Lightroom Essentials

January 6-8, 9:00am - 4:00 pm PT
Ready to take control of your photo library once and for all? Ready to actually enjoy image processing? Join image-editing and stock expert, Lesa Snider (author of the best-selling Photoshop: Missing Manual book series), for a comprehensive yet entertaining three-day immersion into Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. 

Lesa will cover the differences between Photoshop and Photoshop Lightroom, including everything you need to know about importing, managing, and correcting images using Lightroom's friendly and non-destructive, slider-based workspace. You'll learn how to apply global changes to photos, how to target specific areas for more selective changes, and how to apply changes to multiple photos en masse. She'll show you how to make time-saving calibration, exposure, and metadata presets and apply them, along with how to manage and apply keywords. You'll learn how to fix skies, retouch portraits, remove sensor spots and other objects, as well as when and how to switch back and forth between Photoshop and Lightroom for more difficult tasks. You'll also master creative effects such as black-and-whites, color tints, split-tones, edge vignettes and other ways to draw a viewer's eye. Lesa will also show you how to sharpen like a pro (with nods to specific settings for submitting stock imagery), export your photos, share them via social media networks, add location data, build photo books, create sizzling slideshows, customize print layouts, create gorgeous web galleries, and more!

By the end of this course, you'll be in love with Photoshop Lightroom and you'll have mastered the art of photo management and non-destructive editing. If you've ever felt overwhelmed by processing your photos, this is the course for you!

NOTE: This class is 100% free to watch through your web browser while it's live. Afterward, you can purchase the videos for a very small fee, which also includes the exercise files and a full workbook.