Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is an all-in-one photo management, photo editing, and photo sharing tool. In this course, Mikkel Aaland, professional photographer and one of earliest Lightroom beta testers, will show you how to manage your workflow to get in, get out, and get back to shooting as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Whether you’re completely new to Lightroom or have been using it from the start, this course from author and digital imaging expert Tim Grey will help you get up to speed quickly with Lightroom 4. You’ll get a complete overview of the Lightroom interface and workflow and learn how to set up Lightroom to best suit your needs. You’ll also learn the basics of importing, managing, optimizing, and sharing your images. Along the way you’ll learn to use features like auto-advance, Smart Collections, the Library Filter, the Map module, and more.

Photoshop Elements 10 provides some powerful tools in a way that makes them accessible to the casual, hobbyist, or aspiring photographer. It can help you do everything from managing and organizing your photos, to optimizing your images and making basic adjustments, to sharing your final results and making great prints. In this introduction to Photoshop Elements, Chad Chelius walks you through the new features introduced in Photoshop Elements 10, including tools to improve searching for photos and dealing with duplicates and new effects like Depth of Field and the Orton effect.

Getting good landscape shots requires a special set of skills, both technical and creative. In this Learn by Video course, published in partnership with Peachpit Press, renowned landscape photographer Phil Hawkins shares his extensive knowledge of the subject. You’ll work along with Phil as he decides on the best equipment, settings, and compositions for a series of photographic projects in the Sangre De Cristo range of the Southern Colorado Mountains. Then you’ll see how he handles post-processing in Adobe Camera Raw, Photoshop, and Photomatix — applying global adjustments, manually balance the dynamic range, creating high dynamic range images, performing black-and-white conversions, and more. You’ll also get helpful tips for preparing your images to be shared either through prints or on the web.

Layer masks are one of the most powerful features of Photoshop, enabling you to create seamless composite images and apply targeted adjustments and creative effects to any part of your image. In this Learn by Video workshop published in partnership with Peachpit Press, digital imaging expert Tim Grey begins by explaining the basic concepts of layer masking and how to create layer masks using Photoshop’s automated features. Then he teaches you how to use layer masks to create composite images and make targeted adjustments. You’ll also learn advanced techniques like mask cleanup and working with multiple masks. And finally, you’ll apply your newly acquired skills to projects that pull together everything you’ve learned.

Taking pictures is easy; you just click the shutter and before you know it you have 10, 100, 1000 shots. Managing all those images is a different story. In this workshop, Adobe Certified Instructor Russell Viers shares his techniques for sorting through those massive piles of photos. You’ll see how to breeze through images using Bridge and full-screen preview, how to quickly mark the ones you like and open them all for synchronized image adjustment, how to go from Bridge to InDesign and Photoshop for page layout and image optimization, and more. When you’re done learning these 11 ways to process your digital photos faster, you may very well save hours a week...or more. And that’s time you can be out doing the fun part – taking more photos!

In this workshop you’ll have the opportunity to look over Tim Grey’s shoulder as he works on one of his favorite images and gain insight into why he does what he does. You’ll see how he chooses one image from a series of similar captures, processes the RAW file to create the best possible starting point, and applies adjustments to fine-tune the look of the image. You’ll also get to work along with Tim as he experiments with a creative interpretation of the image involving an old-fashioned color tint and vignette.

In this course, Photoshop experts Tim Grey and Olaf Giermann look at the new features available in Photoshop CS6 and show you how to incorporate them into your workflow. They’ll take you on a tour of the interface, which has a new look and different controls in some of the panels, and introduce you to all the new features in areas like adjustments, image cleanup, creative effects, text and graphics, video, and 3D. With this kind of help, you should find the transition to Photoshop CS6 easy as pie.

In this workshop Tim Grey looks back at one of his most treasured images and how it came to be, explaining the story behind this particular photograph, what his creative vision for it was, and how he achieved this vision. You’ll see how Tim applied adjustments like converting to black-and-white, adding a color tint, and enhancing contrast, and how he cleaned up the image to make it look the way he wanted it to. And more importantly, you’ll gain insight into the artistic decisions that were made at every step along the way.

Image management is one of the greatest challenges for photographers. Fortunately, many of us have access to Adobe Bridge, which offers powerful features to help you manage, sort, organize, and even share your digital photos. But not everyone knows how to take advantage of these capabilities, so in this course Tim Grey shares his tips for using Bridge to stay organized, streamline your workflow, and make your life easier.