Everything You Need to Get Started! (Lightroom Classic Starter Guide)

In today's video I'm taking you on a tour of Lightroom Classic! I'll be explaining the interface, how to import and export photos and explain what every tab and slides does to your photographs. If you're currently editing in LR CC, iPhoto or Photoshop, this is going to be a great introductory video that will show you what Lightroom Classic is capable of!
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0:00 Welcome!
0:50 Let's jump in!
01:19 Importing Photos
04:10 Library Module Breakdown
05:00 Develop Module
05:31 Cropping, Masking & Healing Tools
08:33 All of the Develop Tabs Explained
14:23 Exporting

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  • @chrishall3997
    @chrishall399717 күн бұрын

    This has been the best tutorial regarding LRC, we thank you!!!

  • @laurak.4918
    @laurak.49185 ай бұрын

    You are such a wonderful teacher, Katelyn. Thank you, thank you, thank you for the vast amount of educational resources you have created over the years for photographers like me. I am always wanting to learn, grow, and improve as a photographer, and I learn best from organized, encouraging, truly knowledgable photography instructors like you. Please don't ever stop teaching!!!! 🙏

  • @TheBlackice38
    @TheBlackice385 ай бұрын

    I apologize for watch 5 other of your videos without subscribing, that ended today, this was the one!!! Great job!!!

  • @candissdelcastillo7863
    @candissdelcastillo786314 күн бұрын

    Would love it if you would teach on Lightroom classic, one video per category of editing. Really slow, really broken down to the most elementary molecule.

  • @steveklamkin
    @steveklamkin5 ай бұрын

    I've been struggling with the switch from LR to LRC for some time, but you've helped me tremendously, Katelyn just with this video alone ... thank you so much!

  • @reginaldwalton
    @reginaldwalton5 ай бұрын

    Great video. I love all the things you can do more easily now in LRC, particularly with masking and just selecting people and objects.

  • @Jayell42
    @Jayell425 ай бұрын

    I loved this so much! Thank you for breaking it down a bit. You truly have such a gift in teaching. I'd love to understand more about the color mixer, color grading, and callibration tools.

  • @snowbeccaful
    @snowbeccaful5 ай бұрын

    I have used Lightroom in the past but not often in recent years and 🤯 Thanks for sharing! I want to get back into it now!

  • @cindypalas1
    @cindypalas15 ай бұрын

    This was great! I have been wanting to use light room for a while and then I chicken out. I’ve only used P.S. You have made it look so much easier than I thought and so clear in your explanations. I can’t wait to dive in. 🎉

  • @alexah5635
    @alexah56355 ай бұрын

    I'd love to know about color range and luminance range... what can you do with that in masking? This is AWESOME btw. Appreciate it.

  • @candissdelcastillo7863
    @candissdelcastillo786314 күн бұрын

    Definitely interested in masking in LRC!

  • @smcjjennings7532
    @smcjjennings75325 ай бұрын

    Would love a video on masking!

  • @carriekrupke5378
    @carriekrupke53785 ай бұрын

    Please do a mini course or another series of KZread videos on masking! That would be super super helpful!

  • @ejh_x2
    @ejh_x220 күн бұрын

    You are great! -Erik

  • @mjudkins1371
    @mjudkins13715 ай бұрын

    Great Video thanks again God bless you Katelyn James 😊❤

  • @zachandirene
    @zachandirene5 ай бұрын

    Yay!!! Thank you!

  • @teressapruitt-helms2789
    @teressapruitt-helms27894 ай бұрын

    Thanks. Great tutorial.

  • @angie25595
    @angie255953 ай бұрын

    lightroom was so scary for me but now - iam gonna be a queen at that thanks tto youu

  • @b.bishop6113
    @b.bishop61133 ай бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @johnclay7644
    @johnclay76445 ай бұрын

    good informative video

  • @Gina_Michel
    @Gina_Michel5 ай бұрын

    Hi Katelyn, How often do you create a new catalog?

  • @adventure_to_abundance
    @adventure_to_abundance4 ай бұрын

    Great video, I purchased your consistency course a few days ago and was let feeling a little confused as the Lightroom classic version I had did not match what was being taught on the course. This video somewhat has helped me fill the gaps.. ie I was very confused about split toning as I could it find it at all in my LRC version. But I not see it’s had an upgrade and a name change. Will you be updating your course at all to help with some of this confusion on the changes?

  • @bravomike1969
    @bravomike196914 күн бұрын

    Do you edit on a laptop or a desktop computer. What do you recommend?

  • @MosleydollMUA
    @MosleydollMUA6 күн бұрын

    So what happens if I don’t have a SD card inserted? When I go to import I have so many weird images which pop up which has nothing to do with my photo library. I cannot access my photo library on Lightroom classic whereas on library mobile they were already in there. So far I’ve learned that I’ve had to go into Photos export it as an unedited version and then drag it into Lightroom classic is this easiest way to do it ?? Otherwise I can just plug my camera straight into my Mac and import photos straight to Lightroom from there. I’m just talking about my previous raw photos

  • @MrIowahawks77
    @MrIowahawks774 ай бұрын

    I'm trying to Tether with the orange Tether cord, i downloaded light room, but cant tether it. How and where to i get Light Room Classic? I can only find lightroom on the app

  • @zachandirene
    @zachandirene5 ай бұрын

    I a right clicking and it doesn’t let me get rid of those other titles. What am I doing wrong?

  • @holdmacat9932
    @holdmacat99325 ай бұрын

    Unfortunately you can't pirate lightroom anymore so have to change it to capture one

  • @rogerbeltz2370
    @rogerbeltz23704 ай бұрын

    Seems like there are a lot of things you [ don't use ] so for someone like me (a beginner when it comes to using LR), there are a lot of things I am NOT learning from this video. Referring to "masking", as a ardent Photoshop user, I correlate this to Layer masks (and Alpha Channels) and creating either selections or masks in Photoshop........but I can not determine if there is an actual correlation between masking in LR and masking in PS. My particular work involves creating very intricate Selections within a given image and saving these Selections in the Channels palette so I'm not sure if we are talking about the same (or similar) thing or not. ???? You have outstanding teaching skills but if you are not going to touch upon so many things (that you don't use), our "learning" is being hampered. However, I should remind everyone (including myself), your tutorials are "free" so we should not expect a comprehensive course so if you consider my comments out of line, please excuse me. Don't know if this is the place to ask but: How in the heck do you open an image that you're working on in LRC, in Photoshop? ACR and PS have always been my "home".

  • @robigerovasilisphotography
    @robigerovasilisphotography5 ай бұрын

    I'm your mom and you lost me at about the 4th minute you started off beautifully simple and basic but got sidetracked onto many other features and got too deep.