This is the most comprehensive Adobe Lightroom course available in the UK - and aims to cover the use of Adobe Lightroom, which tools are most appropriate and the workflow guaranteed to produce the best possible results.

The Introduction to Adobe Lightroom course covers some of the following topics:

• File management - the importance of managing your files outside Lightroom

• Recommended settings - appropriate settings & preferences

• Import Module fully explained and demonstrated (How to import from a memory card and from hard drive folders)

• Navigation of the Libarary Module

• Keywording and Metadata explained & why this is key to organisation within Lightroom

• View Options - Grid, Compare & other Modes

• Rating/Selecting images to manipulate

• Collections & Smart Collections - How using these virtual folders can speed up your workflow

• Develop Module - Exposure tools explained and demonstrated together with tools for enhancing your image

• Detail - How to sharpen images correctly

• Lens Correction - How to use this preset to correct for vignette and other lens characteristics

• Presets & History Snapshot - how to create custom presets to speed up workflow

• Adjustments - How to use Crop, Clone, Grad & Adjustment Brush

• Skin Softening, Teeth Whitening & Auto Mask Facility - How these tools can best be used to enhance portraits

• Batch Processing - Fully explained how to edit multiple images

• Export Function - how to export manipulated images & convert images to JPEG or TIFF file formats

• Using Adobe Lightroom in conjunction with other manipulation programs using the Edit In function

Please note that computers are not available in our London store, the course will be presented on an Apple machine. You are welcome to bring your own laptop as there will be a practical element to this course where you will have chance to edit some images provided by your tutuor. Please ensure that Lightroom has been downloaded to your own laptop prior to the course.

Please note: some of our courses require a minimum number of participants to enable us to operate them. If the minimum number of bookings required for a particular course has not been received, we are entitled to cancel it. We will notify you of cancellation for this reason no later than 7 days before your course is due to take place. Most changes are minor.