Adobe Lightroom Essentials Course (Udemy.com)
Adobe Lightroom Tutorial Essential Training Course by Daniel Walter Scott
Created by: Daniel Walter Scott
Last updated January 2025
What you will learn
- Best practices for white balance, temperature & color correction.
- Unlock the power of masking.
- You’ll cover all types of photography genres including Portrait, Landscape, Wedding, Night, Wildlife, Automotive, Event, Architectural, Drone, Travel, Product F
- You’ll know how to color grade like a professional, simple grades and then moving into distinctive powerful color grades to make your images really pop.
- You’ll retouch images, making skin smoother, eyes & teeth whiter. Make hair, eyes and lips standout in portraits.
- Learn how to remove parts of an image.
- Learn how to color grade videos.
- You’ll even learn when and how it might be appropriate to jump out to Adobe Photoshop.
- Do you have noisy, grainy images? After this course, you’ll know what tools and techniques to use to remove it.
- Learn how to add the noise, grunge & grain back in for a powerful visual statement.
Quality Score
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Overall Score : 94 / 100
Course Description
Hi! My name is Dan Scott and together you and I are going to take your photographs and transform them into beautiful dynamic images using Adobe Lightroom CC.
I am an Adobe Certified Instructor and I've been working as a creative professional and photo retoucher for over 16 years. I enjoy combining creative work with teaching.
I've won many Adobe teaching awards and recently reached a huge milestone....I have now had over a million people worldwide who have studied using my online courses like this one!
What’s in the course?
You will learn 'best practice' for:
• White balance
• Temperature and color correction
• Masking
We will cover all types of photography:
• Portrait
• Wedding
• Landscape
• Wildlife
• Automotive
• Event
• Architectural
• Drone
• Travel
• Product
• Food
You will learn to color grade like a professional, making simple and powerful color grades which will make your images pop!
You will learn how to:
• Soften and smooth skin texture
• Highlight eyes and whiten teeth
• Enhance hair and make eyes and lips really stand out in a portrait
• Remove unwanted elements from a photograph
• Color grade videos
• Reduce noise and graininess from photos
The same great tools you will have worked with for photographs will also work with video clips.
You will learn how and why to switch between Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom to achieve optimal results.
One of the most exciting features is learning about presets which will speed and enhance your workflow.
Lightroom is a powerful tool for organising, sorting, color grading and backing up your images.
Who will benefit from this course?
This course is aimed at people who are brand new to image editing and photography in general.
We start right from scratch and work through topics step by step. It doesn't matter whether you are using an expensive 'state of the art' digital SLR camera or a very basic mobile phone - Lightroom will work well for both!
During the course, we will be working with Adobe Lightroom CC, not the older version known as Lightroom Classic. Many of the techniques we will learn will work with both versions of Lightroom software but our focus will be on Lightroom CC desktop.
I will be setting class projects throughout the course so that you can practice the skills you have learned. By working on these projects you will create stunning images to add to your personal portfolio or CV.
Whether you have never used Lightroom or you have opened it and struggled - follow this course with me and together we will take your images and transform them into beautiful, dynamic photographs by using Adobe Lightroom CC.
I'll see you in class!
Instructor Details
- 4.7 Rating
1,089 Reviews
Daniel Walter Scott
Sharing is who I am, and teaching is where I am at my best, because I've been on both sides of that equation, and getting to deliver useful training is my meaningful way to be a part of the creative community.
I've spent a long time watching others learn, and teach, to refine how I work with you to be efficient, useful and, most importantly, memorable. I want you to carry what I've shown you into a bright future.
I have a wife (a lovely Irish girl) and kids. I have lived and worked in many places (as Kiwis tend to do) – but most of my 14+ years of creating and teaching has had one overriding theme: bringing others along for the ride as we all try to change the world with our stories, our labours of love and our art.
I'm a certified Adobe instructor (ACI) in Ireland. I'm also an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) and have completed the Adobe Certified Associate training (ACA). And I don't just do Adobe. Remember, media is a very broad term – digital blew out the borders, so we are all constantly learning.
I've been teaching for 14+ years. I come from being a media designer and content creator – so I understand exactly where you're at now. I've been there. I love this stuff. Print, digital publishing, web and video. I can see how it all connects. And I can see how we can share those connections.
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Reviews
By Ana-Maria Dumitru on 9/3/2026
I was actually surprised at how engaging and nicely structured this course was. I recommend this course, especially because the instructor made it feel so easy. One other thing I appreciated is that every small bit had a project so you could actually do things yourself and experiment with Lightroom's features.
By Keith Miller on 8/6/2024
For me this is exactly what was needed. I had a little Photoshop experience from years ago but no Lightroom experience. As an amateur photographer I wanted to learn how to enhance some of my pictures, and to be honest this course exceeded my expectations. I have learned so much and have now signed up for the Photoshop essentials and Photoshop advanced courses.
By Sherilyn Miller on 4/30/2024
I loved how in-depth this course was. It helped me understand many tools in Lightroom that I did not understand before or even know existed. It has also helped me drastically improve my editing skills. I liked how the class projects gave me an opportunity to use what I had just learned. It was also very easy to follow along with Dan in Lightroom as he showed and explained things.
By Anonymized User on 3/26/2024
it was really good and learned new things and the way of speech which delivered a good vibe! Plus love your workspace and your dress code. Giving only 4 stars because there was no deep lessons about import/export for example what happens if the catalog is mismatched and how to rematch them. Other than that loved it! Your body language and way of speech made it/looks easy to learn even more. Thank you Dan.
By Kif G on 12/29/2023
This course was a quick overview on how to use Lightroom and not Lightroom classic. I think it's a good intro course to get you started. I was hoping it went into more detail on some of the features. I also thought it was a course for lightroom classic but I blame myself for not confirming first. Overall, a great starter course for those without any experience with lightroom. The videos were easy to follow. Helps to have a dual monitor setup when doing the course. I will purchase photoshop course when I have played around with lightroom a little bit more.
By Toshihiko S. Tani on 7/30/2023
The course is amazing. The instructor is well-detailed for every section and at the same time very entertaining while I'm learning. I highly recommended for people like me who love taking photography with some effects like color grading, retouching, etc. I already bought and Wishlist the other course from him. Great job Sir Daniel. I am looking forward for the Advanced Course in Adobe Lightroom CC.
By Lerise on 6/20/2023
Good overall beginners course for lightroom. I highly recommend. I could follow along easily and never felt out of depth.
By Nawaf Qassim on 1/30/2023
Here I am reaching the end of this course. I can highly say that it was a very fantastic, fun and mostly powerful course of Adobe Lightroom and what a professional instructor. he extremely knew what he is delivering through the sections and prepared very well. By now, I am starting Photoshop essential course with Mr. Scott for sure. see you there. THANK YOU!
By Jesse A on 1/2/2023
I was excited when I heard Adobe Dan was making a Lightroom course. I have already taken about ten of his other design courses and learned most of my graphic design skills from Dan (cool, huh?). He is funny and friendly, so it is easy to learn and pay attention. You don't get bored and distracted easy like other instructors. I highly recommend Dan for any design course you're looking in to. Thanks a lot Dan! Good on ya' mate!
By Ian Dyer on 12/31/2022
Awesome course. I have now done InDesign, Photoshop Essentials, Premier Pro Essentials and now Lightroom. Next in my list to do is After Effects. These courses have really helped my in my job, designing and creating a new training website for 1500+ employees and the skills I have learnt in these courses have taken the quality from mediocre to looking pretty darn cool - thanks Dan!!!!











