Lightroom Classic Workshop

Learn Lightroom Classic Workshop

This is a two day workshop with hands on classroom instruction.  You will actually go through the entire process and develop a digital workflow on your computer with your images.  We will learn to organize our entire photo library using the powerful database tools of Lightroom from import all the way through to delivering finished photos.  We will learn to use the develop module to process our images to achieve the best image possible.

Are you new to Lightroom and having problems getting started? In person hands on training on your computer with your images will get you up to speed.

This workshop is based on Adobe Lightroom Classic for the desktop, although Adobe Lightroom shares a lot of the same capability there are a lot of features that are not available and the interface and terminology are different.

“It is simply not possible to cover all the basics of Lightroom in a few hours or even in a one day course”

Even if you have taken my workshop previously Adobe has added so many new features and new technology that it is well worth it to get up to date on all the new stuff and a refresher never hurts.

Learn Complete Digital Workflow

Using Adobe Lightroom Classic

Lightroom has seen some amazing new features and has brought AI (Artificial Intelligence) to masking, making complex selections and edits automatic and adding greater control over your processing.  Along with new features come a new learning curve.  Even if you know how to use Lightroom this course will teach things you did not know or have forgotten and get you up to speed on all the new features.

The new masking panel incorporates the old Adjustment Brush, Linear Gradient, Radial Gradient, Color Range, Luminance Range and with some cameras Depth Range, with the new Select Subject and Select Sky masking tools. These masks can also be intersected, added and subtracted, and inverted making masking more powerful than ever.

• Learn the Lightroom interface and how to customize it to your workflow.
• Import you images into Lightroom and work efficiently with images whether RAW or JPG.
• Understand how the Lightroom Catalog works and how to create a catalog that works for you.
• Learn to import your photos where and how you want them stored.
• Learn to quickly and easily rename a file or all of your files.
• Create and manage your own personal image library using folders, collections, smart collections, color labels, ratings and flags.
• Learning to apply keywords and setting up a proper keyword hierarchy will save countless hours locating your photos and for online searches when you publish to the web.  You will learn to use collections, smart collections and additional metadata to make organizing your entire library fast and efficient.
• Understand the power of the library filter to search for any image.
• You will learn to achieve excellent tone and color using simple sliders and learn how to achieve perfect white balance (even with mixed light sources).
•  The lens profiles allow for correcting lens distortions or creating dramatic effects.
• Learn to use the transform tools to correct for distortion for special effects.
• Dodging and burning are simple tasks in Lightroom using the adjustment brush.  All of this in a totally non destructive work environment designed to speed you through the  process.
• Even with all the power of Lightroom there will still be times when you will need the full power of Photoshop, and you will learn how to make the two work together for a seamless workflow.
• Learn to use presets to speed your workflow, not just for develop, but also for importing, local adjustment tools, metadata, exporting, printing renaming of files, and more.
• Learn the power of local adjustments with the graduated filter, radial filter, and the adjustment brush.
• Learn to use the range mask to make powerful luminance and color masks.
• Learn to create your own custom adjustment brushes to speed workflow.
• Learn to sync adjustments to one or many photos.
• Create virtual copies for multiple versions of an image.
• Learn the power of the cropping tool in Lightroom to create a custom aspect ratio, straighten a crooked horizon, and improve the composition of your image.
• After developing your images they will be ready for export, and you will learn how easy it is to get the file type and size you need.
• Learn to print directly from Lightroom or to prepare your image for printing.
• Learn how to do color grading, change the hue, saturation, and luminance and even completely change a color in the whole image or only a specific area.
• Learn how to use the noise reduction for your high ISO images.
• Learn to create Black and White images with detail and contrast.
• Learn how to use the power of AI masking.
• Learn to use the new Point Color for precise color control.
• Learn to use the new Content Aware Remove tool.
• Learn how to use the new Denoise tool.
• Learn the newest of new “Generative AI replace”.

Catalogs and File Management

Learn to use the power of the Lightroom database to handle all of your photo file management.  Move photos from one folder to another, create folders, learn how to keeping Lightroom from losing your photos and showing ? marks.  Find your photos on your hard drive with just one click, easily rename files, move image to a different hard drive.  Learn what a catalog backup does and learn how to backup your files.  Find and rename your catalog and set the preferences for how it handles previews and metadata.

Local Adjustments With AI Masking

The power of Lightroom comes from using the local adjustment tools included in the new “Masking Panel”; the Graduated Filter, Radial Filter, and Adjustment Brush, Color Range, Luminance Range, and the new Select Subject, Select Sky, Select Background, and automatically select people and their individual parts.  With these tools and we have a very powerful way to adjust only what you want very quickly and easily. See how easy it is to use the “add” and “subtract” with each of these masks as well as to “invert” and “intersect mask with” for total control of your selection.

Create HDR Images

With Lightroom we can create HDR (High Dynamic Range) photos from bracketed images.  This is not the old tone mapped oversaturated image of the old days of HDR, but instead a true image with all of the detail from the brightest whites to the darkest blacks.  We will learn this powerful tool and even how to do batch processing of HDR images.

Create Panorama Images

Lightroom does an excellent job of merging multiple images into a panorama even with handheld images.  learn to use this powerful feature and even how create HDR Panoramas automatically.

Geocode Your Photos

Lightroom give us the ability to add location information to our images with or without a GPS on your camera and then display them on a map.  Learn to add GPS data from your phone or by simply placing them on the map.

This workshop will be offered to PSNWA members for $249, or $399 for non-members. Both days of the workshop are included, and each day starts at 9AM and ends at 4PM. Limited to a maximum of 12 registrants.

What to bring:

• laptop computer with Adobe Lightroom installed with some images (Adobe offers a free 30-day trial)
• Notebook / pen / pencil to take notes

We will take lunch breaks.  Jason Hudson will be our facility host.

Contact Greg Disch at gdisch@gregdisch.com with content questions.

Workshop Leader: Greg Disch

Greg Disch is a freelance photographer located in Arkansas. Greg specializes in nature, scenic, wildlife, and other outdoor subjects in Arkansas and other areas of the country. Greg offers both classroom instruction and in the field hands on photographic workshops.
https://gregdisch.com/