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Antarctica – The Edge of Dreams – Online Oct 23 @ 8:30 ET

Oct 23, 2026 08:30 PM EST

Online – Fort Dearborn-Chicago Photo Forum

Join me for an evening of inspiration as I share my adventures both external and internal in Antarctica (my favorite place), planet Earth’s most remote, coldest, windiest, highest, and driest continent – a crystal desert where 90% of the world’s ice is located, making it the largest body of fresh water on the planet. A  place of stunning contrasts, sublimely beautiful Antarctica feels like another planet, but it’s home, and it affects all of us. I can truly say, no place has changed me more.

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The Unreal New Tech That Relights Photos in Photoshop

“Check out the amazing new feature that changes the lighting in an image. Colin Smith shows you how to use this lighting tool on a flat image as well as how to match dramatic lighting in a composite.”

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Abelardo Morell and the Magic of Tent Cameras

“Abelardo Morell uses an age-old photography technique that allows him to cast images of the outside world on the walls of rooms or tents—or on the ground. This specially designed camera obscura helps him showcase iconic landscapes from a unique perspective.”

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Outside Inside – Conversation with Abelardo Morell – Dec 9, 8 EST

Outside Inside – A Conversation With Abelardo Morell & John Paul Caponigro

Wednesday, December 9, 8 EST

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Santa Fe Workshops collection of free online events, Creativity Continues features an evening with fine-art photographers Abelardo Morell and John Paul Caponigro. In this special hour of inspiration, Abelardo and John Paul explore photography as a tool for expanding perception. As Abelardo says, “The very basics of photography can be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me?”

After inspiring images and insightful conversation, Abelardo and John Paul will close with a lively Q&A session with the webinar audience. Even if you can’t make the live event, we’ll make a recording available to all registered attendees.

Creativity Continues is a program that develops creative voices collectively by fostering connection and encouraging expression. To engage everyone in our creative community, we encourage you to extend invitations and share Santa Fe Workshops Creativity Continues events with anyone who expresses interest.

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Abelardo Morell (born 1948, Havana, Cuba) is a contemporary artist best known for turning rooms into camera obscuras and then capturing the marriage of interior and exterior in large-format photographs, as well as for his ‘tent-camera,’ a device he invented to merge landscapes with the texture and composition of the ground where he places his camera and tripod to record the simultaneity of close and far, majestic and mundane. Deeply versed in art history, with one eye on photography and the other on classical forms of image-making, both found and constructed, his wide-ranging artistic practices embrace optics, books, paper, paint, ceramics, wood blocks, cliché verre, and photograms, among others. A professor of Photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design from 1983-2010, he has authored 8 books, including A Book of Books (2002), Camera Obscura (2004), and Tent-Camera (2018). His numerous awards include a Guggenheim fellowship (1994), an ICP Infinity Award (2011), and a Lucie Award (2017).

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There’s More to Photoshop’s New Light Adjustment Than You Think

First, Colin Smith shows you …

Photoshop’s new Light adjustment brings Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Whites and Blacks directly into an adjustment layer. But there’s more to it than just moving six sliders. In this deep dive, Colin Smith from PhotoshopCAFE shows how to use the new Light adjustment to recover highlight and shadow detail, control dynamic range, stack adjustments, use masks for targeted edits, and get more control than you might expect. I’ll also explain why Shadows and Highlights temporarily disappear when you edit layers underneath the Light adjustment.

 

Second, Jesus Ramirez shows you …

  • How to use the Light adjustment layer in Photoshop
  • How to bring back the Brightness/Contrast adjustment layer
  • How to read a histogram to compare Brightness and Exposure
  • How to stop the Light adjustment layer from pausing
  • How to use clipping masks and layer masks with a Light adjustment layer
  • How to use Blend If on an adjustment layer
  • How to compare Photoshop’s Light sliders to Lightroom with a Difference blend

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2 New Photoshop Features – One Useful & One Wild

“See the most useful abd the most wild new features in Photoshop beta 2026 September, Dynamic layers and before and after preview. Colin Smith shows you how to use the new features in Photoshop.”

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5 Biggest New Photoshop Features Just Released

Photoshop 2026 update, new features in August 2026 release of Photoshop. Colin Smith shows you all the new features in Photoshop.

00:00 Intro
00:29 The Light Panel
02:05 Light Glows
04:10 Proper explanation of the styles: diffusion, bloom and halation
06:30 Freeform Dynamic Text
07:41 Ai assisted Pro Editor workspaces
10:04 New ai markup + annotation tools
12:05 Generate inside masks, updated image 5 Model

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