Lightroom Classic Photo Editing Course: Beginners

What you'll learn

Learn how to stylishly edit photographic images with our photography short courses in Sydney!

Join this class to make Lightroom your starting point for professional-level photo editing.

Lightroom Classic is built specifically to handle the entire photographer workflow, from photo management to finishing touches, smoothly and efficiently – and is perfect for dedicated amateurs, weekend photo-warriors, and working professionals.  Lightroom is unquestionably the best tool to manage and process the thousands of photos that live on your devices. 

After you've imported your files, move to the Develop module to enhance and edit photos. Here you can tweak your settings to improve every aspect of your photo. Enhance the light, colour, texture, clarity and sharpness; correct lens aberrations and distortions, adjust scene and object perspectives, transform warped images, and add creative effects to make your images shine. 

Lightroom Classic presets are a time-saving feature that makes light work of applying the same settings to one or countless images, known as batch edits. You can create your own presets or download a wide variety of presets.

Lightroom uses non-destructive editing, which means you can make changes to a photo without altering the original file in any way - your original stays protected. If you work with raw files, you’ll benefit from the intensity and flexibility that raw images give you when editing, without losing any of the original data.

Why join this course?  Editing is now 50% of Photography.  Every worthwhile image is improved significantly.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this Lightroom Classic  Photo Editing course, you should be able to:

• Apply the functionality of Lightroom to process and manipulate photographic images
• Apply the fundamentals of photo editing and organisation in the Library and Develop modules
• Utilise the Lightroom workspaces smoothly and efficiently for viewing and processing images 
• Unleash the power of the Lightroom corrective tools to remove unwanted objects and correct flaws
• Process advanced adjustments with Lightroom's brilliant suite of power tools
• Batch edit an entire photoshoot output in minutes
• Create your own personal copyright metadata for your images

Course content

What will be covered in this Lightroom Classic Photo Editing course?

2 x half-day workshop sessions

• Lightroom’s Library and Develop modules
• Importing and exporting image files and folders
• How to view your photos as thumbnails, single images, and fullscreen
• Global image processing
• Navigating the Lightroom Classic workspace
• The essential Lightroom Classic tools and shortcuts
• Understanding the Lightroom catalog and Catalog backups
• Processing the range quality and flexibility value of RAW file formats
• Assigning attributes to your photos
• Using the global and local adjustment tools
• Understanding the Histogram guidance and limitations
• Controlling Hue, Saturation and Luminance
• Black and White/Colour treatment and conversions
• Using targeted adjustments 
• Cropping, rotating and re-sizing images
• Applying customisable presets, custom categorisation, image labels, level adjustment, and intelligent image search
• Correcting white balance issues of colour casts, monotone backgrounds, and artificial/digital lighting
• Controlling white-balance changes to images
• Understanding exposure corrections and variations
• Manipulating image contrast, vibrance & saturation
• Clarity vs Texture vs Sharpening
• Applying Presets
• Applying automation processes

Intended audience

Who is this Lightroom Photo Editing course for?

This Lightroom Photo Editing course is for all photographers from beginners to advanced.

Course venue

Rozelle Campus

2A Gordon Street, Rozelle NSW 2039 (corner of Gordon St & Victoria Rd in the grounds of St. Joseph's Church)

Course materials

What to bring to class

• This is a bring your own laptop / device class. 
• Before attending the first class session:
• INSTALL Adobe Lightroom Classic(opens in a new tab) 
• (NOT Adobe Lightroom Cloud or Lightroom for the Web) 
• SD card for transferring your camera images