Start: 10.00
Finish: 3.30
Venue: RPS Bath

This course is aimed at any digital photographer who is either already competent at processing digital images but is frustrated by their inability to get great results every time and who want an easier and more successful workflow, or for those film photographers wanting to convert to digital. It will simply tell you how to get from flash card to print with the least amount of hassle. You will leave with a full understanding of colour management as it pertains to photographers, but also have been introduced to techniques such as non-destructive editing, sharpening, keywording and back up.

1. Introduction
• The importance of workflow
• Illustrated with flow diagram.

2. Colour Management
• Brief bit of theory
• Why you need it
• How it works.

3. Monitor Calibration
• Explanation
• Software options, monitors & hands on demo.

4. Working space choice
• SRGB
• Adobe RGB
• ProPhoto RGB.

5. Setting Up Photoshop
• Colour management
• Palettes/workspace etc.
• Quick demo.

6. RAW conversion
• Why RAW
• Conversion software options - Camera RAW, Aperture/Lightroom, Canon/Nikon.
• Tools
• Image resolution.
• Meta Data/keywords.

7. Demo of RAW conversion in Photoshop - do as much as you can at this stage.
• Highlights, Neutrals, Colour Casts. Specular vs Diffuse highlights. Aim points for highlight and shadows. The importance of an accurate monitor.
• Colour Correction
• Detail, noise, lens problems

8. Assessing your image in Photoshop
• Histogram
• Info palette
• Memory colours.
• Go back to RAW?

9. Non-destructive editing
• Adjustment layers/smart objects.
• Layer Masks.



10. Order of correction
• Cloning/healing
• Levels
• Curves
• Colour adjustments
• Creating mono/toned images

11.Demo of corrections.

12.Sharpening.
• Why
• When
• Layer technique
• Smart object technique

13.Printing
• Printer Profiles
• Media & ink
• Driver settings.

14.Archiving & Back Up.
• File formats
• Media
• How many back ups

15. Q&A