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PS Lightroom 2 - Enhancing Indepth & Unleashed
by Jack Davis

DVD-ROM

With Photoshop Lightroom 2's new ACR 5, Adobe has introduced tools that have the power to completely change the way we shape our photography. Instead of working one image at a time, one step at a time, now the vast majority of our photographic finishing can be done quickly, elegantly and nondestructively in one place! - without even opening Photoshop! This includes such universal tasks as dodging & burning, skin softening or even targeted sharpening! That's what the new Localized Correction tools have brought into our digital darkrooms. You will have to see these techniques in action to understand just how powerful they are.

Disc(s)

PSLR2WEIUD

$49.99

DVD-ROM

Total Run Time: approx 6 hours

Sessions

Section 1 : Lightroom 2 Interface and Workflow Shortcuts

Session 01 : Introduction to the Power of a Procedural Workflow
An overview of the sections and topics on this DVD and the huge quality, flexibility and speed benefits that comes with the current capabilities of Lightroom's incredible procedural processing power!
Session 02 : Lightroom 2 Interface Enhancements and the 5 Rules
Insights, Shortcuts and Overviews of the Five areas that make up Lightroom's integrated all-in-one interface masterpiece.
Session 03 : Best of the Best Workflow Shortcuts and Indispensable Timesavers
One of the most powerful features of Lightroom is the fact that almost everything has a shortcut associated with it. In this session Jack cuts through the plethora of I'll-never-use-that options and shows you the essentials (with diagrams!) that will save you countless hours in Lightroom.

Section 2 : Global Optimizing Accelerated

Session 04 : Jump Start your Work using the New Custom Camera Profiles
Brand new to Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw are the new Custom Camera Profiles that will allow you to get much closer to what you saw on the back of your camera - before you even start your work! See what they are all about in this session.
Session 05 : Global Optimizing - Part 1 - The Four Step Tango
With a hundred options at your fingertips, where do you start, especially if you want it done right, and right NOW? Jacks Four Step Tango will simplify the image optimizing process, with more quality and control than you would ever have though possible - in just 10 seconds!
Session 06 : Global Optimizing - Part 2 - Curves, Color Enhancing and Global Sharpening
When you do need to fine tune tone, color (including Black & White conversion and Tinting) or sharpening, stay in Lightroom and achieve quality and control dramatically better and faster than anything possibly in Photoshop.
Session 07 : Global Optimizing - Part 3 - Post-Crop Vignettes - Correcting and Enhancing
Post Crop Vignetting and Lens Vignetting: both at your disposal, both very different and both very powerful. Learn when and how to use them alone or in concert.
Session 08 : Wow Presets Workflow and Creating your Own Presets Library
Using the Wow Lightroom Presets to streamline your daily work, automate image enhancing, or simply to give yourself some creative inspiration of what's possible is what this session is all about - AND how to save your own beautification Lightroom recipes as your own Presets library.

Section 3 : Local Enhancing and Retouching

Session 09 : Local Enhancements - Part 1 - Graduated Density and Color Filter Effects
What's extremely quick, incredibly simple, and dramatically powerful? Yes, that's right: Superman AND the new Graduated Filter Tool!
Session 10 : Local Enhancements - Part 2 - Graduated Filter Dodging and Burning
From graduated neutral density (and Clarity!) effects, to instantly dodging & burning dozens of images at once, this new feature (and Jack's insights into it) rocks!
Session 11 : Local Enhancements - Part 3 - Adjustment Brush Landscape Enhancing
FINALLY - true brushed-in enhancing in Lightroom! With Masking capabilities much better, and easier than in Photoshop (if you know a few tricks)! Dodging & Burning, targeted sharpening, it's all here and more.
Session 12 : Adjustment Brush Portrait Enhancing - Part 1
Skin, eyes, teeth, color, tone, glows - shaping the very light of a shot - all of these can be enhanced with our new miraculous (and nondestructive) Adjustment Brush. Learn it inside and out, and see just what it can do for your portraits in these sessions from Jack.
Session 13 : Adjustment Brush Portrait Enhancing - Part 2
Close up Portrait enhancing and "retouching" is now possible in Lightroom - from brightening and sharpening eyes to adding a little blush, all that and more.
Session 14 : Adjustment Brush Portrait Enhancing - Part 3
Reshaping the light in a classic brides portrait is the project in this invaluable session from Jack.
Session 15 : Spot Healing Retouching and Reconstructing in Lightroom
The two modes of the Spot Healing Brush, combined with its new Opacity option, allow you to do everything from completely cloning your landscapes to subtly soften your portraits (even dark circles under the eyes? Yup!). In this session you'll learn first hand how.

Section 4 : Special Effects and Presets Power

Session 16 : Effects and Presets - Part 1 - The Why and What's Possible of the Wow
Going beyond creating just a great capture, to being able to expressively interpret a scene, is where the area of Enhancing Effects comes in. In this session you'll see the power and the possibilities of Preset Lightroom Wow "recipes" for creating everything from illustrative edge landscape HDRs to Rock Album portrait glows.
Session 17 : Effects and Presets - Part 2 - Diffused Glows and Skin Softening
"Expressive Effects," "Artistic Effects," "Make You Stop and Stare Effects," like high-key glows or muted color tinting are all there in Lightroom 2, IF you know how to make those sliders bend to your creative will!
Session 18 : Effects and Presets - Part 3 - Antique Tinting and Toning
Many characteristics of color, tone and tinting can make a photo look "Antique," and thus timeless. Here Jack will lead you through various techniques to create this classic look in a wink!
Session 19 : Effects and Presets - Part 4 - Instant HDR Illustrative Edges Effects
THE most popular image effect these days goes by many names: HDR Tone Mapping, Andrew Wyeth Detailing, or what Jack likes to call an Illustrative Edge Effect. Whatever you call it, the ability to expressively pull out incredible amounts of both highlight and shadow detail, while maintaing dramatic color and contrast IS a great addition to your arsenal of creative image solutions. And here Jack will show you how to do it with one image, and a few simple sliders, and save the "recipe" off as your very own preset!
Session 20 : Instant Black and White and Tint
The fast track to creating - and "hand detailing" beautiful Black & White and tinted photographs. AND saving off your creations as custom Presets for future use.

Section 5 : Photoshop Integration and Smart Filter Magic

Session 21 : LR2 to Photoshop and Back - Part 1 - ACR Hand Coloring Magic
Just how far can you push the limits of Lightroom's power to enhance - and even retouch - your imagery? In this eye opening session Jack will show you some incredible new ways to work with your photography that before now were impossible outside of Photoshop.
Session 22 : LR2 to Photoshop and Back - Part 2 - Smart Objects and Filters
And all the fast, flexible and extensive Wowification that took place in the last session will now be brought, fully intact, into Photoshop to do what it does best - filter finessing!
Session 23 : LR2 to Photoshop and Back - Part 3 - Smart Recipe Sharing
And in this session Jack will further teach you the huge benefits of nondestructive Smart Filtering, including the fact that whatever image "recipes" we come up with in CS4 can be shared with any other file with a simple Drag & Drop!
Session 24 : LR2 to Photoshop and Back - Dynamic Exposure Combining
With Lightroom's new ability to easily bring multiple files - especially bracketed exposures - into a single Photoshop layered document for quick combining, the world of incredible tonal dynamic range is open before you - with a little help from Jack.
Session 25 : LR2 to Photoshop and Back - Photomerge and Photoshop Enhancing
Photoshop CS4's new and improved Photomerge - the world's greatest tool for creating incredible panoramas - is infinitely more powerful IF you know how to optimize and enhance your images in Lightroom FIRST before starting the process. And once in Photoshop, Jack will show you secrets on how to quickly warp and retouch the resulting merge to mouthwatering perfection!

Section 6 : Julieanne Kost on Lightroom 2

Session 26 : Lightroom 2 Enhanced Library Module
Julieanne takes you on a guided tour of Lightroom 2's updated and improved Library Module. Learn to rank, keyword, create collections and search for images faster and easier than ever before.
Session 27: Lightroom 2 Enhanced Output Modules
Learn how to export images to seamlessly work on them in Bridge or Photoshop. Create great looking slideshows with the Slideshow Module, make your own custom Picture Packages with the improved Print Module, or put it all up in a Web gallery.

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