Do you want to learn the world’s most powerful and efficient editing application, used by professional photographers? Adobe Lightroom is the premium photo editing software that gives you everything you need to edit, organise, store, and share your photos. In this Sydney photography course, you'll gain an introduction to the software!
With Adobe Lightroom, you have all the tools you need to bring out the best in your photography. Punch up colours, make dull-looking shots vibrant, remove distracting objects, straighten skewed shots and much more. This photo editing course will start you from the ground up and cover all the editing basics so you can turn good images into excellent ones.
Then it will guide you through developing a workflow and an image management system so you can process and store your images correctly.
This course will take any amateur photographer beyond the camera and into the world of post-production. Get the most out of your photos, keep your work organised and build on your photography skills with this fun and practical photo editing course!
What we'll cover over four sessions:
- Setting up your hard drive, cloud service or local drive for editing Optimal computer assets.
- How your computer can be optimised for photo editing.
- Understanding file types, sizes and the computer's directory.
- Introduction to Lightroom Lightroom’s library module.
- Importing and exporting image files and folders.
- How to view your photos as thumbnails, single images, full screen.
- Understanding the global image processing.
- Navigating the workspace.
- Understanding the essential Lightroom tools and shortcuts.
- Understanding the Lightroom catalogue.
- Assigning attributes to your photos.
- Filtering your photos.
- Editing using the global and local adjustment tools.
- Understanding the histogram black and white/colour treatment and conversions.
- How and when to use targeted adjustments.
- Cropping an image.
- Making white-balance changes to images.
- Understanding exposure corrections.
- Manipulating image saturation.
- Sharpening images.
- Understanding spot removal.
- Exporting and file management.
- Recovery processes for photos.
- How to export RAW files.
- How to export JPEG and other formats.
- Understanding batch exports.
- Archiving and backing up files.
This course is ideal for photographers looking to add a post-production skillset to their work. This course is aimed at beginner photo editors, no prior experience in photography or Adobe software is necessarily required however a basic computer literacy is assumed.
Please note: Adobe Lightroom also has a cloud-based sharing program that is designed to share files between your devices - your computer, tablet and smartphone. The cloud-based version is not covered in this course.
Basic computer literacy.
 
Expert tuition over four sessions and your edited photos.
 
- A laptop with Adobe Lightroom Classic installed (not Adobe Lightroom Cloud).
- SD card for transferring your camera images.
- Notepad and pen or a tablet.
- USB for taking your work home.
This class series runs over 4 consecutive sessions, at the same time every week.
Richard Lynch (your teacher)
adheres to COVID-19 government guidelines.