Develop an efficient workflow in Lightroom with guidance from professional photographer Juan Pons. First, review editing essentials for flawlessly enhanced photos. Then, learn how to balance your images, and increase clarity, vibrance and saturation in a natural way. Next, get comfortable with your history panel and use presets with confidence. Cropping and leveling your photos is made easy with Juan’s helpful tips. Plus, find out how to adjust overall brightness in your images and work with the HSL panel to manipulate color and sharpness. Then, create a black and white masterpiece and add grain to your images for an artful effect. Finally, discover how to edit large groups of images at once using external editors, third-party plug-ins and more!
Class Sessions
The Lightroom Advantage
10:48
Meet your instructor, professional photographer Juan Pons, and preview the techniques you'll learn to efficiently develop and enhance your images. Gain insight into how Lightroom's nondestructive editing works, and become familiar with the sliders, menus and tools that will streamline your workflow.
Editing Basics
22:17
Learn how to enhance important aspects of your images. Juan illustrates simple ways to color correct any scene. Discover how to adjust exposure and dynamic range, revealing details in the highlights and shadows. Then, punch up your photos even more with Juan's tips for applying vibrance and saturation.
History, Snapshots & Presets
12:48
Discover quick and easy ways to simplify the editing process. Get in-depth instruction on how to track every edit with the history panel. You'll also learn time-saving tips for saving specific settings and adjustments using the snapshots and presets features. Plus, Juan shares a simple way to compare the before and after version of an image.
Cropping & Local Adjustments
38:06
Delve deeper into the features of the Develop Module. Find out how to easily crop and straighten your images, then practice removing unwanted objects and blemishes with the clone tool. In addition, learn how to fine-tune specific areas of your photographs without affecting the entire frame.
Enhancing Effects & Corrective Alterations
33:21
Want to make your photos truly shine? Juan shares simple and effective techniques for adding dimension to any image. See how to adjust specific colors within a scene and how to correctly apply the sharpening tool. Continue to refine your images by learning how to reduce noise and apply lens and perspective corrections.
Creative Transformations
15:27
Get your creative juices flowing by experimenting with a variety of visual effects. Discover how to transform color images into beautiful black and white photographs. Then add more drama and impact to your scenes with the split toning tool. You'll also see how to emphasize your subject matter as you add vignetting.
Batch Editors & External Programs
12:54
Streamline your workflow even more with Juan's helpful tips and tricks. You'll see how to apply the exact same settings and adjustments to multiple images at once. In addition, Juan demonstrates how to seamlessly work between Lightroom, external editing software and third-party plug-ins.
Your Instructor
Juan Pons
Juan Pons has been a photographer for more than 20 years. His images have been featured in numerous publications, including the magazines Sierra, Nature Conservancy, Audubon, American Photo and many others. Juan teaches photography workshops all over the world, and also hosts The Digital Photography Experience podcast with his friend and fellow Craftsy instructor, Rick Sammon.
Bonus Material
Lightroom Essentials: The Develop Module - Lightroom Shortcut List
Bonus Materials available for download after purchase.
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