Lightroom Classic with Sue Anne Hodges

After you’ve made the image, what happens once the image is in your computer is one of the most important steps in your work. Adobe Lightroom will help you get the most out of your images and create an organized workflow.

The first class will start with planning your workflow including a discussion of best procedures, guidelines for folder structure, creating a back up system, and the initial set up of preferences and settings for your Lightroom catalog. In the following weeks we will be importing images with the first emphasis being on the Library Module for sorting, ranking, and creating organization, including how to create a system that will allow you to easily find images in years to come. The other emphasis will be the Develop Module for processing files to get the best quality in tone and color, dust removal, basic retouching, and image enhancements. Lastly we will cover exporting images, and the basics of the output modules; Print, Book, Slideshow, and Web.

A basic working knowledge of your computer is necessary for you to get the most from this workshop. (You must be able to make and name folders on your computer).  We will be using Lightroom Classic – the desktop centric software. No prior experience with Lightroom is necessary.

Days & Dates: Wednesday from March 6 – April 24, 2024. Limited to 10 students
via Zoom
Times: 3 hours per week – 6pm – 9pm, ET
Level: All

Fee: $595 for member / $645 for non-members (non-members will receive a one year membership to the Griffin Museum, a $75 value).

Instructor Bio:

Sue Anne Hodges is a photographer and educator. Since 1992, Sue Anne has been exploring and using digital cameras and digital imaging technology. She studied this technology at the Center for Creative Imaging in Camden, Maine. Digital images from her early experiments have been included in Kodak’s publication, International Photography, and one of the first exhibits of digital imaging —“L’Épreuve Numérique”— at the Centre National de la Photographie, Palais de Tokyo, Paris.

Sue Anne was the Director of Digital Imaging at New England School of Photography (NESOP). Her career began as an advertising photographer, helping to build and supervise an in-house studio for Lechmere, a retail chain store. This led her to teaching studio lighting at NESOP where in 1995 she helped them establish the digital imaging department and taught for the past 25 years. In 2011, 2012 and 2018 Sue Anne was honored to be one of 20 educators in the country to be invited by Adobe to attend the Adobe Educators Summit. She remains a specialist in Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom. and Digital Printing.

Her more recent photography has taken her out of the studio and includes a variety of projects including work for The Cultural Landscape Foundation, Down East Magazine, and Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce. Sue Anne’s personal work has been widely exhibited and for 15 years she was represented by Redfield Artisans Gallery in Northeast Harbor, Maine. She is splits her time between Mount Desert Island, Maine and West Newbury, Massachusetts.