Perspectives

Fine-Art Compositing Using AI Tools

with Maggie Taylor

February 12 and 15, 2025

Wednesday and Saturday; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm (Mountain Time)
  • Tuition $295.00

Course Description

Join Maggie Taylor for an in-depth look at her favorite ways to use generative AI as part of her artful digital compositing practice. Now focused solely on using Midjourney and Adobe Photoshop, Maggie guides you through her basic workflow and then launches into “the beyond”—covering this new and ever-changing technology as it feeds her creative work.  

This webinar is a follow-up to her very first compositing with AI program in November 2023. So much has changed and evolved since then, that Maggie is back to inform and inspire with a broader set of generative AI tools and a deeper understanding of the happy madness of allowing a Bot to create an image with you. Crafting writing prompts and embracing the chaos, Maggie shows how she is able to spin out unexpected elements, and then carefully craft them into a multi-layered collage.  

This workshop is for those who are new to Midjourney, as well as those who have already started to explore its quirky and amazing visual options. Maggie provides a clear outline of the steps to work with this creative platform; however, Adobe Photoshop skills are helpful—especially when making a selection and masking elements. 

Participants are encouraged to download the same files Maggie uses in class along with access to the recordings of the Zoom sessions to rebuild the images on their own as a teaching tool. Each of the two group sessions consists of approximately 90 minutes of insights and demonstrations from Maggie, interspersed with plenty of time for your questions and her answers. Join Maggie for this entertaining and comprehensive presentation on how to harness the power of AI-generated content for your own artful digital composites. 

Additional Information

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

Open to anyone interested in this ground-breaking program.

What You Should Know:

Participants with intermediate and advanced Photoshop skills will benefit the most from this webinar, but anyone intrigued by using AI for compositing is welcome to attend.

Special Notes:

Class will meet 10:00 am – 12:00 pm (Mountain Time) on Wednesday, February 12,  and Saturday, February 15 (two online group sessions).

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.

Categories
2-Day, Applications, Creative Vision, Fine Art
about
Maggie Taylor

Maggie Taylor spent ten years making color still-life photographs before transitioning to digital imaging in 1997. Her label-defying, whimsical, and poetic images have been collected by numerous museums. Her books include Internal Logic, No Ordinary DaysAdobe Photoshop Master Class: Maggie Taylor’s Landscape of DreamsSolutions Beginning with A, Through The Looking Glass, and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll.

Website: maggietaylor.com

Instagram: @maggietaylor.art

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