How To Make The Ordinary Extraordinary with Raymond Gehman

Description

Join Raymond for this three-day workshop as he teaches you how to transform everyday subjects into the mysterious, the enchanting, the bizarre. On the first morning he will present his own artwork tosuggest how you can open up your internal world and allow it to affect the way you perceive ordinary external subjects. On field trips during the first afternoon and second morning you will learn howto photograph the commonplace in imaginative fashion, creating your own personal, artistic images in-camera. On the second afternoon you will be introduced to computer laboratory instruction on downloading and editing processes for selecting your best images. During the third day you will be treated to individualized, hands-on experience with his original style of down-home Photoshop wizardry: RGB color tweaking; selective saturation and de-saturation; selective color; and inverting and equalizing. You will experiment with the filter gallery including artistic, brush strokes, texture, blur,distort, and stylize techniques. You will explore the tool palette: the clone stamp; spot and healing brushes; magic wand; the lassos; burn, dodge, and sponge; paint bucket; and smudge and brush tools, among others.