Creating Photographic Artistry with Lightroom and Photoshop

Do you want to take your Lightroom and Photoshop skills to a higher level? Do you want the creative skills to add a surreal touch to your images, to create composites? This four-day workshop (Thursday through Sunday) in The Workshops state-of-the-art Digital Lab with Shelley Vandegrift promises to increase your post-processing skills and help you add a creative element to all your images.

This new workshop focuses on creative processing concepts such as light, contrast, color, and content and then explores the easiest techniques, tools, and workflows to apply them in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. Students bring existing images from their library and then create new photographs from them in class. 

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

Topics to be covered include:

• Manipulating light and contrast to emphasize your image’s story
• When B&W is preferable to Color
• Color, its impact, and how to use split-toning, filters, and LUTs to achieve your vision
• Using special effects such as blur and glow to create a unique result
• ICM in post processing 
• Creating and using texture overlays
• Using content creatively to construct or enhance your story, including editing content, creating multiple exposures, and creating composites
• Techniques for solving compositing problems

Join Shelley this fall in Santa Fe and learn how to get the creative results you have dreamed of for your images.