We will look at big adjustments to the whole image and localised adjustments using more refined tools. These video Lightroom tutorials will help you get to grips with using Adobe Lightroom to process your images. Once you have some images in Lightroom you can then go on to edit them in the “Develop” module. We also look at various ways of tagging images to make them easier to find and explore the various ways of filtering images. In this video I show you how to take images from a memory card and add them to Lightroom. Once you have a catalogue you will be able to start bringing your images into Lightroom and editing them. You can create more than one catalogue, but it is often best to stick to one as it will then contain all of your images and make searching easier. Select the location and the name you want to give your catalogue. In Lightroom under the file men select “new catalog”. This is where Lightroom stores information about your images.

The first thing you need to do is create a Catalogue. If there is no audio when you start playing a video, please check to see if the speaker icon on the bottom left of the video window (next to the play/pause button) has an “x” next to it. You can achieve most types of editing without needing to go into Photoshop. Lightroom is powerful software and is often all that photographers need to process their images. You will learn how to import images, tag them and then edit your photos using various tools.

This series of free videos will get you started with the basic functions of Lightroom.

Lightroom tutorials for beginners