Lightroom can not only be used to develop and correct, but to add creative impact. In this roundup, we take an overview of the moves you can make within the program that to take complete control over your images.

This tutorial video included below also cover the creative uses of mapping your image, using the dodge and burn tools, masking your image, using the gradient function, optimizing the clarity, using the selective controls and fully controlling the HSL menu.

Your Photos Your Way

Adobe Lightroom's Develop module controls the way that an image looks. It's packed with sliders that can correct your images, like adjusting exposure, contrast, and white balance. 

Correction tools are just the beginning. There are plenty more panels that help you edit your images and create your own style. Using different combinations of color, split toning, the tone curve, grain and more can help you set your photography apart.

The hard part is knowing where to start. With all of these combinations and settings, you might not know which ones to pull to build the look you want.

This learning guide is full of tutorials that help you get creative with the adjustment process. These tutorials help you go beyond the standard adjustments to an image and help you build your own creative style.

Filmic Effects

Everything old is new again! Film styles are now recreated in the digital darkroom. Lightroom has a litany of tools to bring those styles to your digital images.

The tutorials in this section will teach you the key features that build those looks, such as grain, the tone curve, and custom color effects:

• New Course: Give Your Digital Images a Colour Film Look

  In our new course, you'll learn what makes each type of colour film visually unique and how to emulate the film look with your digital images in Adobe...

• How to Build a Film Style Look in Adobe Lightroom

  Learn the magic combination of sliders and settings in Adobe Lightroom to take your images back in time.

• New Course: Give Your Digital Images a Black and White Film Look

  Do you want to learn some great digital post-production techniques that will help you emulate a classic black and white film look? If so, our new course,...

Creative Color Techniques

There are limitless options for how to edit your image's colors in Adobe Lightroom. The Hue / Saturation / Luminance (HSL) panel in Lightroom controls each individual color of the color wheel on three different factors. That means there are 24 different sliders to control the way that colors are shown in your image.

With all of these options, it's helpful to follow a few tutorials to get ideas for how to control color. Check out these guides to learn ideas for how to use color creatively.

• How to: Creative Colour Adjustment Curves in Lightroom

  Colour is a powerful expressive tool when used with care. Take caution, though, colour can also overpower all the other aspects of a photograph....

• How to Split-Tone Process Black and White Photos in Adobe Lightroom

  Split toning is the process of adding different colours to the shadows and the highlights of an image. In this screencast I'll show you how to use Lightroom...

• How to Make Creative Color Adjustments in Adobe Lightroom

  Learn hue, saturation and luminance controls in Adobe Lightroom to build your own custom style.

Bold Black and White Effects

Black and white seems like a straightforward image treatment. In reality, you'll be surprised by the sheer number of ways to convert your images from color to monochrome.

Check out these tutorials to learn about the options that exist when you convert an image to black and white inside of Lightroom.

• High-Contrast Black and White with Lookfilter Presets in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

  Lightroom has become an incredibly powerful raw procesor, but getting a consistent look can be a bit tough. Presets can make it really quick and easy to...

• How to Use Colour Balance for Better Black-and-White Conversions in Lightroom

  Colour balance is more important in converting to black-and-white than many photographers realize. In this tutorial, learn how you can use colour to control...

• New Course: Give Your Digital Images a Black and White Film Look

  Do you want to learn some great digital post-production techniques that will help you emulate a classic black and white film look? If so, our new course,...

Lightroom Presets

The tutorials above teach you how to build creative looks from scratch. If you're looking for something more automated, Tuts+ has a few choice roundups of free and premium Adobe Lightroom presets.

Presets are one-click image treatments. You can use them to learn more about editing by seeing the sliders that are tweaked and changed when applied. These roundups link to downloads of Lightroom presets that you can install and use on your own images.

• 50 Free Lightroom Presets for Black-and-White Photography and How to Create Your Own

  Give your pictures a creative black-and-white look: it's easy with Adobe Lightroom presets. We've collected 50 of the best free presets for black and white...

• 100 Free Lightroom Presets (And How to Make Your Own)

  Presets Let you apply a photo style to one or many images in your Lightroom photo catalogs. Check out more than 100 of the web's best presets in this...

• 15 Top Adobe Lightroom Presets on Envato Elements

  Lightroom presets can speed up your workflow whilst offering simple solutions to editing needs. Here, we look at our favourite Envato Elements Lightroom...

Keep Learning Lightroom

The tutorials in this learning guide focus on the Develop module, the section of Adobe Lightroom for correcting and adjusting the look of an image. Lightroom is several tools in one package, including image management and organization.

Check out these tutorials and courses to learn other Lightroom features and modules:

• Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
  Free Course: How to Organize Your Images With Adobe Lightroom
  Andrew Blackman
• Workflow
  Lightroom Workflow: Data Setup & Import Essentials
  Andrew Childress
• Adobe Lightroom
  How to Set Up a Fast and Flexible Library With Smart Previews in Adobe Lightroom
  Andrew Childress

And here's the video! Dig in to get a tour of the Lightroom environment: