10 Things You Need to Be Doing In Lightroom
You’re probably not doing these.
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The fixes are already in Lightroom.
Scott shows you where they’ve been hiding.
About the Course
After years of looking over photographers’ shoulders at his workshops around the world, Scott Kelby kept seeing the same missed fixes, the same organizing habits that bury photos, and the same powerful features going untouched. In 10 Things You Need to Be Doing in Lightroom, he gathers the ten that make the biggest difference — one-click lens fixes, masking tools Adobe added quietly, when to hand a cleanup to Photoshop, an organization system built on collections, and Lightroom on your phone without filling it up. Nothing to buy, nothing to relearn — just ten changes that pay you back every time you open Lightroom.
Why This Course Matters
Most photographers learned Lightroom once and settled in — while Adobe kept adding smarter tools.
That gap costs you every day: extra steps on every edit, photos you can’t find, and work done by hand that Lightroom would do for you. These tips weren’t pulled from a feature list — Scott collected them standing beside photographers at his workshops, watching where they got stuck and which single change made them faster. Close the gap and you’ll edit quicker, find anything in seconds, and trust the tools you’ve been working around. Less time in Lightroom, more time shooting.
Who's Teaching You
Learn from the photographer who wrote the book on Lightroom
Scott Kelby has spent nearly two decades teaching Lightroom in books, on stage, and in workshops around the world. These ten tips come from looking over shoulders in those workshops and fixing the same things, again and again.
Scott Kelby is a photographer, best-selling author, and the president and co-founder of KelbyOne. He wrote the book on Lightroom (several editions of it), edits Photoshop User magazine, chairs the Photoshop World Conference, and founded the Worldwide Photo Walk. He teaches the way he writes: plain language, real photos, and the shortest path to a better result. Here, he brings ten of those shortcuts to one course.
What You'll Learn
Habits you'll use every time you open Lightroom
From a one-click lens fix to Lightroom on your phone — here's what you'll walk away doing differently.
Fix lens problems in one click
Leaning buildings and wide-angle bulge, fixed in seconds with Upright’s Auto button and the Distortion slider.
Use the masking tools Adobe quietly added
Select Landscape now finds water, architecture, and vegetation for you — and it works on any photo, not just landscapes.
Know when to hand it to Photoshop
When the Remove tool takes out the rope and the headlights with it: the Command-E round trip, Prompt to Edit, and Find Distractions.
Organize so you can find anything
One collection per trip, then Picks, then Selects; descriptive names instead of dates; collections instead of folders.
Take Lightroom with you
Sync only the collections you choose to your phone as tiny Smart Previews, edit with the same tools, and let every edit sync back.
Pick your keeper faster
Survey mode by elimination: press N, Shift-Tab to clear the panels, and click away until only the best frame is left.
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The Full Curriculum
10 lessons, start to finish
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Scott opens with the problem he sees most — leaning buildings and wide-angle bulge — and fixes both in seconds with Upright’s Auto button and the Distortion slider.
Select Landscape now finds water, architecture, and vegetation for you, and it works on any photo — plus which crop option looks best after a transform.
When Lightroom’s Remove tool takes out the rope and the headlights with it, Scott shows the Command-E round trip, Prompt to Edit, and Find Distractions.
“Day 1, Day 2” only works if you remember what you shot when; one trip collection, then Picks, then Selects, means you’ll find any shot years later.
Smart Previews cost drive space and import time, and most photographers never need them — here’s the one travel case where they’re worth building.
“96A5238.CR2” tells you nothing; rename on import or in bulk with the words you’d actually search for, and let the metadata filter handle dates.
Collections work in every module, let one photo live in many places, sync to your phone, and can’t accidentally delete anything — then Scott converts your folders in two clicks.
Adobe now has an official order for AI features; Scott clicks Update so you can see what actually changes, and why you can usually keep editing.
Picking the best of twelve similar frames is hard; eliminating the weakest is easy — press N for Survey mode and click away until only the keeper is left.
Lightroom Mobile syncs only the collections you choose, as tiny Smart Previews instead of full-size originals — two clicks and your edits sync both ways.
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From the Course
See the fixes, before and after
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More Than One Course
This course is just the beginning
10 Things You Need to Be Doing in Lightroom comes with your KelbyOne membership — and so does everything below. Tap any benefit to see what's included.
The full KelbyOne library covers photography, Lightroom, and Photoshop from first principles to professional technique — portraits, landscape, travel, studio and flash, wedding, sports, street, food, fashion, business, and more. Every course is taught by a working pro, broken into focused lessons you can watch in any order, and available to stream whenever you want. Start a class on your lunch break, finish it that night, and come back to it any time you need a refresher.
KelbyOne releases a new course every single week, so your membership is worth more the longer you hold it. New techniques, new gear, new software releases, and new instructors are added continuously — meaning the latest in photography and post-processing is always waiting for you, and you'll never pay extra for it.
Not sure what to watch next? Curated learning tracks sequence the right courses in the right order so you build skills step by step instead of jumping around. The Photographer's Fast Track is designed to save you years of trial and error, and your progress is tracked along the way so you always know what you've finished and what's next.
Your membership includes a growing toolkit of free Lightroom presets, Photoshop brushes, and other downloadable resources you can put to work right away. Many courses also include downloadable practice files so you can follow along with the exact images the instructor is using — learning by doing, not just watching.
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Everything you need to know
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Absolutely. KelbyOne has courses for every skill level, taught in plain language, step by step. This course meets you where you are, and the rest of the library grows with you as you improve.
Scott teaches in Lightroom Classic on the desktop, and Lesson 10 adds the free Lightroom Mobile app on your phone. A few tips use the latest masking and AI features, so keep Lightroom updated through the Creative Cloud app. Lesson 3 jumps into Photoshop for one cleanup; the other nine lessons are all Lightroom.
Annual is the best value by a wide margin: $199 for a full year (regularly $249) works out to about 54¢ a day and saves you $40 compared to paying month-to-month ($239.88/year). Monthly is there if you'd rather start small — and you can switch to annual anytime.
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Yes. Stream on desktop, mobile, tablet, and Apple TV, and pick up right where you left off on any device. The KelbyOne app also lets you download classes to watch offline — on a plane, a road trip, anywhere.
Of course — KelbyOne has members all over the world. All prices are listed in US dollars (USD), so just keep your local exchange rate in mind at checkout and renewal.
Yes. Watch the trailer at the top of this page, then scroll down to Lesson 7, Ten Reasons to Leave Folders Behind, which is free to watch in full. No signup or credit card needed. If you like how Scott teaches, the rest of the course is one membership away.
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