Digital Photography Workflow

Learn Photo Editing and Organization in Lightroom

9 Weeks | $425 | Online     

Effectively managing the hundreds of digital photos you’ve taken can be unnecessarily challenging and time consuming if you do not develop an efficient workflow. This class covers a professional digital photography workflow using the industry standard software — Adobe Lightroom Classic and Adobe Photoshop CC, with a focus on Lightroom Classic for non-cloud based file management and image editing. Taught by industry experts, the class includes detailed demonstrations, hands-on exercises and constructive critiques to assist you in developing the necessary skills for a complete digital photography workflow as well as introductory techniques for enhanced photo editing and retouching in Photoshop CC. Lightroom Classic lessons include File Organization, Catalogs, Importing, Metadata, Collections, Develop Module and Exporting. Photoshop lessons include Layers, Selections, Retouching and a round trip workflow with Lightroom and Photoshop.
 

What You Will Learn:

• How to establish an effective digital photography workflow in Lightroom, including: importing, Catalog and Collection creation, keywording, rating, organizing, editing, and outputting images.
• How to professionally edit images: color, exposure, and contrast correction and enhancement, retouching, Black & White, and Split toning. 
• Individual and batch adjustments, Preset creation.
• The ability to integrate Lightroom to Photoshop workflow. Utilize Layers and Selections in Photoshop.
• How to export and output images geared to a specific purpose: color space, size, metadata, watermark for print or web.

 

Hardware/Software Required

• Fully adjustable DSLR camera or prosumer camera
• Creative Cloud Photography Plan required (or full Adobe Creative Cloud plan)
• Lightroom Classic needed (not Lightroom Creative Cloud)

 

Additional Information

• Quarters Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer | Online
  Prerequisite: none
  Note: Required course for Photography: Images and Techniques professional certificate. Course title changed from "Digital Darkroom: Capture to Computer" (ART-40630). 
  Contact: For more information about this course, please email the academic department at unex-digital@ucsd.edu.

   

Course Number: ART-40705
Credit: 3.00 unit(s)
Related Certificate Programs: Photography: Images and Techniques

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9/24/2024 - 11/23/2024

$425

Online

Closed

• SECTION ID:

  184240

• CLASS TYPE:

  Online Asynchronous.
  
  This course is entirely web-based and to be completed asynchronously between the published course start and end dates. Synchronous attendance is NOT required.
  You will have access to your online course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.

• INSTRUCTOR:
  

  Fiander, Melanie, 18+ Years of Photographic Experience; 15+ Years Teaching Experience

  Melanie Fiander is a professional photographer and passionate educator focused on student success. As a full-time photographer, Melanie has run her own wedding and portrait photography business, Fiander Foto, since 2004. While based out of Bermuda and her home state of Virginia, she travels the globe to capture weddings and events. Melanie's work has been featured in Destination Weddings & Honeymoons Abroad, New York Weddings, PDN, The Vendor Report, Scotland Wedding, Tie the Knot Scotland, Ländle Wedding's "Seasons of Yes", Whimsically Wed, Bermuda Weddings and Honeymoons, Bermudian Weddings, How They Asked by The Knot, The Gray Collective, Wedding Wire, United With Love, National Geographic, It Started With Yes, Glittery Bride, 100 Layer Cake, Lets Bee Togethe...Read More

• TEXTBOOKS:

  No information available at this time.

• POLICIES:

  Early enrollment advised.
  No UCSD parking permit required.
  No visitors permitted.
  Prerequisite required.
  No refunds after: 9/27/2024.
  Early Enrollment Discount: $400 ($425 if enrolled after 9/2/2024).
  

• NOTE:

  SCBWI/MOPA members can receive our $25 Early Enrollment discount prior to course start date. The max discount a MOPA/SCBWI member can receive for one class is $25. It is applied upon course enrollment over the phone or in person with proof of membership. This is an online course. There are no face-to-face class sessions. You'll have access to your online course on the published start date. Login on your MyExtension account, select My Courses and click the link under LOCATION.

• DATE & LOCATION:

  9/24/2024 - 11/23/2024
  extensioncanvas.ucsd.edu
  You will have access to your course materials on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.