Learn The Basics of Adobe Lightroom Classic | A Mango Street Tutorial

David J. Crewe

The popular YouTube channel ran by Mango Street recently released a free video thatโ€™s a crash course on Adobe Lightroom. This masterclass will quickly train you in the basics of Lightroom in less than 30 minutes (itโ€™s 28 minutes and 49 seconds, to be precise).

โ€œWe cover everything a new user needs to know to get up and running with Lightroom so they can edit their photos with confidence. Weโ€™ll assume you have zero experience in Lightroom and weโ€™ll show you what you need to know in order to start editing the way you want.โ€

Adobe Lightroom is one of the most common and essential applications for photography, RAW processing, and image organizing. So getting up & running as quickly and efficiently as possible is an incredible head-start.

Hereโ€™s an index of the different sections & the timestamps at which theyโ€™re found:

  • 00:41: Getting Started
  • 03:06: Library Module
  • 04:58: Develop Module
  • 06:27: Histogram
  • 07:03: Tools
  • 10:58: Basic Adjustments
  • 14:02: Tone Curve
  • 15:41: HSL
  • 17:06: Split Toning
  • 18:04: Detail
  • 19:35: Lens Corrections
  • 21:42: Transform
  • 22:19: Effects
  • 22:46: Calibration
  • 23:43: Editing Faster
  • 25:27: Exporting

What do you think? Did you managed to learn something from the Mango Street team? Pick up a new tip you never knew about? Let us know in the comments below.

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