Introduction to Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom™
Denver, CO
February 25, 2007
1pm-5pm
$45 per person

This intensive presentation will introduce you to the power and sophistication of Adobe’s newest software solution for digital photographers. Adobe Certified Expert Nathaniel Coalson will demonstrate a complete digital image processing workflow implementing Lightroom as the primary tool, with Photoshop used for fine-tuning individual images. During this class, you will learn all about using the Lightroom Modules and how to effectively manage your growing image library.

Nat will cover in this four-hour introduction:

The Lightroom Workflow
- How it works with other Adobe image processing software

Preferences
- The most important settings for customizing your interaction with Lightroom

Identity Plate
- How to set up your custom branding within the software

Importing Images into Lightroom
- About Lightroom Databases
- Strategies for File and Folder structures
- Using multiple Libraries
- Auto Import settings
- Importing images
- Deleting images from the Library

View Menu
- Grid, Loupe, Compare, Survey
- View Options (Library and Develop only)
- Mirror image mode

Window Menu
- Panels
- Screen Mode
- Lights Out

Help Menu
- Help system overview
- The Five Rules
- Shortcuts

Library Module
- Browsing, Ranking and Comparing
- Rating, Flag, Color Label settings
- Making Selections - "Most Selected" etc.
- Quick Develop
- Filters
- Find
- Previews
- Loupe mode
- Stacking
- Virtual Copies
- Intro to Keywords

Quick Collections

Develop Module
- Develop settings - complete overview
- Defaults; copying and pasting, syncing Develop settings

Slideshow Module

Print Module

Web Module

Exporting
- Importance of DNG

Metadata
- Templates
- Keywords and Keyword Sets
- Copying, Pasting, Syncing
- Stamping
- XMP updating
- Importing and exporting leywords

Color Management in Lightroom

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