Lightroom for Photographers Course

Have you taken hundreds of pictures on your last holiday trip? Do you wish you could edit and perfect your photos in a fast intuitive way, then efficiently organise and share them? Then our Adobe Lightroom for Photographers course is what you’re looking for.

This will include how to name and organise your files, followed by an introduction to the Lightroom interface. We will then go on to take a look at the fundamental principles and actions of Lightroom, followed by a variety of hands on guided and individual practice.

Finally, you will learn how to resize, save and prepare your image for output.

Great editing course and an absolutely amazing teacher! I have learned so much about how to use Lightroom, and I feel totally inspired to take my photography further. I finally know what to do with my pictures and can make them look so much better!
Raphaela Brun

The Lightroom course was very thorough and very interesting. I look forward to put everything I have learned to use. Gyuri was an excellent teacher.
Norman Jonas

Great day, really informative and answered all my questions. I feel liberated and not intimidated anymore by Lightroom. Thanks so much!

Hanna

The course met my expectations completely, I feel confident that I will now be able to organise my workflow effectively and efficiently.

Leanne Nicholls

Very informative course, nicely informal and adaptive to audiences speed and knowledge. Thank you!

Louisa Wilde

Lightroom training for Photographers

This full-day course normally runs from 10:00am to 4:00pm. There is one short lunch break, and one tea/coffee break.

During the course you will learn:

Our Lightroom for Photographers Course has two goals: first, to teach you how to organise and label the hundreds of digital images that you have, and second to introduce you to the extremely intuitive and creative editing interface that Lightroom offers. We will take a look at all aspects of the standard digital workflow: focusing on importing, organising, editing and then exporting and sharing your images.

During this 6 hour course, we’ll first develop an understanding of image formats (JPEG v. RAW) and the fundamentals of the digital image – the meaning of pixels, colour-depth and similar mysteries shall be revealed.

Please note we use Lightroom Classic CC version on our course!

Lightroom course outline:

Getting to know the interface

The Library module

• importing photos
• organising and tagging images
• using collections, keywords and filters
• comparing and rating your pictures

The Develop moduleGet to know the incredible flexibility of Lightroom’s most important module. The intuitive image correction and enhancement interface allows precise adjustments as well as creative improvisations.

• change the composition and the aspect ratio of your images
• crop your images to reveal their full potential
• turn them into black-and-white images or adjust their colour spectrum
• apply creative filters to make your images come to life in unexpected ways

We’ll discuss the principles of image analysis and methods of non-destructive global and local adjustments of exposure, contrast and colours. We’ll talk about the importance of presets and how to use them productively and efficiently to automate processes.

Publishing

• • exporting images
  • overview of file formats and their usage
  • using right resolution and size

Lightroom offers numerous options to export and share your images, be it on social media, preparing an online photo book or saving amd uploading your photos in various formats. We’ll have a look at publishing your images for the web, Picasa and print.