Lightroom to Photoshop Workflow
Melbourne – Studio Workshop
16 June 2013
17 November 2013
This intermediate studio workshop clarifies and integrates the relationship between Lightroom and Photoshop in the industry leading digital photography workflow. It emphasises non-destructive editing and critical post-capture events from cataloguing and archiving to the crafting, sequencing and automation of repetitive processes. The workshop seeks to perfect this workflow so as to preserve 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
Though not essential, participants are encouraged to bring along a laptop computer installed with a recent version of Lightroom and/or Photoshop, and a sequence of images to work with. The workshop is based around structured exercises and practical investigations into the capture, processing, and storage of digital images. It provides hands-on practical experience and real world solutions to typical imaging problems such as locating missing files, batch processing large numbers of images, the seamless integration of Lightroom and Photoshop, and the efficient automation of digital imaging workflows. Detailed course notes and video tutorials are provided.
