Workshop on Digital Post-processing using Adobe Lightroom

Bangalore | June 16, 2019 (Sunday)

  • Digital photography makes us all go shutter-happy. With that comes the formidable task of organizing and processing the hundreds (if not thousands) of photographs on our memory cards. Sounds tough? Not really!

    Welcome to Darter Photography’s Digital Post-processing Workshop. In this one-day workshop, you’ll discover the secret weapon that you’ve always wanted – Adobe Lightroom. Learn the techniques of organizing your photography collection, enhancing your photographs so that they become visually appealing and correcting the minor errors that you would’ve made in the field. Your mentor – Pratap J – has a reputation for stunning imagery and he’ll also share some amazing tricks from his kit that will make your photographs go from good to WOW!

    What are you waiting for? This is one workshop that you don’t want to miss out! Sign up today!

  • Dates – June 16, 2019


    Price – ₹4,000/- per person


    Venue – BTM 2nd Stage


Your takeaways from Adobe Lightroom workshop

Lightroom workshopThis workshop focuses on getting you familiar with the various features in Adobe Lightroom that will simplify your photography workflow and help you enhance your photographs. In this workshop, you will learn how to:

  • easily organize your photographs, from importing them to organizing them to processing them to publishing them/li>
  • setup your camera, computer display and software settings to get the best end-result and begin shooting with complete workflow in focus
  • correct your photos to ensure that colour, contrast, sharpness and noise reduction are applied effectively
  • selectively work on your photographs to ensure that the story is conveyed stronger
  • enhance your photographs from good to Wow through a thorough understanding of the post-processing parameters

For full details on the topics covered in this workshop, visit the Topics Covered section on this page.

What participants say…

The workshop was excellent and gave us much confidence to tackle Adobe Lightroom. Each section was well articulated and lot of time was devoted to practicals. Watching and learning from impactful before after scenarios – Sheena Sharma


Pratap did a commendable job in conveying what the workshop was all about and giving rest to all my expectations and doubts. He took us through the entire digital workflow and made it look like child’s play. His ability to explain fundamentals and clarify our doubts, be it off the topic or related to it was praiseworthy. He was coherent and approachable at all times, and gave as much individual attention. Even though post processing in Lightroom is a huge subject, at the end of the day, I felt that I learned a lot that could boost my photography further. – Nirmal Giri A


Really enjoyed taking the class. Pratap is an excellent instructor and the information he gave us was enough and perfect for the beginner or Lightroom. He gave us very good tips on equipment also and I realised why he recommended editing on a desktop monitor. – Arpita Bhawal

Who should join this workshop?

If you want to learn how to post-process your photographs to make them stand out and manage your photography collection, the Adobe Lightroom Workshop is for you. No previous knowledge in processing images is needed to attend this workshop. Basic knowledge of photography is desirable, but not essential.

Many a time, photographs on the camera don’t match up to what we see with our eyes. This could be due to camera limitations, inaccurate settings or tough photography conditions. Adobe Lightroom will help you bridge this gap. Post-processing a photograph is more often than not an essential step to taking your photographs from good to Wow! This workshop will guide you through the various parameters that need to be adjusted and how much they need to be adjusted to make your photograph look natural. These steps are not just needed to make corrections to your photographs but also to enhance the look and feel of your photographs.

The other problem that we aim to solve with this workshop is to manage the ever-increasing number of photographs in your library. Adobe Lightroom is a fantastic workflow tool that helps you through the entire process – from importing your photographs, cataloguing them, organizing them, processing them to publishing them in various formats.

Workshop Venue

Darter Photography Pvt Ltd,
No.154, 3rd floor,
3rd Main road, 5th Cross, BTM 2nd Stage
Karnataka,
Bangalore – 560076
Landmark – Opposite to Nandhanavana Park

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Workshop Price

The workshop fee is Rs. 4,000/– per person. Sign up here.

The workshop fee includes:

  • Workshop session
  • Lunch and tea/snacks during the workshop

Cancellation policy is as follows:
– If you cancel at least 3 days before the workshop, the workshop fee can utilized for any Darter Photography events within 6 months of the date of this workshop. Alternatively, you may opt for a refund of 70% of the workshop fee. The cancellation is effective only if you send us an email at photography@darter.in within the above duration.
– If you cancel within two days before the workshop or for no-show, the workshop fee will be forfeited and there will be no refunds.

Participants are required to bring their laptops for this workshop with Adobe Lightroom installed. Fully functional trial license of Adobe Lightroom (usually available to use for a week after installation) can be downloaded from Adobe website.

Your mentor for this workshop – Pratap J

Pratap J has been photographing and processing in digital for over a decade. True to his screen name ‘pixelshooter’, he has mastered the entire digital workflow from framing wonderful compositions with his camera to processing them to printing large prints of his amazing work. Through his years of experience working on popular image editing tools, he continues to coax the pixels in new ways, to bring out the best in his photographs. He is also obsessed with liberating his photographs from the confines of his computer by producing high quality inkjet photo prints. His post processing skills are put to test here, because prints are less forgiving than computer displays. He enjoys landscapes, nature and architectural photography.

Pratap has been conducting this workshop with Darter Photography since its inception and he is admired for his depth of knowledge and the details he covers during this workshop. You can see his online work at pixelshooter.net.

Adobe Lightroom Workshop – Topics Covered

This workshop covers an end-to-end workflow of using Adobe Lighroom to manage your photographs after you’ve clicked them on your camera. Through the day, Pratap will guide you on the basics of post-processing, introduce you to Adobe Lightroom and its features, show you the techniques of organizing, processing and publishing your photographs, and discuss on the limits and ethics of post-processing. A complete list of topics covered in this workshop is as follows:

Module 1: Introduction to Post Processing

We set the foundation for learning tools, processing, and output formats by understanding the concepts of Digital Post-processing. These concepts are camera brand and software agnostic.

  • Setting up a Digital Darkroom
  • Why process an image?
  • File formats, EXIF and color spaces
  • Raw vs JPG
  • Recommended in-camera settings
  • Identifying areas of improvement in a photograph with before/after examples
    • Sharpness
    • Exposure
    • Noise
    • Color temperature

Module 2: Introduction to Adobe Lightroom

We take the first steps to understand why Adobe Lightroom is so useful for photographers. We also understand the software’s interface and how to get started.

  • The Lightroom interface
    • The concept of workflow and Lightroom
    • Setting up Lightroom on your computer
    • The different panels of Lightroom
    • History panel
    • Importing photos to Lightroom
    • Zooming in and out
    • Outputting photos from Lightroom
  • Organizing your photos using ranking, metadata and key words
  • Digital Asset Management best practices

Module 3: Using Adobe Lightroom to Process images

We get hands-on and learn techniques to process images. But this module is not only about which slider to push and by how much! We go deep, understanding what each of these techniques do to a photograph, and how they tie into each other.

  • Introduction to the ‘Develop’ panel of Lightroom.
    • Post processing options
    • Achieving a high degree of precision using camera profiles and lens correction profiles.
  • Processing techniques in Lightroom (how-tos)
    • Cropping tool
    • Red-eye reduction and dust spot removal tool
    • White balance correction tool
    • Exposure correction using different tools
    • Contrast correction using different tools
    • Saturation correction using different tools
    • Sharpness and noise reduction tool

Module 4: Advanced creative processing techniques and configurations

After learning the basic techniques, we go one step further and explore some more powerful options that Adobe Lightroom provides.

  • Advanced techniques:
    • Selective correction tools
    • Selective color manipulation
    • Monochrome (Black and white)
    • Split toning
  • Deep configuration settings, power-user options and customization
    • Changing the look and feel of the interface
    • Using Presets
    • Virtual copies
    • Changing configuration options
    • Plugins

Module 5: Publishing photos

Now that your images are processed, you would want to publish them to different media to share them with the world.

  • Publishing options
  • Outputting processed images (includes watermarking and adding borders)
  • Printing via Lightroom

Module 6: Summarizing and getting creative

Practice makes perfect. Participants get time to work on different images to understand workflows better under the guidance of the mentor.

  • Sample workflows for the following types of photos:
    • Landscape
    • Portrait
    • Low-light
    • Black and white
  • Practice sessions and fine-tuning your workflow
  • Exploring options beyond Lightroom to achieve results such as:
    • HDR
    • Panoramas
    • Grunge look

Registration Details

You can register by making a payment using the ‘Pay Online and Register’ button below, using credit/debit card or netbanking.

For alternate payment options or for further information, email us at photography@darter.in or call us at 9740083260 (Shreeram M V). You can also fill up the form at the end of this page if you have any questions.

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