Adventures Online: Adobe Lightroom — Processing Digital Images

As we meet our staff, we will have a brief overview on how to use Zoom, the program’s topic, guidelines, and the daily schedule.

The Adobe Lightroom subscription model can be intimidating. We will learn about the various versions of Lightroom, how they work together, how to install them, and which applications may be best for you.

Take some time to stretch, relax, and prepare for our next lesson.

Lightroom contains powerful digital image organization and management tools. We will build a careful workflow that will ensure that your precious images are properly imported and stored. A thoughtfully organized image library is fundamental to a sustainable workflow and this lesson will help you set up your assets for enduring use.

Take what you’ve learned about Lightroom and begin building your library by installing the applications you wish to use and importing your images.

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With a quick review of the import process, we will answer questions and troubleshoot any issues.

As you build your Lightroom library, we will explore the many ways the software allows you to organize your images so you can find them quickly and easily.

Take some time to stretch, relax, and prepare for our next lesson.

Your Lightroom subscription includes storage space on the Adobe Creative Cloud, which will allow you to synchronize your library of images across many different devices like computers, iPads, smartphones, and web browsers. We will learn how to set up syncing and use it to refine your workflow, especially when traveling.

We will discuss a deliberate strategy of backing up your images to ensure you never lose a precious file.

We will put into practice what we’ve learned and begin the process of organizing our image libraries, engaging the Adobe Creative Cloud, and developing a sustainable backup strategy.

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We will review a handful of participant backup strategies and answer questions.

There are other ways to organize your images. We will explore the clever tools in Lightroom and Lightroom Classic, including ratings, color labels, and filters.

Take some time to stretch, relax, and prepare for our next lesson.

Lightroom can leverage some machine learning to search your images for location data, objects, and faces, allowing you to quickly find the shots you are looking for.

There are always images you won’t want to keep. We will learn how to identify them, tag them, and remove them from the library.

It’s time to prepare for processing. In this assignment, we will complete your library organization and identify a selection of images to process.

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We’ll check in with our library organization and share tips for keeping our images safe.

The first stop in our processing workflow is cropping and rotating our images. The second task is distraction removal, including dust spots, reflections, and unwanted objects/people.

Take some time to stretch, relax, and prepare for our next lesson.

Adjusting the tone of your images’ highlights, midtones, and shadows is the best way to bring your photos to life. We will explore the Lightroom tools for adjusting tone and determine the best approach for your workflow. We will then learn how to adjust the colors in our files to deliver the best results.

When adjusting your images’ colors, it helps to understand how colors compliment and conflict with each other. We’ll learn some basics of color theory and how we can apply it in Lightroom.

Time to practice toning and adjusting color in your images. Using what we’ve learned, we will work on a couple of images.

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We’ll take another look at toning and color and how the homework images turned out.

Lightroom has powerful tools for bringing out the fine details in our images. We will learn how to maximize detail and mitigate noise to enhance our shots.

Using powerful selection tools, Lightroom’s masking function allows localized adjustments within images. We will learn how to create and modify masks then use them to fine-tune our images.

Take some time to stretch, relax, and prepare for our next lesson.

Now that we know how to process individual images, we will learn how to combine images into panoramas and HDR images.

By using presets, you can expand your workflow and make it more efficient. We will learn how to build custom presets and use Lightroom’s built-in versions.

Lightroom can work with external programs to enhance your workflow. We will learn how to install plug-ins and use them in concert with Lightroom.

The final step in the Lightroom workflow is exporting processed images for social media, printing, and other uses. We will learn how to save sharable files that fully display our work in the best light.

This concludes our program.