Snap Out of the Old and into the Inspirational at Adobe MAX

Adobe MAX.

Capture your love for photography with these sessions designed to improve your skills and teach you how to create stunning photos with your smartphone or mirrorless camera. Learn to easily shoot, edit, and share your photos from anywhere and effortlessly move your images, including your edits, between your mobile devices and desktop.

Dive into the hands-on experience you’ll get with leading photographers and Adobe experts that will leave you inspired to lean into your creative side. Connect with other photographers and gain some new perspectives and skills along the way.

Featured products:

Photoshop
Lightroom
Lightroom Classic

Here are five must-attend sessions from this track to consider adding to your schedule once you’ve registered:

Seeing the World Anew: Combating Erasure with Photography (S6007)

Join Photographer, Aundre Larrow as he unpacks the responsibility we feel as artists and photographers to capture everything and everyone around us. Doing so grants us access to our most honest art, making sure the subjects will live on forever through our eyes. In this intimate session, you’ll learn how to embrace the nature of photography and the role of an artist, charged with the sacred duty of immortalizing all those around us.

In this 60-minute session, you’ll learn:

How to seek out and capture stories that exist around you
How to tell stories collaboratively with your subjects
When to direct your subjects and when to let them direct you

Embrace the World via Photography: On the Go with Lightroom (S6401)

Embark on a captivating journey with photographer and director Holly-Marie Cato, as she invites us to traverse the globe through her camera lens. Discover the real stories behind the client briefs and shot lists, and see how she edits in real time.

Get a behind-the-scenes look at her workflow and sequencing techniques where she challenges us to look beyond the moment of the shot and understand what needs to happen before and after you snap your photo.

In this 60-minute session, you’ll learn:

Breaking down power dynamics when photographing marginalized communities to create a more positive and equitable experience
Methods of importing images in the field
Utilizing Photoshop Lightroom features for sequencing photos to tell a concise and impactful story
Lightroom tools that enable quick and effective edits

The Power of Lightroom Masking (VS401)

Explore the world of masking in Photoshop Lightroom with photographer and Lightroom Ambassador, Bea Lubas. Here, Bea will show you how to create balance and emphasis in her images using Lightroom’s Masking tool. By the time the session is over, you’ll have a better understanding of how utilizing masking and selective editing techniques will leave you better equipped on how to craft images that capture your creative vision.

In this 90-minute session, Bea will cover:

How to identify what needs to be adjusted in a photo
Adaptive Presets that enhance a particular part of your photo with just a single click
How to easily make quick and precise selections with AI masks
Fine-tuning your Masking selection by adding, subtracting, and even intersecting masks

Elevate Your Portraits with Lightroom (S6402)

Uncover some industry secrets for getting your subjects to relax and feel comfortable in front of the camera. In this session, portrait photographer Chris Orwig will show you how to retouch portraits using Photoshop Lightroom to make portraits look better, with more natural results. Save time, work less tediously, and leave inspired with his must know tips. This is one session you won’t want to miss!

In this 60-minute session, Chris will cover:

How to pose people and get them to feel natural
Timesaving approaches for editing photos of people
Using masking to select and adjust specific parts of an image or subject (such as brightening eyes, improving hair texture, and more)
Tips for using the Healing Brush tool to improve skin

When it comes to the ever evolving landscape of social media, the only thing constant is change. Still-life photographers trying to navigate a world shifting towards short-form videos can find the evolution challenging at times. In this session, you’ll see how photographer and designer Demas Rusli bridges the gap between stillness and motion turning his photography into viral social media videos.

During this 90-minute session, Demas will take you through:

Three basic Instagram Reels and TikTok ideas that photographers can apply to almost any trend or song
Editing photos in Photoshop Lightroom before creating short-form videos
Simple ways to turn these edits into social media–ready videos using Adobe Premiere Pro
Best practices for posting videos on Instagram and TikTok

Already looking forward to all the learning available this year? So are we. Register for Adobe MAX 2023 (October 10-12) to unlock new ideas and grow your creativity and digital skills.