Lightroom Workshop - Output - Printing / Sharing your work

In this, the 3rd workshop in the Lightroom Series, Bob will discuss the process to print & to output your images.

The focus this month is on Lightroom - the post processing software that Bob uses in his professional photography work. He strongly recommends it for photographers of all levels! Lightroom is an extremely powerful tool for organizing your images, editing your images and printing your images. While it covers a lot of ground, it is fairly user friendly!

While sharing your images with friends and family on your phone is fun, it isn't the same experience as sharing tangible prints of your images! Inkjet printers have come a long way, using Lightroom to ensure your colors are accurate and your prints are their finest is key!

Move beyond sharing your images on a handheld phone! Learn about the art of Printing and Output with Bob!

This workshop is all about making tangible prints. We will work in both the Print Module as well as the Book Module. I don't use the Web module, so we won't spend any time there. We will look at creating print presets for a variety of different purposes. Then we will learn how to print at home, if you have an inkjet printer, or how to create files to send out for printing to places like Costco, or a professional lab.

Books are another wonderful way to share your work, and we will explore the "Book Module" and see what is involved in making our own work into a coffee table masterpiece.

The Lightroom series is broken up into three separate and unique workshops. Participants are welcome to take one, two or all three. There are no pre-requisites to attending any single workshop, just understand that each workshop focuses on unique features of the software and there will be limited time to address off-topic questions.

Recommended text: The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 book for digital photographers. ISBN-13 (http://www.amazon.com/Photoshop-Lightroom-Digital-Photographers-Voices/dp/0321934318/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1376998889&sr=8-1&keywords=lightroom+5+kelby) 978-0321934314 (http://www.amazon.com/Photoshop-Lightroom-Digital-Photographers-Voices/dp/0321934318/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1376998889&sr=8-1&keywords=lightroom+5+kelby)

While I love to write, I don't have the time or resources to write out lengthy software based handouts for these workshops, especially when several great resources already exist. This entire group of Lightroom workshops will be strongly based upon the recommended text. I urge you to both buy it, and bring it along to the workshop.

You are encouraged to bring your laptop to the workshop.

Adobe provides a free 30 day trial download, so if you don't already own it, you can download the trial version on your laptop and bring it to the class. Please bring a variety of images to practice on during the workshop. Adobe is offering a promotion on Cloud access to Photo Shop and Lightroom. Please see their website for more details: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop.edu.html