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Welcome to 30 Days of Lightroom, a free course in 30 short tutorials. It starts with catalogs, importing and organizing, and works up through masking, retouching, color grading, exporting and the mobile app.
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Every Lesson in 30 Days of Lightroom
A new tutorial goes live every day, and every one of them is free. Here is the full schedule, in order:
- Create a Lightroom Classic Catalog and Import Photos – Day 1
Pick the correct import option, set previews, add a copyright preset and know where files land. - Lightroom Folders vs Collections: Organize Your Catalog – Day 2
Mirror your hard drive with dated project folders and three subfolders, rename files once, then layer collections on top. - Flags, Stars and Smart Collections in Lightroom – Day 3
Reject with flags in round one, rank with stars in round two, then build a smart collection that fills itself. - How to Use the Basic Panel in Lightroom Classic – Day 4
Read the histogram, work the tone sliders in the right order, understand Presence, and set white balance properly. - The 10 Mask Types in Lightroom Classic, Explained – Day 5
Which ones find the subject for you, which ones you place by hand, and which read color, luminance or depth. - How to Add and Subtract Masks in Lightroom Classic – Day 6
Combine Select Subject with a radial gradient, subtract what you do not want, invert, and trim the result. - How to Crop, Straighten and Fix Perspective in Lightroom – Day 7
Use the crop overlays to place your subject, level the horizon, then correct the verticals. - How to Use the Color Mixer in Lightroom Classic – Day 8
Check white balance first, move one color band at a time, then use Point Color for anything the bands miss. - The Color Grading Wheels in Lightroom Classic – Day 9
Tint the shadows, midtones and highlights separately, control blending, then save the grade as a preset. - How to Remove Objects in Lightroom Classic with AI – Day 10
Paint the area, let the Remove tool generate, refine the result, and compare before and after properly. - How to Merge Bracketed Exposures into HDR in Lightroom – Day 11
What to shoot, how the merge works, what the resulting DNG gives you, and when HDR is the wrong answer. - How to Save a Preset in Lightroom Classic, Masks Included – Day 12
Build the edit, choose what the preset stores, apply it, and know when masks should be left out. - RAW vs JPEG in Lightroom Classic: What Actually Changes – Day 13
What a JPEG has already decided for you, how white balance differs, how far each can be pushed, and what works the same in both. - How to Batch Edit Photos in Lightroom Classic – Day 14
Edit one frame properly, pick what to sync, and understand why AI masks recalculate on every photograph. - How to Edit Portraits in Lightroom Classic – Day 15
Fix a distracting background, shape the light with radial gradients, brighten and sharpen the eyes, then heal the skin. - How to Edit Landscapes in Lightroom Classic – Day 16
Recover a blown sky, build a focal point with masks, subtract what you do not want, then match the colors across it. - How to Edit Wedding Photos in Lightroom Classic – Day 17
Separate the couple from the background, light them, add a vignette that does not look like one, then warm it. - How to Edit Food Photos in Lightroom Classic – Day 18
Quiet the background, protect the plate with a mask, lift the food, add texture, then finish with a soft vignette. - How to Convert to Black and White in Lightroom Classic – Day 19
Convert properly first, use the black and white mix to separate tones, then add a tone for warmth. - How to Use Virtual Copies in Lightroom Classic – Day 20
Give one file several edits, filter originals from copies, label them, and export each version separately. - How to Refine Lens Blur in Lightroom Classic – Day 21
Set the amount, pick a bokeh shape, adjust the focus range, visualize the depth map and paint focus back by hand. - How to Use AI Denoise in Lightroom Classic – Day 22
It only works on raw files, it creates a new DNG, and the amount slider decides whether detail survives the cleanup. - How to Edit in Photoshop from Lightroom Classic – Day 23
Always open as a copy, know what saving sends back, and when to make a smart object instead of a flat file. - Lightroom Classic vs Lightroom vs Lightroom Mobile – Day 24
The real difference is where your photos live. - How to Use the Lightroom Desktop App: A Full Tour – Day 25
Cloud versus local storage, how albums replace folders, the edit panel, and whether it is enough on its own. - How to Edit Photos on Your Phone with Lightroom Mobile – Day 26
Get around the app, cull from the phone, apply presets, run a full edit, and let everything sync back. - Lightroom Export Settings for Print and Web – Day 27
File settings, image sizing, output sharpening and content credentials, saved as presets you can reuse every time. - How to Watermark Client Proofs in Lightroom Classic – Day 28
Build a text or logo watermark, save it as a preset, and apply it on export without touching the originals. - How to Batch Rename Photos in Lightroom Classic – Day 29
Build a filename template, apply it to a whole shoot at once, and keep the originals traceable afterwards. - How to Use Adaptive Presets in Lightroom – Day 30
They find the sky, the subject or the background for you, then apply only to that part.
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