Lightroom to Photoshop Workflow

PhotoAccess (Canberra)
21-22 April 2012

This intermediate course captures the essential concepts and processes behind the industry leading Adobe digital photography workflow. It clarifies and integrates the relationship between Lightroom and Photoshop, emphasising non-destructive editing and critical post-capture events. From cataloguing and archiving to the crafting, sequencing and automation of repetitive processes,  this workflow preserves your creative control and image quality while delivering significant productivity gains.

Capture, Cataloguing, and Importing
•  Navigating Lightroom and non-destructive workflows
•  RAW versus processed data and supported file formats
•  Importing, renaming, presets, and tags
•  Sorting, removing, deleting, organising and viewing options
•  The pros and cons of DNG
•  Tethered shooting

Developing, Exporting, and Post-Processing
•  Prioritizing and choosing the right tools and commands
•  Synchronising, history management, and export presets
•  Previews, before and after, and virtual copies
•  Capture sharpening and noise reduction
•  Connecting with external image editors
•  A Lightroom processing workflow

Editing, Compositing, and Printing
•  Why Photoshop and Lightroom?
•  Non-destructive Adjustment Layers & Smart Objects
•  Selecting the right colour space and bit depth
•  Combining images from different sources
•  Luminosity Masking techniques
•  Colour management, printing, and softproofing

Putting it all together
•  Editing sequences and processing strategies
•  Editing tone independently of colour
•  Automating repetitive actions for efficiency and accuracy
•  Synchronizing Lightroom presets with Photoshop actions
•  Blending modes, sliders and curve options
•  Capture, processing and output

The course is based around a series of structured investigations and practical demonstrations of the capture, processing, and storage of digital images. Examples are drawn from a wide variety of photographic applications with an emphasis on practical solutions to real world imaging problems, such as locating missing files, batch processing large numbers of images, and automating workflows for quality and productivity. Detailed course notes are provided.