Then at the markets this morning to take a series of paragraphs. To illustrate the workflow I teach about how to curl and do basic editing on your photographs, especially when you're traveling it's really important to keep a track of your images, how much you're shooting what you're shooting, and try and discard some of the ones that you're never ever going to use pretty much straightaway. At the end of the day, if you've got time to review what you've shot on your computer, go through and cut out the ones that you know you'll never look at again. And this will save you space on your hard drives. And also say A lot of time and energy and helping you choose the best photographs. And this is really what this exercise is about is choosing the best photographs for your collection for your portfolios to share with your friends, however you're using them.

You're never ever going to show everything to everyone or you shouldn't really because they'll get bored whether you want to show them your best work. And so I just want to encourage you to use this tutorial to learn how best to call out the bad images. The ones that you'll never look at the ones that you'll never want to show people. And then go through and refine that process again. And again. So maybe two or three times going through your paragraphs to pare them down to the best ones, the ones that you'll want to use in your portfolio, the ones that you'll really want to share with your friends and family or the ones that you want to get published.

However, you're using them. I'll be using Adobe Lightroom to teach the process of how I carry out the images I don't want to keep and choose the best ones. I consider this a very important workflow to get right because I've met so many people that tell me they keep all of their images, or most of the images and their hard drives are boosting at the scenes. First of all, we'll look at that interface and get a feel for it because it's really important to be comfortable with the software that you're using, and to be able to use it without getting frustrated because you don't know where things are, or do the most important processes and the workflow. First up, we'll take a careful look at how and where to software stores your files so that you know where to locate them. But also So take a good look at a number of the most important keywords for this type of workflow.

And remember, this is my workflow, this is how I do it. It's not the only way to do it. But this is a process that I started developing over 10 years ago now to shooting digital. And please do keep a positive attitude about your photography as you start carrying your images. And now it can be a bit daunting, sometimes looking at everything that you've shot and not being able to see your best shot straightaway. That if you keep a positive attitude throughout, I guarantee you'll be able to find them.

And you'll find the more quickly the more you practice this workflow. I file everything by date and asleep and then add keywords or tags later as part of the process so that you can find your images easily at any time later on. And then we'll also look at backing up your files once Lightroom is important. To them, it's vital that you will then go and make a backup copy of everything that you've shot. And I will teach you about incremental backup and why it's good to use this method. And then we'll get into the decision making, we'll get into the hard part.

And this is where I'll teach you how I choose to identify my best photos, and how you can learn to do this too. I first learned this process when I was working at the newspaper at the newspaper, I would have a certain amount of time blocked out each week before deadline to spin in my darkroom. And this is where I would have to choose usually just one image from each job that I'd done for each story of the newspaper that needed to be illustrated. That was shot three rolls of film, I still just had to choose one image that can be a painful process. And that needed to be done quickly, because there was always a looming deadline. So this was Now I've learned this as my background and choosing images and finding the best ones.

These days shooting digital and inevitably, we shoot a lot more than we used to shoot with film. So I can make the process a little bit more difficult. But at least we have tools like Adobe Lightroom. To help us ease the pain of that process. The more effectively you can learn to curl your photos and choose the best ones, the more you're going to be pleased with them. And the more impressed anyone else's who sees your pictures will be with some turn.

So within the software, one of the most helpful tools to use in this process is utilizing the flags. Now the flags will either show or hide the images that you are choosing to keep or discard. And moving through this process we'll take a good look at comparing sets of similar images and Have this is helpful and, and discerning which ones are the best. And power through this workflow part of the exercises to be able to free up some space on your hard drives by not keeping all of the images that you've shot. And as we refine the process, I'll be teaching more techniques about identifying your best images and what to look for to help you make these hard decisions. And all through the teaching.

I'll be stressing effective and efficient ways of using the software, mostly through the use of keyboard shortcuts. There's a myriad of them in Lightroom, but I will just stress the most useful ones. I'll teach you about how to recognize strengths and weaknesses in your images, and how to consider various photos that might not look great in their original and manipulated format. And why it's important to keep some of them because you can see the potential that Processing those shots will have, for example, using things like the crop toll lights and tone balancing, counterbalance, etc. This is a progressive course it's a step by step course I do encourage you to stick with that. So that makes the most sense to you and you get the most value from it by working through to the end of the course.

During the course I do share some insights into how I shoot relative to how I plan to sell my photographs, because that's all an integral process for me. Further on, we look more at keywording and cataloging your images, refining the process that will make them easy to find in the future. And then the last three lessons are on the develop module, about balancing the light and tone and doing various other post processing to individual images. At this stage if you don't shoot RAW files, this will help you understand why a lot of serious photographers do shoot RAW files. In the develop module, I'll walk you through all of the most practical and useful tools are covered the basic slider panel with tips and tricks that I use for the sliders in other parts of this process. Then moving down the right hand information panel, we will also look at hue saturation and luminance and the alterations that you can make there.

We will look at noise reduction and fabulous deference that this can make to an image. We'll look at some of the detail and the lens correction panel and and the tone and tube adjustments. We'll also check out the very powerful brush tool that's included in Lightroom these days. We'll also look at correcting perspective and the transform panel. Then last of all, we'll move back over to the left hand panel where all the presets are. And we'll look at how you can use presets to help you learn to adjust your image as well.

As I've said, This is my workflow. This is the workflow that I have developed and adapted over the past 10 years. I use it frequently. And now it works for me. Hopefully, it will work for you or will help you get started or teach you some new tips and tricks. If you've had some experience, or really, everybody uses Lightroom differently.

So I'm sure there's something in here for everybody. I'm not telling you my way is the best way or the only way to do it for sure. It's not that I want to encourage you that this is tried and true through my experience. And nowadays, because I've refined the prices so much I don't actually change this workflow that I'm presenting in this course. Very much. So All the main times that I do when Adobe updates the software and includes new aspects of it, some of which I've included, some of which I will include in this course in the future.

So please stay tuned. Do the course and watch for updates and joy. Enjoy becoming more creative with your photography.