Photoshop - From Capture to Print - with David Goldsmith

With today’s new technologies, every photographer is able, using Photoshop, to edit images in new and creative ways, and to produce of photographs of extraordinary beauty and quality. Photographers using color have never had the ability to express themselves so personally and black and white photographers find that their ability to “dodge” and “burn” is augmented not limited by the digital techniques. In this workshop we will explore and utilize some of the powerful ways afforded by Photoshop, the “digital darkroom”, for producing the creative image.

We will focus first on the tools available in Photoshop starting with a brief look at Adobe Bridge. This program used for cataloging and organizing, as well as searching for and retrieving images is the entryway to the digital darkroom. We will then explore the capabilities of Adobe Camera Raw – a Photoshop module - for the powerful non-destructive initial adjustments that can be made to a variety of image types.  Camera Raw was designed originally for use with raw files. Now, however, it can be used with jpeg and tiff images as well.  It provides the means for a wide variety of image modifications including global color correction; exposure; black point; contrast and brightness. We will also employ Camera Raw’s new and powerful Adjustment Brush for creative local editing.

In Photoshop itself, after setting Preferences and Color Settings we will review and focus on the three principal techniques available for creative editing of photographs:

a)    Selection; using the Move, Marquee, Lasso, Magic Wand and Quick Selection, Brush and Crop tools

b)    Channels and Masks; for applying changes only to selected areas of a photograph

c)    Adjustment and Fill Layers: for creating differences in contrast; brightness; tonality; color; and virtually all of the other visual parameters of the creative image. These changes will be examined in conjunction with a look at color profiles and soft proofing.

In the last section of the Workshop we will look at the preparation of an edited photograph for printing with respect to Color Management; resolution; file type and size; color profile; and output medium, e.g., inkjet, web, etc.

Best for intermediate to advanced amateur photographers; students should have some basic knowledge of digital photography.

Please bring:       
Laptop Computer  - Mac or PC
Software: Photoshop (preferably CS4 but older versions as well.)

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Questions?
contact SPC Asst. Dir. Jenna Duffy
office - 770-463-9098

About the Instructor

David Goldsmith was born and raised in Flushing, New York. Showing an interest in drawing and painting he attended New York’s High School of Music and Art. David’s interests during and after high school also turned toward science, and following undergraduate work at Michigan, he returned to New York to pursue a doctorate in Chemistry at Columbia, followed by post-doctoral work at Harvard.

David came to Atlanta in 1963 to join the Chemistry Department at Emory, and is recently retired from that department. He has been an active photographer since childhood, but is frequently asked how an early interest and education in art could lead to a career in science – particularly chemistry! For David the connection has always been a natural one – organic chemistry being a science that employs a graphical language and is based in architectural and three-dimensional concepts.

As an “early adopter” David has been using Photoshop since version 2 and has taught Photoshop in Provence at the Craig Stevens workshop and in Atlanta at Emory’s Center for Life Long Learning as well as doing individual tutoring. His principal photographic medium has been black and white, but with the advent of digital photography he has increasingly turned to color work as well. His work has been shown in Atlanta at the Shatten Gallery of Emory University, the Alliance Française, and at the galleries of the Unitarian-Universalist Church and the Atlanta Photography Group. When asked what he likes to photograph he can only paraphrase André Kertesz:  “ .. the image [ I find] that interests me!

For more about David Goldsmith see: http://bellsouthpwp2.net/g/o/goldsmid/photo_1/index.htm#1