Introduction to Lightroom with Tim Daly

This course provides an introduction to Lightroom’s organisational, editing and printing tools and is suitable for a beginner.  The Course will be held on Windows PC laptops.

Day schedule

10.00 Welcome and outline of the day

Topic 1: How Lightroom is different
Overview of the application, how it simplifies your workflow and the function of the Catalogue file.

Topic 2: Setting up your image archive
Advice on data storage, naming files, importing and managing your growing archive.

Topic 3: Viewing, editing and sorting

12.30 – 13.15 Lunch

Topic 4: Basic editing in the Develop module
Colour, exposure and tone control using a variety of panel tools.

Topic 5: Hand-editing techniques
Using the Selection Brush and other ‘floating’ tools, to create Lightroom-style masks.

Topic 6: Preparation for print
Using Lightroom’s new Soft-Proofing functions, we will use printer profiles and Lightroom print templates to layout contacts and finals for printing.

16.00 Review and recap of the day

16.30 End

What you need to bring along
A USB stick or portable hard drive with a selection of your own images. Best option is to bring RAW files, but JPEG’s are okay too. (Note: Lightroom can’t edit layered .psd/Photoshop files) Packed lunch or use local amenities.

Apple Mac users
Only drives that are in the FAT32 format can be read and written to by both Windows PC’s and Apple Mac computers. Check the format of your external drive before you attend the course, as it may not be compatible with our Windows PC laptops.  If you wish to use your own Mac for the course please contact Liz on 01225 325 770

Times: 10am – 4.30pm

Address:The Royal Photographic Society, Fenton House, 122 Wells Road, Bath  BA2 3AH

Map: http://goo.gl/maps/XdVcI

Parking: There is no parking at the RPS on week days but there are spaces available in the surrounding streets.  At weekends you can park in the RPS car park which is accessed to the left of the building through a gateway.