During this session you will learn to make basic corrections to exposure, white balance, tone curves, dodging and burning, and many other techniques very quickly and be able to apply these to an entire shoot with just a couple of clicks. If you follow the instructions presented you will never again have trouble finding a photo, you know you have somewhere.

Lightroom does what it does by combining Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) and a database and then tossing in a lot of “computer magic”. What this gives us is a way to organize our photos and do a great deal of sophisticated editing, all in a totally non destructive (this means you cannot ruin your original image) environment. Lightroom does not replace Photoshop or any other image editing program which lets you use layers, apply filters, or do sophisticated retouching and composting of images.

The use of a database gives us to ability to organize our photos, and then sort them buy any of many different criteria including standard metadata and IPTC information. This ability to sort very quickly on the entire catalog is what makes Lightroom great for organizing, or should I say finding your photos. The other cool thing about using a database, is that instead of changing all of our pixels and then throwing away the old pixel information, Lightroom simply saves an instruction to change the pixels. The program then reads this instruction and applies it to the image on screen but not to the actual file.