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The Professional Photographer’s Digital Workflow

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Overview

Setting up a practical and efficient workflow with your photography feels like a daunting part of your business. Internationally recognized photographer Michael Clark introduces you to techniques to allow you more time to shoot the images you want. His workflow philosophy is that you must first know how you are going to edit the image in post production to know how you need to shoot it.

In this class Michael teaches:

  • Best practices for a shooting workflow from setting up your camera to histograms and exposure
  • How to clean the sensor on your DSLR camera
  • Color management workflow including your work environment and monitor calibration
  • An overview of Lightroom® and multiple ways to speed up your workflow including file folder and batch naming as well as metadata and archival processes
  • Techniques to finalizing your images in Photoshop® with basic adjustments and retouching
  • Making fine art prints, choosing your printer, paper, understanding ICC profiles, and much more!

Michael covers everything you need to know in order to streamline your post production workflow in Lightroom® and Photoshop® and best practices for printing your art at home. Digital photography is far more complicated than shooting film ever was. Knowing the best practices for a digital workflow will make you a better photographer.

Syllabus

  • Class Introduction
  • Shooting Workflow: Set-up The Camera
  • Shooting Workflow: Histograms and Exposure
  • Shooting Workflow: Sensor Cleaning
  • Overview of Color Management
  • Color Management: Monitor
  • Color Management: Workspace
  • Color Management: Monitor Calibration
  • Color Management: Do I Need This?
  • Introduction to Lightroom®
  • Download & Import Images With Lightroom®
  • Lightroom® Preferences
  • Six Ways to Speed-up Lightroom®
  • To DNG or Not to DNG?
  • A Logical Editing Process in Lightroom®
  • File & Folder Naming in Lightroom®
  • Batch Renaming in Lightroom®
  • Entering Metadata in Lightroom®
  • Managing Images in Lightroom®
  • Introduction to the Develop Module in Lightroom®
  • Lightroom® Develop Module
  • Sharpening, Chromatic Aberration & Vignetting in Lightroom®
  • Graduated Filters & Spot Tool in Lightroom®
  • Converting images to Black & White in Lightroom®
  • Creating Panoramas in Lightroom
  • Creating HDR Images in Lightroom®
  • Lightroom® to Photoshop® Workflow
  • Export Images to Photoshop®
  • Finalizing Images in Photoshop®: Basic Adjustments
  • Finalizing Images in Photoshop®: Retouching
  • Finalizing Images in Photoshop®: Saving Master Files
  • Make Fine Art Prints: The Cost
  • Make Fine Art Prints: Ink Jet Printers
  • Make Fine Art Prints: Ink Jet Papers
  • Make Fine Art Prints: Understand ICC Profiles
  • Make Fine Art Prints: Sharpen Image
  • Printing From Photoshop®
  • Printing From Lightroom®
  • Compare Monitor to Physical Prints
  • Printing Black & White Image
  • Extended Workflow: Back Up Images
  • Extended Workflow: Storage Options
  • Extended Workflow: Archiving Images
  • Submitting images to Clients
  • Prepping Images for Social Media
  • Alternative Workflows
  • Final Q&A

Taught by

Michael Clark

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