One-on-One Lightroom Training through the Phoenix Lightroom Enterprise

One-on-One Training

Time is money. So said Benjamin Franklin back in the eighteenth century and never more than today has that adage been true.

Adobe Lightroom training sessions last two hours. I sit with you at your computer. It doesn't help much at all to watch someone else do something on their computer. You need to be the one driving your machine.

YIKES! This is the most persistent call for help I get.

Lightroom's database method of image organization and management is not the same as working with Adobe Bridge, the Mac Finder or a PC's Explorer – all browser applications.

Lightroom is faster when answering a search and is more accurate conducting a search. When set up and used correctly Lightroom provides you the ability to find the proverbial "needle in a haystack" – in a flash.

However, I have seen so many variations on the problem of multiple catalogs and copies of image folders spread across multiple internal and external hard drives it would be nearly impossible describing them all here. Point is, the mess has to be fixed or you will be losing more and more productive time and becoming all the while more frustrated with this elegant and sophisticated application!

Working at a collaborative shop it is most likely colleagues are all sharing files over a network utilizing Adobe Bridge. Terrific. Makes sense.

However, Bridge does not provide many of the features Lightroom does, each essential to a photographer's most efficient and productive workflow. It is important to learn how Lightroom can be used within a Creative Suite/Bridge-centric workplace.

Answer:
History. Virtual Copies. Database (the Catalog) search speed and accuracy. Image presentation options – all things Bridge does not provide or that Lightroom does for a photographer better!

It's a bright sunny day.
The groom in an elegant, charcoal-gray pinstripe suit; bride in white (of course). Her dress is phenomenal; it's so elegant and elaborate.

Shoot the wedding JPEG-only (as so many recent film-to-digital converts do) and you've likely lost detail within the darkest elements of the image (shadow detail) or in the blown-out highlight details of that beautiful white dress. You won't get the detail back. You can't tweak-back the lost detail in a JPEG capture. It's gone forever.

However, by shooting Raw, later converting to JPEG one still has the ability to rescue a problematic exposure...

I find Lightroom an intuitive application by design. It is, I think, easy to understand – far and away more easy to learn and less daunting than its parent application, Photoshop. But for someone who has only limited experience working with image editing… Why, all those controls, all the options available for manipulating a photograph must seem a formidable challenge indeed.

Patient, targeted assistance focused on each client's needs at a pace tailored to however you feel most comfortable with is how I have developed the One-on-One Lightroom training I provide.

Contact me via email or phone and we can talk about how best to attend to your needs for training: info@phoenixlightroomenterprise.com or 602-225-3737.

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