Latest video

This tutorial shows how to correct perspective issues using the Transform panel. It looks at using the automatic Upright options and manually adjusting the perspective using the sliders.

The Lightroom Catalog

In this tutorial we look at where the Lightroom catalog is created by default, how you can create new catalogs and how you can move a catalog.

What is the Lightroom catalog?

In this second tutorial we look at the three main things the Lightroom catalog stores, where images are, the edits made to them and metadata such as keywords and ratings.

Importing

In this tutorial we look at demystifying the Lightroom Import options.

Asset Management -Flags, ratings and colour labels

In this tutorial we start looking at ways of managing your images using flags, ratings, and colour labels. We look at how your can use the Attribute toolbar option to search your catalog using these basic tags.

Asset Management - Keywords

This tutorial continues to look at asset management using Lightroom's ability to define keywords and how we can structure keywords to aid searching for that all important correct image.

Asset Management - Metadata

In this tutorial we look at the final filter option Metadata which enables us to search our catalog using predefined metadata from out camera such as shutter speed and aperture through to GPS data and manually entered metadata.

Asset Management -Collections

In this tutorial we look at using collections to create groups of related images whilst keeping them in their original folder locations. We look at manually created collections as well as smart rule based collections and creating collection sets to organise our collections.

Asset Management -Using Stacks

In this short tutorial we take a look at how to use stacks to keep your catalog folders tidy.

Develop Module - The Basic Panel

In this tutorial we start to look at editing our images in the Develop module paying particular attention to the Basic panel adjustments for exposure, tone control, and colour.

Develop Module - The Tone Curve

In this tutorial we look at how to use the tone curve to do localised tonal adjustments over and above what we can do in the basic panel using the exposure, contrast, and tone sliders. We also look at how the tone curve can be used to do colour grading.

Apologies for the loud intro - I forgot to alter the playback volume of the clip!

Develop Module - HSL/Color Panel

In this tutorial we look at using the HSL/Color Panel to change the hue, saturation and luminance of different colours in our image.

Color Grading

This tutorial looks at using the Color Grading panel to change the hue, saturation and luminance of tonal ranges in an image such as shadows and highlights.

The Detail Panel

In this tutorial we take a look at sharpening and noise reduction using the Detail panel

Lens Corrections

This tutorial looks at fixing chromatic aberration, distortion and vignetting using the Lens Corrections panel in Lightroom.

Transform

This tutorial shows how to correct perspective issues using the Transform panel. It looks at using the automatic Upright options and manually adjusting the perspective using the sliders.