Refresh your skills, and get up to date with new features and recent updates in Lightroom Classic, with two in-person 2-hour workshops. Click the links below to register for each workshop :
Avalon Recreation Centre, 59 Old Barrenjoey Road, Avalon, NSW 2107
09:30 – 11:30 am
Workshop 1 : Lightroom Library Module : Saturday 22 April 2023
$20 pp
Workshop 2 : Lightroom Develop Module : Saturday 06 May 2023
$20 pp
Mark Godfrey shares his in-depth knowledge of Lightroom Classic (Version 12.2) in two immersive workshop presentations. Each capped at 20 students to allow for plenty of inter-action. Two hours, including a half-time break. (No need to bring your own laptop).
Mark’s emphasis is on pointing you in the direction of things to consider, so you work the way you want and get the most out of Lightroom – there’s no one correct way to do things.
Workshop 1: The Library module, Preferences and Overview
Diving a little deeper into the features of Lightrooms’ Library module will help you stay organised and get you processing your photos faster. Some of the things we’ll explore are features that are often overlooked or new:
- Shortcuts, tool bars and panels, basic stuff but some things to help if you are on a smaller screen.
- Automatically have the camera matching profile (camera settings) applied to images as they’re imported so they look more like what you saw on the back of the camera in the field.
- Building and using file renaming templates, metadata pre-sets, develop settings on import and which previews to build on import?
- Lightroom/ Catalog preference settings to consider. The default settings probably don’t suit your work so change them, but to what?
- Plugins to help working with Lightroom; some to get you out of trouble and some to do things Lightroom doesn’t do out of the box.
- Managing folders, missing folder/ photos? What’s with the question marks on my folders or exclamation marks on my photos? Bypassing the import dialog and synchronising a folder.
- Using collections: smart collections, filtering collections and why collections are better for organisation.
- Selecting photos to work on – some suggestions to speed it up.
Links to resources (free and paid for) for learning and exploring Lightroom further, getting help and useful plugins will be provided.
Workshop 2: The Develop Module and Output
In the second workshop we’ll look at what has changed in the Develop Module over that last few releases of Lightroom. But there are also some older features that are worth knowing too, so we’ll review some of those.
- Overview of panels, toolbars, re-seizing, history, preferences relevant to the develop module.
- Global adjustments, colour grading,
- Local adjustments, Masking, Adaptive Presets using the AI masking – create your own.
- Profiles Vs Pre-sets and time permitting – creating a profile.
- Editing in external programs e.g., photoshop and ‘round tripping’
- Exporting, Publishing services and synchronising collections with the Lightroom cloud and sharing. Using a collection to build a website in Adobe’s ‘Portfolio’ feature.
These workshops are designed to generate a small financial surplus to contribute towards the increased costs of running Focus as a not-for-profit association. Focus is extremely grateful to Mark Godfrey for donating his time and sharing his considerable knowledge.