Adobe Lightroom Photo Editing Course for Beginners

Gain skills in photo editing in this Adobe Lightroom course



4 hours Class size 1 to 6 guests    

  $243 (Afterpay & PayPal Pay in 4 available)

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!
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!
  • 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
  • Develop editing skills relevant to photography and visual content roles.
  • 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 catalogue and Catalogue 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
Knowledge required
Beginner welcome.
What to bring
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
Location

Sydney Community College - 2A Gordon St, Rozelle NSW

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Richard Lynch

Richard Lynch


Richard is one of Sydney Community College's most passionate tutors, over the past 10 years he has taught thousands of students and has been instrumental in the development of the photography program having designed and taught courses in beginners, creative photography, technical photography, iPhone photography, photo editing and street and documentary photography.

Richard has a long history as a freelancer as well as extended experience in consultancy in the training and assessment industry. Richard has recently added a qualification in photography – the Diploma of Photo Imaging to ensure a professional understanding of current developments in the industry.
As a photographer in Fine Arts and Street photography, Richard exhibited in 2014 in the Rocks in Sydney, and was a participant in the HeadOn Festival in 2015 as an exhibitor in the Sydney Street Photographers Meetup Group exhibition ‘Urban Collective’ Richard also organises a Meetup Group that is focused on community participation and learning in all aspects of the specialist editing and image management application for photography – Adobe Lightroom.
Richard's style is relaxed but chock full of information, discussion and fun.




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Sydney Community College
Sydney Community College

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Sydney Community College is a social enterprise with a mission to offer innovative continuing adult education programmes that support individual efforts and facilitate sustainable social change.
Our mission is to enrich lives, to strengthen adult individuals and to build communities through innovative high quality continuing education and training.

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