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Best Lightroom Tutorials & Lightroom Classes for Online Learning

Whether you’re new to Lightroom or looking to dive deeper, here are some of the best places to find Lightroom tutorials, classes, and courses.

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How to Filter by Image Orientation of Landscape, Portrait, or Square

If you need to filter out just the portrait (vertical), landscape (horizontal), or square images, you can use the Aspect Ratio filter criteria.

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How to Change the Background Color of Single Images in Lightroom Classic

You can change the color of the space behind single images in Lightroom. That can be simply a matter of preference or used as a visualization tool

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Can Aurora HDR 2019 Salvage Otherwise Unusable Photos?

HDR is traditionally all about the drama. But it doesn’t have to be all about overly saturated and uber dramatic images. The tone-mapping tools built into apps like Photomatix and Aurora HDR 2019 can be useful for making otherwise blah photos more interesting and perhaps salvaging them as keepers.

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How to Change the Thumbnail Image for a Video in Lightroom

Changing the thumbnail image, or poster frame, used for videos in Lightroom can be a handy way to provide a more useful visual reference point when you’re trying to find the video you’re after. Here’s how to do it.

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How to Trim Videos in Lightroom

Lightroom doesn’t have much in the way of editing tools when working with video files, but it does have the ability to trim the beginning or end of video clips.

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How to Customize the Color Labels in Lightroom

Color labels are one of several useful workflow tools in Lightroom. And if you want to customize what text label is paired with which color, you can. Here’s how.

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How to Switch between Landscape and Portrait Orientations When Cropping Images

Lightroom has a super quick way to switch between landscape and portrait orientations with the crop tool. Here’s how to do it.

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How to Convert the GPS Coordinates in Lightroom’s Map Module to Decimal Format

Lightroom’s map module uses GPS coordinates in the degrees, minutes, and seconds format. If you need them in decimal degree format, here’s a quick way to convert them.

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How to Save a Single Frame from a Video as a JPG Using Lightroom

If you’re looking to extract a single frame from a video and save it as a JPG, here’s how to do it in Lightroom.

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How to Enable the Publish Services Panel If It’s Hidden

Here’s how to enable the Publish Services, Catalog, Folders, or Collections panels in the Library module if they’re not visible.

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Can Lightroom Find Duplicates?

By itself, Lightroom can’t find duplicate photos. But here are a couple of plugins available that can add that functionality.

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How to Delete Rejected Photos in Lightroom

Here’s how to quickly delete rejected photos in Lightroom to help speed up the culling part of the workflow.

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How to Select Multiple Photos in Lightroom

A guide to selecting multiple photos in Lightroom.

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Comparing the AI Auto Processing of Lightroom Classic CC and Luminar 2018

Both Lightroom Classic CC and Luminar 2018 now offer processing using AI, or artificial intelligence. Here’s a side-by-side comparison of their initial automatic one-click processing options.

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How to Install and Use Luminar as a Lightroom Plugin

Luminar 4 is designed as a standalone app, but you can also use it alongside Lightroom. Here’s how to install and use Luminar as a plugin in Lightroom Classic CC.

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Lightroom Classic CC 7.1’s New AI Auto Function | Real-World Examples

The Auto tone function has been given a major overhaul in the latest update to Lightroom Classic CC (7.1) to use Adobe’s artificial intelligence network, Sensei, in an effort to improve the effectiveness of Auto tone. Here’s how it works in practice.

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How to Use Lightroom’s White Balance Sliders

Lightroom’s white balance tools help reduce color casts. They can be used to neutralized any casts or break the rules and create an entirely new look.

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How to Convert RAW to JPG in Lightroom Classic

Trying to figure out how to convert RAW files to JPEG in Lightroom Classic? Here’s how to do it.

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How to Install Aurora HDR 2019 as a Lightroom Plugin

Aurora HDR 2019 can be used as a standalone app, but it can also be used as a plugin for Lightroom. Here’s a quick guide on how to install and use Aurora HDR 2019 as a Lightroom plugin.

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Lightroom Classic’s New Ability to Use Embedded Previews

One of the new features in Lightroom Classic is that you can use the embedded previews more effectively to speed up importing and culling.

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How to Emulate Instagram’s Filters in Lightroom

If you’re trying to get that Instagram filter look in Lightroom, here’s a set of premium Lightroom develop presets that mimic Instagram’s filters.

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How to Make Image Stack Icons Visible Again

If you can’t see the stack icons on the thumbnails in the grid view, here’s how to make sure that the option to display them is turned on.

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How to Change a Stack’s Cover Thumbnail

Here’s how to change the image that’s used as the cover image for an image stack.

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How to Filter Virtual Copies or Master Files

Lightroom has a quick way to separate out the virtual copies from the master versions. Here’s how to do it in the Library module.

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How to Post to Instagram Directly from Lightroom

There are several different ways to post to Instagram from a desktop or laptop. Here’s an option for posting to Instagram from Lightroom directly.

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Using JPEGmini Pro to Make Files Smaller when Exporting from Lightroom

JPEGmini Pro offers a way to make filesizes impressively smaller when you export JPGs from Lightroom or use with a publish service.

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How to Export Photos While Maintaining Folder Structure

If you’re looking to export multiple images organized into folders while preserving the folder structure, there’s a plugin that can add that capability to Lightroom.

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Revealing Clipped Highlights and Shadows

Lightroom has a very useful feature that shows you precisely the parts of an image where highlights or shadows are getting clipped as you adjust the settings.

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How to Export Square Photos from Lightroom

Here’s a method for exporting square photos from Lightroom without having to create virtual copies or use the crop tool.

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How to Make a Contact Sheet in Lightroom

Contact sheets are a throwback to film days, but they still have their uses. Here’s a guide on how to make a contact sheet in Lightroom.

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How to Correct Lens Vignetting in Lightroom

Vignetting is a common issue with many lenses, especially at wide apertures. Lightroom has two methods to tackle correcting or reducing it.

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How to Install Lightroom Presets

There are two methods to installing Lightroom develop presets. One is better suited to bundles of multiple presets, while the other is better for individual presets.

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Turning Off the Lights

The ability to dim the lights in Lightroom is a handy little tool for distraction-free viewing, sorting, and editing of your photos.

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Adding a Grid Overlay to the Loupe View

The grid loupe overlay is pretty self-explanatory and simple to use, but you do have some control over its appearance.

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I’m a professional travel & location photographer based in Washington DC and traveling all over. Seven continents. Dozens of countries. Up mountains. Under water. And a bunch of places in between. You can find my main site at havecamerawilltravel.com. Or check out what’s in my go-to travel photography kit. Or get in touch here.

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