👉 Join the Priority List for the Next Underwater Lightroom Mastery Cohort

Underwater Lightroom Mastery is my live, small-group training program for underwater photographers who want to move beyond simply knowing Lightroom tools and become more confident making editing decisions on their own photographs.

The next cohort is currently being refined with an even stronger emphasis on:

Hands-on practice
Participant photographs
Personal feedback
Guided decision-making

The goal is not to give you more Lightroom information.

It is to help you turn what you already know into a process you can confidently apply to your own underwater photographs.

Join the priority list and I will let you know when the next cohort dates, format, and enrollment details are announced.

Knowing Lightroom Is Not the Same as Knowing What Your Photograph Needs

You may already know how to use Lightroom.

You know where to find White Balance, Exposure, Color, Masking, and many of the other tools that can improve an underwater photograph.

But the harder questions are often:

✅ What does this photograph actually need?
✅Which adjustment should come first?
✅Am I solving the right problem?
✅How do I know when an adjustment is finished?
✅When should I stop and move on?

That is where many underwater photographers begin second-guessing themselves.

They know the tools, but they still find themselves revisiting earlier adjustments, trying different approaches, and wondering why one photograph works while the next one does not.

Underwater Lightroom Mastery Is Built Around Applying What You Know

The next cohort is being developed for underwater photographers who already understand the basic Lightroom tools but want to become more confident applying them to their own photographs.

The emphasis will be on:

Diagnosing the photograph before making adjustments
Making decisions in a clear, repeatable order
Working with real underwater photographs, including participant images
Getting feedback when an edit is not working
Practicing until the decision-making process becomes more natural

This is not about collecting more Lightroom information.

It is about learning how to turn what you already know into a process you can trust.

Who Underwater Lightroom Mastery Is For

Underwater Lightroom Mastery is being developed for underwater photographers who already know the basic Lightroom interface but want more confidence in applying it to their own photographs.

It may be a strong fit if you:

Know the basic Lightroom tools but are not always sure what to adjust next
Sometimes get inconsistent results from photographs taken under similar conditions
Find yourself revisiting earlier adjustments or overworking an image
Have collected plenty of Lightroom tips but still do not have a dependable editing process
Want feedback on your own underwater photographs
Want to understand why an edit is or is not working
Are willing to practice and apply what you learn

You do not need to be an advanced Lightroom user.

What matters most is that you want to become better at:

recognizing what the photograph needs, making a deliberate decision, evaluating the result, and confidently moving on.

Joining the Priority List Is Simple

1. Enter your first name and email address

2. I’ll notify you when the next Underwater Lightroom Mastery cohort is ready

3. You can review the dates, format, and enrollment details before deciding whether to join

There is no obligation to enroll.

Joining the priority list simply makes sure you are among the first to hear when the next cohort is announced.

What the Next Cohort Is Being Built Around

The next Underwater Lightroom Mastery cohort is being refined around practice, feedback, and better editing decisions, not simply more Lightroom instruction.

You can expect the program to emphasize:

A clear editing sequence
White Balance → Exposure → Presence → Color → Masking → Final Adjustments
Diagnose → Decide → Move On
Learn to identify the real problem before reaching for an adjustment.
Real underwater photographs
Work through the kinds of challenges underwater photographers actually encounter.
Participant photographs
Your own images will be an important part of the learning process.
Personal feedback
Understand why an edit is or is not working and what should happen next.
Guided practice
Apply the process repeatedly until the decisions become more familiar and natural.

The goal is not simply to know more about Lightroom.

The goal is to become more confident deciding what your own underwater photograph needs next.

How the Priority List Works

1. Add your first name and email address
2. I’ll keep you updated as the next Underwater Lightroom Mastery cohort is refined
3. You’ll be among the first to receive the dates, format, and enrollment details

4. You can decide then whether the program is right for you

There is no commitment and no payment required to join the priority list.

The purpose is simply to make sure you hear about the next cohort before enrollment opens more broadly.

About Your Instructor, Bob Herb

Hi, I’m Bob Herb.

I’m a professional underwater photographer, Lightroom educator, and Master Scuba Diver with over 9,700 dives and more than 50 years of photography experience.

Over the years, I have photographed and edited thousands of underwater images and worked through the same challenges underwater photographers face again and again:

lost color, uneven exposure, backscatter, difficult lighting, low contrast, and photographs that do not always look the way the scene felt underwater.

What I learned is that better editing does not come from collecting more Lightroom tricks.

It comes from learning to recognize what the photograph needs first, what should happen next, and why each decision affects the decisions that follow.

That experience became The Consistent Underwater Editing System.

My goal in Underwater Lightroom Mastery is not to teach you to make photographs that look like mine.

It is to help you develop a dependable process, make better decisions with your own photographs, and build the confidence to know what to do next.

That is the kind of work the next cohort is being designed around.