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Overview

A great photo captures a moment in time, but talented editing and fine-tuning brings it to life. Adobe Lightroom is an essential tool that allows photographers to sort through, edit, and perfect their shots. This interactive online course introduces you to the full potential of Lightroom, enabling you to develop confidence in your editing, make intelligent adjustments, and shape your images to reflect your vision.

Whether you're a new or experienced photographer, this course focuses on Lightroom's most powerful tools to help you streamline your editing process. Maintaining full creative control, you’ll learn to optimize your photo library, make non-destructive changes, craft the ideal tone and colour, and prepare your photos for print and digital presentation.

Through hands-on, functional projects, you’ll develop a structured approach to editing while consistently delivering exceptional results. By the end of the course, you’ll have a refined workflow and an incredible portfolio of exquisitely polished photos.

This course is ideal if you:

  • want to confidently organize and edit your digital photos
  • are looking for an intuitive way to enhance your images with precise adjustments that maintain image quality
  • need an efficient workflow that makes editing faster and more consistent
  • are interested in creating high-quality, professional-looking images for print, web, or personal projects.

To be successful in this course, we recommend you complete PHOT 023 - Photography Foundations III, prior to registering for this course. 

Upon successful completion of this course, you'll be able to:

  • create and organize a photo library
  • perform non-destructive image editing using sharpening, tone curves, highlights, and shadows
  • export images for print or web use
  • prepare a photo book ready for printing

To request a course outline, contact ConEdAdvising@sait.ca.

Upcoming dates

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Registration for this course closes seven days prior to the start date.

After you've completed this course

Upon successful completion of this non-credit course, you can self-print your unofficial completion document from your Continuing Education student account.

Costs

Technology

To be successful in this course, you’ll need:

  • Access to your own computer or laptop with standard hardware/software requirements.
  • Internet access
  • Adobe Creative Cloud 
  • An external hard drive (minimum of 500 GB) with USB cable to connect from the drive to your computer. 

A functional webcam and microphone are recommended to allow for a more collaborative learning experience.

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Financial support

Financial opportunities are available to help pay for your course fees. Learn more about how to reduce your education or training costs with available awards, bursaries, loans and grants including the Canada Alberta Job Grant. 

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SAIT is located on the traditional territories of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) and the people of Treaty 7 which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina and the Îyârhe Nakoda of Bearspaw, Chiniki and Goodstoney.

We are situated in an area the Blackfoot tribes traditionally called Moh’kinsstis, where the Bow River meets the Elbow River. We now call it the city of Calgary, which is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta.

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