make your images stand out from the rest and quickly retouch and finesse details. How to automate many things to shave hours off your workflow. The steps for printing and outputting books, slideshows and much more.
If you are a complete beginner, you won’t be left behind, if you are more experienced, you will love learning the new tools and workflows of Lightroom Classic as well as lots of hidden and undocumented tips and tricks.
No matter your level, you can quickly master Lightroom Classic with effortless ease.
This is the most comprehensive video on the market for Lightroom. This 8th edition is recorded in beautiful HD from the ground-up for Lightroom Classic. Learn how to import, organize, develop and output all your captures with effortless ease. Enjoy in-depth coverage, pro techniques, secret tips and Colin’s way of breaking down even the most complex tasks into quick and easy to understand techniques. You’ll spend less time in front of the computer and more time behind the camera!
If you are new to Digital Photography, an old-hand or someone looking to learn the “correct” way of doing things, look no further. Watch over Colin’s shoulder as he demystifies Lightroom Classic. You’ll learn all the shortcuts, tips and tricks from a true expert. Do you ever get frustrated with tutorials that don’t work in the real world? In many cases Colin shows you multiple methods so that you can choose the one that’s best for your photo.
This is not like other training videos. The techniques aren’t from a classroom bubble. This is what works today in the real-world. There are no monotone presentations with boring uninspiring images. You’ll learn tons, you’ll have fun and most of all you’ll be inspired. See why millions of people are passionate about PhotoshopCAFE training. (30,000,000+ to date).
This complete training course contains 15+ hours and 140 lessons of Full HD Video. It’s actually 3 courses in one.
If you make photographs: Beginner to professional, this is the training you have been waiting for. You’ll not only learn the HOWS, you’ll understand the WHYS!
INCLUDED:
Sample Catalog with Exercise files so you can follow along.
Special Bonus: 30 Lightroom Classic Presets and 8 Custom Color Profiles included!
PDF Table of contents so you can easily find what you need.
3 courses in 1 – LIBRARY – DEVELOP and OUTPUT
Download right now and begin your journey in Lightroom Classic today!
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THE COMPLETE TRAINING FOR LIGHTROOM CLASSIC (NEW 2020 VERSION)
3 courses in one!
COURSE #1: LIBRARY
GETTING STARTED
- Welcome
- Set up exercise files, import sample catalog
- Newest Features
- Up to speed with what’s new
- Overview
- Lightroom in a nutshell
- Lifecycle workflow
- Birds eye view of the entire Lightroom workflow
- Preferences
- Essential Lightroom preferences
- RAW
- Raw files explained
- XMP sidecars
- Understand XMP, your key to sharing raw files outside Lightroom
- DNG
- What is DNG and how Lightroom can help
- Importing from a card
- How to import images from your camera card
- Importing Locally
- Import images from your internal/external drive
- Auto Import
- Set up a watch folder to automatically import images
- Tethered Shooting
- Connect your camera to shoot directly into Lightroom
- Create custom Identity Plates
- Customizing Lightroom to display your name, logo and end markers
- Panel Management
- Tips and tricks for working with panels
VIEWING
- Volume Browser
- Viewing disks and space remaining
- View Options
- The best ways to view your photos
- Library Filmstrip
- That filmstrip at the bottom is really useful
- Grid View
- Working with Grid view, thumbnails and view options
- Stacking
- Making molehills out of mountains
- Auto Stacking
- Automatically stack photos by capture time
- Lights Out Mode
- Viewing your photos on a virtual light box
- Loupe
- Get a closer look at your images
- Compare
- Comparing 2 images to choose the best one
- Survey View
- Viewing multiple images at once
- Understanding Previews
- How previews work, make them efficient
- Smart Previews
- Work on your images without them being physically present
- Dual Monitors
- Working on Multiple monitors
LIBRARY/CATALOG
- Catalogs
- Setting up your Catalogs
- Upgrading Catalogs
- Upgrading Older Catalogs
- Export catalogs
- Export Catalogs from Lightroom
- Merging Catalogs
- Managing your images on 2 computers
- Catalog change disk
- How to add or rename a drive without breaking things
- Catalog move to other computer
- How to move to a new computer without breaking things
- Find Missing images
- How to locate and relink missing images
- Integrating with Lightroom CC/Mobile
- How to sync Lightroom Classic with Lightroom CC/Mobile
- Folders
- How to manage and use folders
- Collections
- How collections become your main organization tool
- Quick and Target Collections
- A neat way of speeding up organization
- Smart Collection
- Automatically create live collections
- Backup
- Backup catalogs and your images
METADATA
- Metadata
- Understand metadata and apply it to your photos
- Metadata Templates
- Save metadata templates and presets, then re-use them
- Rating, Flag, Label options
- Ratings, flags and labels options
- Ratings
- Rate your photos
- Flags
- Use flags to mark photos
- Labels
- Identify photos with colored labels
- Filter Bar
- Find anything with the Filter Bar
- Keyword basics
- How to use keywords to organize images
- Suggested Keywords
- Use the new Suggested Keyword feature
- Keyword sets
- Save time with custom keyword sets
- Painter tool
- Using the painter tool to turbocharge your multiple image workflow
- Facial recognition
- Setup and training Lightroom to find and sort faces
- Time Change
- Sync the time-zone of your photos
COURSE #2 – DEVELOP
ADJUSTMENTS
- Straighten
- Level crooked horizons
- Cropping
- Crop to specific sizes and for creativity
- Lens Corrections
- Fix keystoning and barreling
- Camera Calibration
- Choose the process version and compensate for your camera color
- Color readout
- See the color values of images
- Histogram
- Histograms explained and used
- White Balance
- Remove color casts from photos
- Quick Develop
- Making adjustments in the Library panel
- Auto Corrections
- 1-Click fixes, how to fine tune auto corrections
- Basic Adjustments
- Basic Adjustments panel explained
- Curves
- Understanding and using curves for targeted adjustments
- Color control
- Use HSL and color control
- Dehaze
- cut through haze and fog, or add some for effect
- Texture
- Add or reduce surface texture
- Noise reduction
- Remove the grainy noise from a photo
- Chromatic Aberration
- Removing color fringes
- Sharpening
- Make your photos nice and sharp
- Open up shadows
- Fix a backlit subject
- Fix Dark Photos
- How to rescue a dark, underexposed image
- Fix Overexposure
- How to rescue a bright, overexposed image
- Fix bright images
- 2nd example of fixing overly bright images
- Punch flat color
- Add color to dull images
- Virtual copies
- Working on duplicate versions without filling up your hard drive
- Batch processing
- Save time by editing multiple images at once
- History
- Use history as an advanced undo
- Snaphots
- Experiment with different edits and easily revert back
- Black and White
- The best way to enhance black & white photos and convert color to black and white
- Split tone
- Color tint black and white images
- Cross Processing
- Using Split-tone on color images for a cross-processed effect
- Presets
- 1-click effects with Presets, how to make your own
- ISO Adaptive Presets
- Presets that change based on ISO
- Loading Presets.
- How to install Presets into Lightroom
- Color Profiles
- Use powerful profiles to process color
- Loading Color Profiles
- How to install custom color profiles in Lightroom
- RAW Defaults
- Automatically use different settings on cameras
RETOUCHING
- Redeye
- Get rid of the dreaded redeye with ease
- Retouch faces
- Reduce blemishes, wrinkles, whiten eyes and teeth
- Cloning and Healing
- Remove anything from a photo
SELECTIVE ADJUSTMENTS
- Adjustment Brush
- in-depth look at the adjustment brush to paint on your adjustments
- Dodge and Burn
- Add 3D depth and make your photo pop with a fresh approach to dodge and burn
- Gradient Adjustment
- Seamlessly adjust skies and more with the gradient tool
- Radial Filter
- Change the lighting to your landscape photos
- Advanced Radial
- Add a spotlight to your studio photography with range masking to isolate the light
- Range Masking
- Selectively hide or show adjustments to specific regions automatically
- Range Masking Depth Map
- Use the Depth Map from a smartphone (HEIC image) to mask objects
- Luminosity Masks
- Adjust portions of an image based on Lightness
- Lens Vignette
- Compensating for lens vignette. Add a vignette for a creative feel
- Special FX High Impact
- Adding special effects for a high impact special effect
- Special FX Vintage effects
- Create a vintage effect, including light leaks
- Day to Night
- Turn Daytime into nighttime
ADVANCED ADJUSTMENTS
- Lightroom and Photoshop
- How to use Photoshop and Lightroom together
- Photoshop Smart Objects
- Maintaining Lightroom edits in Photoshop with Smart Objects
- Batch Processing
- Save time by Editing Multiple photos at once
- HDR
- Create High Dynamic Range Photos in Lightroom
- History
- Use history as an advanced undo
- Panorama
- Stitching a Panorama Image in Lightroom
- Advanced Panorama
- Multi-layered panoramas and fix keystone
- HDR Panorama
- Auto Make an HDR Panorama automatically
- HDR Panorama
- Manual Manually create an HDR Panorama
VIDEO
- Video Intro
- An intro to working with video in Lightroom
- Video Color Grading
- How to apply creative adjustments to videos to create stunning looks
- Combine Video
- Trimming and combining video shots
COURSE #3: OUTPUT
- Video Export
- Getting your video out to the world
- Watermarks
- Create Watermarks that can be used all over Lightroom
- Exporting images
- How to produce photos for social, web, multimedia, print etc.
- Exporting Presets
- Automate the process of exporting your photos
- Multi Batch Exports
- Run multiple exports at once
- Email Photo
- email photos from Lightroom
Maps Geotagging your photos using built in google maps
PRINTING
- Soft Proof
- Prepare your images for printing
- Printing
- How to print correctly from Lightroom
- Picture Package/Contact Sheets
- Making multiple picture packages and contact sheets
- Custom Layouts
- Layout pages for books or printing/Exporting
SLIDESHOWS
- Impromptu Slideshow
- A Quick Slideshow from anywhere
- Slideshows
- Setting up a slideshow
- Customize Slideshow
- Customize your Slideshows
- Slideshow Custom Text
- Adding custom text to slideshows
- Pan and zoom
- Slideshows Add an animated Ken Burns effect to photos
- Slideshow Video
- Use Videos in Slideshows
- Music to Slideshows
- Add music to your slideshow presentations
- Export Slideshows
- Exporting Slideshows for use online or presentations
BOOKS
- Book Overview
- Getting Started with books, use Auto Layout
- Custom Layouts
- Customize photo and page layouts
- Text and finishing Book
- Work with text and finishing techniques for books
WEB
- Web Galleries
- Make a webpage, overview of web galleries
- Build a Web Gallery
- Creating and publishing a web gallery
- Thanks and Goodbye

Your Instructor
Colin Smith
Colin Smith is a best-selling author, and award-winning digital artist who has caused a stir in the community with his stunning Photoshop work. Colin is known as a pioneer of HDR photography and aerial drone photography. Colin is founder of one of the world's most popular Photoshop resource sites, PhotoshopCAFE.com, which boasts over 30 million visitors. He has been nominated 2x for the Photoshop Hall of Fame.
With over 20 years of experience in the creative industry, Colin was formerly Senior Editor and Creative Director for VOICE magazine. As a commercial artist, his clients include Satcchi & Satcchi, Proctor & Gamble, Toyo Tires, Microsoft and several Hollywood entertainment companies.
He is a regular columnist for Photoshop User magazine. He has been featured in most major imaging magazines including, Computer Arts, Macworld, Advanced Photoshop, Photoshop User, After Capture, PSD Photoshop, Photoshop Creative, Digital Photographer, Web Designer magazine and a host of others.
Colin's digital imaging work has been recognized with numerous awards, including, MacWorld Digital Design and 3 Guru awards at Photoshop World 2001 and 2002. He's authored more than nineteen books on Photoshop, including the best-selling How to Do Everything with Photoshop (McGraw-Hill/Osborne) and award-winning Photoshop Most Wanted, as well as being pominentely featured in the Hall Of Fame book, New Masters Of Photoshop and New Masters of Photoshop 2 (The only artist featured in both editions).
Colin is also creator of the PhotoshopCAFE series of videos (PhotoshopCAFE.com/video). He is in high demand across the United States as a lecturer, presenting his Photoshop techniques to Photographers and graphics professionals across the nation. He has been a speaker at such conferences as Adobe MAX, Photoshop World, WPPI, Imaging USA, PPE, creativeLIVE Photoshop week, Flash Forward, NVision, , PIDE, DL Expo, Creative Suite Conference, Cre8, Create Chaos, Deviant Art Summit and many more. In 2012 and 2013 Colin was the featured speaker and producer of 2 Multi-City Tours (Route CS6 and Destination CC) Sponsored by Adobe. Colin has consulted such companies as Adobe Systems, Edison International, Apple and Disney Studios.
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