Digital Photography Workflow

Digital Photography Workflow
9 Weeks | $325 | 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.

Quarters Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer | Online
Course Fee: $325
Prerequisite: none
Materials/Software/Hardware: 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).

Mac or PC laptop or desktop computer. The computer should have a current version of Lightroom Classic CC and Photoshop CC installed. It should also meet the minimum system requirements outlined by Adobe.
Lightroom Classic System Requirements
Photoshop System Requirements

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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7/5/2022 - 9/3/2022

$300

Online

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• SECTION ID:

  165420

• 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:
  

  Karakaidos, Effi, Effi is an educator, visual artist and photographer specializing in digital photography, post-production, mixed media, installation, painting, and sculpture.

  Effi Karakaidos teaches Digital Photography Workflow and Postcards from the City: Exploration with Artistic Photography for the Photography: Images and Techniques certificate program. Effi is an educator, visual artist and photographer specializing in digital photography, post-production, mixed media, installation, painting, and sculpture. She completed her MFA in Visual Art at Vermont College, and B.A. in Art at UCLA. Effi has taught at the Art Institutes (San Diego and Pittsburgh – Online Division) since 2004, taught at Platt College, served as graduate advisor at Miami International University and Artist Teacher for Vermont College. 14 years higher education teaching and management 10 years K-12 teaching experience Effi has exhibited extensively nationwide and ...Read More

• TEXTBOOKS:

  No textbook required.

• POLICIES:

  Early enrollment advised.
  No UCSD parking permit required.
  No visitors permitted.
  No refunds after: 7/11/2022.
  Early Enrollment Discount: $300 ($325 if enrolled after 6/6/2022).
  

• 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:

  7/5/2022 - 9/3/2022
  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.