Photoshop Lightroom is a powerful photographic workflow application designed to help photographers expand their creative potential. Lightroom enables you to import, process, manages and showcase images with ease.

In this one day course we cover all of the key features of Lightroom for Photographers. At the end of the session you will be able to use Lightroom with confidence to navigate the interface and handle images effectively and efficiently to import, sort, filter, adjust, add metadata and develop.

Lightroom 1 Day Course

Duration: 1 day | Price: €249 per person (Discount available for groups of 2 or more)


Introduction to Lightroom

  • Overview of Lightroom – why use Lightroom?
  • Collections
  • Photography workflow (Lightroom, Bridge & Photoshop)
  • Getting to know the work area – Modules
  • Basic shortcuts for manipulating workspace
  • Customizing Lightroom workspace

Importing and sorting photographs

  • File formats supported
  • Importing Preferences
  • Importing images from: Memory Card, a folder on a computer, an external hard drive
  • Organizing folders / using Multiple Hard-drives
  • Exporting photos from Lightroom
  • Moving around Library Module
  • Navigator
  • View modes
  • Comparing images
  • Working with Folders and Catalogs – creating, backing up, exporting, importing
  • Working on images – basics
  • Quick develop adjustments
  • Adjusting White Balance
  • Temperature / Tint and Tone Control.

Organizing images

  • Star rating
  • Quick Collection
  • Smart Collections
  • Stacking
  • Renaming

Working with Metadata

  • Keywording images
  • Grouping keywords into sets
  • Synchronizing keywords
  • Filtering
Exporting images

  • Export images settings
  • Editing images in an external application (Photoshop)
  • Exporting images to Photoshop as Smart Objects and creating panoramas.

Develop Module

  • Using Presets
  • Using Histogram the right way
  • Adjusting White Balance and Tone, Cropping / Straightening images
  • Removing dust and red eyes on the images
  • Graduated Filter
  • Adjustment Brush – settings and usage
  • Image adjustments using Curves, HSL / Color Black and White Conversion
  • Using the Detail Panel to deal with Sharpening, Noise and Chromatic aberrations
  • Correcting vignetting
  • Camera Calibration Panel

Digital Photography Workflow

  • Adjustments using Develop Module
  • Slideshow Module
  • Creating slideshows using collections
  • Slideshows templates and quick slideshow access
  • Slideshows templates and quick slideshow access
  • Customizing the templates and saving as presets
  • Exporting slideshows

Print Module

  • Using/customizing templates
  • Saving templates

Web Module

  • Creating a Web Gallery (HTML, Flash)
  • Customizing it.
  • Uploading files