Photography and Photoshop Workshop, learn the secrets of how to light and shoot your glass artwork.

Class description: Learn the secrets of how to shoot your jewelry, glass, beads and crafts with an experienced professional product and studio photographer and glass artist. We’ll cover basic photography, how to set your camera and you’ll use instructor provided lighting setups to photograph your own pieces. Students will learn to process, color correct and crop their photos of jewelry, glass beads, and other art objects using Photoshop CS5 and Elements 11 with an experienced professional photographer and glass artist. Exposure level optimizing, background removal, color balancing, print and online file formats will be covered.

Photography Day 1: What the students will learn: See what aspects make for a high quality photograph. Learn the language of studio photography, the 9 parameters of successful photos and how to produce them. We’ll cover basic photography, the qualities of good lighting, composition, background materials, the proper use of an 18 percent gray card, how to set your camera's menus, ISO, aperture, shutter speed, shooting mode, color balance and quality settings. You'll use high quality simple lighting setups using inexpensive materials. You'll photograph your own pieces during class at lighting stations. Students should bring their own DSLR cameras to learn the proper settings for photographing their pieces. You'll leave the classes empowered to create photos as beautiful as the art you're photographing.

Photoshop Day 2: What the students will learn: See how to extract objects from backgrounds, add new backgrounds, create photo realistic shadows and more. Students will learn how to create color accurate files of their art for use on their website, Etsy, in magazine articles, books, portfolios and for juried competitions. Plus, how to purchase recent versions of Photoshop at far less than the full retail price.

Call 714-538-0888 to sign up! Ask for Dana Baldwin