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STREAMED On-Demand delivery +
LIVE Q&A Tutorials via ZOOM
This advanced workshop is attended via STREAMING On-Demand delivery so the course material can be studied in your own time and at your own pace, while your practice and questions are subsequently addressed, clarified and supported in our follow up LIVE Q&A Tutorials which can also be joined by anyone who has previously attended this workshop, as well as anyone contemplating attending this workshop but needs more information or insights into its content or suitability is more than welcome to ‘sit-in’ on one of the workshop’s tutorials.
• 15 February 2025 (AEDT) 9.30am to 11.30am
• 10 May 2025 (AEST) 9.30am to 11.30am
• 02 August 2025 (AEST) 9.30am to 11.30am
• 25 October 2025 (AEDT) 9.30am to 11.30am
• Time Zone Convertor
Our overall aim is ‘perfecting an image’s preparation for printing’ as applied to two classic case studies – Landscapes and Portraits. It begins with the RAW files and ends up with beautifully resolved exhibition prints. This is also unashamedly my way of preparing images for printing at the highest imaginable quality, where my workflow shifts our responsibility from ‘when and what tool do I use’ to ‘how to create the most enduring affect’. It therefore provides a unique insight into not just my practice but also my theory, and features my unique Actions, Macros and Printing Presets used in our file preparation and exhibition printing. My workflow also counters what I call the ‘Photoshop Syndrome’ where fatigue and loss of confidence all too often gets the better of us. In other words, when our workflow’s priority is the imaginative and creative it helps more than just our prints.
The workshop is presented in six one hour sessions accessed by clicking on each Session Button below:
Session 1 – Crafting a Digital Print – Spaces and Places
• The Workflow in three stages
• Crafting a Digital Print Toolkit
• Redefining tonal relationships – Global and Local Clipping
• Renegotiating the light – Reverse Overlay Masking
• Re-establishing form and content – Reattaching Highlights
• Immanent vs. transcendent – Soft Light Curves
Session 2 – Remapping Luminosity and Spatial Relationships
• Luminosity selections and intersections
• Highlight and shadow Bump Masking
• Mid tone contrast expansion
• Saturation and hue masking
• Defining print ‘presence’ – intensification and reduction
• Depth and dimensionality – Enhanced Presence
Session 3 – Preparation for Printing Landscapes
• Spatial Compositions – illusions & lies
• Soft Proofing – screen to print calibrations
• Matching images to media – colour, surface, texture, base, inkset
• Output sharpening strategies – Successive Contrast
• Re scaling images and algorithm stacking
•. Test Strips – printing, viewing, comparing, evaluating
Session 4 – Crafting a Digital Print – Portraits and Objects
• Substituting Luminosity
• Skin tone correction and continuity (push and pull)
• Colorimetric separation
• Frequency separation
• Colorizing and toning
• Shaping volume, personality, attitude
Session 5 – The Aesthetics of Presence and Affect
• Separating objects (figures) and grounds
• Harmonising and discordance
• Re drawing – the democracy of a lens
• Re focusing – artefact reduction and deconvolution
• Re staging – light, shade and shadows
• The Ontology of colour
Session 6 – Preparation for Printing Portraits
• Temporal Compositions – narrative structures
• My emotional theory of print size
• My emotional theory of aspect ratios
• Output sharpening – blending, testing and evaluation
• Adapting files for printing on matte surfaced media
• Eliminating fluorescence and adapting a media’s white point
The ‘Flipped Classroom’ facilitates a uniquely comprehensive yet individual learning experience where your creativity, knowledge and needs focus the inquiry, while your engagement and participation defines your outcomes. Our LIVE Q&A Tutorials are designed to maximise our time in answering your questions and supporting your practice.
The workshop is comprehensively supported by a resource rich website.
Venue: STREAMED On-Demand delivery
Duration: 8+ hours (workshop + tutorials)
Resources: Extensive course notes, videos, test images, actions, macros, luts
Cost: AUS $330
More Information: See FAQ (Education)
What are the differences between our Crafting a Digital Print and Digital Printing workshops? Our intermediate Digital Printing workshop concentrates on the processes and procedures underpinning the physical production of fine prints, while our advanced Crafting a Digital Print workshop focuses on perfecting file preparation for printing, and thereby builds upon the Digital Printing workshop’s content. The workshops therefore compliment each other as two halves of an accomplished printing workflow, where refined creative skills and informed aesthetic judgements are the main aims, and the creation of stunningly beautiful fine prints along with the confidence and pride that comes from being in control of your own production are the main objectives.
Updated 08 September 2024