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2-Session Manual B&W Processing & Guidance and Feedback
2-Session Manual B&W Processing & Guidance and Feedback
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Manual B&W processing & Interactive Guidance and Feedback | 2-session Webinar
Live and interactive PAID webinar via Zoom & dedicated forum
When: January 12 + 19, 2025
Time: 4 pm CET (Amsterdam) / 10 am EST (New York) / 7 am PST (Los Angeles)
Duration: approx. 2 x 3.5 hours (excluding breaks)
Deliverables
Upon successful payment in full, you will receive:
- An email confirmation and an invitation to the Zoom webinar.
- A link to a short preparation video and a luminosity mask action set.
- The webinar will be recorded and distributed to the attendees a few days after the Webinar.
- After session 1 you will receive a link to the user forum to ask questions, address problems, and submit images.
Objectives of this webinar
A 2-session webinar on the MANUAL method of B&W fine art processing of various types of images, using Photoshop only. This will include brief demonstrations of masking. In session 1 the techniques are demonstrated and in session 2 user questions and issues will be addressed, via a dedicated forum, and demonstrated during the live session. Also, user images will be reviewed.
The goal is to give a complete interactive course on manual B&W Fine Art Processing and give live guidance and feedback.
Outline
A hands-on online 2 x 3.5-hour workshop demonstrating the manual method of structured digital B&W fine art post-processing only using Photoshop in the first session. No additional plugins or software will be used, this is a pure Photoshop course. Followed by a second session for feedback and guidance on user images.
This webinar is based on the iSGM 2024 video but is more compact and interactive with live feedback and guidance for the duration of the 2 sessions.
Session 1, January 12, 2025: in the first session, all techniques will be demonstrated on various images from architecture to landscapes and portraits.
Practice & Dedicated Forum: after the first session, participants will be encouraged to practice the techniques on their images and can ask questions and receive guidance in the dedicated forum for this workshop. Questions that can be answered in the forum will be handled there, other questions that need visual demonstration will be demonstrated in session 2 on January 19. Users are encouraged to address questions/issues before the 2nd session in the forum and submit their images (procedure explained in forum).
Session 2, January 19, 2025: during the second session issues and questions from users that cannot be addressed via the forum and require visual demonstration will be demonstrated. Of course, users can also raise questions live during the 2nd session.
Seats
Seats are limited. After successful payment in full, you will receive an invite with a Zoom link within 24 hours.
Levels
All levels from intermediate to experienced. Beginners are also welcome but need to invest time themselves in learning the Photoshop basics.
A Photoshop class, not a plugin demonstration
This webinar is NOT about using the Artisan Pro plugin but forms an important part of the webinar to speed up the workflow and demos. All demonstrations can be done with Photoshop only
What is the value if I already have the Artisan plugin that automates the workflow? If you are a user of the Artisan Pro software, you will learn the highly sophisticated Photoshop sequences behind the scenes and gain a much deeper understanding of how the plugin works and its underlying actions. This will significantly enhance your proficiency with the plugin and allow you to find new uses for the presets.
Topics
General topics:
- High-level overview of the manual workflow
- Extensive demonstrations of architecture, landscape, and other images
- Luminosity masks and hard masks and the importance of evaluating luminosity masks and intersections
Practical topics Session 1 - January 12, 2025:
- Create depth & presence manually:
- the traditional way for straightforward flat planes
- the advanced way for non-linear and amorphous planes
- Correct B&W conversion and removing/increasing contrast
- Advanced manual darkening/lightening
- Manual Restore or feathering - pros and cons and recommendations
- Manual Restore method for advanced blending of local adjustments in linear planes
- Feathering for blending of local adjustments in non-linear and amorphous planes
- Applied integrated and advanced masking - practical highlights only
- Processing and masking various images
- How to get rid of halos using advanced methods
Practical topics Session 2 - January 19, 2025:
- Demonstrations/explanations addressing issues and questions raised by participants Live or via the Forum
- Image reviews
Terms & Conditions and Cancelation Policy
- Cancelation before November 30, 2024: 15% cancelation fees will be incurred
- Cancelation from November 30, 2024, to December 7: 20% cancelation fees will be incurred
- Cancelation on or after December 7, 2024: No refund will be possible. The full recording will be provided.
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