StretchLearn Course

Edit Faster. Deliver Better. Master Lightroom from Catalog to Export.

Build a repeatable, professional Lightroom workflow — catalog management, color grading presets, batch editing, and polished client delivery.

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Beginner9 hrSelf PacedRegistered

Course Overview

What this course is designed to develop

This course teaches beginners how to think like a working photographer inside Lightroom — not just which sliders to move, but why and in what order. You will build a catalog structure from scratch, develop a personal editing style through presets, master batch processing for high-volume shoots, and set up export presets for every delivery scenario. Every lesson uses real-world examples drawn from portrait, landscape, and commercial photography contexts.

Learning Outcomes

What the learner should be able to understand, build, or execute.

Build a Lightroom catalog with folder hierarchies, smart collections, and keyword taxonomy that scales to 100 000+ images

Apply the Lightroom editing order (exposure → white balance → tone curve → HSL → detail → lens corrections) consistently across shoot types

Create, package, and sell custom development presets that encode a personal or brand-consistent aesthetic

Batch-edit 500-image shoots using sync settings, auto-sync, and copy-paste develop settings in under 30 minutes

Configure named export presets for web delivery (sRGB 2048 px, 85 quality), print (Adobe RGB, 300 dpi), and client proofing

Use Lightroom's output modules — slideshows, print layouts, and web galleries — to deliver polished client packages

Curriculum Preview

Inside the curriculum: a structured path from fundamentals to execution.

Preview the course structure, see how the modules build on one another, and understand the path this program is designed to take you through.

Module 1

Module 1: Catalog Architecture & Import Fundamentals

Design a Lightroom catalog structure that handles years of shooting without slowing down. Learn folder hierarchies, import settings, smart collections, and keyword strategy from day one.

3 lessons

Catalog Setup: Folders, Backups, and the One-Catalog ApproachContent · 45 min

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Import Workflow: Tethered, Card, and Folder WatchContent · 45 min

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Keywords, Smart Collections, and Finding Any Image in SecondsContent · 45 min

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Module 2

Module 2: Raw Editing Fundamentals: The Lightroom Develop Sequence

Learn the correct editing order inside the Develop module — from exposure and white balance through tone curves, HSL, and sharpening — and understand why each adjustment builds on the last.

3 lessons

Exposure, White Balance, and the Tone PanelContent · 45 min

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Tone Curves, HSL, and Targeted Color EditingContent · 45 min

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Detail Panel: Sharpening and Noise ReductionContent · 45 min

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Module 3

Module 3: Presets: Building, Organizing, and Selling Your Signature Look

Create development presets that encode your editing style, organize them into a distributable pack, and understand the commercial preset market well enough to launch your own.

3 lessons

Creating Presets That Actually Work Across Different Lighting ConditionsContent · 45 min

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Organizing and Packaging Presets for DistributionContent · 45 min

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Preset Stacking, Auto-Apply, and the Adaptive Presets FeatureContent · 45 min

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Module 4

Module 4: Batch Editing and Export Pipelines

Scale your editing workflow to handle 500+ image shoots efficiently using sync settings, batch export presets, and automated delivery pipelines that reduce turnaround time from days to hours.

3 lessons

Sync Settings, Auto-Sync, and Copy-Paste Editing at ScaleContent · 45 min

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Export Presets: Web, Print, and Client Delivery PipelinesContent · 45 min

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Lightroom Output Modules: Slideshows, Print Layouts, and Web GalleriesContent · 45 min

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Built for Application

A complete learning path, not a one-off inspiration hit.

This program is designed around progression: focused lessons, structured modules, applied resources, assessments, and a course rhythm that turns information into usable capability.

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