lightroom classic tutorials for beginners

5 years later and about 200,000 photos in, the cataloging function of Lightroom has become much more important to me. At that time, I was just taking photos for fun. I jumped right in and didn’t think much about my photo organization.

When I started using Lightroom, I always thought of it as an editing tool. Since Lightroom Classic is where I do most of my edits these days, this guide is focused on using that but I will likely do another one for Lightroom CC when I fully switch over. Occasionally, I get pinged by various companies coming out with new photo editing programs but at the moment I use Lightroom, Photoshop and VSCO actively. I've thought about purchasing Capture One, since the go to for most photographers when they're shooting tethered but I've resisted thus far. So my typical workflow is still within Lightroom Classic and I export JPEGs to dropbox folders to send to myself or clients. I’m slowly trying to transition to Lightroom CC because I’m excited by the possibility of having constant access to my catalog on all of my devices but am currently frustrated by their lack of preset syncing and custom export settings (UPDATE: preset syncing is getting rolled out now!). Professional Photo Editing SoftwareĪnyway, I currently use Lightroom Classic on my main computer for most of my photo cataloging and editing. I think it’s good to learn and understand all the programs because there are slight difference that enable you to do specialized things. Additionally, within the Adobe suite, you can spend months diving into all the programs and discovering that aside from Lightroom, you can often do the exact same things in Photoshop or Bridge and Adobe Camera Raw. Whether you’re new to Lightroom or have been using it for years, I think it’s important to realize that there are multiple ways to do just about everything in Lightroom.

Lightroom has been my go to for photo cataloging and editing for the last 5 years.

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Lightroom classic tutorials for beginners