[MUSIC] Hello. Welcome to the new environment. We're going to go into some software today so we needed to go into studio. Next, we're going to turn our attention to a part of photography we haven't spent much time on yet. Professional photographers call it post-processing. It has to do with almost everything you can do with the photograph after you snap the shutter. We'll look at a software program called Lightroom and some alternatives to it. Lightroom, which evolved from Adobe Bridge and Photoshop, has been described as an intuitive interface to Photoshop for photographers, and has become almost a kind of industry standard. Recent developments, an app for cell phone, and a new monthly pricing structure, have led it into even broader use by large segments of the photographic community, including many people pursuing photography for their own purposes. Of course, there are alternatives that can do some of the things Lightroom does. But most of the concepts of many of these alternatives derive from programs like Photoshop and Lightroom, so learning about the concepts and processes in Lightroom can be helpful, even if the program is out of reach right now. Since the same concepts apply to many aspects of free and inexpensive software available as an alternative. Almost all digital photography needs some form of post-processing. Beyond that processing, there are many choices that relate to personal preference, desired style, and so forth. Although digital media have increased the kind and number of ways the photographer can alter the photograph after it's taken, such changes did not begin with digital photography. Film photographers used various techniques in the dark room, and in processing, to change the way the final photograph came out. Many of the photographers of the past century developed techniques for changing the photograph in the dark room before it was printed from the negative. Dodging and burning, for instance, are widely used in common technique for making certain areas of the print lighter or darker than in the negative. And these very techniques have become the conceptual models for the techniques available in software for post-processing of digital images. So a great deal of the wave of possibilities in post-processing had already begun even before the digital revolution. In any case let's take a look at those possibilities, beginning with the program Lightroom, and then we'll look at some desktop alternatives, as well as some post processing software available for cellphones. [SOUND] [MUSIC]