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Editing and Organizing your Photography in Lightroom Classic

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Overview

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AFTER THIS CLASS YOU’LL BE ABLE TO:

  • Understand how to use every tool and panel in Lightroom Classic

  • Organize your images so that you can find every image instantly in Lightroom Classic.

  • Improve every image with powerful new tools in Lightroom Classic.

  • Create powerful masks in seconds to enhance your photos.

  • Create AI driven presets that will smooth skin, darken skies, and much more with the touch of a button.

  • Share your images with your audience with ease.



ABOUT JARED’S CLASS:

Whether you are a professional photographer or a photo enthusiast who loves to take photos just for fun, you probably have a hard time getting it all done.  It seems like a never ending process to select and edit your images.  Plus, how many times have you struggled finding your images?  Your photo workflow could use a little help.


This course is the ultimate guide to editing and organizing images in Lightroom Classic.  In it, Jared Platt covers every tool and every aspect of importing, organizing, editing and sharing your images.  You will not only learn how to use the tools in Lightroom to make beautiful images, you will also learn how to organize them and find them whenever you have the need to share.


Lightroom Classic is the workhorse of the photo world.  Its tools allow you to adjust thousands of images incredibly fast.  Some incredible new tools that make use of artificial intelligence to create masks, remove noise, retouch your images and so much more.  Jared takes you through every tool and every panel in Lightroom Classic.  


When you are done with this course, you will know everything you need to know to make the most of this powerful program.


Along with the video lessons, Jared has created a brand new set of AI Driven Lightroom Presets that will speed you through the process of your photo editing as well as his Color Art Pro Lightroom Profiles. You get access to them first, here on CreativeLive, for free.



WHO THIS CLASS IS FOR:

  • Professional Photographers and Photo Enthusiasts of all levels.

  • Beginning to Advanced Lightroom Classic Users

  • Anyone who has used any other version of Lightroom and wants to dip their toe into Lightroom Classic.



SOFTWARE USED:  

Adobe Lightroom Classic (2024 and newer)

Adobe Photoshop (Beta) (2024 and newer)

Adobe Lightroom Web (2024 and newer)



ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR:

Jared Platt is an international wedding, lifestyle and portrait photographer and photographic lecturer.  Jared began his studies in photography in documentary and landscapes, but today you will find his images are a perfect blend of the three genres, landscape, documentary, and portraiture.  You can find him teaching photography, lighting and photo editing online and at International photo conferences around the globe.  Jared has been teaching photography and consulting photographers and the industry for over 25 years and has been a working photographer for the past 30.  


Jared is a master teacher and lectures on behalf of photographic companies like Adobe, Canon, Profoto, XRite, Blurb Books, and more.  He is also a Profoto Legend of Light.  His volumes of educational videos, workshops and articles can be found online.  You can view his portfolio online at www.jaredplatt.com


Jared will change your understanding of photography and put you on the path to your very best work.  Don't miss the opportunity to learn from him whenever you get the chance.  To learn more about Jared Platt go to www.jaredplatt.com.

Syllabus

  • Introduction
  • A Tour of Lightroom Classic
  • Importing Images into Lightroom Classic
  • Selecting Images in Lightroom Classic
  • Importing Metadata and Catalogs into A Catalog
  • Organizing Images in Lightroom Classic
  • Adding Metadata to Your Images in Lightroom Classic
  • Bonus: Impossible Things AI Plugin
  • Adjusting Images in Lightroom Classic with Synchronization
  • LRC Adjustments: The Histogram and The Basic Panel
  • LRC Adjustments: Profiles
  • LRC Adjustments: The Transform Panel
  • LRC Adjustments: The Crop Tool
  • LRC Local Adjustments: Masking
  • LRC Adjustments: The B&W Panel
  • LRC Adjustments: Grain in the Effects Panel
  • LRC Adjustments: The Point Color Tool
  • LRC Adjustments: The Color Mixer Panel
  • LRC Adjustments: The Tone Curve Panel
  • LRC Adjustments: The Lens Blur Tool
  • LRC Adjustments: More Masking
  • LRC Adjustments: More Masking with Color Effects
  • LRC Adjustments: Color Grading
  • LRC Adjustments: Complex Masking
  • LRC Adjustments: Masking and Retouching People
  • LRC Adjustments: Creating AI Presets
  • LRC Adjustments: Sharing, Installing, and Managing Presets
  • LRC Adjustments: The Details Panel
  • LRC Adjustments: The Lens Correction Panel
  • LRC Adjustments: Retouching a Family Portrait
  • LRC Enhance: Super Resolution
  • LRC Merge: HDR
  • LRC Round Trip to Photoshop Beta
  • LRC Merge: Making Panoramic Images
  • LRC Cleanup and Archive Workflow
  • LRC Workflow Overview
  • Finding Your Images from Lightroom Classic
  • Conclusion

Taught by

Jared Platt

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