Begin the series by understanding the foundation of Lightroom - the catalog. Examine hard drive solutions, their cost and the importance for production storage solutions, backup, and archival of your most important asset - your image content. Open Lightroom and learn the basics of creating a catalog, where to source it, and how to import images into your catalog system. Learn about supported formats, organizational structure. Leverage the flexibility and extensibility of the camera raw format, DNG. Learn photographer, Chris Knight's best practices for file naming and numbering images.
With a firm base understanding of Lightroom's catalog system, move forward into the library module. Walk through each panel of the library interface, examining application features like the navigator, grid view, loop view, compare and survey. Learn to use the application interface to examine your...
Transition from the focus of library organization into the essentials of Lightroom's develop module. Learn a rock solid foundation in developing camera RAW image data for post-production. Learn to extract and prepare the most information possible from your RAW image data to preserve quality throu...
Continue into a more advanced look at the develop module tool set within Lightroom. Learn about, healing, clone stamp, brushes, gradients and cropping tools. Evaluate when these tools are best used within Lightroom versus Photoshop. Practice skin retouching on portraits and dust removal on landsc...
