

(See my guide to Lightroom Classic vs Lightroom for more). Note that this article covers Lightroom Classic rather than the cloud-based “Lightroom / Lightroom CC” that is a newer, less comprehensive software.

In this comprehensive guide, I will go over the process of using Lightroom Classic for beginners, from start to finish, including tips on the topics that tend to confuse people the most. Clearly, it is an important topic to learn, whether you are just starting out or you are an advanced photographer.

On Photography Life alone, we already have more than 100 articles about Lightroom - the equivalent of several books - and other websites have countless more. At the simplest level, though, Lightroom was created to help you do just three main things: sort your photos, post-process them, and export them. Adobe Lightroom is a behemoth of photography software with enough functions and processes to make any photographer crazy.
