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Lightroom: Workflow Strategies

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Overview

Navigate through several real-world photography assignments, such as wedding photography and travel shoots, and discover Lightroom workflow recommendations for each one.

In this course, Chris Orwig navigates through several real-world photography assignment scenarios and introduces his workflow recommendations in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for each one, whether on-site, in the field, or back at the office. For a wedding or other event, Chris shows how to import images quickly, batch process the pictures, and create a slideshow to display during the event or import to Facebook. Back at the office, Chris demonstrates how the images can be reprocessed and exported for printing at a lab or burning to DVD.

The second workflow covers location shoots for travel photography. Chris shows how to label photos with travel-specific keywords and add locations to photos with the Lightroom Map module. At home the images can be added to catalogs, laid out in a book format, or printed on multi-image sheets.

The final two methodologies cover the editorial or commercial process and a more personal and creative one. Whatever the shooting scenario, this course offers an organized and comprehensive workflow for taking photographs through the editing process in Lightroom.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Using the exercise files
1. Wedding or Event Workflow: On-Site
  • Importing images on-site
  • Creating a slideshow template
  • Selecting photos for a slideshow
  • Setting up for quick and easy batch processing
  • Finishing the batch processing
  • Launching the event slideshow
  • Uploading photos to Facebook during the event
2. Wedding or Event Workflow: Back Home
  • Grouping photos into general collections
  • Using collections to sort out the keepers
  • Organizing collections based on subject matter
  • Batch processing color and black-and-white images
  • Exporting photos for lab printing
  • Exporting high-resolution photos for DVD or drives
  • Compressing and archiving the images
3. Travel Photography Workfow: In the Field
  • Getting started with travel collections
  • Labeling the photos
  • Adding travel-specific keywords and captions
  • Adding locations to the Map module
  • Processing the images
4. Travel Photography Workflow: Back Home
  • Combining multiple catalogs
  • Exporting images and merging laptop and desktop catalogs
  • Designing a Blurb book
  • Customizing the interior of the book
  • Customizing the book cover
  • Sending the book to Blurb
  • Creating multiple-image print layouts
5. Editorial or Commercial Workflow
  • Processing the images
  • Emailing low-resolution photos for client review
  • Creating a web gallery for client review
  • Exporting and sending full-resolution photos
6. Personal and Creative Workflow
  • Evaluating and processing the photos
  • Working with virtual copies
  • Exploring creative black-and-white processes
  • Removing and adding color
  • Using the Print module for virtual layouts
Conclusion
  • Goodbye

Taught by

Chris Orwig

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