Description

Title: Photoshop and Lightroom for Artists
Instructor: Jim Richards
Art Medium: Electronic
Class Dates: 1/15/2025
Class Fee: $60
Minimum # Students: 4
Max # Students: 12
Class  Duration: 5 hours – 10:00-4:00 with a break for lunch

Join instructor Jim Richards for a day filled with Photoshop and Lightroom instruction, procedures and tips that he uses for creating reference material for his painting!

Overview:
Photoshop and Lightroom from Adobe are powerful applications, but they are extensive in their capabilities and learning everything in them can take months. This class focuses on the essentials for using Lightroom and Photoshop for artists who want to capture and edit reference photos to get the most out of them in support of their artwork. We will examine how you can establish your own practice for using Lightroom and Photoshop to make your photos more impactful and pick up some tricks and techniques along the way.

Things you will learn:

• A practical guide to processing your photos
• When to use Lightroom and when to use Photoshop
• Understanding the power of Lightroom Organization Tools
• Using Lightroom editing tools
• The meaning of non-destructive editing
• How and why to use Photoshop layers
• How to remove distractions
• How to retouch you photos (scratches, blemishes, etc.)
• Compositing in Photoshop
• Camera Raw and Camera Raw Filter
• Handy tool-tips
• And much more!