Learn From The Experts - Photoshop For Lightroom Users

Learn the Pho­to­shop tools that tru­ly mat­ter for photographers

In recent years the devel­op­ment of Light­room has meant many pho­tog­ra­phers now use this pro­gram alone as their image edit­ing tool. Despite Lightroom’s devel­op­ment and advances there are still a num­ber of crit­i­cal steps in edit­ing many images that can only be under­tak­en in Photoshop.

Image edit­ing, is one of the most impor­tant parts of the pho­to­graph­ic jour­ney to the fin­ished pho­to­graph. Tak­ing the raw file and nur­tur­ing its colours and tones to recre­ate the moment you made the expo­sure, whether it was out in the land­scape or in the stu­dio. It is at this junc­ture that adher­ing to one image edit­ing suite or plat­form is not entire­ly ben­e­fi­cial to the photographer.

Many users are either unaware of the essen­tial tools lying with­in Pho­to­shop or are put off by the appar­ent com­plex­i­ty of the inter­face. This course out­lines how to use these essen­tial tools and how to move seam­less­ly between the pro­grams, de-mys­ti­fy­ing the process and demon­strat­ing the ease of use of the tools in Photoshop.

Fear not, we will not drag you through all the dia­logue box­es and menus in Pho­to­shop and blind you with the com­plex­i­ties the pro­gram has a rep­u­ta­tion for. The rea­son for this is you cer­tain­ly do not need to know or con­cern your­self with all the func­tion­al­i­ties of it, but there are par­tic­u­lar aspects of Pho­to­shop that work beau­ti­ful­ly with Light­room. They are not com­pli­men­ta­ry and often have no equiv­a­lent in Lightroom. 

Dur­ing this online course we will demon­strate the sim­ple fea­tures in Pho­to­shop that can make a real improve­ment to your image edit­ing. Cur­rent­ly many of us can edit about 90% of your image in Light­room, but still to this date, there are some con­trols in Pho­to­shop that pos­i­tive­ly out­per­form Light­room or are sim­ply not avail­able at all and it is these con­trols we will be focus­ing on. 

What you will learn

How to work with Pho­to­shop and Light­room together

The basic con­cepts of Pho­to­shop — using lay­ers and adjust­ment layers

How to make selec­tions (mask­ing) with mar­quee, las­so, and colour and lumin­ios­i­ty range tools

Mas­ter­ing curves in Pho­to­shop for tonal and con­trast con­trol with­out colour shifts — one of the most pow­er­ful image edit­ing tools

Using the trans­form tools to per­fect com­po­si­tion and cor­rect perspective

Expand­ing can­vas and image areas with con­tent aware and gen­er­a­tive fill

Image retouch­ing with the clone stamp and heal­ing brush using dif­fer­ent blend modes

Local adjust­ments with dodge and burn

Get­ting cre­ative in Photoshop

LOGIS­TICS

Par­tic­i­pants will learn through 4 struc­tured and tar­get­ed online lessons and demon­stra­tions, have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to clar­i­fy under­stand­ing in three open ​“clin­ics”, and have a 1 hour 1−2−1 with the Mark to review their own images that they have been work­ing on.

We will be meet­ing on a reg­u­lar basis through­out the course. Online group meet­ings will be sched­uled as follows:

Mon­day 27^th Octo­ber at 11.00am up to 2 hours

Wednes­day 29^th Octo­ber at 2.00pm up to 2 hours

Fri­day 31^st Octo­ber at 10.00am up to 1 hour

Mon­day 3^rd Novem­ber at 2.00pm up to 2 hours

Wednes­day 5^th Novem­ber at 11.00am up to 2 hours

Fri­day 7^th Novem­ber at 10.00am up to 1 hour

Mon­day 10^th Novem­ber to Fri­day 14^th Novem­ber — indi­vid­ual 1 to 1 sessions

Fri­day 15^th Novem­ber up to 2 hours

You will have Mark Lawrence as your tutor who will patient­ly guide you through these won­der­ful fea­tures in Pho­to­shop, give demon­stra­tions and share his exten­sive knowl­edge of how these two amaz­ing pro­grams can work in tan­dem. There will be reg­u­lar group ses­sions and also indi­vid­ual 1 to 1 ses­sions with Mark so he can work on your images with you.

Mark will be work­ing with images from your exist­ing library so there will be no need for you to go out and get new images dur­ing the course.