Creative Image Editing in Photoshop and Lightroom 2-Days

In an age when Instagram and camera phones have made everyone into a photographer, the need to create truly exceptional images has become more important—and more challenging—than ever. As photographers, we need to up our game.

In this course, Nigel will demonstrate a range of easy-yet-effective Photoshop and Lightroom techniques to help you improve your image making. We will go beyond the intended uses of common features to discover their sometimes unintended and hidden potential. From subtle adjustments to dramatic transformations, you’ll gain an insight into how to leverage Photoshop and Lightroom’s capabilities to make your images stand out from the crowd.

Through a series of mini projects where you will work with images provided as well as on your own images, the course aims to provide you with an understanding of the creative potential for using Photoshop and Lightroom—separately and in combination—to elevate your imagery, while still retaining its authenticity. From a technical perspective, Nigel will provide a solid grounding in a workflow that is efficient and non-destructive, maintaining image quality and leaving a clear path to future edits.

In this course you’ll learn how to:
• Understand and effectively use blend modes to create mood, add texture, or suggest motion
• Use Lightroom and Photoshop in combination, playing to the strengths of both applications
• Combine multiple frames of a subject to create a final image that is more than the sum of its parts

Materials to bring

• Bring a note of your own Adobe ID login. If you don’t already have one, please register for a free account at Adobe prior to the course, and remember to bring the details with you
• A USB memory stick or similar to save your images to at the end of each day - essential
• Any digital images of your own you wish to work on - either to download from your camera or saved to a USB 
• Camera (preferably a DSLR or Mirrorless, but camera phones also welcome), fully charged batteries and cable for downloading images to computers
• Laptop (if you prefer to work on your own machine), with current or recent versions of Photoshop and Lightroom installed.

Materials included
The tutor will supply some notes and practice images.

Equipment provided
PC’s and relevant software are provided for each student for use on the course.

About the tutor
Nigel French is a photographer, graphic designer and design teacher, based in Lewes. He has an MA (Distinction) in Graphic Design and Communication from the University for the Creative Arts, is co-author of the Photoshop Visual Quickstart Guide, and has recorded more than fifty titles in the LinkedIn Learning online training library.