Posted on January 11th, 2013 by Tim Cooper

Lightroom is an enormous leap forward in organizing and developing your images and getting started is simple. Let’s start with some background on the Lightroom Catalog and then get you rolling on how to set up your first catalog. When working in Lightroom, we are actually working with three independent entities: 1. Lightroom (the program) [...]
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Posted on January 9th, 2013 by David Marx

Nothing electronic lasts forever. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a wonderful image management tool, but it is not a backup system. Adobe Photoshop CS6 is amazing but it is not an image protection tool either. The thought of losing all of my digital images terrifies me yet I know that accidents happen and I know that [...]
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Posted on June 22nd, 2012 by Bob McGowan

And the journey continues. This week in Summer Intensive is a particularly fun one for the students. First off, their experience involved a second week of digging into the nitty gritty of the Adobe Lightroom software in the Edit classes & labs working on their newly created images. Also, they learned about enhancement of their [...]
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Posted on June 8th, 2012 by Bob McGowan

Photographer and instructor, David Marx likes to teach. You might even say he was born to do so. One of his favorite subjects to teach is the functionality of the brilliant image editing software for photographers, Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® (commonly abbreviated to just Lightroom). If you’ve ever taken instruction from him, then you’ll know how [...]
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Posted on February 29th, 2012 by Forest Chaput de Saintonge

Back in the film days, people would shoot through a roll of film, bring it to the lab and get their slides developed. Then, if they wanted a print, they would bring the slide back to the lab to have a print made. This process was repeated over and over again, until digital came along. [...]
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Posted on February 20th, 2012 by Forest Chaput de Saintonge

Hello everyone! My name is Forest Chaput de Saintonge and I have been working as an assistant at the school for the past five years. Throughout that time (and my entire life) I have seen hundreds of students grow from complete beginners in photography, to knowledgeable, confident and experienced photographers. It has always been amazing [...]
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Posted on October 13th, 2011 by Bob McGowan

Just last month, RMSP held our first ever Landscapes & Lightroom in Big Sky, Montana workshop. Instructors David Marx and Doug Johnson gave the participants “the ol’ one-two” with their expertise in both landscape photography and the powerful digital imaging software program, Adobe Lightroom. David posted the students’ concluding slideshow on his blog, The Lightroom [...]
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Posted on May 4th, 2011 by Forest Chaput de Saintonge

For those of you who don’t know, a couple of weeks ago RMSP had an open house. We invited the general public into our facilities, gave them a look around and invited them to experience our educational style for a few hours. I gave a lecture on how to choose image editing software. Everyone in [...]
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Posted on January 17th, 2011 by Bob McGowan

Mark S. Johnson has been a long-time instructor and friend of RMSP in addition to being one of the most prolific and inspirational digital photographic artists/writers/educators in the industry. The creator of free-content websites, inspired how-to books, and many useful tools for the digital photographer, he exhibits expertise and passion with everything he does. We [...]
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