A brief video extract of the introduction to our Crafting a Digital Print workshop’s finaL session.
STREAMED On-Demand delivery +
Tutorials Live Streamed on 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 free follow-up Tutorials. The cost per person/workshop is AUS $330 and includes all fees and charges.
Tutorials – Live Streamed
• 09 February 2025 (AEDT) 10.30am to 11.30am
• 04 May 2025 (AEST) 10.30am to 11.30am
• 27 July 2025 (AEST) 10.30am to 11.30am
• 19 October 2025 (AEDT) 10.30am to 11.30am
• 14 December 2025 (AEDT) 10.30am 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 data and ends up with beautifully resolved RGB files for exhibition printing. 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 Adobe Photoshop Actions and Affinity Photo Macros used in our file preparation for 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 supported by a resource rich website and 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
• Spatial Compositions – illusions & lies
• Avoiding and managing distractions
• My emotional theory of aspect ratios
• Analysing drawing, tonal and colour compositions
• Harmonising and discordance (push and pull)
• The ontology and symbology of tonality
Session 3 – Preparation for Printing Landscapes
• Luminosity selections and intersections
• Highlight and shadow Bump Masking
• Saturation and hue masking
• Successive Contrast – depth and dimensionality
• Enhanced Presence – re lighting and modelling
• Adapting images for printing on matte surfaced media
Session 4 – Crafting a Digital Print – Portraits and Objects
• Separating objects (figures) and grounds
• Conflating and conflicting compositions
• Re drawing – the democracy of a lens
• Re focusing – artefact reduction and deconvolution
• Re shaping – portrait volumes and vessels
• Re staging – light, shade and shadows
Session 5 – The Aesthetics of Presence and Affect
• Temporal Compositions – narrative structures
• Being present – the illusion of a third dimension
• My emotional theory of print size
• Separating personality, attitude and character
• Unity – static and dynamic (conflict and dominance)
• The ontology and symbology of colour
Session 6 – Preparation for Printing Portraits
• Substituting Luminosity
• Colorimetric separation
• Frequency separation
• Colorizing, tinting and toning
• Healing, smoothing, equalising and blending
• Adapting paper colour and correcting fluorescence
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 Streamed Tutorials are designed to maximise our time together clarifying the course content and answering any follow-up questions and topics.
Venue: STREAMED On-Demand delivery
Duration: 6+ hours (workshop + ongoing tutorials)
Resources: Extensive course notes, videos, test images, actions, macros, luts
Cost: AUS $330 (includes all fees and charges)
More Information: See FAQ (Education)
What are the differences between our Crafting a Digital Print and Digital Fine Art Print Making workshops? Our our advanced Crafting a Digital Print workshop focuses on perfecting file preparation for printing while our intermediate Digital Fine Art Print Making workshop concentrates on the processes and procedures underpinning the physical production of fine prints. The workshops therefore compliment each other as two halves of an accomplished printing workflow, where refined practical 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 26 November 2024