Beginners Guide to Lightroom Classic (Photo Editing Tutorial 2024)

We are taking a look at how to get started with Adobe Lightroom Classic, everything from importing photos into Lightroom, how to organise everything inside Lightroom, setting up your workspace and actually editing your photos right through to exporting them.

In this video we're going to cover:
- Setting up Lightroom Classic for the first time
- How to import photos into Lightroom
- How to create folders in Lightroom
- How to organise your photos in Lightroom
- How to edit photos in Lightroom
- How to use masks in Lightroom
- How to export photos in Lightroom

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You can check out some of our other Lightroom tutorials here for more in depth information:

Our Video / Photo Kit:

0:00 - Introduction
0:28 - Lightroom vs Lightroom Classic

SETUP
1:46 - Creating a Catalog
3:09 - Library and Develop Tabs

LIBRARY
4:12 - Importing and Organising Photos
8:55 - Viewing Photos
9:28 - Flagging and Filtering

DEVELOP
11:52 - Develop Tab Panels
13:24 - Global Edit Sliders
15:54 - Crop Overlay
17:04 - Remove Tool (+ Red Eye)
19:53 - Masks (brush, gradient, subject etc)

FINISHING UP
22:11 - Reviewing Photos
22:52 - Exporting

26:01 - Conclusion



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[bruceperkins]

This is by far the best explaination of LrC, and I have been through a lot of them. No unnecessary vocabulary, no annoying voices, and no fast moving overly detailed explainations.

[hurleygreen]

GREAT INFO... Appreciate your photo editing Lightroom tips!

[nigelwilkinson]

Thank you for a very clear explanation of LRC. Only just moved to LRC after 40+ years of photography as a hobby..

[vorticity]

Excellent update. Thanks for taking the time to record this.

[timrobinson]

i to have been through a lot, and this is a lot better than the rest

[IamCookies]

Thank you for this guide :) i just got a EOS R10 and followed this to make some adjustments of what was otherwise a very dark photo. Will check out your other guides too :)

[Daveesrc]

Looks like I will have a serious go at this.

[efrainvalenzuela]

I really like your explanation about LR but I have a question. I started using lightroom a few years back and I never made a catalog. I always imported from my folders on my external drives and I had something like 115k photos imported.a college advise me to start a catalog. when I started a new catalog the pictures disappeared from light room. Is there a way to retrieve them and how do I go about it, thank you for your response.

[marleenvandam]

Thanks for this introduction! When storing your photos on an external HDD, is it best to put the catalogue on the external HDD as well?A friend of mine told me once : always keep your catalogue where your photos are!

[johnclay]

good indepth video on adobe lightroom thanks Park Cameras.

[shaungoddard]

A great video, i am in the process of subscribing to lightroom & have been a little daunted by how hard it might be to use. I found this channel during a you tube search & having watched this tutorial i have liked & subscribed so I can view more when i do subscribe to lightroom. The package im looking to subscribe is light room, lightroom classic & photoshop, will their be any photoshop for beginners tutorials on this channel as I like your pace of delivery during tutorials

[markishkaru]

another great video, will you be doing the same for photoshop? i find photoshop very overwhelming.

[stewarta]

Might you do a comparison with Capture One - one difference is a one off purchase fee ?

[think]

You didn't explain when the options, COPY, SAVE or ADD what you do with these options?