Learning Light Room: I’m new to the light room/photoshop world, and scared to death. Is there a training program for these programs? I’ve never used editing programs, but my plan is to...

stanperry Loc: Spring Hill, Florida

I’m new to the light room/photoshop world, and scared to death. Is there a training program for these programs? I’ve never used editing programs, but my plan is to add music to videos, and to edit my photos to get more professional products. What do you all suggest?

mizzee Loc: Boston,Ma

Scott Kelby has a couple of books that I’ve found very useful/helpful.

PixelStan77 Loc: Vermont/Chicago

stanperry wrote:

I’m new to the light room/photoshop world, and scared to death. Is there a training program for these programs? I’ve never used editing programs, but my plan is to add music to videos, and to edit my photos to get more professional products. What do you all suggest?

Welcome Stan. I found YouTube helpful as wells Adobe free Videos.

flyguy Loc: Las Cruces, New Mexico

Some very good free video tutorials by Julian Kost at Adobe can be found here:

http://www.jkost.com/lightroom.html

PhotoKurtz Loc: Carterville, IL

Look up www.CreativeLive.com - lots of training classes there. Many offered free each week.

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

Take courses, including online. They are organized with a plan, a goal, a beginning and an ending. Anything else is random learning and you'll go in circles.

If you agree, I'll make some suggestions.

If indeed you are interested in video, you'll need another piece of software. The one I use works well with Lightroom.

LA Loc: Little Rock, AR

Yes, LR can seem intimidating at first, but soon comfort happens. You just learn one thing at a time and it begins to make sense. I used Julienne Kost, very helpful at first. Kelby can be a little too much at first, but is excellent when you get a some experience. In addition to Kost, check out The Lightroom Queen (https://www.lightroomqueen.com/)...she has a good, free introductory e-book. Watch the video by Laura Shoe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-jxu7Vk5EA. It gives an excellent overview of what LR can do and is only 8 minutes. It won't teach you HOW to use LR but it will help a lot in understanding WHAT it does, which I found to be an important first step.

Shellback Loc: North of Cheyenne Bottoms Wetlands - Kansas

Welcome to the forum -
And since you asked

Here are some FREE resources - Intro - basics to advanced - The catalog (file handling) -
Offered in video and text options... Some are older versions, but the concept is the same and they still build a solid foundation to start with.

Into to LR - an excellent video that covers the package - it's almost 2 hrs long so be prepared for that.

How Lightroom works: Where it keeps your images and presets, and how to back up

LR Catalog FAQ

Loading Images Into Lightroom: Training Tutorial

LR4 - Video training package
Scroll down to the lessons - they are free - do not click on the buy link.
For File Handling - focus on "Lightroom Interface", "Import", "Sort", and "Organize"

Adobe Lightroom 5 - Training Videos by Anthony Morganti

Learn Lightroom- Adobe Video Tutorials

Tutorial Video - 10 Tips for Optimizing your photos with LR

Cleaning Up Your Mess in Lightroom

Info offered in textbook style...
Photo Editing in Lightroom 101

Training from Light Stalking - How to Get Better at Lightroom and Post Production

The Modules of Adobe Lightroom

A Killer Collection of Adobe LightRoom Tutorials

3 Lightroom Tweaks to Get Your Landscape Photographs to Sing

3 Easy Lightroom Adjustments to Add Drama to a Landscape

5 Simple Lightroom Tactics to Improve Almost Any Landscape Photograph

Create Perfect Portraits in Lightroom Using These 6 Classic Retouch Techniques

The Ultimate List of Keyboard Shortcuts for Lightroom with Free PDF file to download...

Hope this helps...

stanperry Loc: Spring Hill, Florida

All suggestions are appreciated!

stanperry Loc: Spring Hill, Florida

Wow! That's an awesome list! Thank you!

warrior Loc: Paso Robles CA

U-TUBE

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

stanperry wrote:

Wow! That's an awesome list! Thank you!

It is a generous list. But, for starting, you need to pick one source of organized teaching and learning. In other words a course!

Then take 20 photos and manage them in Lightroom. When ready, move on to more.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

stanperry wrote:

I’m new to the light room/photoshop world, and scared to death. Is there a training program for these programs? I’ve never used editing programs, but my plan is to add music to videos, and to edit my photos to get more professional products. What do you all suggest?

Adobe has very good short instructional videos at tv.adobe.com. There is also Victoria Brampton, The Lightroom Queen - and many others.

Basically, you go down the right column, moving the sliders to get the picture right. there are about a million other things you can learn about LR, but basic adjusting is the main use of the program.

juanderfulpics Loc: central jersey

Check out Anthony Morganti on you tube, complete tutorials and very easy to understand as he explains everything precisely. Free and divided into short tutorials in sequence. I guarantee you won't need anything else

pithydoug Loc: Catskill Mountains, NY

stanperry wrote:

I’m new to the light room/photoshop world, and scared to death. Is there a training program for these programs? I’ve never used editing programs, but my plan is to add music to videos, and to edit my photos to get more professional products. What do you all suggest?

There are lots of free sets of videos on youtube. Anthony morganti(mu favorite) Julianne Kost are just two. Find one and stick with them as they to develop a specific workflow. Not that one is better than another, but switching from one to another can be confusing as they have a building block effect. As for books, fine, but seeing the edit is a hell of lot better than reading about it.

As place to start: https://onlinephotographytraining.com/category/lightroom/mastering-lightroom-classic-cc/