Beginning Adobe Lightroom Classic with Natasha Calzatti - Pasadena

Technical Level: Beginner

Many photographers are finding Adobe Lightroom Classic to be the perfect tool for organizing, processing, and enhancing images. This beginner Lightroom course shows you step-by-step how to take control of your digital photography workflow.

Discover the most efficient method for downloading images into Lightroom and organizing them. Quickly import and manage your photo collection in a library that makes finding and editing your photos easy. Learn the best way to make global and tonal corrections to your images and take advantage of new world-class noise reduction capabilities. Convert images to black and white, as well as add tonal overlays, and film grain textures.

Topics Covered:

Library module: Setting Up Lightroom: The Right Way from the Start

Importing Images: From card and hard drive

Organizing folders, creating new folders without losing the Lightroom link.

Sorting and rating

Creating collections for specific projects.

The Develop module: Editing Your RAW, TIFF and JPEG Images like a Pro

Using Lightroom for Global Adjustments: Exposure, curves, split tones, sharpening and noise reduction

Understanding the dynamic range of the histogram

Setting Camera and lens profiles

Export options: Creating presets for specific jobs, using the emailing feature within Lightroom or using Publish Services.

What to bring:

• You may use the iMacs provided in our computer lab, or bring your own laptop with Adobe Lightroom Classic and Photoshop installed.
• Bring your own photos on an external hard drive formatted for Mac if you plan to use the lab iMacs.
• Natasha will also provide demo images if needed.

*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 PSDs are okay. If you don’t have images, I will provide them for you. Place all images in folders.

*NOTE: This is a Lightroom Classic course (same as older Lightroom versions 5-6/CC). NOT Cloud Lightroom.

** The classroom is located on the second floor of our store. Access to the classroom is available via stairs. There is no elevator to the second floor. Ask employees to direct you to the location. **

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 the U.S and abroad. You can see her current work at www.calzattifoto.com.

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