Adobe Lightroom Workshop in ABQ

Posted by: Igor Skibenko

This workshop will teach you how to set up full workflow in Adobe Lightroom, and develop photos in the most efficient way.
Starting from basic steps of importing, cataloging, developing and exporting pictures, we’ll come to effective automatic presets which will save you a lot of time in the future.
What’s covered:
Part1
- Interface of Adobe Lightroom interface, and general overview of the working workflow.
- Import and export modules.
- Cataloging and metadata. Tags and filters. Building an image catalog; search in a catalog.
- The inner structure of a photo. Perceptual picture quality, retouching goals and some common picture problems.
- Tone and Color correction instruments in the Lightroom.
- Pros and cons of using RAW format.
Part 2
- Optimizing Lightroom settings.
- Retouching portraits.
- Improving landscape and architecture photos.
- Black and white photo conversion.
- Automatic presets: creating and sharing automatics.
- Third party plugins. Export to web gallery.
- Slideshows.

Handouts:
- Helpful notes and shortcuts;
- Links to free helpful plugins;
- Presets for automatic developing to use in your own workflow.