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- 3 Lessonsfollow-along
- 1hof captioned HD video
- Beginnerno experience needed
- 213 Sample Imagesto follow along
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Description
Taking great photos is only half the battle. A professional photographer needs a professional workflow to organize photos in Lightroom Classic and maintain their catalog. In this tutorial, we’ll teach you how to import, organize, and add metadata to photos in Lightroom Classic, the foundations for developing a clear and efficient post-production process in Lightroom Classic. Follow along with the included RAW Photos.
What You’ll Learn
- Import and organize photos into a Lightroom catalog
- Add metadata to protect your work and copyright
- Build folder structure and collections for a workflow
Course Downloads
Importing, Organizing, & Metadeta
Import and Organize Photos in Lightroom Classic
We begin in Lightroom as if we were opening the program for the very first time. Learn how to import and organize photos in Lightroom Classic to make cataloging and editing easier.
Learn how to add metadata to photos in Lightroom Classic with Keyword Presets and Metadata Presets, add Copyright Protection, and convert your RAW files to a more streamlined format. Importing your images into Lightroom correctly will make file organization and image protection easier than ever.
File Structure, Organization and Workflow
It is simple to organize photos in Lightroom Classic for a few shoots, but what happens when you have thousands of photos taken over many years? File structure and organization is a very important part of the photography process many people look over.
Learn the same file structure used by professional photographers to save time and headaches. Learn the workflow system we have been developing for years at Phlearn. From import to edit to export, we make sure everything is well organized!
The PHLEARN Workflow
Throughout this series, we’ll take you through everything you need to organize photos in Lightroom Classic, from creating your first Lightroom catalog, to sending photographs over to Photoshop for external editing. We’ve developed our process over the years to help you work faster, stay organized, and never have to worry about losing or misplacing any files.
Import and Organize
Never lose a file again! To organize photos in Lightroom Classic, you have powerful organizational tools, all you need is the right workflow to make finding your images simple. Learn the PHLEARN Method of file organization and storage to save time and create a more cohesive file structure.
Export and Deliver
After editing images to perfection, it’s time to export them and deliver to a client or upload them to the web. Learn exporting workflow to make sure your images display properly no matter where they end up.
Professional Workflow
You’ve taken thousands of photos, but now what? Learn how to bring all of your images into Lightroom, sort them, and prepare them for editing with our easy and professional workflow.
Local Editing, Global Editing and External Editing
Editing comes in a lot a varieties. Sometimes you’ll need to perform quick global edits to your photos to help you with the culling process. Sometimes more detailed edits are required when you’re working with clients. We’ll show you how to build the editing process into multiple steps of your workflow.
Class Instructor
Aaron Nace
PHLEARN Founder & Lead Instructor
Aaron Nace is a photographer, digital artist, and the founder of PHLEARN. He has been teaching Photoshop, Lightroom, and photography since 2011, and has taught at Adobe MAX for more than eight years.
Aaron publishes a free tutorial every week and a new in-depth PRO course every month.
- 2M+YouTube subscribers
- 160M+video views
- 1,000+tutorials published
- 15years teaching Photoshop
Reviews
Master Photoshop, Lightroom and Photography
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As a teacher you are the best, thank you. I have not had a bad lesson yet. keep up the great work.
Good that I took this tutorial. Now I understand why I should use lightroom.
I started using LR not long ago and recently got massively frustrated coz I didn’t organise my photos in catalog properly and it’s all a mess. I was even starting hating LR. Then decided to watch these tutorials and my doubts and fears are dissipating… I am getting clearer and hopeful again. Thank you Aaron for your clarity. I am new to this, I wonder if there’s any live-chat or community in Phlearn where to ask questions. Thank you for your help.
you should start here to get yourself organized. Wished I started here back in Jan 2018
I am now a Zen master of boss organization. Thank you, Aaron!
Wonderful info, thank you. This helped me conquer the chaos.
I am so grateful that Aaron explains why he does or the reason something is done a certain way. It makes using LR more understandable.
Lightroom, “it’s too hard” Not since I’ve been watching Aaron’s tutorials. Now Lightroom makes sense as well as the reasons for using it
Wow! LR and I have had 10-year Love-Hate relationship. I’m so invested in the software, having more than 60K photos cataloged, that I didn’t see a way out of NOT using it. Reluctantly …. thinking I knew everything I wanted or needed to know … I decided to watch this section of LR Essentials and was blown away with things I didn’t fully understand. I may learn to Love LR and plan on watching the other videos. Arron, Great Job!