Lightroom 1 Workshop

Intro to Adobe Lightroom (2 sessions)

This course is for students wishing to start fine tuning and improving the quality of their photographs while also being able to better organize the large quantity of digital images most photographers now find themselves confronted with. This first workshop, comprising two sessions will provide students with the foundations necessary to begin profitting from the many powerful capabilities of Adobe Lightroom. We’ll cover the basics of image management: importing, applying keywords that will help us sort through images more easily later and then exporting and printing images at different sizes and resolutions. Likewise, we’ll look at the many powerful image correction tools available in Lightroom that allow photographs to enhance the quality of their images by improving the exposure, contrast, color balance and much more. Students’ will complete the first set of workshops with a solid foundation and understanding of which tools and techniques to use to begin improving the quality of their images.

Lightroom 1 Topics

Lightroom Introduction

• Why choose Lightroom and not Photoshop?
• The Lightroom layout of modes and panels

Importing Photos into Lightroom

• When importing, choosing where to save images
• Organize your folders for storing images
• Import photos into Lightroom catalogue from digital camera
• Import photos into Lightroom catalogue from your computer’s hard drive
• Add folders in Lightroom
• Sorting your images in Lightroom
• Add Key Words to photos to help more easily retrieve them later
• Rate your photos to identify the best images
• Renaming photos
• Deleting photos from the Lightroom catalog
• Effective methods to search for images in your Lightroom catalog
• How to reconnect missing images in your Lightroom catalog
• Learn how to back up your Lightroom catalog

Develop/Improve Your Photos with Lightroom

• Learn to adjust images rapidly in the Library Mode
• Use comparison mode to see images before and after changes
• Learn how to adjust tonality automatically
• Correct the white balance for more accurate colors
• Correct the overall exposure of photos
• Improve the contrast of your photos
• Improve the color saturation of your photos
• Convert color images to black and white

Correcting Classic Problems

• Crop images for better compositions.
• Rotate images
• Repair red eye effect
• Correct exposure in backlit images
• Improve image contrast
• Improve overall sharpness
• Clean up small defects in picture
• Hide undesired elements of photo
• Correct vignetting at edges of photos

Synchronizing changes to multiple images at one time

• Use “Previous” button in Develop module to apply last adjustments to new picture
• Using Synchronization to apply saved preset adjustments to pictures
• Using Auto Sync to automatically change one or more photos

Exporting Images

• Save as JPEG
• Save images for website use
• Share photos via Email

Printing (basics)

• Print multiple copies of one image
• Print several different images to one sheet of paper
• Add copyright and/or watermarks to protect your photos
• Print “contact sheets” of dozens of images to one sheet

At the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Import, organize and find your photos quickly and effectively
• Develop/improve the quality of your digital images
• Learn how to correct typical problems in your photos
• Export your images in different resolutions and formats
• Print your photos as individual images or in groups on the same sheet
• Save and backup your LightRoom catalog

Cost: 240 € for one or two private sessions totalling 5 hours (to take place in the residence of the student or elsewhere by agreement).

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