Video Training – Tutorials

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Tutorial Video

January 30, 2009

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Tutorial Video
Learn how to use Adobe Lightroom from one of the worlds leading trainers from the comfort of your own desk.

 

Beginners Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Tutorial Video

This multi-part instructional Lightroom video course covers everything that you need to know about Adobe’s powerful photo management and manipulation software. The engineers at Adobe have incorporated many new tools and features suggested by the professional community to make the program even more robust than its predecessor. These Photoshop Lightroom videos cover all of the new features in detail and give you the introduction you need to get professional results with ease.

This training video is taught by Phil Hawkins, a long-time professional freelance photographer whose work has appeared in Sports Illustrated and ESPN The Magazine. Hawkins draws from years of hands-on photographic experience to provide expert advice in short, engaging videos that are informative and easy to understand. Each instructional video uses a real-time view of the software in use to demonstrate techniques and effects exactly as they appear within the application interface, making it extremely easy to follow along.

The course is available either online or as one comprehensive package on CD . Mac and Windows compatible, you can learn from the comfort of your own desk or on your laptop while you’re on the go.

A New Approach to Photo Management

Gone are the days of meticulously creating folders within folders to keep track of your shots. Utilizing metadata and simple keyword tagging, Adobe Lightroom’s Library component makes searching across your image collection easier than ever, and the program’s ability to create Collections and customized Smart Collections based on parameters you set allows you to organize and access your photos independently of their physical locations on your hard drive. This is especially useful for photographers who want to quickly group photos based on their content, their specific aperture or shutters speeds, or combinations of factors.

For users who have already spent hours setting up organization schemes, Photoshop Lightroom also lets you access and incorporate your existing folders into the program’s Catalog of images. From within the Catalog, the Collections you create act essentially as playlists within a music program, and do nothing to interfere with the work you’ve put into your directories.

Adobe Lightroom A New Approach to Photo Editing

Unlike Photoshop, all of the changes made to an image using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 are non-destructive. Instead of changing the base file, the program saves a set of instructions for manipulating the photo, preserving the original and allowing you to easily go back to any point of the editing process. Unlike Photoshop’s History pane feature, there is no set number of edits you can make without being able to go back.

This unique method also makes it convenient to create presets, which you can save for use with individual files or apply with batch processing to entire collections at a time. Although it incorporates many common photography-oriented adjustments and tools from Photoshop, Lightroom 2 is not meant as a replacement. When you need to make edits pixel by pixel, the program allows you to easily move your work into the industry-standard graphics program.

Lightroom 2 is a major improvement to its predecessor and a powerful tool for professional photographers and skilled amateurs who find their collections too large for consumer applications like iPhoto to handle. Combined with the right training, Photoshop Lightroom opens the door new possibilities in productivity by changing the way you work.

This Photoshop Lightroom tutorial video will give you a solid understanding of how to get the most from this powerful image management program.

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