Adobe Lightroom Level 1
Lightroom is a powerful tool designed for photographers to help manage and edit images. Learning an environment such as Lightroom can be intimidating because it can do so many things and has a seemingly endless amount of features. Join Dennis Lee during this intensive, hands on, one day class as he helps demystify Lightroom. The goal is to quickly get you up to speed with Lightroom so you can spend less time in front of a computer and more time shooting!
This course is best suited for beginning, intermediate or experienced photographer with little or no knowledge of Adobe Lightroom or, anyone looking for in depth review of Lightroom.
With our extensive knowledge of the different software currently on the market, including all Microsoft and Adobe applications, ON-TRACK Corporate Training Ltd. has a diverse and flexible schedule that can be customized to your needs – we offer group course (both public and corporate), one-on-one training, and on-site training options. We also have easily accessible on-line training videos available.
Duration: 1 Day
Objectives
- Be comfortable navigating Lightroom to quickly access features and functions
- Gain a solid understanding of how to organize physical files
- Understand how to sort and organize images
- Learn a workflow from capture to share
- Know how to shoot tethered to a computer
- Learn how to edit images and understand limitations of editing with Lightroom vs Photoshop
What to Bring
- Mac or PC running Adobe Lightroom 5.0 (demo version will suffice)
- DSLR (preferably) camera
- USB cable and card reader
- Memory card(s)
Outline
- Introductions
- What is Lightroom?
- Brief Walk Through
- File and Image Management: How to Bring in Images
- Importing files
- Shooting tethered
- Catalog: physical files vs images
- Organizing Images
- Selecting and rating images
- Key wording
- Meta data
- Collections
- Smart collections
- Photo stacks
- Comparing images
- Finding images
- Sharing and Exporting Images
- Email images
- Post to Facebook
- Export images
- Watermark images
- Editing Images: How to Make your Images look their best
- RAW or JPG
- Global edits
- white balance
- cropping
- saturation
- tone Curve
- noise Reduction
- spot removal tool
- lens correction
- clone and heal brush
- light retouching
- graduated filter
- presets
- Creating virtual copies
- Printing, Creating Slideshows and Creating Photo Books
- Using layouts to print photo book using Blurb
- Using print layouts
- Creating a slideshow
- Overview of Web Module
- Best Practices with Lightroom
- Keyboard Shortcuts