Take your photos from good to great.

Develop full control over your creative vision.

Learn the editing secrets the pros use to create breathtaking images.

Taught by award-winning photographer and Sony Digital Imaging Ambassador, Pat Kay. 
$399.00

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Editing shouldn’t feel confusing, overwhelming, or random.

If you've ever opened Lightroom, moved some sliders, and crossed your fingers… you're not alone.
Most photographers guess their way through editing—never learning the real skills that make images truly shine.

 

Does this sound familiar?

 

🛑 Inconsistent edits that never match what you envisioned
🛑 Wasted hours lost to random YouTube tutorials and bad advice
🛑 Photos that fall flat instead of feeling alive and powerful

 

When editing feels random, it’s easy to think you’re the problem—that you’re not "good enough" or "creative enough" to make your photos pop.
But that’s not true. You just haven't been shown how the pros think about editing—until now.

Imagine feeling confident every time you open Lightroom

✅ Knowing exactly how to unlock the hidden beauty in your photos.

✅ Editing with a clear, professional workflow that saves you time and makes your images look incredible.

✅ Having the confidence to know you can "save" or transform any image.


That’s exactly what you’ll master inside this course.

 

You'll learn techniques to be able to do transformations like this: 
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Fantastic! Highly recommend! A brilliant course, so clear and well organised, a fantastic investment for anyone serious about photography. Because its so carefully structured and broken down into topics it manages to be incredibly in-depth but without ever feeling overwhelming. Pat not only shows how to use Lightroom and make the most of this powerful software but gives you a real deep understanding of what's going on 'under the hood', so you come away not just now how to do something to an image but why those edits act in the way they do. Easily the best photography course I've come across. Highly recommend!

- Eddie S.

Lightroom Editing Masterclass

$399.00

Join 2,000+ photography students

Master the editing skills professionals use

Learn the exact techniques I’ve used to edit hundreds of thousands of images for brands, clients, and personal projects—broken down into simple, actionable lessons that anyone can follow.

A step-by-step system

No more random slider adjustments. Learn a proven editing workflow that saves you time and creates stunning results.

Develop your unique visual aesthetic

Go beyond presets. Build real editing skills that allow you to create a consistent, recognizable visual aesthetic and style of your own.

Develop your unique visual aesthetic

Go beyond presets. Build real editing skills that allow you to create a consistent, recognizable visual aesthetic and style of your own.

Discover the creative editing techniques pros use

Find out the techniques professional photographers use to think outside the box to transform their images.

Bonus: 5+ hours showcasing how I edit my personal portfolio-level images.

I pull back the curtain on how I edit my own portfolio-level images and show you all my secret techniques step-by-step

Bonus: 5+ hours showcasing how I edit my personal portfolio-level images.

I pull back the curtain on how I edit my own portfolio-level images and show you all my secret techniques step-by-step

See what happens when you learn the secrets pros use

Join thousands of photography students transforming their images everyday

Hey, I'm Pat Kay.

I’ve been in the creative industry for over 20 years—designing products, experiences, and websites, and capturing moments on camera. I'm a lifelong adventurer, obsessed with documenting the world as I see it and sharing what I’ve learned along the way. With a background as a Lead Product and UX Designer, I’ve developed a unique way of seeing and capturing the world—and I’d love to show you how.

Award-winning Travel Photographer

Sony Digital Imaging Ambassador

@pat_kay - 345,000+ followers

@patkay - 338,000+ subscribers

I've had the pleasure of calling these amazing brands my clients

+ dozens more!

Start transforming your images today

Go beyond presets and start creating edits that feel unmistakably you
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Lightroom Editing Masterclass

Lightroom Editing Masterclass

$399.00

Lifetime access, go at your own pace

Learn from a credited professional photographer

50 lessons, 8 modules, 11 hours of content

7-day money-back guarantee

Why I made this...

Getting good at Lightroom isn't just about knowing the in's and out's of every tool. It's about how you put your artistic vision to use; it's about how creative you can be with your tools; it's about how much you dare to experiment with something new.

That's where this course is different to other Lightroom courses out there. This isn't just a "here's how you use the app, that's it"-kind of course. Sure, we go through the fundamentals (and really break down the technicalities of how the tools work), but we also go through the more important things like workflow, creative and advanced editing, creating a visual aesthetic that is unique to you, understanding style, how to create your own quality presets.

I feel that the combination of all of these things are what truly makes you great at editing images.

And then to top it all off, we end the course with hours upon hours of real world, unfiltered editing of my own portfolio images where I put on display absolutely every creative concept, idea, and technique I know.I put all my knowledge into this course, and after this, you'll never need to watch another Lightroom tutorial ever again.

 

Hope to see you in the course.

💙, Pat.

Lesson highlights

👋 Introduction
Hey! Let's get to know what we'll be going through together in the masterclass. We'll also cover the different versions of Lightroom and which we'll be using to learn with.

 

😌 Importing and organisation
We'll orient ourselves with the basics and a good foundational knowledge of how to organise our images, because things can get kind of out of hand when we're talking about hundreds of thousands of images, ya know?

 

🧱 Editing fundamentals
While this module has the word "fundamentals" in it, I assure you that even the most seasoned of Lightroom users will pick up a few new things they didn't know about the Develop tools in Lightroom. I go in to *technical detail* about how the tools work, rather than just sliding a slider and saying "look, it does this".

 

🎯 Local adjustments
Masking and local adjustments can really shape your images into unique pieces of art, and this module introduces you to the tools that do it well. This is where we introduce the new Masking feature for the first time; a tool that will change the way you edit in Lightroom forever.

 

💪 Editing workflow
I take you through my exact workflow that I use for every single image. It's a workflow that has taken tens of thousands of edits to perfect, and it's one that I feel is the most efficient, scalable, and non-destructive methods you'll find out there.

 

🧑‍🎨 Creative editing
If things weren't interesting enough by this point in the masterclass, they will be from this module. We get into some creative techniques using specific tools and I teach you some ways you can truly make your images unique and stand out from the crowd.

 

🎨 Building a visual aesthetic
While we won't really be using Lightroom much in this module, I feel it's important to cover the concepts of how to build a visual aesthetic, what style in photography truly is, and a few other concepts, so that you can really get an understanding of the fast-track towards being able to effectively communicate with your images through visual language.

 

🧑‍💻 Editing sessions
To finish up the masterclass, we spend hours upon hours editing my portfolio images in a real, raw, and unfiltered way. This real-world approach will guide your understanding towards what editing in Lightroom is really like from a professional photographer who does this every day. I'll talk through every step of the process and show you my favourite techniques to achieve some creative and unique looks that are cornerstones to my unique style and visual aesthetic.

Would easily pay double the amount for this course. Early on, one of my friends told me that the best thing to do is to rather than spend money on new gear, learn the tips and techniques to get the most out of the gear I've already got. I've been binging Pat's YouTube videos to learn all about photography, but his class is just next level! Well worth even twice the price that I've seen other smaller courses by offered by other photographers at. What a treasure trove of information. Thanks Pat!

- Brooke M.

Any questions? 
Let's see if we can clear some up. 

7-day money-back guarantee

While I've put every effort into making this course as good as it can be, if you don't like it, I get it.

 

Within the first 7 days, if you don't like what you see, I'm happy to provide you with a refund.*

 

*Please note that this only applies to regular payment methods. "Buy it now, pay later" payment options such as Afterpay and PayPal "Pay in 4" are not eligible for refund under any circumstances.

Is $399 worth it for an online course?

Think of it this way: it’s like the cost of a single day workshop or a couple of private lessons, but here you get structured learning from a proven photographer + the ability to rewatch anytime. Many students tell me they’ve spent more than $399 on gear or random tutorials in the past, but nothing improved their photography like this course did. I truly believe in the value – and that’s why I offer a 7-day satisfaction guarantee. No risk.

How is this different from free tutorials online or on YouTube?

Free tutorials are usually one-off tips with no clear structure—meaning you have to hunt for the correct sequence to learn with, or worse, end up more confused than when you started. You also have no confidence that the teacher isn't teaching bad habits or inefficient methods of editing. 

 

I've worked very closely with Adobe on many campaigns & projects, I'm personally on the pre-release program (before software goes beta) and give feedback all time, way before any feature makes it to production builds. I know Lightroom inside and out. 


So, I know how to teach it. And this masterclass is a complete, proven system that builds your skills in the right order, helping you edit faster, better, and with full creative control. No more patching together random advice.

I’m still a beginner. Is this course right for me?

Absolutely. This masterclass is designed specifically for photographers who want to finally feel confident editing their photos — even if you’re brand new to Lightroom. Everything is explained step-by-step, with no jargon, no assumptions, and no prior editing experience needed.

What if my photos aren’t good enough yet to edit?

Editing is where most photos become truly great—even pros start with simple, imperfect shots. Learning to edit now will make every photo you take going forward better, because you’ll start seeing differently even while shooting.

I already know a little bit about Lightroom. Will this still help me?

100%.
Even if you’re familiar with basic sliders, this course dives deeper into workflow, style development, creative choices, and professional-level techniques that most casual users never discover.

What version of Lightroom does this work with? 

While the course is taught in Lightroom Classic, all of the skills transfer over to Lightroom CC, on any device. 

Will you provide RAW images to work with?

Unfortunately not. I decided to go the other route and rather than edit images and use examples that are average, I decided to make my examples all top quality portfolio-level images so that you can have the highest quality, most real-world professional experience in the course.

 

Because these images are my portfolio images, I won't be giving them out.

What happens after I purchase?

After checkout, you will receive an email with instructions to create a new account. 

 

If you already have an account, you will receive an email saying that you were enrolled in the course and to check out the dashboard for access. If you don't receive an email, head over to learnwith.patkay.com to get started.

 

If you didn't receive an email, please check your spam folder, or head over to learnwith.patkay.com and either create an account/sign in and your course should be there.

 

If you have any issues, please contact us at orders@patkay.com with your order number and issue, and we'll get on it fast.

How long does my course access last for?

Forever! The course has lifetime access across all devices.

Is there a community section?

After having trialed many different approaches to communities, I found that having an online community based around this price point doesn't make enough economical sense.

 

Therefore, I've recently decided to depreicate the community section for this course.

 

As an alternative, I offer an invite to my Discord channel, where many creatives hang out and talk about many different aspects of creativity and photography, with a far higher engagement and far more varied feedback and response.

 

You can find an invite link here: patkay.com/discordinvite.

 

In the future, there will be a Photography Mentorship program that will include a vibrant community where you'll be able to learn all sorts of things with myself and other photographers. 

Still not 100% sure?


No worries. Dive into the masterclass, explore a few lessons, and if you feel it’s not right for you, just email me within 7 days for a full refund.
I want you to be excited about your learning — no pressure, and no risk to you.

Let's get to work on transforming your images

Join over 2,000+ photographers who have transformed their editing skills. 
Title
Lightroom Editing Masterclass

Lightroom Editing Masterclass

$399.00

Lifetime access, go at your own pace

Learn from a credited professional photographer

50 lessons, 8 modules, 11 hours of content

7-day money-back guarantee

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