What is the difference between this workshop and the SLR Lounge? This is by far the most common question we receive. The Lightroom Workshop Collection contains 3 parts: 1 The Organization and Workflow Workshop 7. So with over 20 hours of education, all exercise files, and the best preset system on the market, the Lightroom Workshop Collection is all of the education and resources you need to completely master Lightroom. In contrast, the combines aspects of the Organization and Workflow Workshop AND the Image Processing Mastery Workshop, with a heavy focus on image processing. With over 40 exercise files and well over 20 start to finish edits, this workshop covers almost every type of look and style. From making your high definition images pop with beautiful colors, to creating soft and silky skin tones for portraiture, to realistic vintage and filmic effects. Please email your proof of purchase to help slrlounge. Pye as the Instructor When Fstoppers create their Original DVD Education, they always partner with the leader in each industry. This is why they partnered with and again with for example. So when they approached Lightroom, they came to our very own Pye Jirsa. Pye has been teaching Lightroom for over 4 years now and has become one of the most sought out educators in the business. By mixing humor with concise and easy to follow demonstrations, Pye makes learning easy and fun. After watching just a few chapters of the tutorial, you will be mastering complex techniques in no time. Follow Along With Full High Res Files We understand the best way to learn is by being actively involved in the process. To help you get the most out of this tutorial, we have included every high resolution RAW file. This makes it easy to follow alongside Pye and practice each technique with the exact same files shown in the video. Improving Your Workflow One of the most important things for any photographer is creating a streamlined workflow so you can spend more time behind the camera instead of behind your computer monitor. Lightroom has become the premiere software for quickly editing and exporting your entire photo sessions. However, even with this powerful software, it can still take a novice hours and hours to cull, edit, and batch an entire wedding or event. Pye will teach you how to speed through your images by optimizing your software settings, building adjustment presets, and automating many of the most common edits you perform session after session. What Is Covered in This Tutorial: Creating a Catalog and Importing — In this chapter, we cover the entire catalog creation and import process while taking into consideration good workflow along the way. Interface Module and Basics — In this video, we review the entire Lightroom interface and module basics while giving you tips and tricks regarding our favorite features and shortcuts throughout. Scratching the Develop Module Itch — Basic Processing Part 1 — We know everyone wants to jump into developing and creating awesome images. In this section, we take a quick break from learning Lightroom mechanics to jump into the Develop module and process our first exercise file. Important Pre-Work Optimization — Before diving into image processing, it is important to review the options relating to setting up an optimized Lightroom workspace. In this video, we spend a few minutes going through important workflow related options in the Preferences dialogue that will greatly improve your Lightroom workflow and experience. Scratching the Develop Module Itch — Basic Processing Part II — In this chapter, we again step away from Lightroom mechanics to develop another image. This time we are showing you how to develop a wedding portrait of a beautiful bride. Culling and Organizing Images — When it comes to developing hundreds and even thousands of images, it is important to have a good system to cull and organize your photos. In this tutorial, we show you several methods for Lightroom culling, as well as our preferred approach to culling and image organization. Diving into RAW — Here, we show you the differences between developing RAW vs standard JPEG images. Using the Library Filter System — We step back into the Library module to discuss the Library Filter System which is another feature and component in Lightroom that will greatly help you manage, organize and find particular images. Batch Processing and Synchronizing — Batch processing and synchronizing Develop Module settings from one image to the next is one of the most powerful features of Lightroom, and arguably the most important feature in a quick and efficient workflow. Here, we show you several different ways to synchronize and batch process images along with our favorite techniques. Fix Those Underexposed Images! In this tutorial, we will be focusing on not only correcting exposure, but also in making the correct adjustments to retrieve overall contrast and tonality while not adding too much grain or destroying too much detail. Overexposed, Not to Worry! Adding Brushes for an Extra KICK — Brushes are an important and incredibly powerful feature within Lightroom. We show you how you can add extra pop and contrast via Brushes to particular areas of an image. Maximizing Dynamic Range — In this chapter, we are going to take a landscape photo and show you how to process the image to maximize dynamic range via overall and localized tone mapping. The results will blow your mind in just how far we can push a correctly exposed RAW image. Awesome Panoramas — In this tutorial, we will be walking through the process of individually processing, combining and then finalizing a beautiful panoramic landscape shot of Bryce Canyon. In this tutorial, we will be showing you how to create a timeless high-contrast black and white image with a matte and colorized finish. Going Vintage with Curves — Curves are incredibly powerful and in this tutorial, we are going to show you how to create vintage toning using curves. Soft and Silky Skin Tones — Creating soft and silky skin tones can often be tricky. In this tutorial, we show you how to create beautiful and soft skin tones with an image that is challenging from a colorization perspective. Poppy Portraiture — In this tutorial, we show you how to create a high contrast look with a portrait image. The key is keeping good skin tones while producing a high contrast look to the image. Bright and Airy Colors — Lifestyle photography features a bright and airy look to the images. In this tutorial, that is the exact look we will focusing on creating. Our goal is to create a beautiful and soft vintage feel to the image with bright and airy colors. Extreme Crops — In this chapter, we demonstrate how to make extreme crops to ultra-high resolution images. With such an extreme crop, we will be demonstrating how to modify overall sharpening and detail to retain enough detail in your image despite cropping away 80% of the file. In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to create an extraordinary image out of a very ordinary image to start out. We will be focusing on creating a heavily faded black and white filmic look to the image. That Magazine Matte Finish — In this tutorial, we are going to use an editorial equestrian fashion shoot image to create a final image with an editorial matte finish that you might see in a high fashion magazine. Retouching in Lightroom, YEP! When to Retouch in Photoshop — In this video, we are going to show you an example of when you need to step into Photoshop for advanced retouch or effects. Getting Wild on the Dance Floor — If you shoot events, then this tutorial is for you! In this tutorial, we are going to process a dance floor image to get a beautiful high contrast and dramatic look to exciting dance floor imagery. Soft and Creamy Newborns — Editing newborn images requires just a little more smoothing than a typical portrait. In this tutorial, we will be processing a newborn photo where we smooth skin tones and also even out some of the uneven colorization that is common with newborn skin. We will be teaching you how to create a simple faux tilt-shift effect within Lightroom. Detail Shots to Impress — For those that shoot weddings and event details, we will be showing you how to create a vivid, yet clean high contrast look to your detail shots. How Presets Can Change Your World! Lightroom + Video — Lightroom does have basic features for colorizing and cutting videos. In this tutorial, we will be demonstrating these features. Exporting for Print — Learn how to export and prepare your images for printing. Exporting for Web — In this tutorial, we demonstrate how to export and prepare your images for web based usage. Importing via Tethered Capture — Tethered capture is a great way to import while shooting in order to preview and check your images while shooting in the studio. In this video, we show you how to setup and shoot tethered to Lightroom. Advanced Exporting Methods — In this tutorial, we will be teaching you advanced methods of exporting featuring Lightrooms Publish Services. More Image Examples Below are a few more examples click left and right to scroll through more images. The dual monitor support looks awesome! I started using LightRoom about 3 years ago because as a computer software developer, I liked the database concept of having all of my film photographs where it can be searched from one program. Thirty-four years ago, I used my own film roll naming system of Year-Roll , which I use as folder names also. I use LightRoom for basic uses, but this DVD looks like I can learn more.