Lightroom 2 Workshop
Intermediate Adobe Lightroom
This Lightroom 2 class is for students who have taken the Lightroom 1 class or who have already worked with Lightroom and understand the basic functions of cataloguing and image editing and who would like to push further and begin to work with Lightroom at a higher level. Students will be shown how to use some of the advanced functions and techniques to push their photos further. We’ll look at making virtual copies of photos allowing students to experiment with creating a variety of very different interpretations of their best photographs. We’ll look at the Before and After comparison function to help students decide the best image from a larger group of similar images. We’ll show students how to save adjustment presets that can be reused over and over for other photos. We’ll also look at using automatic synchronization to enable students to make similar changes to a large group of photos at once time. In addition to showing how to make fine tune adjustments to all of one photo, we’ll also look at how to use masks to isolate changes (contrast, white balance, sharpness, etc.) to different areas of one photo. Likewise, we’ll move beyond overall tonal corrections and will begin to look at adjusting a picture one color at a time to isolate shifts in contrast in more isolated ways. We’ll cover using the retouching pen to correct skin and other imperfections in your photos. We’ll discuss the limits of Lightroom and what sorts of image corrections might need to be done in Photoshop. We’ll show students how to export their files at different sizes and resolutions and we’ll discuss steps for creating slide shows of photo images as well as the necessary steps to prepare images for high quality digital print out.
Lightroom 2 Topics
Advanced Image Adjustment Techniques
- Improving RAW format files
- Mastery of Before/After preview options
- Apply image adjustments to a group of photos
- Work with Virtual Copies
- Work simultaneously on correcting multiple photos
- Apply Adjustment presets
- Use Screen Proof to preview images for printing and the web
Advanced Corrections (Whole image)
- Adjusting your image with Histogram
- Determine white and black points
- Adjusting contrast with the Tonal Curves palette
- Adjust colors individually
- Add a vignette effect
- Add a split toning effect
Advanced Corrections (Selected Areas)
- Adjust individual areas of a photo
- Retouching brush options
- Retouching portraits
- Correcting photos with graduated filter
- Adding Vignette or Spot Light effects with radial filter
- Shifting image to Photoshop
- Define External editing software
- Back and forth between Photoshop and Lightroom
- Add Photoshop automatically to your workflow
- Create a panorama in Photoshop from Lightroom
Creating a Slide Shows
- Set up instant slide show
- Personalize your slide show
- Apply background to your images
- Add text
- Apply drop shadows & frames
- Add Title slides
- Add sound to slide show
- Set timing of overall slide show and of transitions
- Share slide show
Printing from Lightroom
- Print individual photos
- Print Contact Sheets
- Create personal page layout for images
- Save you personal layouts
- Add text
- Print several copies of same image on one page
- Set a background image
- Color calibration with printer
At the end of this workshop you will be able to:
- Make advanced global corrections to your photos
- Change local areas in your photos
- Correct images using both Photoshop and Lightroom
- Present your images in slide show format
- Print your photos using color calibration and with various page layouts
Cost: 240 € 3.5 hours (to take place in the residence of the student or elsewhere by agreement).