Investigate digital imaging beyond the basic adjustments, and develop digital lab skills to make fine-tuned image enhancements with Adobe software. This workshop provides hands-on practice in digital image processing for those already comfortable with digital cameras and manual settings. Demonstrations, lectures, and slideshow presentations address digital capture, image control, and boundless creative possibilities.  Students explore their personal vision throughout the week both in the lab and in the field, discovering challenges, advantages, limitations and solutions to digital capture and processing. Using Adobe Lightroom 3, students learn organizational skills, basic retouching, tonality, contrast control, color saturation, converting color images to black and white, and printing methods. After mastering Lightroom, participants are introduced to the basics of Photoshop CS5, enabling refined image adjustments.

This course is the second in a sequence of digital photography workshops, preparing students for further Photoshop exploration in the next class of the sequence, Photoshop for Photographers. An understanding of camera functions in manual mode as well as a basic understanding of Adobe Lightroom is required.

Winter/Spring lodging and meal package available: $450