There are also Android and iOS Lightroom mobile apps which also synchronize automatically with your online catalog, and which offer their own, surprisingly powerful, editing and organizing tools. Lightroom CC takes care of image organizing and editing on your own computer, but you can access the Lightroom Web version on any computer with an internet connection and a web browser, and access not just your whole image library, but simplified versions of the editing and organizing tools too. The connectivity and sharing options are perhaps the most interesting. The editing tools are arranged in a narrow vertical strip on the right side of the screen. To edit an image, you double-click it and it opens in the same window.
Ultimately, Adobe hopes to eliminate the drudgery of manual keywording, though you do still have the option of typing in your own. There are also Android and iOS Lightroom mobile apps, which also synchronize automatically with your online catalogĪt the top of the window is a filter bar which you can use to pick out images by rating, flag, type, keyword, camera used or location, and above that is a simple search bar which uses Adobe’s intelligent online ‘Sensei’ search engine to find images according to the subjects they contain. Within your albums, photos are displayed either as a regular thumbnail grid or as a welcome new Photo Grid display, which seamlessly tiles horizontal and vertical images into an attractive gapless layout. You can create a hierarchical filing system by storing albums within folders, but you can’t create ’Smart Albums’ based on search criteria in the way you can with Lightroom Classic. Once your photos are imported you can set about organizing them, and here Adobe has chosen a very simple and direct approach. Here, though, your images are uploaded to Adobe’s servers by default – though you can opt to have them stored locally too, via the Preferences panel. In the ‘old’ Lightroom (and Lightroom Classic), you can opt to keep your files where they are and have Lightroom ‘reference’ them in their current position. Lightroom supports JPEGs, TIFF files, PSD (Photoshop) files, and raw files from a huge range of cameras. You click a ‘+’ button in the top-left corner of the screen and choose the folder you want to import from if you insert a memory card, Lightroom will offer to import images from that too. This course has given me a great foundation for working on creatively enhancing my photographs and inspiring me to do more.Photos are organized into Albums, and can be displayed as regular thumbnails or in a seamless tiled Photo Grid view Lightroom interface and workflowĮssentially, there are four phases in the Lightroom workflow: importing, organizing, editing and sharing. pdf text description of each lesson (a quick way to refresh your memory about a lesson without having to replay the video), as well as sample images and catalogs for lesson practice. Ben's "bonus material" with the course includes a. Videos make it easy to pause the course - go to Lightroom to try it out - and come back to the video to replay the lesson again if needed. Ben's teaching style is easy to understand and ties all of the features together. While I learned a few things, I often found it difficult and spotty. I have tried using the Adobe Lightroom documentation and several YouTube videos about Lightroom. I highly recommend this course! Ben provides an in-depth understanding of nearly all of the functions and features of Lightroom Classic as well as some basic ways of utilizing Lightroom CC and Photoshop. I can still use CC but now I have the rich feature set that you will want if you complete this course. After watching a couple classes, I realized my mistake and changed my Adobe plan (easy) to use Classic. Don’t sign up for Lightroom CC like I did or you will quickly realize that most the topics being covered in the course don’t exist in CC. Classic has all the workflow and editing features and CC is a more basic version but is integrated with cloud storage.
One detail that I don’t think Adobe does a good job of explaining is Lightroom Classic and Lightroom CC (Creative Cloud) are two different software packages. I have used Adobe Elements for about 10 years and I feel good about being able to do most editing but Lightroom offers so much more. Being able to re-watch a class is a real plus. I don’t think I could have learned as much from a book or other method. The instructor is excellent and the format of the course makes it easy to absorb. Excellent course and instructor I definitely recommend this course for anyone new to Lightroom Classic or who is trying to improve.