The Studio Forum
...an informal gathering of people interested in digital photography, Photoshop, Lightroom and Digital Image creation. Bob will moderate the two main section of each forum session - "Members' Request" and "Anatomy of an Image"...
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the next Studio Forum is …
Wednesday, September 28th, 2010
Some PROPOSED Topics... for this Forum Session:
· General Digital Workflow
o Sharpening and Noise Reduction with Adobe Camera Raw – Process 2010
· With the release of CS5 and LR3, expanded Sharpening and Noise Reduction capabilities are now available to us and need to be revisited.
· Lightroom:
o LR3’s New Import function: Assigning Camera Defaults on Import
· Which Settings to save and Presets to Check
¨ considerations for including your “camera calibration”
· PS-CS5
o ”Smart”: Objects; Effects & Filters;
· With consideration to “Child/Parent” relationship in both PS & LR
· On-The-Wall Session...
o Anatomy of an Image…
· If anyone has some interesting LR/PS processing work they’d like to show let me know
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
Some “PROPOSED Topics"... for this Forum Session:
· General Digital Workflow
o The Real Question is NOT Lightroom OR Photoshop BUT Adobe Camera Raw (6.2) AND Smart Objects
o Exposure to the Left… where does your camera noise really come from?
o Camera Raw Processing
§ When to use the “Exposure” or “Brightness” slider
§ ACR preferences common to both Photoshop & Lightroom
· …then why Lightroom over Photoshop
§ Cataloging and Exporting ACR / Adds Cataloging and Exporting to ACR processing / ACR Cataloging and Automated Output
· Lightroom 3: It has been 3 months - a summer of new LR3 (and ACR 6.2)
o LR3 3 …New Features and how they affect our Camera Raw Workflow
§ New Importing features (Cool numbering and saving templates)
§ New Printing capabilities
§ more Noise reduction; (New “2010” process)
§ more LR3 Lens Correction
o Auto Importing
o Consideration for power workflow Folder Structure [LR_Exports]; [LR_Auto-Import]; [LR_Re-Import]
o “Storing Presets with Catalog”
o review Setting Camera Defaults
· PS-CS5
o New “Refine Edges"
· On-The-Wall Session...
o Anatomy of an Image… “Azorean Blue Door”
§ LR General Workflow: Basic Global & Local Enhancements; Advanced and Creative Adjustment Brush & Cloning techniques; Output: color managed image to Printer and File for service bureau
§ PS: open smart object from Lightroom; Content Aware Scale