The Next-Level Lightroom Skillset

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a user-friendly application that's easy to get started with. It's also powerful enough to accommodate the most demanding of professional photographers. Once get comfortable with Lightroom, it's time to take your skills to the next level. Becoming proficient with Lightroom is all about digging a bit deeper in the application. These tutorials will help you take your images that extra step, that 10% that makes all the difference. 

With these tutorials, we're no longer looking at just the basic corrections: these processing tutorials will help you really style images and apply unique looks. The metadata tutorials suggested here will help scale Lightroom with your growing image collection. Are you ready elevate your Lightroom repertoire?

Fancy Image Processing

Your editing skills will grow past the point of correcting images to a natural look. At that point, you might be wondering how to create stylized looks.

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  Adobe Lightroom
  How to Create High Dynamic Range and Panoramic Images in Adobe Lightroom
  Andrew Childress
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  Post-Processing
  Building a Film Style Look in Lightroom
  Andrew Childress
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  Colour Correction
  How to Use Creative Color Curves for Expressive Images in Lightroom
  Andrew Childress

Photo Editing, Collections, and Powerful Sorting

These tutorials will help you master the process of editing, the step by step guide to taking a shoot from import to completion.

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  Smart Collections
  Get Smart: Boost Your Workflow With Saved Searches in Adobe Lightroom
  Andrew Childress
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  Digital Asset Management
  Total Creative Control: How to Use Virtual Copies to Fork and Stack Images in Lightroom
  Andrew Childress
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  Photo Editing
  Review, Rough Cut, Pick: Editing a Portrait Shoot in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
  Harry Guinness

Deep Metadata

Your image collection will grow over time, so your skills to manage them need to as well! The tutorials below are all about using metadata to divide and conquer the ever-expanding image library.

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  Photo Editing
  Unlocking the Power of Lightroom Color Labels
  Andrew Childress
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  Photo Editing
  Shooting Stars: Rating and Filtering Pictures in Lightroom
  Andrew Childress
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  Photography
  4 Ways to Add the Power of Keywords to Images in Lightroom
  Andrew Childress
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  Digital Asset Management
  Implementing a Controlled Vocabulary in Adobe Lightroom
  Andrew Childress

Tips, Tricks and Special Configurations

Check out these tutorials to tweak Lightroom for maximum performance or to learn tips that speed up your workflow.

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  Adobe Lightroom
  How to Set Up a Fast and Flexible Library With Smart Previews in Adobe Lightroom
  Andrew Childress
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  Photography
  24 Essential Daily Keyboard Shortcuts in Adobe Lightroom
  Ben Lucas
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  Adobe Lightroom
  5 Tricks to Improve Adobe Lightroom CC Performance
  Andrew Childress
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  Adobe Lightroom
  How to Set Up a Fast and Flexible Library With Smart Previews in Adobe Lightroom
  Andrew Childress

Related Course: Lightroom at Light Speed

Lightroom at Light Speed will help you get the most out of Adobe Lightroom. If you made the switch and now want to get fast, this is the course for you! 

You will learn the tips, tricks, settings, and workflows to expedite your workflow. By the end of this course you'll have developed a rock-solid, repeatable, and, most of all, speedy approach to culling, correcting, editing and outputting your pictures in Adobe Lightroom.