Basic: Get Started With Adobe Lightroom Classic
Wednesday
Online
3/18/26
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4/29/26
Date
7:00 PM
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9:30 PM
Time
Price
$350
Duration
6
About the Course
Get a solid foundation in Adobe Lightroom Classic, the most powerful digital photography software. You will learn extremely powerful editing techniques that will make your photos shine, organization methods and best practices that make it easy to work with your photos plus setup, importing, exporting and searching. Lightroom Classic subscription required. More Info: alec.dann@verizon.net. Minimum age 18.
Adobe Lightroom Classic is the most popular software used by photographers of all skill levels to organize and edit their digital photos.
When you have made a photograph you love, there is more you can do.
Lightroom Classic’s powerful editing tools will help you explore your photos creatively, to surface what makes each photo interesting through adjustments to brightness, color and texture.
Lightroom Classic can also help you organize your photos so you can navigate to them easily, whether they are stored on your computer or an external hard drive.
Lightroom Classic’s tools are easy to use, as simple as moving a slider to the left or right. You can keep it simple with a few basic adjustments or you can make sophisticated changes that target sky, landscape features, objects or people (especially facial features).
If you would like to get started in Lightroom Classic, start with this course. Whether you are a beginner or have tried to learn it on your own, you will find this class to be extremely helpful.
What you will learn:
• How to import your photos into Lightroom Classic from your camera, phone or hard drive.
• How to organize your photos: Lightroom Classic tools and best practices.
• How to use Lightroom’s image editing tools:
oHow to change your photo’s brightness, color, contrast and sharpness.
o Techniques to target an edit enhancement to part of your photo. Lightroom Classic’s AI tools make it easy to pick out part of a photo (sky, object, portrait subject, facial features) to make it more (or less) prominent.
o Removal of distractions including people and reflections.
• How to export your photos to email, web, social media or your printer.
Class includes live software demonstrations plus hands-on practice with your images.
Class will be held online using Zoom with recordings available afterward.
Requirements:
• Skill level: Beginner.
• Software: Adobe Lightroom or Photography Plan subscription (more info).
Questions: alec.dann@verizon.net
Your Instructor
Alec Dann
Alec is an artist working in digital photography.
His teaching focuses on Adobe Lightroom Classic and Photoshop for beginning and advanced students. His philosophy is that the initial digital capture is just the beginning of exploring what the photograph can become.
His photography influences include Edward Weston, JP Caponigro, and Murray Riss.