Lightroom Classic Workshop - Feb 20th and future dates

Hi Guys,

On Thursday 20th Feb we will be holding the fourth LRC training workshop. There are 3 places available at this workshop which will be allocated on a first come first served basis. If you miss out on this workshop then you will be first in the queue for the next workshop in February. I will notify those that are attending on 20th on or before Friday 14th Feb.

 

If you wish to attend this workshop then please take the tickets marked 20th Feb LRC Workshop.

 

If you wish to put your hand up to attend a future workshop because you can't come on the 20th Feb workshop then take a ticket marked Future LRC Workshop.

 

Below is the compulsory pre-reading for the 20th Feb workshop.

In this workshop we will be looking at how to curate your photos for ease of access in the future. This will be done using some of the features of LRC.

There are 2 primary ways to curate your photos:

1. Organise them by date and then use collections and tagging in LRC to organise them further. Your file structure will be date based, eg by month or year.

2. Organise them by category and sub-category in your file structure then add them to LRC using this structure. For example, categories could be, travel, family, events, photography.... . You then use LRC to view by date or tag plus create collections of one or more categories/sub-categories for viewing a summary of your photos. Peter Buck and I use this strategy.

Your decision could be influenced by your past file storage structures. Neither strategy is better, they are just different, both provide good outcomes.

Perhaps the only real difference is that with 1. you always need LRC/LR to access categorised photos, whereas with 2 you have access to categorised unedited photos direct from the file structure.

Please think this through before you arrive on Thursday so we can assist you to start curating your photos more effectively.

Additionally, LRC collections can be synced to the cloud at no cost and viewed in LR on any device using the free access to LR. This is very handy for showing family, friends and colleges your photos.

Secondly, we will look at the process to choose which photos to keep and then which ones to edit.

Lastly, we will look at how LRC can assist you with editing photos. This part of the session will be personally customised to your present capability level and any areas of specific interest you have in editing. Please select several photos from your collection which you would like to work on during the workshop.

To facilitiate this session you should bring your laptop with Lightroom Classic loaded and your photo collection either loaded to the laptop or on a portable drive of some description that can be attached to your laptop. If you don't have a laptop or you don't have a LRC subscription then you can use one of the Shed laptops with LRC loaded and bring you photos on a portable drive. If you take up the latter option (and I would recommend this if you don't have later model reasonably fast laptop) then you will be able to take your work home as a catalogue on a thumb drive and use it again in the future, either at the Shed or on your desktop machine at home. Please nominate which of the above options you will use and whether it is a Windows or Apple laptop prior to the meeting by return email to me.

See you at 12pm on Thursday.

Regards

JB