Lightroom Quick Start
43mBeginner2021-07-28
Authors

Jesus Ramirez
Digital graphics expert and educator specializing in Adobe Photoshop
Course details
Get started with Adobe Lightroom over your lunch break. In this course, digital graphics expert Jesús Ramirez introduces you to how Lightroom works through a series of basic projects. Jesús starts with importing photos into Lightroom. He shows you how to adjust light, exposure, contrast, highlights, and shadows. Jesús describes how to improve your photo by removing a color cast, adjusting the vibrance and saturation, making your images pop with texture and clarity, applying a vignette, and more. He covers sharpening, noise reduction, lens correction, and straightening photos, then goes into targeted adjustments, gradients, and the Healing Brush. Finally, learn how to export and voila! You now have a fantastic image to use for your project.
Skills covered
Quick StartLightroomAsset ManagementPhotographyGraphic DesignAdobe
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Introduction
1. Lightroom Basics
- 02 - What is Adobe Lightroom
- 03 - Importing photos into Lightroom
- 04 - Albums and folders
2. The Light Panel
- 05 - Automatically adjust the light in your photos
- 06 - Adjust the exposure and contrast
- 07 - Adjust the highlights and shadows
- 08 - Adjust the whites and blacks
3. The Color Panel
- 09 - Remove a color cast from a photo
- 10 - Vibrance and saturation
- 11 - The Color Mixer
- 12 - Making black and white photos
- 13 - The Color Grading tool
4. The Effects Panel
- 14 - Make your images pop with the Texture and Clarity sliders
- 15 - Remove haze from your images with Dehaze
- 16 - Apply a vignette to your photos
5. The Detail Panel
- 17 - Sharpen your photos
- 18 - Reduce the noise from your photos
6. The Optics and Geometry Panels
- 19 - Remove chromatic aberration
- 20 - Enable lens corrections
- 21 - Straighten photos with the Auto and Guided Upright
7. Local Adjustments
- 22 - Selectively paint effects
- 23 - Edit a landscape photo with linear gradient adjustments
- 24 - Highlight parts of a photo with radial gradients
8. Useful Editing Tools
- 25 - Crop and straighten your photos
- 26 - Remove distractions from a photo with the Healing Brush
9. Exporting and Sharing
- 27 - Exporting your photos
- 28 - Create a web gallery
Conclusion
- 29 - Conclusion
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