NAT COALSON, ADOBE CERTIFIED EXPERT
Nat is an Adobe Certified Expert, Photoshop, with 20 years professional experience in photography, digital imaging and printing. From his studio in the mountains near Denver, Nat currently works in fine art photography and produces digital fine art prints for photographers and artists. His work has been exhibited widely and is held in numerous private and corporate collections. Nat is an experienced instructor and has taught many classes and workshops on photography, digital workflow and digital printing. To see more of Nat’s work visit www.NathanielCoalson.com. For information on Nat’s digital printmaking services, visit www.FineDigitalPrintmaking.com.

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CLASSES & WORKSHOPS
WITH NAT COALSON

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP LIGHTROOM
Designed by and for digital photographers, Lightroom provides a powerful set of tools for managing and processing large volumes of digital images. Lightroom can be used as a standalone program (with or without other Photoshop programs) or can be integrated with Photoshop to form a complete, professional workflow. This class will give you a full working knowledge of Lightroom and will teach you how to integrate Lightroom into your digital photo workflow. You will learn fundamental techniques for processing photos in and out of Lightroom, using metadata to manage your image library, and presenting your work in a variety of ways.

Topics covered will include:

The Lightroom Workflow
- How it integrates with other Adobe image processing software
- Image Processing and Asset Management fundamentals

The Lightroom Interface
- Module Picker
- Panels and Tracks
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Menus and Commands
- Customizing the interface

Library Module
- About the Lightroom Database and Catalogs
- Strategies for File and Folder structures
- File formats supported
- Importing Images into Lightroom
- Rating, sorting and filtering
- Using metadata
- Working with multiple Catalogs

Develop Module
- Adjusting White Balance
- Fine-tuning tone and color
- Retouching and dust removal using the Spotting tools
- Black and white conversions from color originals
- Using Virtual Copies to create variations on an image
- Sharpening and noise reduction
- Exporting files for additional work in Photoshop

Slideshow, Print and Web Modules
- Fast, easy techniques for sharing your work with others
- Templates and customization

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