Pre-con Class: Saturday, April 26
Lightroom Classic and Photoshop — Tips, Tricks, and Timesaving Techniques
Presented by Julieanne Kost
Saturday, April 26, 2025
10:00AM -5:00PM
Sponsored by:
Join Julieanne Kost, Digital Imaging Evangelist at Adobe, to discover the tools and workflow that she uses to create unique and compelling images in Lightroom Classic and Photoshop. You’ll start the first day with a deep dive into Lightroom Classic’s Library and Develop modules. Julieanne will share tips for importing, organizing, and creating collections, and sharing your imagery. Then, she’ll demonstrate techniques for using color, tone and contrast for maximum impact, apply edits to isolated areas of an image, eliminate unwanted and distracting elements, and reveal timesaving techniques for applying, customizing, and saving presets to achieve your creative vision faster than ever before.
In the afternoon session, Julieanne will show you how to enhance your photography and expand your creativity with Adobe Photoshop. You’ll discover new features and hidden gems for retouching, selecting, masking and compositing. She’ll demonstrate how you can incorporate Gen Fill and additional Artificial intelligence tool in your workflow to eliminate repetitive tasks – leaving you more time for creative exploration. If you’re tired of weeding through hours of tutorials trying to find practical Lightroom Classic and Photoshop techniques and hidden gems that are relevant in your work, then this class is for you.
This pre con is geared towards intermediate to advanced Lightroom Classic and Photoshop users.
Saturday April 26, 2025 from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM CDT
Renaissance Hotel, Addison
15201 Dallas Parkway
Dallas, TX 75001
Meet Julieanne Kost
Named one of Fast Company’s “100 Most Creative People in Business,” Julieanne Kost is the Digital Imaging Evangelist Director at Adobe, responsible for fostering relationships with customers through meaningful and inspirational Photoshop and Lightroom instruction. As a highly sought-after speaker for the industry-standard Digital Imaging franchise, she devises and presents motivating and educational training sessions, sharing original techniques and tutorials worldwide — via live and online events, her blog (jkost.com/blog), and numerous Adobe social media outlets. She is also the author of “Passenger Seat—Creating a Photographic Project from Conception Through Execution” and “Window Seat — The Art of Digital Photography and Creative Thinking”, an accomplished photographer and fine artist, and creator and host of the popular Photoshop Essential Training, Lightroom & Photoshop Workflows, Photoshop Automation Techniques, and the Art of Photoshop Compositing for LinkedIn Learning | Lynda.com.
Kost is well-known for her unique approach to instruction, infusing practical tips and tricks with an equal amount of humor and creativity that keeps audiences entertained and engaged. She often serves as a guest lecturer at distinguished photography schools and leading educational institutions around the world. She has created and published more than a thousand instructional videos for Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom. For her outstanding service and contributions to the photographic industry, she received the Chuck Westfall Technical Education award from the Lucie Foundation, the Gerhard Bakker and Warren Motts International Service awards from the Professional Photographers of America, and was granted the title of Honorary Educational Associate as well as received the International Award for her significant contributions to Professional Photography as an Art and a Science from the American Society of Photographers, and was inducted to the Photoshop Hall of Fame by the National Association of Photoshop Professionals.