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ONLINE: Editing the Digital Photograph in Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop is one of the leading editing programs for photographers. In this course, we will dive into both editing basics in Camera Raw and applying tools. In this four-week class, students will learn how to import images, navigate folders and collections, filter and rate photos, fix exposure and color casts, export images for various output, transform color photos to black and white, and how to use presets. We will learn how to use presets like curves, color selection, moving layers, creating masks and other fun tricks! Every week students will walk away with a photograph they are able to manipulate and alter in ways that allow their artwork to bloom.
Special Notes
- For Photoshop classes: Students need to have Adobe Photoshop (for desktop) downloaded on your computer. You may also use a free version of Photoshop called GIMP, which the instructor can provide access to ahead of time. Before class, be sure to download the software—it can take a long time! (A suggestion from the instructor: If you are an educator, your institution may offer an Adobe license to you for free! You can also look into a $10 monthly subscription.)
Classes are confirmed one week prior to the start date. In order to help us confirm classes, please register as early as possible.
This class is held online through Zoom; learn more about how online classes work here
This instructor speaks Spanish, but class is held in English.
About the Instructor
Amarise Deán Santo
Amarise Deán Santo is a photo based artist and builder. He utilizes photography to observe andallow the land to become tangible. The results are images that harness history, ancestry, altars and still lifes that are alive. The intuitive aspect is referential directly to a gentle and deeply personal connection to passed down knowledge of their elders from the island, Puerto Rico. Each object breathes together. Upon inspection and study, each detail narrates a space that invites the body; trans, queer, and diasporic, to enter. These images document survival while serving as a means to build new worlds the body can be fully liberated in. Piecing together life cycles that directly come from the land their family derives from, becomes a simultaneous practice of honoring their 2spirit body which has existed and will for futures to come.
Deán received their BFA in Photography and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2018. They are based in Flushing, Queens, New York and Richmond, Virginia. They have been published in The New Yorker, Aperture Magazine, Nueva Luz, and has shown at El Museo del Barrio, The Museum of New York, and The Center.
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