Introduction to Photography: Lightroom Classic CC and Photoshop

1h 31mBeginner2016-02-29

Authors

Ben Long

Photographer, Writer, Educator

Course details

Your work (and play) as a photographer doesn't end when you press the shutter button. With software such as Adobe's high-powered Lightroom Classic CC and Photoshop apps, you can enhance and transform your photos to fix problems, improve composition and exposure, and so much more.

Where to begin learning tools like these? Right here. In this course, photographer, author, and educator Ben Long introduces the concepts and creative options behind photographic post-processing. From fixing problems to retouching, Ben shows how to do it, without overdoing it, with Lightroom Classic CC, Photoshop, and the Adobe mobile apps.

Learning objectives
Importing and organizing images in Lightroom
Rating images in Lightroom
Adjusting images in Lightroom
Retouching in Photoshop
Making pixel-level edits in Photoshop
Syncing and editing images in Lightroom mobile

Skills covered

Analog PhotographyAsset ManagementImage EditingIntroduction toPhotoshopPhotographyGraphic DesignAdobe

Concepts

Introduction to Post-Processing

01 - Welcome to post-processing
02 - Understand post-processing means
03 - About post-processing workflow

Working in Lightroom

04 - Understand the uses of Lightroom
05 - Import and organize images
06 - Photo select decision strategies
07 - Keyword, rate, and search images
08 - Adjust and correct images
09 - Non-destructive image editing and virtual copies
10 - Export and output options in Lightroom
11 - How to backup images

Working in Photoshop

12 - Understand Photoshop uses
13 - Add Photoshop to a Lightroom workflow
14 - Localized image editing
15 - Content-aware scale, retouching, and pixel-level edits

Using Mobile Apps for Editing

16 - Understand the uses of mobile apps
17 - Understand the mobile workflow
18 - Sync and edit images in Lightroom mobile

Next Steps

19 - Explore next steps