Lightroom Quick Start

This class covers the basics of photo organization and editing with the powerful program Adobe Lightroom Classic.

Do you want to learn to create images that show the beauty of the scene you saw when you first took the photograph? Do you want to learn the other essential side of digital photography, photo editing? And get up to speed quickly?

This course is designed to get you up and running FAST in Adobe Lightroom Classic. In this four week information packed class, you will learn how to import, organize and perform simple and effective editing processes that will let you produce beautiful adjustments to your pictures. The last two weeks of the class go into more advanced editing techniques and include a deep dive into the use of presets to speed up your organization and work flow.

During this class, you’ll learn the tools to give your images the color, detail, and mood that will make them pop. You’ll learn quick and easy editing tools with Adobe Lightroom Classic that will bring out the details, color, and contrast you saw in the scene when you first envisioned your photo.

This intensive hands-on, four part online workshop will help you master Lightroom Classic’s basics, and some of its most sophisticated features. This class will give you an overview and working knowledge of this powerful, yet easy to use software in easy-to-understand lessons.

This class will cover the first two essential organization and editing modules in Lightroom, the Library and Develop modules.

Topics covered will include:

Importing and exporting images
Image organization
Catalogs and Collections
Navigating through the menu items
Editing and key wording
Working with Raw images
White balance
Balancing contrast with Highlights and Shadows tools
Mastering curves
Dodging and burning with the Adjustment Brush
Sharpening and noise reduction
Converting to black and white
HDR
Panorama
Presets for import
Use of editing presets

Course Requirements:

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic – part of the Adobe Photography Bundle subscription
http://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/photography
Earlier versions of Lightroom can be used, but some features are not available
Desire to learn and have fun!

Instructor: Holly Higbee-Jansen

Holly Jansen is a photographer, workshop leader, blogger, and speaker who enjoys teaching photography and the creative process.

Holly has worked in creative fields all her life. Her passion for art, photography and design started as a young girl when her family attended photography workshops with Ansel Adams in Yosemite National Park. Their conversations around the dinner table were about image composition and where their next photographic adventure would be.

Over the years, Holly began showing her photography in local art shows and galleries and sold it for use in numerous design projects.

Since 2006, Holly and her husband Mark taught group and private photographic workshops offering beginning to advanced landscape photographers the tools they needed to capture the beauty of amazing natural locations throughout California, the American West, and Iceland.

See Holly’s website for more information on her private and online classes.

Holly’s Portfolio and private classes: https://www.hollyjansenphotography.com/

Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/HollyJansenPhotography

Instagram – http://instagram.com/photographyexplorations

To Learn more about how our courses work please visit: Course Info

“I just wanted to thank you for another wonderful class. I have to confess that each week when I read the new assignment, my first reaction was mild panic and a deep certainty that I would not be able to produce anything worthwhile that fit within the parameters you had set. But before I knew it, the ideas started to flow, and I quickly became obsessed (no, that isn’t too strong a word!) with exploring the possibilities. I can honestly say that the photos I produced in response to your assignments are among my favorites. Thanks for bringing out a creative side I didn’t know I had!”

Barbara Geiger
Understanding Color

“Thank you so very much for this course! It’s allowed me to take the blinders off and present my images for what I want them to be without being a slave to the “reality” of the camera. I would also add that in conjunction with your printing course, this has been the most useful course I’ve ever taken. Your notes are more than comprehensive and your comments and critiques are direct, clear, and always directed to the improvement of the art.”

Bill
After the click

” I want to thank you for this class and for your patience and availability to answer all of my questions. I have learned very much through this class. I have used LR in the past, but mostly for editing images. I now have a better grasp in the organization of my images, an even better understanding of editing images, and an understanding of the value of presets. I still have a lot to learn, but this has put me on the road to be able to improve my photography. Again, thank you! ”

Dale Yates
Lightroom Quickstart

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