Digital Photography with Lightroom
Collect, enhance, and present your shots with Adobe's pro photography app
Have you ever spent more time working on a photo shoot at your desk than you did taking the pictures? If so, consider managing, developing, printing, and presenting your shots more efficiently with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.
This 6-lesson, hands-on course introduces you to Lightroom's powerful features. You'll learn how to collect and catalog your images with ease, use basic and advanced development and retouching tools to create stellar shots, and present your work in slideshows, on the Web, and in print. And all this is non-destructive to your files, leaving your original shots safe and intact.
Throughout the course, you'll use challenging photoshoot assignments as the springboard for practicing and presenting your photography in Lightroom. Instructor, pro photographer, and author Ken Milburn will challenge you to take your shots to the next level of organization, quality, and presentation.
Tuition: $900 US
Course Instructor(s):
Requirements:
- Computer with Internet connection (56 Kbps modem or faster).
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 or 4.
- Digital camera with zoom, and manual settings. RAW shooting capability recommended.
- Basic experience in digital photography and basic experience in/access to Adobe Photoshop.
- An account with an ad-free Web hosting service (free services are available). An ad-free Web space allows students to upload assignments without interference from forced ads like popups or banners.
Prerequisites:
Course Objectives:
- Create a digital photography workflow using Lightroom.
- Apply each of the five Lightroom modules to a single photograph or to many photographs simultaneously.
- Import images from a photo shoot to the library and export to different file formats.
- Catalog and find images using metadata, keywords, ratings, and other properties.
- Adjust basic qualities of a photograph including white balance, brightness, and contrast.
- Evaluate and adjust a photograph using a histogram.
- Apply localized image adjustments including spot retouching, cropping, and graded corrections.
- Make detailed corrections to toning, color, sharpening, noise and chromatic aberration, and vignettes.
- Use black and white, corrections, and vignetting as creative devices.
- Create PDF slideshows and Web galleries using Lightroom templates and custom layout features.
- Print single images, custom contact sheets, and picture packages.
- Use slideshows, Web galleries, and contact sheets as evaluative pieces or client presentations.
Course Outline
LESSON 1 Introduction to Lightroom
If you're an established Photoshop user, you may wonder where Lightroom fits in your photography workflow. In this lesson, you'll explore the many facets of Lightroom and how it can be a one-stop shop for most of your cataloging, developing, and presenting needs. Lightroom is like five programs in one, with "modules" called Library, Develop, Print, Slideshow, and Web, and this lesson will give you a taste of the basic features of each. In the exercise, try out each module with your own shots and you'll start to see how Lightroom can work for your needs.
LESSON 2 Digital Asset Management
If you've ever come home from a shoot with hundreds or thousands of photos, you know how tricky it can be to sort through and find the ones you want to use. The Lightroom Library provides all the digital asset management (DAM) tools you'll need to cut down your sorting and cataloging, big time. You'll go on a shoot, then import your images, rank and keyword them, add metadata, filter them based in different criteria, and catalog them into useful groups. This lesson also explores some quick image enhancements that you can apply to the entire shoot without ever leaving the Library. You'll build your library even further in the exercise and export files for viewing outside of Lightroom.
LESSON 3 Develop Module Basics
The Develop module is arguably Lightroom's most powerful, and even the basics of it are mighty powerful. You'll start your look at basic Develop module features with histograms: those little graphs that contain tons of data about your image. You'll learn to interpret a histogram and make toning changes accordingly. You'll examine a wide range of adjustments that correct and improve your images, from white balance to fill light to vibrance. You'll also learn a basic workflow for your image adjustments and apply it to a photo shoot in the exercise.
LESSON 4 Develop Module Advanced
How many times have you taken the perfect shot… that just isn't quite perfect? Noise, chromic aberrations, spots, color casts, and toning problems are no match for Lightroom's advanced Develop features. You'll learn to use special tools for making local image adjustments like spot correction and graduated corrections, as well as apply detailed global fixes for exposure problems, colors, vignettes, and more. You'll also learn to employ these features creatively for amazing black-and-whites and elegant photo vignettes. You'll conduct a photo shoot in the exercise and pull together a killer photo collection.
LESSON 5 The Slideshow and Web Modules
The purpose of slideshows and Web galleries to photographers is two-fold. These presentation methods let you or clients evaluate your work, but also let you showcase your work as a portfolio. In Lightroom, these are simple to create for any purpose. You'll explore the basic templates and settings that make slideshows and Web galleries work, and how to customize them with your logo, special layouts, and even sound and motion. In the exercise, you'll create an evaluation slideshow and a portfolio Web gallery that you can launch online with your own Web hosting.
LESSON 6 The Print Module
Whether you're printing glossy shots to hang in a gallery or contact sheets for client evaluation, printing is an important final step in your Lightroom experience. In this lesson, you'll explore how to print single shots, contact sheets or different images, and multi-sized picture packages of the same image. You'll customize your contact sheets and picture packages, and look at key printer and color settings to get just the right printed result. In the final exercise, you'll go on a shoot and experience the full Lightroom treatment from organization to adjustments and corrections to output presentation.
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