About course
This course is dedicated to the final, but not less important stage of work with the taken material – post-processing of photos. You will learn effective methods of selection and ways of cataloging photos that will help you organize your archives. And with the help of basic image processing functions in Lightroom and Photoshop you’ll learn how to give your photos a finished look, ready for print or publication.
You’ll need a laptop with Lightroom and Photoshop installed for the class.
For Whom
Anyone who wants to intelligently catalog and edit photos.
In the course you will.
⦁ Learn how to work effectively with a large archive of photographs;
⦁ you will learn about the main purposes of processing and will be able to determine them independently in your practice;
⦁ master the basic tools of Lightroom and Photoshop, and learn how to use them depending on the task at hand;
⦁ Learn portrait retouching techniques in Photoshop;
⦁ prepare photographs for electronic portfolio and printing.
Curator
Crystal S. Bouley
Photographer, organizer of courses and photo tours, teacher. Her portfolio includes reports for media agencies, commercial projects and individual shootings. She has participated in collective exhibitions and photo journeys all over the world.
Program
⦁ Introduction. Aims and stages of post-processing. Digital image formats. Lightroom: working principle, interface, program settings.
⦁ Importing, selecting and storing images in Lightroom. Library and Develop modules.
⦁ Working with series and catalogs in Lightroom. Local correction and batch processing.
⦁ Photoshop: working principle and interface. Overview of tools and setting up the program.
⦁ Selection: tools, working with selected areas. Working area “correction”. Layers.
⦁ Masks in Photoshop. Blending modes.
⦁ Basic retouching tools. Scale and fill with content. Eliminating damage.
⦁ Working with color in Photoshop. Portrait retouching. Options for saving images.