Equinet Academy
Edit with precision. Publish with confidence.
Course Description
What is This Course About?
Capturing a strong image is only half the process. What you do with it afterwards determines whether it looks professional.
This course is about half of what most photographers underinvest in.
Working entirely in Lightroom Mobile, you will develop a structured editing workflow that produces consistent, publication-ready results — not on individual images, but across entire series. That distinction is what separates a polished portfolio from a collection of well-edited individual photographs.
The course moves beyond the basic panel corrections you may already know into the precision tools that define serious mobile editing: the tone curve for tonal sculpting, the HSL panel for colour targeting that leaves the rest of the image untouched, masking and selective adjustments that correct specific areas without affecting the whole frame, and preset creation that converts a completed edit into a reusable starting point for every image that follows.
The final output is a 15-image edited series built from a visual identity brief you write before you begin editing, and assessed by whether the editing reinforces the story the series is trying to tell.
That is the standard that editorial clients, brand publishers, and portfolio reviewers apply to photographic work. It is the standard this course prepares you for.
This module works equally well with smartphone images and camera images. All exercises apply regardless of which device your photographs came from.
Target Audience
Who This Course is For
This course is for photographers who want a structured mobile editing workflow that produces consistent professional results, not better-looking individual images, but better-looking series.
- Graduates of Modules 1–3 who want to advance their editing capability
- Content creators and marketing professionals who edit on mobile as a primary workflow
- Photographers who want editorial-quality output from Lightroom Mobile
- Anyone who produces a photographic series that needs to look like it came from a single visual identity
- Social media managers and brand photographers who publish consistently and need consistent results
Prerequisites
What You’ll Need to Get Started
You should have:
- Lightroom Mobile is installed and functional
- Basic familiarity with the Lightroom Mobile basic panel, Module 1, or equivalent
- A set of 20+ personal images to use as editing practice material
- No prior Photoshop or desktop editing experience required
Course Highlights
What You’ll Learn
- How Lightroom Mobile’s catalogue structure actually works, why it is a database application rather than a folder-based editor, and why that distinction matters for workflow reliability at scale
- The complete basic panel applied with precision and the right sequence: why the order of corrections matters, and what happens when you get it wrong
- How to let photography principles guide your editing decisions, correcting toward the photographer’s intention, not toward a generic technical standard
- The tone curve: how the point curve gives you tonal control that the basic exposure and contrast sliders cannot replicate, and how to use it for natural contrast, matte aesthetics, and targeted zone adjustment
- HSL colour targeting: how to select a specific colour range, the blue in a sky, the green in foliage, the orange in skin, and shift it without affecting any other colour in the image
- Masking and selective adjustments: how to brighten a subject without brightening the background, darken an overexposed sky without changing the foreground, and add local saturation without affecting anything you did not intend to touch
- Lens correction in post, removing barrel distortion, chromatic aberration, and convergence issues that arrive with certain focal lengths
- Preset creation: how to build a named preset from a completed edit, what to include in it and what to leave out, and how to use it as a starting point rather than a final answer
- Batch editing with selective sync: how to apply a consistent visual treatment across 20 images while preserving the image-specific corrections that each one needs
- Export calibration: the colour profile, resolution, quality, and file size requirements for Instagram, editorial submissions, client high-res delivery, and print and why they are all different
Course Objectives
What You’ll Takeaway
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Apply exposure, tonal, and colour adjustments to enhance visual quality
- Apply selective editing tools and stylistic adjustments to create cohesive and visually impactful images
- Maintain consistency across a photo series and prepare images for professional publishing
Skills You’ll Acquire:
Completing this course, you will develop the following professional mobile editing capabilities:
Basic panel mastery
Apply all basic corrections in the correct sequence with calibrated, restrained precision
Tone curve control
Shape tonal contrast with the point curve and region sliders beyond what the basic panel allows
HSL precision
Target and adjust specific colour ranges without disturbing the rest of the image
Selective masking
Apply local corrections to exactly the areas that need them using every mask type available
Lens correction
Remove optical distortions and aberrations that arrive in the image from the lens, not the subject
Preset management
Build and organise a personal preset library that makes your workflow faster and your results more consistent
Batch editing
Apply consistent visual treatment across a series while preserving image-specific corrections
Export optimisation
Prepare files correctly for social, editorial, client, and print delivery every time
Certification Track
Level Up!
This module develops the mobile editing workflow that runs in parallel to the capture and lighting skills developed in Modules 1–4. It is the editing half of the smartphone photography arc, and it applies equally well to camera images.
The full certification pathway:
Module 1: Mobile Phone (iPhone & Android) Photography
Module 2: Advanced Cinematic Smartphone Photography
Module 3: Mirrorless & DSLR Photography Essentials
Module 4: Advanced Camera Techniques & Creative Lighting Photography
Module 5: Mobile Photo Editing with Lightroom & Creative Apps
Module 6: Desktop Photo Editing & Retouching (Photoshop & Lightroom)
This module provides you with complete professional mobile editing capabilities. Module 6 extends that into Photoshop’s precision retouching and Lightroom Classic’s full RAW processing pipeline for commercial-grade output.
A Certification of Completion by Equinet Academy will be awarded to candidates who have demonstrated competency in the Mobile Photo Editing with Lightroom & Creative Apps course assessment and achieved at least 75% attendance.
Course Outline
Inside the course
This course progresses from interface mastery and core corrections through advanced tonal and selective editing tools to series editing discipline, preset management, and professional export optimisation. Each phase builds directly on the editing capability established in the previous one—you cannot move to the final phase without the tools developed in the intermediate stage.
Exposure and Colour Correction Foundations
- Editing software for basic post-processing — Lightroom Mobile interface, library architecture, and workflow overview
- Photography principles applied to editing decisions — using composition and exposure understanding to guide corrections
- Exposure, tonal, and basic colour corrections — the full basic panel applied with precision, sequence, and restraint
Advanced Editing and Selective Adjustments
- Tone curve, point curve, and region curve for tonal control beyond the basic panel
- HSL colour targeting, selecting and adjusting specific colour ranges without affecting the whole image
- Masking and selective adjustments, linear gradient, radial gradient, subject mask, sky mask, brush tool
- Lens correction and composition refinement in post, including distortion, aberration, crop, straighten, and perspective
Editing for Visual Storytelling and Export
- Preset creation and management — building and naming presets from completed edits for workflow efficiency
- Batch editing and selective sync — applying consistent treatment across a series with image-specific corrections preserved
- Tell a story through a consistent 15-image edited series with a deliberate visual identity
- Export optimisation — colour profile, resolution, quality, and file size for social, editorial, and client delivery
Assessment Methods
- Case Study Written Assessment
- Individual Project Presentation
Trainers
Meet Your Educators
Trainer Bio
Julian Herbert
Herbert Julian is a photographer, videographer, and creative producer with extensive experience in visual storytelling across corporate, commercial, fashion, branding, and event productions. As the founder of Oscuro Studio, he combines strong technical expertise with real-world industry insight, helping brands and individuals create impactful visual content. His strength lies in translating creative vision into practical, high-quality outcomes while mentoring others in both the artistic and professional sides of photography.
Course Fee
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Course Fee
S$499.00S$999.00
Course Schedule
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2 Days | 16 Hours
Day 1: Lightroom Mobile library architecture, core corrections, tone curve, HSL targeting, masking, and lens correction.
Day 2: Preset creation, batch editing, 15-image series construction, export optimisation, and assessments (Case Study Written Assessment + Individual Project Presentation).
| Learning Mode | Course Dates | Duration | Trainer |
|---|---|---|---|
| In-Person | 11, 12 Aug 2026 (Tue, Wed) | 9.00am - 6.00pm | |
| In-Person | 03, 04 Nov 2026 (Tue, Wed) | 9.00am - 6.00pm |
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
The Need-to-Know Stuff, Fast
Everything you need to know about the course. Can’t find the answer you’re looking for? Please contact our friendly team.
The free version covers most of this course. Advanced masking features require a premium subscription, check with your trainer before Day 1 about which version is right for you.
Yes. Bring 20+ personal images for editing practice across both days. Provided correction sets are also available for all structured exercises.
No. This course focuses exclusively on Lightroom Mobile. Lightroom Classic and Photoshop are covered in Module 6.
A personal preset library built from your own editing decisions. A 15-image series with a defined visual identity. Four export presets configured for different publishing platforms. And a structured editing workflow you can apply immediately to any existing image library.
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