What’s New in Lightroom Classic
with Cotton Miller
June 2 – 12, 2025
Course Description
Adobe’s updates to Lightroom Classic in spring 2024 with version 13.3 were significant. Lightroom Classic users would be smart to learn about these enhanced features. YouTube videos and Adobe’s website are sources for this information, but if you want a hands-on approach to learning these new tools with an expert Lightroom user we offer this live, online workshop.
Let Cotton Miller unlock the full potential of Adobe Lightroom Classic 13.3 in this immersive online program. This comprehensive four-session workshop is meticulously designed to equip photographers, photo editors, and creative professionals with the latest tools and techniques introduced in the newest version of Lightroom Classic.
In this workshop, you discover how to leverage Lightroom’s enhanced masking capabilities to create precise masks for subjects, skies, backgrounds, and more, and learn to refine these masks to make targeted adjustments that elevate the quality of your photos. You dive deep into the Curves in Masking feature, which allows for fine control over contrast, tone, and color in specific regions of your image, understanding how to use this tool to achieve the perfect look by adjusting only the necessary parts of your photo. Cotton also reviews and explains the use of Lightroom’s ever-developing AI technologies including Generative Remove and Lens Blur.
Additionally, you learn to apply Lightroom’s new adaptive presets that automatically enhance specific parts of your photos. Finally, Cotton shares his expert tips on integrating these new features into your regular workflow, showing you how to streamline your editing process and make it more efficient while maintaining high-quality results.
Join us online as Cotton guides you through the intricacies of these recent updates, ensuring you not only understand but also master the new features of Lightroom Classic 13.3 to enhance your editing workflow and creative process.
Additional Information
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
Open to anyone wanting to learn the newest features of Lightroom Classic.
What You Should Know:
A basic knowledge of Lightroom Classic is required. This is not a workshop to learn the basics.
Special Notes:
Class will meet 5:00 – 7:00 pm (Mountain Time) on Mondays and Thursdays starting June 2 and ending June 12 (four online group sessions). Enrollment is limited to 14 participants.
Zoom Video Conferencing software (available for no charge from Zoom.com) will be used to facilitate the class sessions. Further details will be emailed to registrants.
Santa Fe Workshops always aims to produce a high-quality experience for our online attendees. That said, variables including regional and local internet provider speeds, traffic on Zoom's servers, and your own computing hardware can contribute to a less than ideal streaming event. While we do our best to minimize the impact of these variables, they are outside the control of Santa Fe Workshops.
Policies:
View Withdrawal and Transfer Policies for online programs.
For the convenience of participants, recordings of each class session are posted privately for one month after the end of each session. Santa Fe Workshops takes the recordings down after one month to protect the intellectual property of our instructors.
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Cotton Miller received his MFA in Photography & New Media in 2013 from Lesley University College of Art and Design, in Boston. In addition to being honored by The Boston Globe as one of six artists to watch in 2013, he had multiple exhibits in Boston and has won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association in 2007. Cotton has also assisted with projects for Time Magazine, ESPN Magazine, Athleta, and Highsnobiety.
Cotton is the Web Manager for Santa Fe Workshops and does web and exhibition consultation projects for a variety of artists, and is Adjunct Faculty for the Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts – Houston. He has designed websites for Nevada Wier, Christopher James, Alison Wright, Elizabeth Opalenik, and Santa Fe Workshops. Cotton’s personal work combines traditional printing methods with digital, alternative process, mixed media, and multimedia. He worked as a master printer for Blazing Editions in Providence and Cotton was a research assistant for The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes (third edition) by Christopher James. Cotton collaborates with many artists for not only web design, but also digital retouching, graphic design, exhibition design, exhibition production, and printing fine art editions.
Website: cottonmiller.com
Instagram: @cottonmiller
