Post-Processing for Creative Results

Do you look at unique photographic work and wish you had the ability to add the same creative flair to your own images? Do you often worry that you don’t have the technical skills to get similar creative results? If these concerns are your concerns, Shelley Vandegrift is ready and willing to guide you on a fun journey to develop your post-processing skills and add a creative element to all your images. It’s easier than you think.

While this is a post-processing course, its strength lies in its focus on creative results rather than simply mastering a variety of tools in a specific imaging application. Shelley’s workshop takes an entirely different route starting with a desired result and then exploring the easiest techniques, tools, and workflows to achieve it. 

Shelley Vandegrift, an accomplished photographer and educator with a knack for making post-processing understandable, leads you on an exploration of what artistic editing is and how embracing it can add emotion and mood that expresses your vision. You learn to make a plan for bringing your story to life through the manipulation of light, focus, color, texture, and content. 

Topics to be covered include:
• Using the basics such as contrast and sharpness artistically
• Dodging and burning highlights and shadows and vignetting to lead the viewer’s eye
• Effectively applying blur and glow to add an ethereal feel
• Adding or modifying color to suit your story with split-toning, filters, and LUTs
• Enhancing or changing the image’s content with overlays or removing or moving elements
• Pulling the story together using texture files
• Adding drama through creative plug-ins and presets

Join Shelley to get the creative results you have dreamed of for your images.