Personal Training, Instruction & Consultation

For artists who incorporate photographic sources as an essential component of their design process, I offer affordable personal training, instruction and consultation in both digital graphics and fine arts in my Middletown, CT studio.

Adobe Photoshop for Artists and Photographers

Many artists use photographs for visual reference to develop ideas for finished works. Using Adobe Photoshop to enhance, combine and otherwise manipulate those images allows for unprecedented real-time creative feedback and exploration of ideas not possible with any other creative tool. Working with scanned images and/or digital photographs, I can show you how to harness the tools and techniques of the graphic design industry for personal creative development and exploration. This “new media” knowledge can later be fully realized with traditional “old media” brushes and paint, or used to create and manipulate images and type to produce personal artwork within Photoshop to output to paper or canvas.

Use Photoshop like a graphics arts professional to manipulate images

By understanding the key components of Photoshop’s complex and technical interface and using just a handful of Photoshop’s tools and simple techniques, you can create professional-quality reference images. You can read more at pbphotorestore.com/instruction. Some of the concepts, tools and techniques include:

• Customizing Preferences, Color Settings and other default settings

• Layers, Adjustment Layers,Layer Masks, Layer Modes and Channels

to composite images

• Understanding color spaces (RGB, CMYK & LAB) and Assign/Convert

Profiles options

• Channel-blending using Apply Image and Calculate Image functions

(from .rgb, .cmyk & LAB) to enhance image color, tone and contrast

• Cloning Stamp, Healing Brush, and Patch Tools to repair images

• Pen and Type tools to integrate words and/or graphic elements into a

composition

• Using Adobe Illustrator to create editable vector paths that can be imported

into Photoshop to create simple or sophisticated artwork and type treatments

• Curves and Shadow Highlight adjustment to enhance image contrast and

tonal characteristics

• High-pass filter and Layer Modes to sharpen images

• Layer comps and the SiteGrinder plug-in to build professional-quality websites

My studio is conveniently located in central Connecticut. Individual private lessons are preferred but small groups are welcomed. I am also available on a consultative basis for corporate or personal instruction and workshops or workshops in a higher educational setting.

Please call 860-638-0890 or email to paul@pbphotostore.com today to learn more.

PAUL BALDASSINI

PHOTO RESTORATION & RETOUCHING

860-638-0890

email: paul@pbphotorestore.com