Welcome to the era of digital imagery, where you have no photos to lose, and so much freedom to gain. Freedom from the shoeboxes and overstuffed file cabinets of unorganized photos. Freedom to make as many images as you want. And the freedom that comes from knowing how Lightroom and Photoshop can work together to get your images organized, make them easy to access and give them that all-important “pop.”

This workshop combines field sessions to create new images with classroom time in The Workshops state-of-the-art digital lab. In the lab, we devote the majority of our time to Lightroom, beginning with the powerful organizing and enhancing tools that give us quick, consistent control of our images. We explore Lightroom’s image rating and cataloging tools and learn practical techniques for image enhancement, including synchronizing enhancement settings to apply to multiple images automatically—an efficient tool that will save you hours of computer time.

Photoshop steps in when images need further adjustments, retouching, or compositing. Rick explains the integration between Lightroom and Photoshop, the basic retouching tools in Photoshop and how to keep your new changes stored back in Lightroom.

Our goal is to streamline our photographic workflow using Lightroom with some Photoshop, and discover how these two applications help minimize the time you spend on your computer and maximize the time you can devote to your true passion—making pictures!