Photographers and designers rely on Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop for large portions of their work and it always helps to have extra knowledge and skills in order to create even more professional images and artwork. This free online Adobe Photoshop certification begins by showing you how to use the clone tool to blend even distorted parts of an image, and also how to heal images with the heal tool. The many import presets options in Adobe Lightroom are covered as well as how to import presets into Lightroom, how to create your own presets, and update and manage them. Learning dodging and burning techniques are covered before you delve deep into creating dreamy landscapes with Orton effects in Lightroom and other tools such as the graduated filter tool and sun flare effect.

Exporting for purpose is extremely important because images need to be optimal for social media, print, online documents, web design etc. These specifications and settings when used correctly make the world of difference and you will learn about the best respective settings for PNG, DNG, TIFF, JPG/JPEG, and lastly the PSD format which is Photoshop’s own format. Photoshop has many great features that can take your skills from beginner to advanced such as blending and exposure blending, how to blend daytime and nighttime images, how to merge images, removing objects in an image as well as some great tools such as the lasso tool, spot healing brush, and the clone stamp tool.

Knowing the ins and outs of Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom on an advanced level can make a great difference to your photo editing process and how efficient you are in creating artwork for various reasons. Exploring the tools in this Adobe Lightroom tutorial can equip you to make eye-catching creations for use on many platforms which has a direct impact on your career ambitions. Whether you are passionate about social media, print or web design, these skills can be applied across all industries and all you need to do is enrol for this exciting course and choose the niche you want to be in as a creative.