Lightroom Classic

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Digital photography is only part photography. The rest is all digital which means time spent in front of a computer importing, sorting, selecting, tweaking, tagging, finishing, printing, sharing, uploading and showing your images.

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6 Classes

Course Details

Digital photography is only part photography. The rest is all digital which means time spent in front of a computer importing, sorting, selecting, tweaking, tagging, finishing, printing, sharing, uploading and showing your images.

Lightroom Classic is the premiere software program that handles all of those tasks with relative ease and quite a bit of elegance. It has changed the way professional photographers work and is increasingly the choice of amateur shooters as well.

In the series of six classes you will learn how to set up Lightroom Classic, import images and use the wealth of editing tools to improve your photos. You’ll understand how to use Lightroom’s ability to instantly find any photo in your collection based on keywords. You’ll also learn how to print, create web galleries and slide shows and share images online from within Lightroom.

 

You Will Learn:

  • Intro:  Why is Lightroom such a big deal?  •  Will I still need Photoshop?  •  Should I be shooting RAW?  •  We’ll tackle the all-important subjects of image organization and backup. You’ll learn how to get Lightroom set up to work best for your shooting style and workflow.
  • Setup:  Understand the Lightroom database concept  •  Where does Lightroom store its stuff?  •  Setting up your preferences
  • Organizing your images:  What to do with existing folders of images  •  Moving from another program like iPhoto   •  Some recommended folder structures to help keep your sanity
  • Importing:  Getting your images loaded into LR from a drive or device  •  Basic file naming and tagging  •  What about DNG?  •  What are Smart Previews?
  • Catalogs:  Backing up your precious data  •  Working with multiple catalogs  •  Synchronizing catalogs between computers  •  Working with external hard drives.
  • Keywording and metadata: finding the needle in the haystack:  How to add keywords to your images  •  Searching by metadata  •  Finding your photos with a few keystrokes  •  Using the Library Filter to instantly search by date, lens or any other criteria
  • Map Module:  Automatically map photos taken with any GPS enabled device  •  Using inexpensive hardware or a $2 app on your smartphone you can map all of your DSLR photos
  • Tethered shooting:  How to shoot with your camera connected directly to your computer for automatic import into Lightroom  •  Precision color profiling for shooting product or other subjects
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    4756 Algiers, Dallas

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