The catalog is the foundation of your Lightroom Classic experience. But a lot of Lightroom users are confused about how they work. As a result, they don't really control how Lightroom organizes their images. We will explore the essentials here.

Here's the thing about Lightroom Classic everyone misses: it's an organizational software. There are tools and strategies to help you manage your images. Here's how to do it.

Adobe designs Lightroom with the assumption that you will interact with your images using collections, smart collections, and collection sets. Let's make sure we understand these tools. Then we will explore how to search your collections to find exactly the image you're looking for.

In this class we will explore navigating and using the Library Module.

In this class we will go through the develop module and explore all the essential editing tools. Buckle in, we have a lot to cover.

In Lightroom you can crop and rotate image; you can remove objects and blemishes; and you can merge images into HDR or panorama pictures.

Masking allows you to target one part of the frame with an edit and not other parts. This is where your editing skills dramatically improve.

Once you're ready to do something with your image you need a variant. That means you need to master the export dialog box.