Lightroom Classic CC - the great photo editing tutorial

Welcome to the Lightroom Classic CC tutorial. A brief overview of the contents of the training.

Lightroom is a program that works with a catalog. But how exactly does it work and what should you bear in mind?

A question that I am often asked: When should you use Lightroom and when should you use Photoshop? I'll show you the differences here.

With DNG, Adobe has created a RAW format that is superior to most in certain respects. I'll show you the advantages and disadvantages.

The structure of the Lightroom menus is divided into different areas of activity. These all perform their own tasks, but you can also freely customize them.

The catalog comes before working with Lightroom. How do I create the catalog in Lightroom and what should I pay attention to? We explain this in this video.

Before you start editing images with Lightroom, you should take a closer look at these settings.

Previews speed up the display of our photos in Lightroom. However, these should be created first. I have a few tips for you on this.

The library is responsible for managing your photos. Filters, markers and metadata - you'll learn everything you need here.

Lightroom is ready for editing. But how do we get our images now? Importing offers us significantly more options than simply adding the photos.

Images can be sorted not only in folders, but also in collections. These offer automatic collection options that you should not ignore.

The Lightroom library allows you to manage your images. Rating and tagging helps you enormously.

Lightroom offers you face recognition for quick and easy assignment of your shoots.

If the images are marked, we also need to be able to search for them. But Lightroom offers much more than just a simple search ...

When zooming in your photos, there is a great way to find your way around easily: the navigator. I'll show you how it works.

Now it's time to edit your photos. This section is all about the Develop module in Lightroom and editing your photos.

Not every monitor shows you the colors as they actually are. That's why I'll show you here how and why you should calibrate your monitor.

The great thing about Lightroom is that all edits are non-destructive. You can create snapshots or go back in the log at any time.

The histogram is an ingenious tool for determining the brightness of your photo and editing images accurately. Do you understand this tool?

The basic settings in Lightroom deal with the most important settings for editing your photos.

Profiles are like presets, only better. You can save and apply effects that are not possible with presets alone.

In the previous video we talked about profiles and their possibilities, now I'll show you how to create them yourself in Photoshop.

The gradation curve in Lightroom is not easy to use. However, once you have mastered it, it offers you unimagined possibilities in terms of color and contrast.

When it comes to color editing and adjustment, there is no way around HSL. With this tool, you can control every single color channel in Lightroom.

Partial toning is the easiest way to give your photo a color style. Simply select the color and intensity and Lightroom will do the rest.

The quality of a photo is often defined by its sharpness. This is why there is a special tool for removing noise and sharpening.

Lenses can cause distortions and other optical errors. But don't worry: these can be easily corrected in Lightroom.

Do you want a 100% straight photo? Then this tool is perfect for you. You can use the Transform dialog to straighten anything in Lightroom.

Would you like to try out several versions of a photo, perhaps to test a new edit? There are virtual copies for this.

This video is about synchronizing in Lightroom.

What does the Effects tab in the Develop module in Lightroom offer you? Use the effects for your photos.

Calibration in Lightroom is completely unknown to many, but it offers you undreamt-of possibilities in color editing.

Local adjustments are special tools that do not affect the entire image and open up new possibilities for you.

Cropping sounds simple, but it's not. Lightroom has a lot to offer in this simple tool.

Yes, retouching is also no problem in Lightroom. With a simple tool, it is not difficult to quickly remove blemishes.

The graduated filter creates a processing gradient that only affects a specific area of the image. You can decide how!

The radial filter works in a similar way to the gradient. Local adjustments in a radial gradient for new possibilities in image processing.

Do you have red eyes in a portrait? That's no problem at all. This Lightroom tool can remove them with just one click.

You can use the correction brush to paint editing settings onto your image and thus precisely determine where the change is made.

In this practical lesson, I'll show you how I edit my HDR photos. In Lightroom, merging is done with just a few clicks.

In this practical lesson, we will work on a portrait together. I'll show you my settings for the right image style.

In practice, we also edit landscape photos. Let's edit one of my landscape photos together and explore the possibilities of Lightroom.

In this practical lesson, we will retouch a portrait together. Lightroom offers a lot of retouching options and can easily keep up with other programs.

Creating a panorama is not that difficult. It only takes a few simple clicks in Lightroom.

We continue in practice with something challenging. We work together on a portrait that was taken in rather poor conditions.

After editing the images in Lightroom, they need to be exported. You can learn about the different options here.

Now that the images are edited in Lightroom, the question is how we can export them for social media or just to send out.

Want to print your photos in an album? No problem! Lightroom has its own module for this.

With Lightroom, you can easily and automatically create an online gallery. Lightroom does all the work for you.

Lightroom mobile brings the power and possibilities you know from the desktop app to your smartphone. Easily edit your photos on the go.

With Lightroom mobile, you always have your photos with you and can sort, rate, mark and, of course, filter them.

With your smartphone and Lightroom mobile, you have a fully-fledged editing program in your pocket. Find out how this works in this lesson.

Import your photos into Lightroom mobile (including RAW files), edit them as you have learned and export them directly for social media, for example.

With the camera in Lightroom mobile, you can take photos directly into Lightroom and create HDR images and RAW shots with your smartphone.

The bonus area is for all the information that is also important but has not found a place elsewhere.

Editing your photos in Lightroom is not always enough. Sometimes you also want to load them into external plug-ins. That's exactly what this is about.

Lightroom offers an interface to Photoshop that makes it easier for you to load images into Photoshop. I'll show you how this works and which settings you should make beforehand.

Do you want to assign your pictures to the different locations on a trip? Then use the map module and get an overview.

Is your Lightroom too slow? Then I have the right tips for more performance and faster editing in this video.

Lightroom offers several ways to archive your photos for the long term.

The catalog is the heart of Lightroom. This is where everything you change in your images is stored. That's why a proper backup is important.

CMYK or RGB? Which color mode should I use and when? I'll show you the differences.

There is more than just the resolution of a photo. The bit depth can result in completely different images.

Which color space should I use for my photos? A frequently asked question, which I answer in this video.

A lot has changed in Lightroom with the update to version 8.4. A huge performance boost and some new features, which I show you in this video!

It's that time again. There's a new Lightroom version. In this video, you can find out what effects this has on the app, the CC version and the Classic CC version.