About

Every good shot deserves some extra attention to make it the best it can possibly be.  Adobe’s Lightroom software offers a comprehensive toolset that is focused on photography. Besides optimizing a photo’s appearance, LR provides tools for organizing your entire photo library.

This hands-on workshop introduces attendees to a simple and straight forward workflow that starts with photo analysis that highlights deficiencies, and follows with the workflow to make the necessary image improvements.

Session 1

Analyze Photo and Identify Areas for Improvements

Crop (and Straighten if necessary), aspect ratios

Global Enhancements Corrections

Histogram and Preview Blown Out Highlights or Blocked Up Shadows

Color Correction

Overall Exposure

Overall Contrast

Shadows / Highlights / Whites

Noise Reduction

Clarity

Vibrance

Saturation

Haze

Semi-Local Corrections

Linear Gradient

Radial Gradient

HSL

Very Local Corrections

Brush

Spot

Heal

Undoing Corrections

Before / After

“Light Switch”

Undo / Redo

Image Edit Practice

Session 2 - Advanced, Practice, & Photo Management

Advanced Corrections

Curves

Lens Corrections

Sharpening

Image Edit Practice

Import / File Structure / Naming

Grading / Selecting / Rejecting

Available tools

Flags

Stars

Colors

Photo Organization

Collections

Manipulating File Structure

Three iMacs will be available with sample images to provide practical experience with the image editing process. We will “buddy-up”, two attendees per desktop. The last session will offer some time for attendees to work on their own images with assistance by the instructor.

Instructor Bio:

Ken Rothmuller has been shooting images since getting his first camera as a teenager. Later in life he had both a B/W and color darkroom before switching over to a digital workflow. More recently he has had the opportunity to study under some great mentors, including: Jay Maisel, Joel Meyerowitz, Eddie Soloway, and Margo Davis.

Adobe purchased Ken’s digital asset management company (Fotiva / PhotoTablet) back in 2001. While working at Adobe as a senior computer scientist, he help shepherd and promote the initial, internal Lightroom development efforts as an important alternative to Photoshop for Photographers (and mere mortals).

Ken especially enjoys traveling with his camera allowing him to see new places more deeply, cementing memories and giving him the opportunity to interact with locals.

He has taught photo workshops and photography courses at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, CA. You can reach Ken at: krothmuller@gmail.com