Certificate in Adobe Lightroom

Ten modules, 130 lessons and about 33 hours of video. Every lesson carries a written summary, notes and a key-takeaways panel, about half carry an interactive step, and there are ten checkpoints of eight questions and a final assessment of twenty questions at 80 per cent, which is what issues the certificate. Module 1 is how to read a photograph, modules 2 to 6 are Lightroom Classic, 7 and 8 are Lightroom on a phone, and 9 and 10 are the desktop app.

This one, if you're new or self-taught. It starts with how to read a photograph before you touch a slider and works through every panel, so you need no editing experience. If you already import, cull and finish edits confidently in Develop, the Advanced Certificate in Adobe Lightroom picks up from there.

All three: Lightroom Classic, Lightroom on your phone and the Lightroom desktop app. The Classic modules show the graduated filter, radial filter and brush as separate tools, and module 9 teaches the Masking panel that brings them together with Select Subject, Select Sky and colour and brightness selections, so you'll be at home in either layout.

Lightroom is a paid Adobe subscription with a free trial, and the trial is enough to start the course. Lightroom Classic and the newer Lightroom app are separate, so check your plan includes Classic before you subscribe, because most of the course uses it.

Lightroom for organising and editing whole shoots quickly and consistently. Photoshop for deep work on single images: cutouts, composites and pixel-level retouching. If you shoot in volume, Lightroom is the one that gives you your evenings back.

Yes, and any photos work, phone shots included. Editing your own is the better exercise, because you'll care whether the result still looks right.

A computer that runs Lightroom Classic for most of the course, and a phone for modules 7 and 8, which are built around Lightroom mobile. You don't need an expensive camera: the skills are in the editing.

Yes. Pass the twenty-question final assessment at 80 per cent and you get an OBA certificate of completion that an employer or client can verify online. It isn't an Adobe certification exam. A set of your own photos edited in one consistent style is the other half of the proof.

Download the free info pack first. It walks you through every module, what you'll build and what you need before you start, so you can enrol knowing exactly what you're getting. If you'd like to talk it through, get in touch and we'll help you choose.