Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 3 software helps you bring out the best in your photographs, whether you’re perfecting one image, searching for ten, processing hundreds, or organizing thousands.

Create incredible images that move your audience. Experiment fearlessly with state-of-the-art nondestructive editing tools. Easily manage all your images. And showcase your work in elegant print layouts, slide shows, and web galleries, as well as on popular photo-sharing sites. All from within one fast, intuitive application.

Streamline your digital photography

Be more creative and save time with a fast, intuitive assistant that gives you the tools you need to efficiently edit, manage, and showcase your images.

This lite workshop will introduce you as a beginner to using Lightrooms, and its everyday features, more advanced features will be taught at the advanced classes starting late summer 2011.

Itenary:

• Introduction to Lightroom
• Overview of Lightroom – why use Lightroom?
• Collections (for creating portfolios and quick refs)
• Getting to know the work area – Modules
• Basic shortcuts for manipulating workspace
• Importing and sorting photographs
• File formats supported (intro to DNG)
• Importing Preferences
• Importing images from: Memory Card, a folder on a computer, an external hard drive
• Moving around Library Module
• Navigator
• View modes
• Comparing images
• Working with Folders and Catalogs – creating,
• backing up, exporting, importing
• Organizing and editing images
• Star rating
• Quick Collection
• Smart Collections
• Stacking
• Renaming
• Working with Metadata (cataloguing)
• Keywording images
• Grouping keywords into sets
• Synchronizing keywords
• Filtering
• Working on images – basics
• Quick develop adjustments
• Adjusting White Balance
• Temperature / Tint and Tone Control.
• Develop Module
• Using Presets
• Using Histogram the right way
• Adjusting White Balance and Tone, Cropping / Straightening images
• Removing dust and red eyes on the images
• Graduated Filter
• Adjustment Brush – settings and usage
• Image adjustments using Curves, HSL / Color Black and White Conversion
• Using the Detail Panel to deal with Sharpening, Noise and Chromatic aberrations
• Correcting vignetting
• Lens Calibration Panel
• Editing images in an external application (Photoshop)
• Exporting images to Photoshop as Smart Objects
• Exporting images
• Export images settings

Equipment Needed

You will need to bring along your own laptop with Adobe Lightrooms 2 or installed. If you don’t have Adobe Lightrooms you can download a trial in advance of coming and use that for 30 days max, before purchasing.