Advanced Lightroom Classic Masking with Natasha Calzatti - Los Angeles

In this class, Natasha Calzatti will show you all the new masking options: How to Brush, Linear, and Radial Gradient tools in the floating Masking panel. Automatically select a subject or sky in your image. With this one-click selection, you can define areas and enhance editing to bring out exactly what you desire.

Explore your options for adjusting localized areas within your images and skin retouching. Automating settings and exporting to Photoshop will help you work more efficiently. Once your images are edited and adjusted, extend Lightroom Classic with synchronize collections with your smartphone or tablet.

Technical Level: Intermediate to Advanced. Understanding of Importing and basic folder organization is required.

This workshop will cover:

This workshop will cover:

• AI-Powered Adaptive Presets: Quickly apply intelligent adjustments tailored to specific subjects or scenes.
• Improved Sky and Subject Selection: Refine your edits with enhanced AI tools for more accurate sky and subject detection.
• Advanced masking tools include point color and luminance range masking controls to edit specific areas.
• People Masking: Automatically detect and apply adjustments to specific parts of a person, such as face, skin, eyes, or hair, using AI-powered tools.
• Using Lightroom for Selective Adjustments: Selective brush (masking), radial filter, graduated filters.
• Advanced AI Remove simple unwanted objects and flaws—just disappear. Or Healing & Clone Brush
• Create custom color grading presets.
• Using Lightroom with Photoshop (Photoshop is not required for this class). Learn how to send multiple files to Photoshop as Smart Objects or Layers.
• Intro to Lightroom mobile sync for smartphone or tablet.
• Export Presets – Allow multiple exports to be processed in batch at the same time.
• Lens Blur Enhancements: Explore the new Oval/Anamorphic bokeh shape and adjustable Cat Eye bokeh for creative effects.

What to bring:

*Please bring your laptop to the workshop.

Have access to about 50-100 images on your laptop, or bring an external hard drive. Best if the images were shot in the RAW format. Several images from the same shoot will be ideal for synchronization. Jpegs, tiffs, or psd are okay. If you don’t have images, I will provide them for you. We encourage you to ensure your software is up-to-date with the newest version.

*NOTE: This is a Lightroom Classic course. NOT Lightroom (Cloud).

Cancellation Policy: Refund requests must be made in writing at least 30 days prior to the event. No refunds or credits will be given with less than 30 days' notice.

Instructor Bio: Natasha Calzatti. Upon receiving her BFA in Photography from Otis Parsons School of Design, Natasha Calzatti, a photographer and digital retoucher, went on to shoot award-winning photography for THE NEW YORK TIMES, NEWSWEEK, PEOPLE and VIBE, and has been syndicated internationally. Her work is represented in many private collections and has been shown publicly in Los Angeles and more recently in Portland, Oregon’s Black Box Gallery. Simultaneous to her photography career, Natasha found herself at the cutting edge of imaging as it transitioned from the chemical darkroom to the digital darkroom where her abilities became increasingly in demand for magazine clients TV Guide, Marie Claire, Time Magazine, The Source, and Vibe as well as advertising clients Midas, MCI and Dreyfus.Ms. Calzatti was invited to The Getty Center to share her behind the camera experiences of Cuba as she presented an in-gallery exploration of A Revolutionary Project: Cuba from Walker Evans to Now. Today Ms. Calzatti divides her time between shooting assignments and lecturing on digital imaging issues both in U.S and abroad. You can see her current work at www.calzattifoto.com.

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