Adobe Lightroom Classic CC Workshop

Taking the photograph is only half of the photographic process. In the "old days" of film, serious photographers used darkroom techniques to perfect their images. Today, we use software. Adobe Lightroom is an excellent tool for helping photographers create outstanding photographs!

Learn techniques for effectively managing and organizing the thousands of photographs you take with your digital camera. Then learn the many ways this amazing tool can be used to adjust your images to move them from "good" to "great"!

Organize Your Photographs - You Will Learn:

• Explain the CONFUSING differences between the new Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic CC and their "Creative Cloud"
• How to set up Lightroom Classic CCto manage your photographs you have already loaded on your hard drive
• Import photos from your camera or memory cards
• Alternative ways to configure Lightroom to manage photographs on multiple hard drives
• Customize file naming and/or rename files
• Organize folders
• Using the power of "Collections" and "Smart Collections"
• Configure templates and presets to make the import process easier
• Add copyright information, keywords
• Rate your favorites and quickly find your best photographs
• Use the powerful search tools built into Lightroom
• Understand the ways Lightroom stores "metadata"
• Differences in how JPG, RAW, and DNG files are handled
• Removing files from Lightroom
• Find where files are located on your hard drive
• Fix problems when you accidentally move files
• Techniques to help you be more efficient in using Lightroom
• Options for backing up data
• How to export and publish files
• How to use "plugins"

Adjust/Edit Your Photographs - You Will Learn:

• Adjust your images for the best color, contrast, white balance, highlight detail, shadow detail, etc.
• Noise reduction
• Sharpening
• Vignettes
• Selective image adjustments using advanced masks, brushes, graduated filters and new AI features!
• Enhancing portions of an image using hue, saturation, and luminance
• Most effective ways to convert to black & white
• Cropping images
• Lens and perspective correction techniques
• Spot/dust removal
• Making adjustments across multiple images at one time
• Applying preset filters
• Creating export presets
• Create different variants of the same image using "virtual copy"
• Printing and "Soft Proofing"