Photoshop for Photographers: The Essentials
with Shelley Vandegrift
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Course Description
Elevate your post-processing skills and conquer Photoshop’s complexities with Shelley Vandegrift as your guide. Tailored for photographers, this workshop demystifies the essential features and tools required for crafting artistic imagery.
Photoshop was designed not only for photographers but also for designers, web developers, and graphic artists. Shelley, a seasoned photographic artist and instructor with a knack for making software understandable, takes the guesswork out of Photoshop by clarifying which menus, tools, and features are essential and which you are better off ignoring. Learn software customization as Shelley demonstrates how to tailor the Photoshop interface for an efficient workflow. We dive into crucial techniques such as utilizing layers, masks, and blending modes to optimize and enhance your images.
At the conclusion of this workshop, you will possess the core Photoshop skills that every photographer needs to take their image processing to the next level.
Additional Information
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
This workshop is appropriate for any photographer who is looking for a foundation in the basics of Photoshop for photographers.
What You Should Know:
The class will not cover editing of Raw files, therefore, a working knowledge of either Lightroom or Camera Raw is recommended for those who shoot in Raw.
Policies:
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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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Shelley Vandegrift fell under the spell of photography as a 10-year-old child, carefully watching and learning in her father’s darkroom. From that point forward, the technical components of the post-production process held as much attraction for her as the creative experience behind the lens. With the introduction of digital photography, she found a marriage between her two passions: photography and computer technology. She shares that passion both in her photographic art and in workshops and webinars globally.
Her teaching focuses primarily on two areas: artistic post-processing techniques and infrared photography. Shelley possesses a knack for taking post-processing techniques and making them accessible to all. She guides photographers in achieving their own artistic vision through the magic of post-processing and discovering the skills they need to craft their stories. In conjunction with her artistic mentor and friend, Laurie Klein, she also leads students into the beautiful world of infrared.
Shelley is co-author with Laurie Klein of Infrared Photography: Digital Techniques for Artistic Images, 2nd Edition from Amherst Publishing. She is the designer and developer of Infrared Mastery presets for Luminar and Lightroom, and has been a guest lecturer/presenter for Skylum and DxO software. She is the 23rd Julia Margaret Cameron Award Digital Manipulation and Collage winner. Her work has been featured in the two-woman exhibit, The Beauty of Invisible Light, at the Commons Gallery and in B&W Magazine, A. Smith Gallery, the Latino Cultural Center of Dallas, Dallas City Hall, Lucas Gallery, and the Art Travelers Gallery at Dallas’s Love Field airport.
Website: vandegriftphotography.com
Instagram: @vandegriftphotography
