Description
Editing is an immensely essential part of wedding photography. Consistency of colors, tones, contrast form your hallmark style. The photos should tell the truth and the story louder with richer colors and tones without deviating drastically from reality. We have spent countless hours editing our photos all these years. With time, practice, and usage our style evolved to reach where it is now. Though, how you edit is inherent to your artistic vision and personal taste, there is a lot one can gain by learning the right methods and best practices. With Lightroom Essentials Training, It will not only improve your workflow but also help speed up your editing process.
Do you battle with these questions:
- How do I best set up my Adobe Lightroom for the best performance?
- What is the right workflow for backing up my work and exporting for the final deliverables?
- What are the best practices and tools for me to achieve consistent results?
- How do I create my own develop presets to save up time?
- How do I create my own import and export presets?
- How to back up my edits and work effectively?
We have the answers and we want to share them with you. Through the last 10 years of being successful wedding photographers and having spent countless hours editing on Adobe Lightroom, we have arrived at the method that works for us. We believe you can gain a lot by understanding it from us than spending time figuring it out yourself. This is not a course where we teach you how to edit photos as we do, that’s a style you will develop on your own. With this Lightroom Essentials Training you will understand the inner workings of this immensely powerful software and harness its maximum power.
With Lightoom Essentials Training – you will be able to:
- Setting up Adobe Lightroom Classic for success: How to get optimum performance for editing
- A complete workflow for wedding photography: Catalogues, Importing, Keywords tagging, Smart Previews, Basic Previews, copying, moving, and renaming files and backing up
- Learn concepts of profiles and camera calibration
- Creating your own import and export presets
- Organize your photos in collections
- Culling and marking photos
- Deep dive into powerful tools for editing: Brushes, gradient tools, masks, spot removal, and cropping
- Creating your own editing presets
- Effectively use HSL, Split Toning, curves, and transform tools to transform your photos
- Improve the quality of output with Details and noise reduction
- Create your own develop presets
- Export photos for web and print
Course Overview: Lightroom Essentials Training
Duration: 90 minutes
Teaching mode: Live interactive online class
Lightroom Essentials Lesson 1 – Setting it up the right way
- Introduction
- Finding ways to reduce the unwanted load on the software so it feels light
- Setting it up and making it your own
Lightroom Essentials Lesson 2 – Import and Backup
- The best way to import your work the first time from SD Card to your backup drives
- RAW vs JPEG
- Import presets and keywords
Lightroom Essentials Lesson 3 – Library Module: Organize your work
- Organize your photos in the cleanest way possible: Color codes, Star Rating, Culling, Collections, Rejecting/Deleting
- The smart way to make Smart Previews and how they work
- Using Metadata to sort and filter out work
Lightroom Essentials Lesson 4 – Develop Module: All what you need to make a difference
- Introduction of various panels and what it translates to you as a wedding photographer
- Power of important tools for editing photos: Brushes, Gradient Tool, Masking, Spot Removal
- Make your own presets for brushes, curves for specific applications
- How to edit faster and better
FREE Bonus Resources!
Along with Lightroom Essentials training, you also receive our exclusive bonus resources to get a jump-start on your marketing success!
- Bonus Export preset for sharp Instagram photos
- Some of our favorite Dodging and Burning Brushes for you to use
- 10% Discount coupon on our 1-on-1 Mentorship program
- Digital Certificate of Completion
Meet your Mentor
Gaurav
As the founder of a successful wedding photography business, Gaurav thrives on challenging himself technically and artistically. Working with a wide range of clients, locations, and wedding styles, he has found the perfect balance of creativity and technical perfection to truly make stunning photographs. His mentor training focuses on how to upgrade your skills and storytelling abilities. His style of teaching is interactive and problem-solving – and he loves to be asked tough questions!
