Day one

Summary: import, adjust, develop, label, keyword and export. This day is about building your skills in the areas of workflow and image development.

Outcome: after day one, you’ll be able to import images, sort them into projects, rate them, keyword them, identify the winning shots within a collection, manage filenames logically, perform corrections and adjustments within Lightroom 2 to single and multiple images, copy some or all adjustments between images, export your work at different sizes and in different formats and use Photoshop or other image editors for specialised adjustments without breaking your workflow. You’ll be managing all your images using static or dynamic collections within Lightroom.

Day two

Summary: speed and quality. This day is about building on that basic workflow to get you working faster and achieving absolutely top notch results by learning and using more advanced techniques.

Recap: before we begin on the advanced stuff, we quickly go over day one and cover all the questions that will have arisen during your week of working on the application and on your own images before beginning to build on that knowledge. The repetition and the question-and-answer time will help with the small details that you might have missed.

Outcome: at the end of day two, you’ll be completely on top of your workflow and will know how to produce very high quality results quickly and easily. You will feel familiar with all of Lightroom’s functions and where there are multiple ways of working, you’ll have identified the method that you’re happiest with in each case. You’ll be able to achieve the look you want from your work quickly and will be able to call on other image editing applications easily, integrating all the results using Lightroom. You’ll be able to find all your keyworded images and quickly identify which ones you haven’t yet keyworded. You’ll know your way around advanced Photoshop integration (for high dynamic range work, or stitching of panoramas). You’ll find projects quickly and you’ll know how to producing high quality prints and high quality web images. Digital photography workflow nirvana!