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Adobe Lightroom 4

Manage & Edit Your Photos

Lightroom is an amazing program that can help you organize, optimize and share your photos. This introductory course will cover the basics of importing photos from your camera into Lightroom’s catalog, editing and organizing your pictures, optimizing and developing your photos for printing, creating slideshows, webpages and printed books to share your work, publishing your pictures on social media sites and keeping your photo library safe by implementing backup strategies.

Included is a copy of our custom step-by-step workbook with CD.

  • Lightroom is a powerful photo manager.
    Learn to select, compare, flag, reject, and delete photos.

  • Remove dust spots from an image using the Spot Removal tool.

  • Gain complete control when converting a photo to B&W.

  • Lightroom comes with a suite of powerful color correction tools. Learn how to adjust white balance, temperature, tint, and more to make your photos pop.

  • Learn to use Lightroom’s fine-grained sharpening features.

  • Learn how to correct lens distortion caused by using wide‑angle lenses for photographing tall objects, such as buildings.

  • Use the Adjustment Brush tool to apply very precise color changes to a photo.

  • Easily create a web gallery to share your photos online.

  • Learn to import photos and add metadata.

What You’ll Learn

Section 1
A Quick Tour of Lightroom

Topics

  • The Library, Develop, Slideshow, and Web Modules
  • Importing Photos
  • Creating a Collection
  • Keywords, Metadata
  • Color Correction and Editing Intro
  • Cropping, Fill Light, Lens Distortion
  • Exporting for the Web
Importing Photos

Topics

  • The import process
  • Importing from a camera or the hard disk
  • Evaluating photos before importing
  • Importing to a specific folder
  • Importing from other catalogs or watched folder

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  • 12 hours of Hands-On Training
  • Custom Written Workbook Included
  • Mac or PC

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Section 2
Reviewing Photos

Topics

  • Viewing and managing images
  • Switching views
  • Flagging and deleting images
  • Grouping images in the Quick Collection
Organizing and Selecting

Topics

  • Organizing folders
  • Using collections to organize images
  • Applying keyword tags
  • Using flags and ratings
  • Adding metadata
  • Finding and filtering files
  • Reconnecting missing files and folders
Section 3
Developing and Editing

Topics

  • Quick Develop
  • The Develop module
  • Undoing, redoing, and remembering changes
  • Removing spots
  • Applying basic color corrections
  • Making discrete color adjustments
  • Synchronizing settings
  • Local corrections
Section 4
Publishing Photos
  • Publishing photos from the Library
  • The Lightroom Web module
  • Creating and customizing a web gallery
  • Specifying output settings
  • Previewing the gallery
  • Saving custom templates
  • Exporting and uploading web galleries
Creating Backups and Exporting Photos
  • Preventing data loss
  • Backing up the catalog file and library
  • Exporting photos