The Perfect Print: Understanding Digital Printmaking
© Steve Cohen
In digital printmaking, if you’re unprepared to address technical problems, numerous frustrations may occur. Are your prints blue or green? Are your prints too dark or too light? Is printing through Photoshop like a foreign language? Is Photoshop a complete mystery? Are you having trouble deciding how to sharpen or when to sharpen your images? Do you have trouble understanding Bridge in Photoshop? Is opening your images in Bridge a complete mystery? Do you know what a profile is? These and many other questions will be answered.
This workshop is designed to show students, step-by-step, how to achieve quality digital prints. All aspects of the printing process will be demonstrated and each student will have the opportunity to have one of their images printed on professional ink-jet paper. Our goal is to demystify the process and make it accessible for all. Among topics covered will be system calibration, basic Photoshop and printing through Photoshop.
This will be a complete digital printing workshop, both color and black & white, suitable for those looking to learn the process or for those printing now and seeking to improve the quality of their prints.
Steve Cohen is a photographer and educator specializing in the black-and-white silver process and black-and-white digital printing. He served on the Board of Cameravision (an organization dedicated to photography as an art form in the late 70’s) and studied photography at UCLA under the mentorship of Edmund Teske and Leland Rice. He is the past president of the Camera Committee Southern California chapter Sierra Club and has exhibited work widely. Currently Steve may be found teaching silver and digital photography at Tri Community Photo Center in West Covina. He is represented by the Soge Galleryin Los Angeles.
Dates / Times:
Six-week workshop
February 27 — April 2
Wednesdays — 7-10 pm
WORKSHOP FEE: $415
CLASS LOCATION: Venice Beach
ENROLLMENT LIMIT: 15 students
