Fine Art Digital Printing

"The negative is everything. The print is all. The negative is the sheet music. The print is the symphony..." Ansel Adams

Students will learn to create gallery quality photographs and fine-art prints with achievable, pigment based inks in this course hosted by Don Brown. Students will explore the software tools and editing techniques that will create beautiful inkjet prints. Hands-on demonstrations will teach students methods in correcting color casts, adjustment layers, Black and White conversions… Show more (that replicate the look of silver prints), color management, custom profile generation and workflow.

An Epson inkjet printer with color and black/gray ink combinations capable of printing 13"x19" at a resolution of 4800 dpi will be available for class use. Students will have the option to print on coated and fine art rag papers. Don will share with students that all decisions about a print are best made at the point of capture. Understanding how it all works is essential. Students will gain an understanding of the entire process including image capture, image editing (Photoshop, Lightroom, Qimage, etc.), and fine art print production. By the end of the course, students will have mastered all of the key techniques to make high quality inkjet prints.

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