Adobe Lightroom Classic

Discover how easy it is to create a Custom Identity Plate in Lightroom Classic.

To quickly make adjustments and enhancements to your photographs in Lightroom Classic without moving to the Develop module, use the buttons in the Quick Develop panel in the Library module.

n this video, we’ll walk through 12 ways to use presets (and templates) in Lightroom Classic to help automate your workflow, avoid repetitive tasks, and avoid making costly mistakes. 

Discover how to create and save metadata presets, customize the Metadata panel, and quickly apply metadata to your images in Lightroom Classic.

Because Texture, Clarity, and Dehaze can all be used to increase or decrease contrast (including edge contrast) in an image, it’s important to understand the subtle differences between the features in order to combine the enhancements to achieve the results that you’re after.

There are two different curves within the Tone Curve panel – the Parametric and the Point curve. While both curves can be used to make adjustments to the tonal values in an image, the Point Curve can also be used to change  color values.

The Histogram displays a visual representation of all of the pixels values in an image, plotted from black on the left to white on the right; the height of the column shows how many pixels in the image have that value. The values are measured in 16 bit and are displayed as a percentage (between 0-100%). The Histogram can be an essential tool for managing the dynamic range of an image so that you can be sure you aren’t pushing important details in an image’s highlights or shadow areas to pure white or black without detail.

Here are my favorite videos, shortcuts, and tips for printing from Lightroom Classic.

The Auto Tone option in Lightroom Classic can help create pleasing adjustments to an image with a single click. Depending on the image, the Auto Tone option will make changes to the following sliders:  Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Whites, Blacks, Saturation, and Vibrance.

Here are six of my favorite shortcuts for setting an image’s White Balance in Lightroom Classic.

Here are my favorite shortcuts for selecting and navigating images in Grid, Loupe, Compare, Survey and People view in Lightroom Classic.

I’m excited to announce several new features and enhancements to Lightroom Classic v11 including:  re-envisioned local adjustment tools, the new Masking panel, Premium Presets, updates to the Metadata panel and more!

If you’ve ever opened a raw file from Lightroom Classic into Photoshop as a Smart Object and then made changes to the Smart Object and wished that you could easily save those changes back into the original file in Lightroom Classic, then keep on reading because it’s actually a very easy thing to do — once you know how to do it.

Here are several tips to use when creating high dynamic range (HDR) images, Panoramas, and HDR Panoramas using  Lightroom Classic’s Photo Merge commands.