A New Approach to Color -The Harmonic Color Workflow

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The Harmonic Color Workflow

A NEW APPROACH TO COLOR

When: September 27, 2026

Time (Changed times!): 6:15 pm CET (Amsterdam) / 12:15 pm EDT (New York) / 09:15 am PDT (Los Angeles)

Duration: approx. 3 hours

Background info in a recent blog post I wrote.

OUTLINE

What if color photography obeyed the same principles as your black-and-white work — and you could stop guessing at color and start reasoning about it?

In this workshop, I'll show you a new way to approach color in fine-art photography: one that treats light, hue, and saturation not as three separate problems but as a single, unified system — the same harmonic logic that governs tone in black and white, extended into color. It's an approach I haven't seen taught anywhere else, and most of our time together will be spent watching it work in practice, live in Photoshop, on real images.

We'll begin with the idea itself — briefly, because it's worth understanding why this works before you do it. I'll show you how the color wheel and the tonal scale turn out to be the same structure seen two different ways, and I'll prove it not with diagrams but with paintings: how Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Caravaggio each solved the problem of color and light centuries before anyone wrote the theory down. Once you've seen it in their work, you won't be able to unsee it in your own.

Then we get practical and stay there. Working in Photoshop, I'll demonstrate the full workflow, start to finish:

• Building the image in black and white first — establishing the tonal structure and locking it
• Reintroducing color without disturbing that structure
• Assigning hue relationships using simple, harmonic ratios — and aligning them with the tonal design so the image has a single centre of gravity
• Distributing saturation with intention, so one note can sing because the rest are restrained
• The final perceptual check — trusting your eye where the two systems meet

You'll leave understanding not just what to adjust, but why — a way of working that replaces guesswork with judgement, on every color image you make from here on.

For photographers who already work in black and white and want to bring the same discipline to color — and for anyone who has felt that their color images lack a deliberate structure.

All topics will be demonstrated across multiple images, from landscapes to architecture

For beginners and experienced artists alike

If you are new to B&W or Color fine art photography, this webinar will give you a complete and lasting foundation — practically and theoretically. If you are already an experienced artist, you will encounter new analytical perspectives that reframe what you have always done intuitively and give you new tools to push your work further and articulate your creative decisions with greater confidence.

Deliverables:

• Live attendance on September 27, 2026 
• A quick preparation video before the webinar.
• Webinar recording a few days after the webinar
• A PDF with the schematic workflow after the webinar
• The recordings are accompanied by subtitles in seven different languages: English, Spanish, German, French, Dutch, Italian, and Portuguese.

Seats

Limited attendance. After successful payment in full, you will receive an invite with a Zoom link within 24 hours. Please check your spam folder.

Not a plugin demonstration

This webinar is NOT about using the Artisan or other plugins, but they are an important part of the webinar to speed up the workflow and demonstrations. 

All demonstrations can be replayed using Photoshop only. To this end, you will receive a short video with an overview of how to map the panel steps to PS steps before the start of the webinar.

Terms & Conditions and Cancellation Policy

• Cancellation within 14 days after sign-up: 30% cancellation fees will be incurred 
• Cancellation on or after 14 days after sign-up: No refund will be possible. The full recording with subtitles will be provided.