Photoshop Lightroom — Essentials

This course runs from 9:30am to 3:00pm on Sunday 12th, Sunday 19th, & Sunday 26th March.

In this intensive 3-day workshop, participants will (using their own laptops) learn to download, catalogue, develop and then present their digital photographs using Adobe Lightroom CC.

• an overview of Lightroom, its modules and workflows
• Importing from memory card and hard drive. What’s the difference?
• we’ll sort, rate, label & cull, then manage with folders, collections, smart collections and quick collections
• the Library, a catalogue & database: setting up its preferences and starting to working with metadata like keywords.
• going global: cropping, straightening, lens correction, tone & colour adjustments including white balance & exposure
• getting local: gradients and the adjustment brush
• retouching with clone, heal & red eye tools
• sharpening: input & output
• synchronising adjustments across multiple images
• effects: B&W, sepia, split toning, vignetting, adding grain
• Exporting to Photoshop or another external editor
• working with plugins e.g. NiK Collection or OnOne suite
• Exporting to output: resolution, resizing, colour space, file format
• utilising presets & templates
• metadata searches
• merging catalogues i.e. from your travel laptop to your home workstation
• creating web galleries & slideshows

N.B. this is a BYO laptop class as its important that you leave with a well setup catalogue on your own computer.