Introduction to Photography: Lightroom Classic CC and Photoshop

Take your first steps in photo editing. Get post-processing tips for Lightroom Classic CC, Photoshop, and the Adobe mobile apps.

Your work (and play) as a photographer doesn't end when you press the shutter button. With software such as Adobe's high-powered Lightroom Classic CC and Photoshop apps, you can enhance and transform your photos to fix problems, improve composition and exposure, and so much more.

Where to begin learning tools like these? Right here. In this course, photographer, author, and educator Ben Long introduces the concepts and creative options behind photographic post-processing. From fixing problems to retouching, Ben shows how to do it, without overdoing it, with Lightroom Classic CC, Photoshop, and the Adobe mobile apps.

Introduction to Post-Processing

• Welcome to post-processing
• Understand post-processing means
• About post-processing workflow

Working in Lightroom

• Understand the uses of Lightroom
• Import and organize images
• Photo select decision strategies
• Keyword, rate, and search images
• Adjust and correct images
• Non-destructive image editing and virtual copies
• Export and output options in Lightroom
• How to backup images

Working in Photoshop

• Understand Photoshop uses
• Add Photoshop to a Lightroom workflow
• Localized image editing
• Content-aware scale, retouching, and pixel-level edits

Using Mobile Apps for Editing

• Understand the uses of mobile apps
• Understand the mobile workflow
• Sync and edit images in Lightroom mobile

Next Steps

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