Part 1: Equipment and Colour Management
Before you can print you need to understand the basis of colour management to get to achieve accurate results when printing, we will cover this inclining:
- Screen and printer calibration
- Understanding colour space and rendering
- Print sizing and DPI
- Screen and printer calibration
- ICC paper profiles & Installing them
- Installing Epson printer drivers
Part 2: Setting up Files
One of the essential components to making prints is understanding how we make a print ready RAW file. This can be a frustrating and self deprecating task for photographers, however, it needn’t be using Lightroom. We shall cover all the essential tools you need to know to take your RAW files to the next level before printing, including:
- Advanced techniques for developing your workflow
- Addressing issues in your files
- Controlling shadows and highlights
- The advice of a professional photographer on making stylistic choices
Part 3: Making Prints
Once we have created our gorgeous images, we shall then prepare ourselves for the printing process. The course will cover in depth areas that are essential to understanding how you are able to achieve consistent, beautiful prints. This will include:
- Sharpening for printing
- Soft proofing (Making your image will look the same as it does on your screen)
- Printing In Lightroom (or Photoshop)
- Print Settings
- Avoiding Print Problems
PLEASE NOTE - Where we will be covering some processing on this workshop, this is not designed as a processing/Lightroom workshop but to teach the art of printing. If you have not used Lightroom before, or wish to learn a full image processing workflow in Lightroom, please look at our Lightroom Workshop which covers this.