Lightroom User Group - Iron Chef Style!

Want to learn how to quickly wring some magic out of the Develop module? This is the presentation for you!

A little over two years ago, Stu Maschwitz was our very first guest presenter at the Lightroom User Group, and he has graciously agreed to join us again.

Stu Maschwitz is a filmmaker, photographer, and writer. He has overseen visual effects on films from Star Wars to Sin City, and has directed numerous TV commercials. He designed the Magic Bullet color correction tools for Red Giant Software, and pushes Lightroom's capabilities to their limit when processing his still photos.

Stu will be schooling us in the Lightroom Develop module, Iron Chef style. Here's how it will work: anyone who wishes may submit a photo ahead of time (details below). I will collect the photos - Stu will not see any of the photos until he's standing up in front of us all at the user group meeting.

Then, having just seen the photos for the very first time, he'll flex his Develop module skills by making each of them look as awesome as possible, as quickly as possible. Depending on how many photos we get we may also impose a per-photo time limit on Stu.

Please submit a photo (original raw files only, please) by uploading it to Dropbox (or a similar service) and then sending me the link in a private message via Meetup. You can submit a great photo that you want developed to its finest, or a challenging photo that needs a lot of help, or anything in between.

Your photos will be used only for the purpose of this meeting, and will be deleted from my and Stu's hard drives after the meeting.

If you don't use Dropbox, it's free and easy, go here to find out all about it:
https://www.dropbox.com/

And if you need help with sharing a file that you've uploaded to Dropbox, go here:
https://www.dropbox.com/help/167

This presentation will assume that you have a certain baseline knowledge of Lightroom. If you're new to Lightroom you may benefit from watching my "Intro to Lightroom" presentation before attending this meeting: https://seminars.adobeconnect.com/_a227210/p8jckoamiq8/?launcher=false&fcsContent=true&pbMode=normal

As usual we'll have pizza and socializing from 6:30 to 7:00, and the presentation itself will begin at 7:00. Parking is available in the Adobe garage, the entrance is on King Street. Get your parking ticket validated once you're inside.

I hope to see everyone there!

Thanks,
Ben