About This Course

A Comprehensive Course on Organizing Photos in Adobe Lightroom Classic

NOTE: If you would like to learn all aspects of Lightroom Classic, take a look at the "Mastering Lightroom Classic" Bundle here.

Adobe Lightroom Classic provides an extensive set of features that enable you to keep your growing library of photos organized. In this comprehensive course Tim Grey guides you through a variety of workflow tasks to help you get your photos organized.

Not only will you learn about the options that are available for your workflow, but you'll also gain insights on how you might want to define your own unique workflow. The result will be a sense of confidence in your ability to define and implement a streamlined workflow for managing your photos within Adobe Lightroom Classic.

The aim of this course is to cover every feature of Lightroom Classic related to organizing your photos. New lessons will be added to cover any new or updated features in incremental releases of Lightroom Classic.

Total Duration: 6 Hours and 19 Minutes


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Course Curriculum

  • 1

    Chapter 1: Importing Photos

    • Course Introduction

    • Lesson 1: Importing Existing Photos

    • Lesson 2: Importing a Photoshop Elements Catalog

    • Lesson 3: Metadata Preset for Import

    • Lesson 4: Where to Store your Photos

    • Lesson 5: Planning your Folder Structure

    • Lesson 6: Importing New Photos

    • Lesson 7: A Note About the Import Backup

    • Lesson 8: Assigning a Folder Color Label

    • Lesson 9: Importing Subsequent Photos

    • Lesson 10: Saving an Import Preset

    • Lesson 11: Synchronizing a Folder

    • Lesson 12: Importing from a Watched Folder

    • Lesson 13: Tethered Capture

    • Lesson 14: Exporting Photos with a Catalog

    • Lesson 15: Merging Catalogs
  • 2

    Chapter 2: Evaluating Photos

    • Lesson 1: Folder Navigation and Sorting

    • Lesson 2: Viewing Photos in Subfolders

    • Lesson 3: Viewing Modes for Photos

    • Lesson 4: Full Screen and Lights Out Views

    • Lesson 5: Zooming and Panning

    • Lesson 6: Selecting Photos

    • Lesson 7: Comparing Photos Two at a Time

    • Lesson 8: Survey View for Evaluating Photos
  • 3

    Chapter 3: Identifying Favorites and Outtakes

    • Lesson 1: Options for Identifying Favorites

    • Lesson 2: Avoiding the Loupe View "Snafu"

    • Lesson 3: Star Rating Strategy

    • Lesson 4: Auto-Advancing to the Next Photo

    • Lesson 5: Using Pick and Reject Flags

    • Lesson 6: The Refine Photos Workflow

    • Lesson 7: Clearing Color Labels

    • Lesson 8: Filtering by Color Label for Review

    • Lesson 9: Assigning Color Labels

    • Lesson 10: Deleting Outtakes

    • Lesson 11: Removing a Folder Color Label

    • Lesson 12: Marking a Favorite Folder
  • 4

    Chapter 4: Keywording Photos

    • Lesson 1: Keywording Strategy

    • Lesson 2: Adding Keywords

    • Lesson 3: "Fake" Keywords for your Workflow

    • Lesson 4: Keyword Shortcut

    • Lesson 5: Keyword Suggestions

    • Lesson 6: Using and Creating Keyword Sets

    • Lesson 7: Using the Keyword List

    • Lesson 8: Adding Keywords with the Painter

    • Lesson 9: Adding New Keywords

    • Lesson 10: Correcting Keyword Spelling Errors

    • Lesson 11: Understanding Keyword Synonyms

    • Lesson 12: Using Hierarchical Keywords

    • Lesson 13: Identifying People in Photos

    • Lesson 14: Importing Keywords

    • Lesson 15: Exporting Keywords

    • Lesson 16: Purging Unused Keywords
  • 5

    Chapter 5: Updating Photo Information

    • Lesson 1: Reviewing and Updating Metadata

    • Lesson 2: Assigning a Metadata Preset

    • Lesson 3: Renaming a Single Photo

    • Lesson 4: Renaming Multiple Photos

    • Lesson 5: Correcting Capture Time

    • Lesson 6: Fixing "Custom" Color Labels

    • Lesson 7: Copy and Paste for Metadata

    • Lesson 8: Updating Multiple Photos

    • Lesson 9: Synchronizing Existing Metadata

    • Lesson 10: Automatic Metadata Synchronization

    • Lesson 11: Resolving Metadata Mismatches
  • 6

    Chapter 6: Grouping Photos

    • Lesson 1: Stacking Images Together

    • Lesson 2: Automatic Image Stacks

    • Lesson 3: Renaming Folders

    • Lesson 4: Revealing and Hiding Parent Folder

    • Lesson 5: Grouping Folders into a New Folder

    • Lesson 6: Consolidating Folders

    • Lesson 7: Splitting Photos into Multiple Folders

    • Lesson 8: Understanding Folders versus Collections

    • Lesson 9: Using the Quick Collection

    • Lesson 10: New Collection from the Quick Collection

    • Lesson 11: Creating a Collection from a Folder

    • Lesson 12: Grouping Photos into a Collection

    • Lesson 13: Finding the Source Folder for a Collection

    • Lesson 14: Color Labels for Collections

    • Lesson 15: Synchronizing a Collection to the Cloud

    • Lesson 16: Working with Smart Collections

    • Lesson 17: Using Collection Sets

    • Lesson 18: Removing Photos from a Collection

    • Lesson 19: Deleting a Collection

    • Lesson 20: Working with Photos in the Cloud
  • 7

    Chapter 7: Location Metadata

    • Lesson 1: Automatic Location Metadata

    • Lesson 2: Putting Photos on the Map

    • Lesson 3: Using “Location Snapshots”

    • Lesson 4: Using a GPS Track Log
  • 8

    Chapter 8: Finding Photos

    • Lesson 1: Filtering Folders and Collections

    • Lesson 2: "Back" and "Forward" Navigation

    • Lesson 3: Basic Filmstrip Filtering

    • Lesson 4: Quick Metadata Filtering

    • Lesson 5: Locking Filter Criteria

    • Lesson 6: Filtering by Keyword

    • Lesson 7: Searching by Text

    • Lesson 8: Locating Photos with People

    • Lesson 9: Advanced Photo Filtering

    • Lesson 10: Searching Across Multiple Folders

    • Lesson 11: Finding Photos on the Map

    • Lesson 12: Saving a Map Location

    • Lesson 13: Going to the Source Folder

    • Lesson 14: Saving Search Filters

    • Lesson 15: Finding Missing Photos
  • 9

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