Adobe Lightroom Classic is software for the professional and keen amateur photographer, helping you organise, edit and share your photography. It also allows for cross-platform interaction with other programs such as Adobe Photoshop.

Lightroom Classic will help you take control of a large collection of photos and edit and manipulate them. This is non-destructive software ideal for working with RAW images.

It will enhance your digital photos and help with noise reduction, colour balance, cropping, sharpening and converting to black and white. This course will offer an overview of the library and develop modules for the complete beginner.

The workshop will teach you:

• Navigating your way around the software
• Importing images and introducing you to the tools and commands
• Getting your projects started.
• Editing images in the pure sense of the word, deciding which pictures to keep and which to remove altogether using the Select tool.
• How to rate pictures using the star rating system.
• Metadata basics.
• Keywording.
• Exporting files.
• Cropping, colour temperature, exposure, contrast, noise reduction, spot removal.
• Working on images where you can see a ‘before’ and ‘after’ on the screen simultaneously.

Individual needs will be catered for where possible. All courses are taught on Apple Mac computers and skills learnt are transferable to PC.

Session Dates

• Wed 11 Nov

TUTOR: VANESSA MILES

Vanessa Miles is a seasoned Exeter-based professional photographer whose career spans several decades across community media, press and events photography and photography education.

Career Milestones & Roles

• Education & non-profit: Vanessa presently serves as the principal photography tutor at Exeter Phoenix.
• She is a qualified teacher holding both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in photography.
• She is the founder and director of Well Image CIC, a social enterprise dedicated to supporting mental health through therapeutic photography, which she has run for six years.

Industry Experience

• Devon & Events Work: Experienced in wedding, family, portraiture, press, and event photography.
• Environmental & Press Media: Established and ran the Environmental Picture Library in London during the early 1990s, providing environmental photography for national media outlets and major organisations, working closely with NGOs such as Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and The Woodland Trust. Worked as a freelance picture editor, picture researcher, and film stills photographer.
• Early Career & Community: Vanessa co-founded a women’s photography collective in South London in the early 1980s and contributed to numerous community photography projects across London.

Workshop attendees get 10% off all food and hot drinks at the Café Bar.

Venue: Digital Workshop, Exeter Phoenix

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