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Fine Art Digital Print Series
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Fine Art Digital Printing Expert


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Tuition $1,595 (no lab fee!) Discounts Policies
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Class Size

Limited to 12
Limited class size and selective enrollment ensures that participants receive individual feedback and that pace and topics covered may be adjusted based on the needs of the group.

 

Focus

The Fine Art Digital Printing workshop series offers the most advanced digital printing workshops available anywhere. You'll learn more in one week than you learn in a semester in college.

Learn the heart of Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom, including the latest advances.

The Fine Art Digital Printing Expert workshop is a true master class. Topics and pace are customized for the unique needs of the group. Extensive reviews throughout the week guide collaborative explorations of participants work. You'll gain new technical knowledge. You'll find out about the latest developments in digital imaging and see what the latest printers and media can do for you and your images. You'll develop a clearer understanding of what's unique about your vision. You'll set clear creative goals. You'll clarify a personal project designed to focus your efforts and be well along the way to finishing it when you leave with tangible results in hand. What's more, you'll leave with a plan to effectively present and promote it. Collaborative experiments are designed to activate the collective intelligence of the group and produce targeted results. You'll leave with an expanded awareness of the hidden potential within your images. You'll be excited and inspired by the diverse perspectives of your fellow participants. Together, we'll put the digital imaging R/Evolution and the power of community to work for you.

 

Topics

- Essential Elements of Images
- Ways of Analyzing Images to Develop Effective Enhancement Strategies
- Developing a Signature Style
- Developing a Consistent Body of Work
- Clear Creative Goals - Mission, Goals, Projects, and Next Actions
- Branding
- Selecting and Sequencing Images
- Book Design Participant Evaluation
- Website Design Participant Evaluation
- Cutting Edge Print Finishing and Presentation
- The Business of Fine Art
- Editioning
- Pricing

- Collaborative Image Interpretation
- Participants Will Process Each Other's Files
- John Paul Will Process Participant's Files
- Brainstorming Techniques
- Targeted Experimentation Designed to Generate Specific Answers

- Advanced Color Adjustment Strategies
- Advanced Selection and Masking
- Advanced Selective Adjustment Strategies
- Advanced Creative Sharpening Techniques
- Advanced Focus Effects
- Advanced HDR Techniques for Tonal and Texture Effects
- Advanced Lighting Effects
- Advanced Compositing

You'll leave with several exhibition quality prints, ideas about how to evolve your unique vision, a clear plan for finishing a personal project, and a list of ideas about how to effectively present and promote it online and in print.

See my first 5 R/Evolution Series DVDs.

 

Get Feedback On Your Work

The week begins with extensive reviews of participant work. Reviews are used to clearly define your personal project and unique style. This will serve as a guide for work done the rest of the week. It will also unveil useful questions, hidden potential, and profitable areas of inquiry. Brief reviews continue throughout the week. You'll get extensive feedback on both the work you bring and the work you produce during the week.

 

View Original Masterworks

One of the best ways to learn how to make better prints is to expose yourself to great masterworks. You'll develop an eye for the aethetics of photographic printmaking. You'll become sensitized to the many nuances that add up to make a great print.

During my workshops you'll see original master works from the history of photography including original prints by Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Paul Caponigro, Linda Connor, Kurt Markus, Arnold Newman, Olivia Parker, Chris Rainier, Joyce Tenneson, George Tice, Jerry Uelsmann, Brett Weston, Minor White, Huntington Witherill, and many more.

Read my comments on some of these masterworks here.

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This Workshop Is Right For You If

You have a rock solid digital imaging and printing foundation but you want to learn how to apply your skills in more creative and effective ways.

Few techniques elude you but you want to learn how to apply them more creatively.

You want to refine an existing personal body of work and plan to present it effectively.

 

Get Ready

Find Out What You Need

An open mind and curiosity are the primary requirements for this week.

You need a portable computer, digital files, and Photoshop.

You should be very comfortable with Photoshop.

You should be thoroughly familiar with layers, blend modes, masks, and sharpening.

You should be familiar with the topics we plan to cover and ready to advance your knowledge at a rapid rate.

You have a number of successful images and you want to develop a body of work with a signature style.

Consider my Expert workshop only if you've mastered the Topics and are well along way to finishing a personal project.

Learn more now! Read my free Technique Lessons.

Start Learning Now

Register and Download the Special Workshop DVD Now

 

Start Learning Now

Register and Download the Special Workshop DVD Now

This Special Workshop DVD is free to participants. The DVD is updated frequently with recommended reading, exercise files, test files, and actions designed to make routine tasks as easy as pushing a button. There's more information in these items than we can cover in a week so you'll find them to be invaluable resources long after the workshop ends.

 

See Previews

View Informative DVDs

My DVD series R/Evolution offers excellent resources to help you prepare for my workshops and review core material presented long afterwards.

Choose the ones that are right for you.

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Connect

Become A Part of Our Community

When you take a workshop you become a part of a community. You discover how much you have to learn from others - and how important that is. You also discover how much you have to give to others - and how good that feels. You can stay in touch with people who have similar shared experiences and interests.

Find them on Facebook, Flickr, and my Alumni blog.

 

Learn From Others

Share the Experience

 

"The best thing about the Master's Workshop is the synergy between the participants and the groups collective inteligence." — Justin Hartford

 

"John Paul is one of the best instructors, if not the best, that I have ever had. He is a great source of inspiration. That's saying something! I studied with Richard Feynman." – Steve Schele

 

Read more alumni experiences here.

See work from workshop participants on my blog. Your work could be featured there too!

 

Register today!

Reserve your own unique experience!