Lightroom Classic Photo Editing Course: Beginners

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

Get started with professional-level photo editing with this Lightroom Classic course! Lightroom Classic is built specifically to handle the entire photo editing process, from photo management to finishing touches, smoothly and efficiently.

After you've imported your files, you will learn 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 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.

Enrol in this Lightroom Classic Photo Editing Course to improve and enhance your photographic images!

Already had some experience with Lightroom Classic? Sign up for Lightroom Classic Photo Editing Course: Advanced!

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
• Create your own personal copyright metadata for your images

Course content

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

• Lightroom’s Library and Develop module basics
• Importing and exporting image files
• 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
• Applying the precision quality and flexibility of RAW file formats
• Using the global adjustment tools in the basic panel
• Understanding the Histogram guidance and limitations
• Controlling Hue, Saturation and Luminance
• Cropping, rotating and re-sizing images
• Understanding exposure corrections and variations
• Manipulating image contrast, vibrance & saturation
• Clarity vs Texture vs Sharpening
• Black and White/Colour treatment and conversions

Intended audience

Who is this Lightroom Classic Photo Editing course for?

This Lightroom Classic Photo Editing course is for photographers and photo editors from beginners to intermediate.

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 class.

Before attending the first class session:

• INSTALL and UPDATE Adobe Lightroom Classic (NOT Adobe Lightroom Cloud or Lightroom for the Web)
• SD card for transferring your camera images