Hello, hey, this video we'll talk about what Lightroom is, who it's for...

and how it compares to things like...

Bridge, and Camera Raw, and Photoshop, Lightroom Classic...

if any of those sound interesting as a topic...

you're completely new to this world...

then continue on...

if you are like, "I know all that, just get on with the course"...

that's okay, you can move on with the course...

I won't be offended if you skip along.

First up, let's talk about what Lightroom is...

so let's start actually with who it's for, it's for photographers...

beginning photography, super experienced photographers...

they all use the same product...

so that's what Lightroom is designed for...

and what does it do? It organizes photographs and edits them...

and then exports them, ready for either print, or sending to your client...

so that's who it's for, and what it does.

All right, first let's compare Photoshop with Lightroom...

they do-- there's a lot of overlap...

and in this course we'll do a bit of round tripping...

where we go from Lightroom to Photoshop, to Lightroom...

so it is handy to know both, you don't need to...

the differences mainly are, the things that they do the same...

they do basic retouching, the same...

you know, fixing exposures, and your highlights, and colors...

and doing all that sort of stuff can be done in either.

You can work with raw images in both...

because Photoshop has Camera Raw built in...

so that's, that's where they overlap...

where they're different, is Lightroom is a lot better at organizing...

if you've ever opened stuff in Photoshop...

and you're like, "I got to open my photo shoot that I did today...

and I took a thousand photographs"...

open in Photoshop, Photoshop melts...

it wants to open a couple of photographs at a time...

and it's designed to do that, and it has no way...

of organizing any of your photographs.

So you've shot them all, and they all say DSC14742...

Photoshop's not going to really help with that, in bulk...

so you need to open every individual image, do the edits and save them...

and as a, say a Graphic Designer or a Web Designer...

Photoshop's great, because you're only dealing with like the cream of the crop...

the things the photographers finish with, or stock photography...

so you just use Photoshop...

but as a photographer you've got a thousand photographs...

and what you might find is, you adjust one of them...

and let's apply all the settings to all of the photographs...

can we do that in Photoshop? No way...

can you do it, you kind of can, you can do actions and weird stuff...

and you can force Photoshop to do some of these things...

but Lightroom just copy and paste all the settings...

that I've made these adjustments for...

on these thousand photographs, it goes, "Okie dokie"...

so that's where it's really beneficial using something like Lightroom.

So great for organizing, naming, and applying to bulk edits...

great for retouching, where Photoshop is better...

is when you get into things like masking...

you can do some basic masking in Lightroom, that allows us--

we'll do it in the course...

we can mask different areas to do adjustments...

but say you want to clear cut somebody out, you want to cut me out of here...

and put me onto a different background, and then, I don't know...

graft and alien's head on top...

compositions and montages, and collages...

that's Photoshop's land.

So often, as a photographer, you're not going to be making...

every photograph into clear-cut alien head Dan...

so it's a special kind of things, or special effects...

that's where Photoshop is really great, and I'll show you that...

we'll show you how to-- it's intended that...

a lot of the licenses for buying Illustrator...

sorry, Illustrator, that's completely different program...

a lot of the licenses that you use to buy Lightroom...

will actually combine Photoshop as well as a kind of package deal...

because there are just some things that Photoshop are good for, clear cutting...

adding text, and all that sort of stuff is Photoshop's throb...

and Lightroom is the, doing great edits, getting everything looking great...

doing it for lots of them, organizing your photographs.

So yeah, there's a place for Photoshop, and it's not an and/or...

if you're a Graphic Designer you often just use Photoshop...

if you're a Lightroom, you know, if you're a photographer...

you'll just use Lightroom...

but if you're doing a bit of both, like me...

I end up going between the two all of the time...

let's talk about the two versions of Lightroom...

why do they have two versions of Lightroom? I do not know...

but they do, that, I do know...

so there's Lightroom, which we're doing in this course...

let's call it, they actually call it, I think, Photoshop Lightroom...

even though-- I think they just threw Photoshop on there to give it a bit of...

like, brand recognition, but we just refer to it as Lightroom...

then there's Lightroom Classic, which is not the, like it's the old version...

but it's still being supported, if you know what I mean...

it's not like an ancient one that nobody looks at anymore...

they just split it, they fork the program, and said...

we want to do all this new stuff...

and Lightroom Classic has become so full of amazing amounts of detail...

and adjustments, but it's been built up so long over so much time...

that they didn't want to say...

"Hey, existing photography world, we're going to cut it down...

because half of this stuff nobody uses"...

probably, you know, only 1/8th of it actually gets used...

and the rest of it is, is in there, and a couple of people use...

but we don't want to, like forget those people, so here you go.

We're going to keep supporting Classic...

we're going to call it Classic, and we're going to keep supporting it...

so you've got all of the switches and dials...

and what they did was is...

okay, let's remake this program to something a lot more usable...

for the the person who, like...

in Classic there is a hundred ways of doing the same thing...

whereas Lightroom, there's two...

so they kind of just went...

"All right, there's new technology, this is what most people use...

this is up to date, we're going to support that in Lightroom"...

and it just makes it easier for somebody like me...

who doesn't want to get into the super granular detail...

or at least just once, one or two ways to get into the super granular detail...

it's not a cut down version, they just give you--

they've just kind of removed some of the complexity...

if you open Classic or Camera Raw, it's a little bit like, whoa...

like, it's heavy going, like I'm pretty experienced and even then I'm like...

"I don't know what all this does, I'm freaking out"...

whereas Lightroom, I open it up, I'm like, "Ah" ...

like you can get a handle on everything...

be able to do everything, so that's, that's why there's two versions...

they supported the industry, they didn't want to alienate them...

and continue Classic...

but Lightroom, the one we're going to do in this course is the...

is the one where, it's using a few more...

it's got all the good stuff that you need for kind of traditional photography...

they're introducing a kind of bunch of AI...

and some other cool stuff that we'll do in the course...

which is pretty exciting for me.

Let's have a quick little look at...

some of the things that get people confused about Classic versus Lightroom...

so let me quickly jump on the screens, over here, clearly, I'm pointing.

So these are the two different bits of software here, compared on the Adobe site...

I feel like it's just really interesting to know what both of them do...

so you can make informed decisions...

there's a lot of stuff online with like...

"Oh, you have to use Classic," or "You've got to use this one here"...

you can use either...

neither tool will make you a better photographer...

neither will the camera or the lens...

it's about experience, and like, there's way--

I prefer Lightroom but there are way better photographers...

with way better shots that work in Classic, than me.

So it's not really down to the tools...

but let's cover what the differences are between these two...

so the main difference for me is these...

down at Ease of use, Most comprehensive, and Intuitive, and Streamlined...

so you're not missing out on anything in Lightroom...

there's just like one or two ways of doing stuff...

rather than the 10 or 20 ways of doing stuff in here.

So there's just stuff that people prefer to use...

and they'll stay with Classic, because they have work flows...

that work better in Classic, or they don't particularly want to use...

the cut down version in Lightroom, and cut down is the wrong word...

just, they've chosen the best options, you get what I mean.

So let's have a look at here, some of these, like...

Desktop only is the classic, kind of like a traditional way of photo editing...

you save everything on your hard drive...

this one here has the same desktop version...

that's what we're going to focus on in this course...

but there's also a Mobile and Web version...

you can access and organize your photographs, do editing...

these are a little bit more cut down than the desktop version...

there's only so much you can do on your mobile phone and through a website...

but they're updating those all the time.

We're going to focus on this course, mainly on Desktop...

we'll jump into Mobile and Web towards the end...

but we're going to focus on this, so, there they're pretty comparable...

this one here, where are the originals?

This one sometimes gets a little bit freaked out...

is that this one here is on your hard drive, like, you know and love...

and you've got a big storage drive, and you've got them there...

and you own them, and they're all sitting there...

this one here says Cloud, what, first put me off...

it's like, I don't want them all in the Cloud...

I don't want them on my hard drive as well...

you can do that, there's an option here that I'll show you, to say...

and also on local hard drive, so you can have both, best of both worlds...

but the nice thing about having Cloud option here...

is that the files are backed up automatically to the Cloud...

you're given a chunk of storage through this version here...

and they'll just automatically get backed up...

whereas in this one here you'll probably still use backup...

for, you'll probably use Dropbox or Google Drive...

or OneDrive, or whatever you're using to do file backup...

just a little bit more manual, whereas this is just kind of all built in.

Ease of use, we've talked about...

this one here is a really cool feature, doesn't seem like much...

but Organizing and photo search...

this one here, you have to kind of start tagging things yourself...

with keywords, when it was done, whereas this one here has some...

I like to say AI machine learning together...

because I don't really know the difference...

Adobe calls it Adobe Sensei, which is pretty sweet...

but basically it does really cool things...

where they're leveraging some more of this AI/machine learning...

and to do things like image searches...

you might have done it on your phone before...

some of them starting to do them, some don't...

but I can do things like find pictures of Daniel Scott...

and it will go through all my images that I've shot, and just find me...

or it'll say, you can say, I want to find a red car, with a blue sky...

and it will go through and find red cars, but only if there's a blue sky...

or you put it in a location, even though they might not have been Geo tagged...

AI learning starts to do cool stuff...

about knowing what things are, and what they look like...

and that's getting better and better, and one of the cool perks for Lightroom.

Okay, Lightroom Classic, awesome, Lightroom, also awesome...

we're going to be focusing on Lightroom in this course...

a lot of things will translate back and forth...

so if you do learn Lightroom...

Lightroom classic won't be a particularly hard challenge to get into...

but neither will make you a better photographer...

practice, experience, those things will...

and that's what we're going to do in this course...

practice, get some experience, get better, all right, next one.

So let's talk about the difference between...

Adobe Lightroom, and Adobe Bridge, and Camera Raw as a combo...

so a lot of people will use those too as a photographer instead of Lightroom...

basically Camera Raw will take your raw photographs and do your editing...

and Bridge does the organization...

whereas Lightroom does those two things together...

there's no reason why you can't use Camera Raw and Bridge together...

there's nothing wrong with it, loads of people do...

but Lightroom isn't all in one...

and if you're new, especially, Camera Raw, can be quite daunting...

like, you know, like Classic is, Lightroom Classic...

there's a lot of ways of doing stuff...

it gets into, there's a lot of options to do the same thing...

whereas Lightroom, they've cut it down a bit.

You can still do all the same stuff, you just don't have...

so many dials and so many different switches to go and do, to get to the...

you know, get to the result that you want...

and Bridge is great for organizing stuff...

but it's kind of designed for not just photographers, but videographers...

and all sorts of other use cases for Bridge.

So it does a-- there's again a lot of depth to that program...

for organizing stuff, and it does great things...

but Lightroom is geared for photographers...

and does some of the kind of Camera Raw photography stuff...

a lot faster than Bridge does...

in some cases, on some computers.

So there'll be people out there waving their hands at me, "No, it doesn't"...

but yeah, Lightroom is...

especially the Lightroom version is really good at organizing...

and kind of doing bulk edits...

whereas Camera Raw and Bridge together...

can add a little bit of extra complexity...

so if you're new, yeah, do Lightroom, because it combines the two...

if you know somebody doing Camera Raw plus Bridge, works perfect...

just a little bit more extra work, potentially...

those are those ones, yeah, Camera Raw, Bridge, versus Lightroom.