Next-Level Lightroom: How to Go Beyond Import and Edit
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.
- How to Create High Dynamic Range and Panoramic Images in Adobe LightroomAndrew Childress21 May 2015
- Building a Film Style Look in LightroomAndrew Childress08 Oct 2013
- How to Use Creative Color Curves for Expressive Images in LightroomAndrew Childress10 Jul 2020
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.
- Get Smart: Boost Your Workflow With Saved Searches in Adobe LightroomAndrew Childress11 Jun 2015
- Total Creative Control: How to Use Virtual Copies to Fork and Stack Images in LightroomAndrew Childress25 Apr 2015
- Review, Rough Cut, Pick: Editing a Portrait Shoot in Adobe Photoshop LightroomHarry Guinness06 Feb 2015
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.
- Unlocking the Power of Lightroom Color LabelsAndrew Childress10 Aug 2014
- Shooting Stars: Rating and Filtering Pictures in LightroomAndrew Childress15 Aug 2014
- 4 Ways to Add the Power of Keywords to Images in LightroomAndrew Childress15 Jan 2020
- Implementing a Controlled Vocabulary in Adobe LightroomAndrew Childress06 Apr 2015
Tips, Tricks and Special Configurations
Check out these tutorials to tweak Lightroom for maximum performance or to learn tips that speed up your workflow.
- How to Set Up a Fast and Flexible Library With Smart Previews in Adobe LightroomAndrew Childress08 Aug 2015
- 24 Essential Daily Keyboard Shortcuts in Adobe LightroomBen Lucas14 Dec 2018
- 5 Tricks to Improve Adobe Lightroom CC PerformanceAndrew Childress21 Nov 2015
- How to Set Up a Fast and Flexible Library With Smart Previews in Adobe LightroomAndrew Childress08 Aug 2015
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.
