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Lightroom: Beyond the Basics

Elevate your Lightroom skills with advanced tools and techniques designed to refine your editing workflow. Explore features like color grading, masking, tone curves, and adaptive presets to enhance your creative control. Gain insights into streamlining edits across multiple photos and integrating plugins for seamless processing. Perfect for those ready to go beyond the basics in photo editing.

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  • 16 and older
  • $149
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  • 1201 K Street NW, Washington, DC
  • 4 hours & 30 minutes

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What you'll learn in this lightroom class:

Take your Lightroom skills beyond the fundamentals and dive deeper into the editing tools available. From advanced editing tools to some of Lightroom's advanced settings, we will cover some powerful tools you may not be aware of or may just need tips on how to use.

This class assumes you’re already familiar with editing your photos in Lightroom.

Learn about these editing tools:

  • Color Mixer and Point Color
  • Lens Blur
  • Color Grading
  • Tone Curve
  • Masking
Additional topics covered:

  • Applying the same edits to multiple photos
  • Adaptive editing presets
  • Importing editing presets
  • Sending photos to Photoshop for editing
  • Sending photos to a plug-in for editing
  • Smart Collections
  • Keywords
  • Adding copyright info
  • Filtering photos
The Masking tool will be covered in depth, addressing the following topics:

  • Types of masking:
    • Selecting specific features of a person’s face or body
    • Selecting the sky, or an individual subject/object
    • Linear Gradient masks
    • Radial Gradient masks
    • Color Range and Luminance Range masks
  • Masking techniques:
    • Inverting
    • Duplicating
    • Adding or Subtracting from a mask
All students will receive a pdf handout with tips, tricks and screen shots. It'll be your post-class companion when you're back at home editing your photos.

This class is not appropriate for someone new to Lightroom. Students are expected to be familiar using the editing tools as well as importing images. If you’re new to Lightroom or struggle with it, please consider taking the Getting Started with Lightroom (Cloud or Classic) class before taking this class.

Note: This class is appropriate for either version of Lightroom - Lightroom Classic or Lightroom Cloud.

Students will need to bring their own laptop (desktops are fine too) or tablet loaded with Lightroom.

School Notes: Mailing address:PO Box 855 Alexandria, VA 22313

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  • A refund or a credit towards another class (less a $20 processing fee) can be given if cancellation notice is given more than 6 business days from the scheduled class.
  • If there is no cancellation notice, or it is given 6 business days or less, no refund or credit will be given.

Please check the name and date of the class carefully.

  • Requests to reschedule a class will incur a $20 processing fee provided notice is given more than 6 business days prior to the class.
  • If request to reschedule is given less than 6 business days prior to the class, no refund or credit will be given.

If the school cancels or postpones a class due to weather or low enrollment, you can choose a full refund or a credit towards a future class.

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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