Adobe Lightroom is an amazing tool to speed up your workflow and help you import, organize, edit and export photos efficiently. In Lightroom you can perform many quick non-destructive edits from one window, and add the same list of edits to a whole group with one click! When you seamlessly export an entire folder of images from Lightroom you can resize, add a watermark (you will not add a watermark for this assignment), custom file name, and copyright metadata all with one function. It will save you hours every time you process a shoot.  Photoshop is important for fine-tuning your very best images, but Lightroom allows for a fast editing, exporting, and organizing experience for the bulk quantity of your work.

Instructions

  1. Download this ZIP folder.
  2. Unzip the file you downloaded.
  3. Navigate to the “WORKING FILES” folder. These images are the images you will edit using Adobe Lightroom. In the Adobe cloud be sure to download the Lightroom Classic CC version (it is the 2nd Lightroom option)
  4. IMPORTING: Watch this video on Balance the Light to learn how to Import your images to Lightroom. Then, import the three images from the “WORKING FILES” folder to Lightroom.
  5. EDITING: Open the “INSTRUCTIONS” folder and follow the instructions on how to edit each of the three images. You can reference the “SAMPLES” folder to see what the results should look like. You don’t need to match exactly like the examples, but they should look relatively similar.
  6. [OPTIONAL but recommended] Watch the videos on how to edit portraits in Adobe Lightroom from Balance the Light. They are only 3-4 minutes long each. These videos will show you how to color grade your portraits as well as doing some more advanced things in Adobe Lightroom. Here’re the links: PART 1: Basic Edit, PART 2: Adjustment Brush, PART 3: Healing/Graduated Filter, and PART 4: Color Grading.
  7. EXPORTING: Watch this video to learn how to export your images in Adobe Lightroom. Then, export the three images you edited with these requirements:
    1. Rename your images to “YourFirstname-YourLastname-lightroom-activity-1”, “YourFirstname-YourLastname-lightroom-activity-2” and “YourFirstname-YourLastname-lightroom-activity-3”.
    2. Resize your images to 1080px on the short side.
    3. Do not add your watermark. For images that you take for future assignments, we recommend that you have a watermark.
  8. SUBMISSION: Submit all three JPEG images to I-Learn Canvas.

Additional Learning

What Type of Photographer Are you?

Watch the first 4 videos: Getting Started with Adobe Lightroom – Well worth the 1 – 1/2 hours!

Lightroom Editing Video: Julianne Kost (Creating Stunning Images)