Color Fine Art Digital Printing Workshop by John Paul Caponigro

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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.

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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.

Dive deep into the multi-dimensional world of color. Color is physical, intellectual, emotional, intellectual. Color is pan-cultural, cultural, and individual. Color is complex and powerful. You can use it's power to strengthen your artistic voice.

Digital imaging is revolutionizing color photography and liberating color photographers in ways that have only been dreamed of. There’s never been a better tool for controlling and exploring color than the computer.

You'll learn to integrate the color sciences (color management) and color arts (theory).
You'll understand how physics and biology influence our color perception.
You'll master digital color to achieve greater color accuracy and enhance expression.
You'll familiarize yourself with symbolism attached to colors by various cultures and eras.
You'll learn how color is used in diverse professions.
You'll find out why painters and photographers have a lot to learn from each other.
You'll expand your appreciation for other artists’ use of color.
You'll learn about subjective color and your individual color preferences (psychology).

Increased your sensitivity to, understanding, and achieve powerful control over color.
Become alive to dimensions of color you were previously unaware of.
Learn to use color in new more powerful and sophisticated ways.

Topics

- Color Theory
- Three Essential Elements of Color
- Three Types of Color
- Strategies for Structuring Successful Palettes
- Abstracting Photographs to Understand Color Better

- Color Management
- Proofing
- Integrating Lightroom, Bridge, Camera RAW, and Photoshop
- Fine Art Workflow
- RAW Conversion
- Smart Objects
- Color Adjustment
- Go To Color Adjustment Tools
- Exotic Color Adjustment Tools
- Redundant Color Adjustment Tools
- Advanced Color Adjustment Strategies
- Black & White Conversions
- Dodging & Burning
- Selection and Masking
- Noise Reduction
- Sharpening Workflow - Input, Creative, Output
- Substrate Surveys
- Print Finishing, Handling and Storage

You'll understand the works of the masters better. You'll uncover the hidden potential in your images. You'll discover essential keys to crafting your own signature style.

See my DVDs Photoshop Color Tools and Photoshop Color Strategies.

Get Feedback On Your Work

Reviews for this workshop are brief. They take place informally throughout the week as you work on your images and during breaks.

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 aesthetics 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.

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This Workshop Is Right For You If

You want to discover new skills to help you see, think about, and use color to strengthen your personal expression.

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 comfortable with Photoshop.

If you're familiar with layers, blend modes and masks but have yet to master them, this is the workshop for you.

Consider my Advanced workshop only if you've mastered them.

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

The more you bring to the event, the more you'll take away.

Learn more now! Read my free Technique Lessons.

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 titles 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

"JP challenged me to think about how I create images and to think differently about the process. Now, I am prepared to challenge myself to elevate the quality & consistency of my work." —Lou Snitkoff

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