Getting Started with Adobe Lightroom with James Seith

112 West Broad Street,Falls Church VA 22046

23 October, 2021

Description

Once you take those Great pictures what do you do them? Join us for an Introductory class on how to use the popular Adobe Lightroom This 3-hour introductory course will acquaint you with all the Lightroom modules, concentrating on the library and develop modules, the ones you will use the most. In this class you will learn: How to import your photos into a simple catalog and organizational structure using the file system you have already created on your computer, then assess and filter the best. How to use all the photo adjustment tools to create the final version of your vision for each selected photo without ever compromising your original image. How to use the Cloud and/or external hard drives to protect and save your originals and your finished imagesHow to export your finished photo in a file format optimized for the web, print or email. Finally we will provide an introduction to the advanced features in Lightroom available in this powerful editing tool such as masking and color grading.Handouts will be provided. Things to bring with you: Your laptop with a version of Lightroom installeda mouse and/or keyboard if desiredPhotos to import/filter/assess/modify and edit.Price $89.00 + handling fee 3 Hour Class - 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM Meet the Instructor: Jim Seith is a self-taught photographer who for over 25 years has taken his camera to all seven continents, including twice to Antarctica, once as a crew member on a six-person, 60-foot-long sailboat. He spent 17 days with a nomadic goat-herder family in far northwestern Mongolia, riding their horses across the Altai Mountains to tri-border area of China, Mongolia and Russia. He has been to Africa four times and visited six countries, where his wanderings included a two-person canoe trip down the wild Zambezi River around groups of hippopotamuses, and a rare event in the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania where he followed a group of female lions and cubs as they stalked and took down a lone male Wildebeest. He spent hours in the Ngorongoro Crater photographing up close a group of female hyenas and their cubs. His images have been published in travel magazine and been picked up for sale through Getty and Adobe. His techniques for setting up the camera to give you the best chance to “create” and capture unforgettable moments are simple and easy to learn. He has edited his photos using Lightroom for decades and he has an uncomplicated system for understanding and using this powerful tool for the organization, workflow, and fine-tuning of your photographs. Jim was a career Air Force fighter pilot who flew over 200 missions in Viet Nam and retired as the Director of the Western Hemisphere Division on the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon. He then spent over 21 years as the Senior Vice-President of the AARP Foundation and on his retirement from AARP continues that work part-time as the Senior Director for Jobs Programs in a small non-profit organization in Crystal City, Virginia. Jim has a degree in Marketing and Fine Arts from the University of Florida, and a Masters Degree in Systems Management from St Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. You can see his portfolio here: jimseith.com