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DIGITAL STUDIO: WORKFLOW & POST-PROCESSING
This workshop goes over my entire workflow, from importing files through sorting, post-processing, exporting and printing.
The workshop requires that you have:
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.)

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Workflow & Post Processing Workshops in Asia – Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand.

