Lightroom (Classic) Tutorial for Beginners

Congratulations! By far... the best Lightroom tutorial for beginners I've seen so far. I've been using Lightroom for a long time and I love to watch how people try to explain "how easy" it is to use lightroom, and no one does really. 🤣🤣🤣 You simply nailed it. Great job. For sure I'll be watching more of your videos and will share them with my friends. I'm sure I'll learn a lot from those. Huge thanks. 👌👌👌

Yay! Finally a video on Lightroom Catalogs that is understandable and easy to follow! Thank you so much, it is very enjoyable to listen to your explanations. Greetings from Germany

Just bought a Nikon Z7ii and took some photos. Excited how to use Adobe LRC. Your explanation is so well done, thank you for making it so easy and clear. This is fun!

Why not just load your images to the hard drive? That way I don’t have to plug in an external drive to access them, and I can still back them up to the cloud or an external drive.

not useful at all....he spends 10min about loading images only........very poor video

Hi Terry, Your Lightroom Tutorials are just what I was looking for. I can see from the playlist when each video was made, ie., 3 months ago, 5 months ago, etc. Can use oldest to newest as a logical sequence to view the entire playlist? I currently know nothing about Lightroom but have just started to shot in Raw so this is the next step for me.

If it's a tutorial there's literally no reason to cut from your face to screen to face to screen over and over again

Eh. All the failed photos will be in the backup this way? Waste of space?

FRIST CATALOG! 🤣hahah (It is what it is - you said) ...Great video! Thanks for sharing Terry! 😁

Terry, I just wanted to say thank you for posting this video. I was looking for some video editing software. A good friend suggest LR then I ran across LRC. I really enjoyed watching you tutorial. I think I will be able to use this software.The other tutorials seem to work fast and not taking the time to explain the process. Thanks once again

Hi Terry, is this just for LightRoom Classic?

great explanation!

Love it except two issues: 1) the drive, which I purchased, has gotten terrible reviews, especially complaints about total erasure of your data!, 2) is there any reason to use LR to store videos? Thank you for your work.

Hi Terry, I’m grateful for the tutorial. Like many of your listeners I’ve been stumbling through it for the last two years. As a result I’ve created a mess. Because I’ve been taking care of my wife who has several medical issues I’ve not been a consistent user. I now have the time to devote to it. I have a question , “how do I erase everything and start all over?” I want to remove catalogues , folders etc.. I also want to clarify something, your photos do not reside in LRC they are in your sanzdisk drive. As long as it is attacked LRC will locate them. Unplug it and they don’t exist? Thanks for your help, Carmelo

Yes! I have ADHD and need visual examples along with direct explanations that don’t include a lot of sidetracking and personal opinions. This is it! Thank you!👏👏👏

You spelt FIRST WRONG

fantastic absolutely spot-on, I watched a couple of the others one and they go way too fast, the time in of your one is absolutely perfect, thank you so much I should now be looking through some more of your videos to try and learn some more . 👍👍

Let's not sell ourselves short. Both of these are fun! What about the rest of it? What about going out and finding clients who are going to pay for these pictures? How about a tutorial on that, and on the marketing of our products?

Excellent tutorial, by far the best! Thank You.

Thanks for sharing. I'm a beginner in Lightroom. This is my Frist sorry I meant my first decent video for enhancing great photos.
Looking forward to seeing your next session. cheers mate

I like your backup as you go, but what if you did not start that process. 50k images , is a clone software better now?

This was my first tutorial video I watched for learning Lightroom Classic. Thank you for the great presentation!

Hi Terry, great tutorial. I am a total beginner and have a question regarding the backup drive. If I import to my primary drive with a copy to a secondary drive I will have as noted, a second copy of my raw files. My concern is that down the road, and 100,000 pictures later, my primary drive crashes. In this case, I will have the raw files, but not the catalogs with the edits. It seems daunting to reedit dozens if not hundreds of photos. Would it be a better process to import only to the primary drive, then make a copy of the primary drive (photos & catalogs) onto my backup drive after each editing session? Thanks much

I'm a total newbie with LR Classic and photo editing in general, always shot JPEG and never edited. Finally shooting RAW and had no idea how to even start with LrC. This video was significantly helpful... Thank You!

Great Series, Terry ! Like yourself, I too am a nature photographer, unlike yourself - I am still a novice, but, just back from Tetons (NPS) - and have, with shaky results, used a monopod. Traveling a lot, which tripod do you use, or recommend (still and video applications? Thanks.

Thanks for your help, I do have one question. First time after I created a catalog I had ADD checked Not Copy , I wanted to move all photos to same new drive as catalog, when I went back to do it again they are all grayed out, I know now I only saved the thumbnails. So when I move to another computer images are not there. I guess I could start all over but seems to me there should be a way to copy. Hope I am making sense. Thanks in advance

hi, I'm a pro too and when Apple dumped Aperture I came over to LRC. Of course I didn't RTFM and set up Folders not catalogs. I see that Catalogs probably would have been better. Do you think it's worth importing into catalogs from here on? I'd deal with the confusion of what's where? Thanks!

Thanks for creating this intro. I have the master collection and Ive never used Light room but have seen I need to.

Perfect tutorial for beginners!

Hello Terry, Thank you for the great tutorial! Soccer momtorgapher is here.I have just downloaded the trial version of the LIghtroom and have chosen your channel to guide me through this new journey as I like the fact the you start from the basic workflow . I had hard time trying to identify the ultimate workflow in the postprocessing step and I hope I can imprvove it now. Thanks again.

I'm still confused on what a catalog and a collection is. I'm trying to learn so I can use some AI apps to speed up the retouching/editing process. plz help!

Bonne explication, merci beacoup

Stumbled across your channel, just in time to fill in some cracks in my on-the-fly start-up in Lightroom! Thank you! I started with your two Masking tutorials and now working from the beginning of your series. Thank you for your concise and very helpful tips and pointers!!!!

Thanks Terry, I will wait for your next Lightroom videos.

I'm so happy I found you! You are an excellent teacher! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and making learning so much nicer!

Great instructional video for the beginner (or like me the guy who doesn’t like reading LRC “How to”) I jumped into LRC without reading and was struggling with cataloging and finding my photos, your video is great in explaining how to down load your pics into a folder…will follow you for more instructional videos..thx Terry..

Very helpful, thank you!

Hi Terry, I finally decided to try and learn LRC however, I have tried to mess around and have photos and catalogs I don't want. Can you tell me if there is a way to reset LRC as if I was starting from the beginning and opening for the first time?

Why LR is not longer switching to PS when I open a file? Is there any setting for this?
Thank you in advance :)

Really informative video and well explained, thank you.

Hi Terry, Thank you so much for presenting one of the best tutorials I've watched since starting photography 3 years ago. I am going to purchase LrC after watching your presentation. There is so much to learn, and I always look forward to your U-Tube presentations.

I have been very shy about trying Lightroom, thank you so much!

Hi Terry , for your photography editing , do you only us Adobe Lightroom Classic or do you use any other lightroom series ?

how would one move the Catalog to the location where the photos are? I accidentally saved them in separate folders...

Excellent, steadily paced, very clear and informative. Highly recommended. Thank you Terry.

I don't know the max number of images allowed in a single LRc catalog but I DO know it's well over 1/4 MILLION.
An Adobe guru has 260000 PLUS images in ONE catalog.

Excellent, thank you. I have the latest version and the Enlage slider, for previewing images the grid mode has hidden itself end I cant find it.. Any help would be appreciated

question for you, first great video. Curious when you first load your photos to your portable drive you copy instead of converting them to DNG? Why not convert them to DNG? Thank you ahead of time.

Best video for me I will be watching more. Thanks

hi terry , i mistakenly removed catalog section on the left side , so i can't see how many pictures i have in a catalog how do i undo it lol