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Photoshop for Lightroom Users
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Where does the workshop take place?

Online, through Zoom. Sessions will be live and interactive, but will also be recorded so participants can view them later.

When does the workshop begin and end?

The workshop goes from 9:00 a.m. to around 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time on both Saturday and Sunday (with a half-hour break for lunch). We’ll also do a two-hour followup session about ten days later (Wednesday, August 19th) to give participants a chance to work on their own images in Photoshop and ask questions about any issues they encounter. This will be a live, interactive workshop, conducted through Zoom. Sessions will be recorded so participants can view them later.

Equipment and Materials

You’ll need up-to-date versions of Lightroom Classic and Photoshop on your computer, and the computer needs to be new enough and fast enough to run Lightroom and Photoshop at the same time without excessive delays. You’ll also need a computer or tablet with microphone and speakers for using Zoom. In order to follow along with the examples, it’s helpful to have a computer with two monitors, so you can put Zoom on one monitor and Photoshop on the other. Or you could put Zoom on a tablet, and follow along in Photoshop on your computer, or put Zoom on a laptop, and follow along in Photoshop on your desktop. You’ll also want to have some of your own images to practice with; we’ll send you more information about that when you register for the workshop.

Experience

You don’t need any previous Photoshop for experience for this class, but you do need to have a solid working knowledge of Lightroom Classic and its capabilities, as we won’t be covering Lightroom. The workshop is designed for Lightroom Classic users with beginner or intermediate Photoshop skills.

Cancellation

Refunds are not available less than 30 days prior to the workshop unless we can fill the vacancy, in which case you’ll be charged a $50 cancellation fee. If you do need to cancel we ask that you let us know as soon as possible so we can alert people on the waiting list.

In the rare event that we need to cancel this workshop because of lack of enrollment or an unforeseen event you will receive a credit toward a future workshop.
 

This workshop is full!
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Photoshop for Lightroom Users:
An Online Workshop

This workshop is full!
Please email us to sign up for the waiting list.
 

Many Lightroom users are intimidated by Photoshop. They feel they “should” use Photoshop, yet find its complexity daunting. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Photoshop isn’t that difficult to learn – with the right guidance to help you concentrate on the tools and techniques most helpful to photographers.

This workshop is designed to help you learn those essential tools so you can take advantage of Photoshop’s power, yet not get lost in Photoshop’s complexities. You’ll learn how to create a solid, flexible, non-destructive workflow in order to avoid problems, and allow you to make future revisions to your images without starting over. You’ll learn how to use the most important tools for photographers – not all the stuff meant for graphic designers. Here’s a partial list of the topics we’ll cover:

• Setting up Photoshop
• Workflow from Lightroom to Photoshop and back
• Using Adjustment Layers, Smart Objects, and Smart Filters to create a flexible, non-destructive workflow
• Basic image processing in Photoshop
• Dodging and burning in Photoshop
• Understanding layer masks
• Using luminosity masks
• Manual exposure blending
• Blending focus stacks
• Shutter speed blends
• Blending Nighttime Photos for Noise Reduction
• Retouching in Photoshop
• Stretching, warping, and perspective corrections
• Expanding the canvas
• Basic Compositing
• Using plugins from Photoshop
• Print sharpening and preparation

I think most people learn best by doing, so I’ll give participants sample files they can use to follow along with me as I demonstrate the various techniques we’ll cover.

You don’t need any previous Photoshop for experience for this class, but you do need to have a solid working knowledge of Lightroom Classic, as we won’t be covering Lightroom and its capabilities. The workshop is designed for Lightroom users with beginner or intermediate Photoshop skills.

The workshop takes place over two days, Saturday and Sunday, from 9:00 a.m. to around 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time. We’ll also do a two-hour followup session about ten days later (Wednesday, August 19th) to give participants a chance to work on their own images in Photoshop and ask questions about any issues they encounter. This will be a live, interactive workshop, conducted through Zoom. Sessions will be recorded so participants can view them later.

More details about this workshop…