Learn the art of “developing” your digital photographs. Post-processing is an art, whether it be removing red-eye, retouching a polaroid, or invoking fantastical tones in a moody landscape. Learn how to use Adobe Lightroom Classic CC to organize and process your pictures into spectacular pieces of art. By the end of this course, students will be able to fluently use this software as a “one-stop shop” for managing digital photography.    

• This online course includes four hours of video content, divided into bite-sized tutorials that tackle all of the most important tools and concepts for photographers to master. 

• Tutorials are arranged in such a way that students can work through them in the order presented, or digest them a la carte, depending on individual goals and experience. 

• The course includes all imagery used in the tutorials to practice alongside the videos. 

• Those who are among the first to register will also be able to submit questions and points of confusion that will be answered via a video FAQ series developed from student feedback. 

FINANCIAL AID: Money shouldn’t be a barrier. Contact me at greenmountainexposure@gmail.com for financial aid options for this course.

Additional Info

The course is arranged in two parts:

Part 1: Organization and Workflow Management

• Introduction and orientation to the software

• Organizing and managing your photographs

• The Adobe Lightroom Catalog

• importing and exporting photos

• Sorting, rating, keywording, and culling

Part 2: Editing in Lightroom Classic

• How and why to post-process your images (how far is too far)

• Basic adjustments (crop, exposure, contrast, saturation, etc.)

• Local adjustments (brushes, gradient filters, spot removal, etc.)

• Specialized adjustments (vignettes, HSL, noise reduction and sharpening

• Understanding and using histograms

• Start-to-finish processing demonstrations.

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

Participants will need the ability to watch streaming videos (i.e. YouTube), and acquire Adobe Lightroom Classic CC, available HERE. This subscription-based software is $10/month through the Adobe Creative Suite’s Photography plan. (Note, this same subscription also includes Adobe Lightroom CC and Adobe Photoshop CC. Though it’s confusing, make sure you’re installing Lightroom Classic CC, as opposed to Lightroom CC.