Every panel, every slider.
The full interface walked through one tool at a time — Develop module, Library, the histogram, white balance, every slider in the Basic panel. By the end you'll know what each one does and when to reach for it.
Lightroom Course
Learn Lightroom from scratch — on the desktop and your phone
Thirty-five modules across Lightroom Classic, Lightroom CC on desktop, and Lightroom CC mobile. Every panel explained, every slider demystified — plus masks, presets, and three Edit With Me sessions across landscape, street and portrait shots. Built for beginners. Taught by Emily Lowrey.
For as long as your account is active
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Desktop & mobile
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CPD-certified certificate
35modules
100k+members
4.7★rated
100,000+photographers taught
Since 201214 years teaching
4.7★average member rating
35modules in the course
For lifeof your account
What you'll be able to do
From "what does that slider actually do?" to finished edits you're proud of.
Most beginners open Lightroom, panic at the panels, and close it again. Emily's job is to take that panic away — one tool at a time, in the order they actually matter. By module two you'll know where everything lives.
Crop, straighten, salvage.
Wonky horizons, dull crops, awkward framing — the post-shoot cleanup that turns a near-miss into a keeper. Aspect ratios, transforms and the lens-correction tools that fix a tilted shot before you even start the proper edit.
Light, colour, detail.
Exposure, contrast, shadows, highlights, clarity, vibrance, white balance, sharpening. The five or six controls that do most of the heavy lifting in any finished photograph — explained without the jargon.
Presets, brushes, masks.
Speed up the boring bits with presets you can apply in one click. Get surgical with adjustment brushes, radial filters and the new AI masking tools — bring the sky down, lift the subject, dodge and burn like the old darkroom guys.
Lightroom in your pocket.
Edit on the phone, edit on the tablet, edit on the laptop — same photo, every change synced. Dedicated lessons on Lightroom CC mobile and desktop, plus how to move work between them without losing your edits.
Batch edits, organised catalogue.
How to cull a thousand frames fast, apply the same edit across a whole shoot, and keep a catalogue that you can actually find things in — folders, keywords, collections, and the AI culling tools that pick the keepers for you.
Inside the course
Six phases. Thirty-five modules. One photograph at a time.
Every panel, every slider, every tool — in the order they actually matter. Open any phase below to see exactly what's covered.
01
Setting up — getting into Lightroom
The first time you open Lightroom, where to put your photographs, and how to keep a big shoot from getting lost.
Setting up — getting into Lightroom
The first time you open Lightroom, where to put your photographs, and how to keep a big shoot from getting lost.
- Introduction to Lightroom
- How to Import Images
- Navigation
- Import and Organise Large Projects
02
The Develop module — light, colour, detail
The Basic panel, the Tone Curve, the HSL sliders. The five or six controls that do most of the work on most photographs.
The Develop module — light, colour, detail
The Basic panel, the Tone Curve, the HSL sliders. The five or six controls that do most of the work on most photographs.
- Develop Tab
- Exposure and Histogram
- White Balance
- Tone Curves
- HSL Sliders
- Split Toning
- Black and White
03
Fixing the shot — crop, transform, correct
Wonky horizons, distortion, dust spots, sharpening, vignetting. The post-shoot cleanup that turns a near-miss into a keeper.
Fixing the shot — crop, transform, correct
Wonky horizons, distortion, dust spots, sharpening, vignetting. The post-shoot cleanup that turns a near-miss into a keeper.
- Crop and Transform
- Transform Tab
- Lens Correction
- Details Tab
- Effects Tab
04
Local adjustments & masking
Get surgical. Adjustment brushes, presets you can apply in one click, the new AI masking tools, and the clone & heal for the bits that need to disappear.
Local adjustments & masking
Get surgical. Adjustment brushes, presets you can apply in one click, the new AI masking tools, and the clone & heal for the bits that need to disappear.
- Adjustment Brushes
- Clone and Heal
- Smart Masks
- Landscape Masking
- Presets
05
AI tools, HDR & advanced
The newer Lightroom toolset — AI denoise, AI removal, assisted culling, HDR, panoramas, lens blur, super resolution. Plus the Photoshop handoff for when one tool isn't enough.
AI tools, HDR & advanced
The newer Lightroom toolset — AI denoise, AI removal, assisted culling, HDR, panoramas, lens blur, super resolution. Plus the Photoshop handoff for when one tool isn't enough.
- HDR
- Panoramic Stitching
- Assisted Culling
- AI Denoise & Removal Tools
- AI Dust, People & Reflection Removal
- AI Edit Status Icon
- Lens Blur and Super Resolution
- Photoshop and Lightroom Workflow
06
Edit With Me, Mobile & exporting
Three full Edit With Me sessions — landscape, street, portrait — where you sit next to Emily as she edits. Then Lightroom CC on the phone and desktop, and how to export the finished photograph the right way.
Edit With Me, Mobile & exporting
Three full Edit With Me sessions — landscape, street, portrait — where you sit next to Emily as she edits. Then Lightroom CC on the phone and desktop, and how to export the finished photograph the right way.
- Edit With Me (Landscape)
- Edit With Me (Street)
- Edit With Me (Portrait)
- Lightroom CC Mobile App
- Lightroom CC (Desktop)
- How to Export Images
The course trailer
Watch a quick look at what's inside.
A short trailer giving an overview of the course — what you'll learn, who you'll learn from, and the kind of photographs members are making.
Your tutor
Real photographer. Real edits. No fluff.
Emily Lowrey shoots and teaches every module of this course. Inside the Member's Photo Gallery, an iPhotography tutor replies in person to the edits you share — not a help desk. Real photographers, by name, signed and specific.
Emily Lowrey
Course Instructor & iPhotography Tutor
Emily is a professional photographer with years of real-world Lightroom experience — editing weddings, landscapes, portraits and product shots, day in and day out. She teaches both Lightroom Classic and Lightroom CC with clarity, not complexity — showing you what actually works rather than what every slider technically does. Known for her friendly, no-fluff teaching style.
The Member's Photo Gallery
Share your edits. Swap notes. Make friends.
The Member's Photo Gallery is where the club hangs out. Upload your finished Lightroom edits, see what other members are working on, leave comments, take part in the Weekend Challenge. Tutors drop in regularly to comment on photographs that catch their eye.
Try the edit
After each module, open one of your own RAW files in Lightroom and have a go. Bite-sized, doable, on your own files — not busywork.
Upload your finished frame
Pop your edited photograph into the Member's Photo Gallery. Friendly, private to members, no public scroll.
See what the room thinks
Members comment on each other's edits — honest, encouraging, sometimes brutally helpful. Tutors join in regularly too.
Pass it on
Comment on other members' work, ask questions, take part in the Weekend Challenge. This is where the friendships start.
What you'll be editing
From RAW to finished — the kind of edits this course teaches.
A few of the tools and techniques you'll be using by the end of the course. Each is tagged with the part of Lightroom it covers — from cataloguing your library through to the final masked, sharpened, exported frame.
Cataloguing
Masking
Portrait Retouching
Presets
Exporting
Basic Adjustments
Community Points & Rank Badges
You start with a thousand points the moment you join.
Every member at iPhotography has a points score and a rank badge. They're not gimmicks — they're how the club recognises the work you do, the modules you finish, and the help you give other members. Points can also be redeemed against exclusive training content inside the club.
+1,000
when you join the course
+500
when you complete the course
+30
for every module finished
+50
for every photo shared in the gallery
Distinguished
5,000 pts
Established
10,000 pts
Expert
75,000 pts
Legendary
300k+
Included free with the course
Three bonuses that come with the course.
Hand-picked extras that make the teaching stick longer. The Member's Photo Gallery and Download Library land in your account the moment you join. The iMagine Photography eBook is yours as a graduation gift when you complete the course.
Your bonuses
Combined value — included free with the course
Free
Bonus 01.
Member's Photo Gallery & Weekend Challenges
Share your finished Lightroom edits with the club, take part in the Weekend Challenges — themed photo prompts every weekend — and pick up tips from members at every stage of the editing journey.
Free · worth £0.00
Free
Bonus 02.
Media & Download Library
A growing library of training videos, eBooks, presets, cheat cards and reference guides — yours to download any time you fancy a deeper dive.
Free · worth £0.00
Graduation
Bonus 03.
iMagine Photography eBook
A graduation gift for finishing the course — iPhotography's iMagine eBook, packed with creative-vision prompts to help you keep shooting and editing long after the credits roll.
Free on graduation · worth £0.00
What members say
Real reviews from real members.
Pulled verbatim from members who've taken this course. We've left the typos in — that's how you know they're real.
★★★★★
"The course was so easy to follow. The tutors are friendly, knowledgeable and really helpful with feedback. I've gone from being scared of my camera to actually loving the time I spend with it."
TM
Tony Mills
Member · iPhotography
★★★★★
"I've tried a lot of online courses. This is the only one where a real person replied to my photographs. It changed how I shoot, but more importantly it changed how I look at things."
RH
Robin Hollamby
Member · iPhotography
★★★★★
"Best money I've spent on my hobby. The modules are clear, the feedback is genuine, and the gallery is the friendliest corner of the internet I've found."
SY
Simon Young
Member · iPhotography
★★★★★
"I was nervous about being the oldest one in the group. Turns out everyone here is welcoming, and the tutors don't talk down to anyone. I'm finally taking photographs I'm proud of."
DG
Debbie Gammie
Member · iPhotography
★★★★★
"Stephen's feedback on my landscape photograph was the most useful 200 words I've ever read about my photography. Worth the cost of the whole course on its own."
JG
John Gallagher
Member · iPhotography
★★★★★
"I took the course over a long winter. By the spring I was photographing things I'd walked past for thirty years and never noticed. That's the real gift."
AS
Audrey Schweikert
Member · iPhotography
The course, the bonuses, the club — one payment
Everything you get when you join today.
The Lightroom Course — the full thirty-five modules, the bonuses, the club, and a thousand Community Points to start you off.
- 35 modules across Lightroom Classic, Lightroom CC desktop and Lightroom CC mobile (kept for as long as your account is active)
- Three full Edit With Me sessions — landscape, street, portrait — with downloadable RAW files to follow along
- Member's Photo Gallery access — share edits, ask questions, see what other members are making
- Media & Download Library — videos, eBooks, presets, cheat cards, reference guides
- iMagine Photography eBook — yours as a graduation gift when you finish the course
- A small starter pack of Lightroom Presets you can apply with one click
- CPD-certified Course Completion certificate
- 1,000 Community Points on day one · 500 more when you finish
- Rank badge that grows with you
- 30-day money-back guarantee
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Lightroom Course
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30
Day Guarantee
Try the course for 30 days. If it's not for you, we'll refund you in full.
We've been teaching photography since 2012. We know the course works — but you don't have to take our word for it. Join, take the first few modules, share a photo in the gallery, and if it doesn't click, email us within 30 days and we'll refund the lot. No hard feelings.
Common questions
The things people usually ask us first.
I've never opened Lightroom before. Will I be able to keep up?
Yes — that's exactly who the course is built for. Emily starts with the basics — importing photographs, navigating the workspace — and explains every tool the first time it appears. Real-world examples, no jargon left unexplained. Whether you've never opened Lightroom before or you've poked at it and always felt lost, the course brings you up to speed at your own pace.
Does this course cover Lightroom Classic or Lightroom CC?
Both. The bulk of the course is taught in Lightroom Classic — the version most photographers use for serious editing and cataloguing — and there are dedicated modules covering Lightroom CC on desktop and Lightroom CC mobile. Most controls work the same way across all three, so whichever version you have, you'll be covered. You'll need a Lightroom subscription via Adobe Creative Cloud to follow along.
What kinds of photographs will I be editing?
Plenty of variety — landscapes, portraits, street, wildlife. You'll see Emily edit a wide range of photographs across the modules, and you can download the same RAW files to follow along on your own. Or use your own unedited photographs — that way you're learning Lightroom and clearing your editing backlog at the same time.
How long do I have access to the course?
For as long as your account is kept active. No expiry, no resubscription, no "course access window". The modules, the gallery, the bonuses, and the certificate stay with you.
Is there tutor support if I get stuck?
Yes. This isn't an assignment-based course, so there's no formal tutor review of submitted work. But the Member's Photo Gallery is the place to share your edits, ask for input and join in — an iPhotography tutor drops in regularly to comment on photographs that catch their eye, and members swap honest, encouraging notes on each other's work. PLUS+ members get priority and enhanced tutor feedback on their gallery uploads as part of their subscription.
Can I get a refund if it's not for me?
Yes. Email us within 30 days of joining and we'll refund the course in full. No quiz, no hoops — just reply to your welcome email and let us know.
Is the certificate worth anything?
The Course Completion certificate is CPD-certified, which is recognised across the UK for continuing professional development. For most members it's a quiet bit of pride rather than a career credential — but it carries genuine weight if you want it to.
Do I need Photoshop too?
No — this course is focused entirely on Lightroom. There's a single module covering the Photoshop & Lightroom workflow for when you want to push an edit further than Lightroom can take it, but you won't need a Photoshop subscription to follow the course. If you'd like to go deeper into retouching and composites, we run a separate Photoshop course.
Come and learn with us.
The world's friendliest photography club has a place set for you. Join today, take your first module tonight, share your first photograph by the weekend.
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