This workshop goes over my entire workflow, from importing files through sorting, post-processing, exporting and printing.

The workshop requires that you have:

• Adobe Lightroom 5/6/CC,
• Adobe Photoshop 5/6/CC
• Silver Efex Pro™
• Imagenomic – Portraiture

Trial version of the software can be downloaded by clicking on the mentioned applications above.

Adobe Lightroom segment will cover the following:

Overview and Lightroom Settings
Photo Importing

• Importing files
• File Handling
• Develop Settings
• Tethered Capture

Library Module

• Navigator
• Catalog Panel
• Library Previews
• Navigator Panel
• Folders Panel
• View Modes
• All about Collections
• Working in Library
• Tagging and Filters
• Keywords
• Quick Develop
• Metadata

Develop Module

• Develop Workspace
• Histogram
• Presets
• The Basic panel: Essential adjustments for every photo
• Tone Curve: Modify tones based on ranges of luminance
• Targeted Adjustment Tool
• HSL / Color / B & W: Adjust color by range
• Split Toning: Apply creative color treatments
• Detail: Fine-tune sharpening and noise reduction
• Lens Corrections: Fix image problems caused by the lens
• Effects: Add vignettes and simulate film grain
• Camera Calibration: Precisely control raw image rendering
• Before/After
• Crop Overlay: Cropping and straightening your photos
• Spot Removal: Retouching photos in Lightroom
• Spot Removal: Retouching photos in Lightroom
• Heal Dust Spots
• Red Eye Correction
• Local Adjustments: Dodging, burning, and so much more
• Graduated Filters
• Radial Filters
• Working with Adjustment Brush
• Navigator panel
• Presets: Apply multiple Develop adjustments with one click
• Snapshots & History
• Collections
• Virtual copies
• Apply settings from one photo to others
• Soft proofing
• External Editing – Photoshop
• Exporting

Map Module

• MAP: Plot your photo locations with GPS coordinates
• Working with photos that already have GPS data
• Adding GPS coordinates to photos using the map
• Adding GPS coordinates to photos using a tracklog software
• Navigator
• Saved Locations
• Collections
• Metadata
• Map display
• Location Filter
• Map Toolbar
• Sync Metadata

Books Module

• Design and order photo books in Lightroom
• Create a new book with a custom layout
• Preview panel
• Collections: Create and manage Saved Books
• Book previews
• Book Toolbar
• Book Filmstrip
• Book Preferences
• Book Settings
• Book templates
• Auto Layout: Create a book with one click
• Working in the Auto Layout Preset Editor
• Page panel: Add or change pages
• Guides
• Cell panel
• Text panel: Add text to photos and pages
• Table of Contents
• Type: Style your text
• Background panel
• About covers
• Create Saved Book
• Send Book to Blurb

Slideshow Module

• Make a Slideshow
• Preview
• Template Browser
• Collections
• Slideshow Toolbar
• Options
• Layout
• Overlays
• Backdrop
• Titles
• Playback
• Preview and Play Your Slideshow
• Impromptu Slideshow
• Create Saved Slideshow
• Exporting Slideshows

Print Module

• Making a print
• Preview
• Template Browser
• Collections
• Page Setup
• Main preview area
• Print Toolbar
• Layout & Layout Style
• Single Image / Contact Sheet
• Image Settings
• Guides
• Page
• Picture Package
• Image Settings
• Rulers, Grid & Guides
• Cells
• Page
• Custom Package
• Printing

Web Module

• Build a Lightroom Web Gallery
• Preview panel
• Template Browser
• Collections
• Main preview area
• Web Toolbar
• Layout Style
• Site Info
• Color Palette
• Appearance
• Image Info
• Output & Upload Settings
• Create Saved Web Gallery
• Preview in Browser
• Export & Upload

Catalog

• Catalog Settings
• Catalog backups
• Maintaining catalog integrity
• Using multiple catalogs
• Export as Catalog
• Import from Catalog
• Working with Lightroom on multiple computers

Adobe Photoshop segment will go over the following:

• Photoshop Overview and Settings
• Understanding file formats, resolution, canvas size, and print size
• Opening, Viewing, and Saving Files
• Layers – Selecting, stacking, aligning, and grouping layers, blending
• Selections: Choosing What to Edit – Marquee, Lasso, and Brush tools
• Using Refine Edge, Quick Selection, and layer masks to isolate soft edge objects
• Understanding Channels
• Cropping, Resizing, Rotating, Straightening, Transforming, Warping, Scaling
• Combining Images
• Draining, Changing, and Adding Color
• Correcting Color and Lighting
• Improving tone, contrast, and color selectively
• Retouching blemishes, smoothing skin, whitening teeth, and brightening eyes
• Retouching with the Liquify, Content-Aware Fill, Healing Brush, and Patch tools
• Converting to black and white and tinting images
• Sharpening
• Filters
• Actions
• Plug-Ins: Silver Efex Pro and Imagenomic Portraiture
• Using Adobe Bridge

Note: To fully cover the above segments I recommend that you opt in for a three-day workshop otherwise we will have to skip or accelerate through certain parts in order to fit within the available time.

(If you have a different software package please check with me first to see if it will be of any use.)