Introduction to Adobe Lightroom

Black & White preset in Lightroom

Sepia present in Lightroom

Using a radial filter to add additional light to the subject

Adobe Lightroom is a program that can be used to color correct images and add additional effects loaded as presets on to your images.  Lightroom also has the ability to make books of your images or a slideshow as well.  Lightroom is another editing program that can be used instead of photoshop when editing photos.  There are free preloaded presets that come with Lightroom on the left side of the screen.  Additional presets can be purchased on the internet from multiple designers. When opening Lightroom you must import your images using the import button at the bottom of the left hand side or using File, import images or video.  In order to begin editing you must switch from the Library tab to the Develop tab located in the top of the right hand side of the screen.  There are many features such as a split screen that enables one to see the changes made to the selected image.  Lightroom also is able to apply the same editing preset to multiple images at the same time.  In order to save the image, the image has to be exported using file, export.  The screenshots above demonstrate the use of the black & white preset as well as the sepia preset applied to one of my original images.  The last screenshot demonstrates the use of the radial filter, located on the right hand side, indicated by the highlighted circle.  When placed on the image the black center circle indicates where the filter has been used.  If you do not like the adjustment the filter made you can simply delete it by clicking on the black center button and hitting delete.  These are just a few examples of the many options for editing in Lightroom.  

Introduction to Adobe Bridge

 Working with color correction and noise reduction

Screenshot demonstrating how to change the dpi to 72 and 300.

Screenshot demonstrating the crop tool feature in Adobe Bridge

Using Adobe Bridge the robin's nest image was color corrected and edited to reduce the amount of noise in the eggs.  The image was then changed to 300 dpi for printing purposes and also saved in 72 dpi for the purpose of posting on the web.  Finally the image was cropped to better show a close up of the eggs giving a different perspective than the original image.  

Introduction to Adobe Acrobat Pro

 PDF created in Adobe Acrobat Pro

Screenshots working in Adobe Acrobat Pro

Using Adobe Acrobat Pro a PDF was create using page images from my Graphic Design Portfolio 2016.  The screenshot above demonstrates how the images were uploaded in Acrobat and then placed in a PDF file.  There was an option to create a binder pdf of multiple pages but I chose to create a single page pdf with all four images combined for easier viewing.  The pdf was then saved in both pdf and jpg file formats.  The pdf was then printed and placed in my portfolio as well.