Lightroom & Digital Archiving with Stephen Mallon (Part 1 of 2)

Lightroom & Digital Archiving: A Two-Part Workshop Series with Stephen Mallon

Part 1: Lightroom 101 — Building a Working Foundation

In part one, Stephen Mallon walks you through the core of Adobe Lightroom — from the moment a file hits your card to the moment it leaves as a finished export. This session is built to get you working efficiently and confidently inside Lightroom's Library and Develop modules, with a workflow that scales as your archive grows.

Topics covered:

Library & Organization

• Catalogs: structure, best practices, and when to use more than one
• Ingest: building a consistent, repeatable import workflow
• File structure: organizing on disk so Lightroom (and you) can find anything fast
• Renaming: file-naming conventions that hold up over time

Develop & Output

• Masking: an introduction to Lightroom's selective editing tools
• Presets: building, applying, and managing your own
• Export controls: file formats, sizing, resolution, and output settings for print vs. web

Part Two: Archiving Practice — Building a Digital Asset Management (DAM) System

For any questions please reach out to Kathy at [email protected].