Les Walkling Seminar - AIPP event - Everyone Welcome

This full day seminar covers two essential conditions of contemporary digital photography; the efficient crafting of high quality digital images, and the accurate reproduction of colour and tone throughout the workflow.

Members $120 Non Members $180 Student Member $80

Book Online at: http://aipp.com.au/store

or for more infomationemail melissa.neumann@tafesa.edu.au

Editing images for Art and Profit
This presentation is about intelligent and creative image editing. It reconsiders traditional approaches, redefines technique, and rethinks production strategies. Editing errors, inconsistencies, and problematic hue, saturation and brightness changes are deconstructed, and the reasons why curves and other tools don’t always work as predicted, are explained. Effective fixes and editing solutions are then proposed that overcome these frustrations. The result is an efficient, eloquent, and accurate image editing workflow based on an informed use of our digital editing tools. Topics include:
• Are you a curve person or a slider person?
• When should you edit with curves?
• Why does the same RGB edit produce different effects on different images?
• Can we edit saturation independently of hue and brightness?
• Why are RGB values only represented as single RGB curve control points?
• Why don’t RGB curve control points remain anchored during image editing?
• How do we experience colour and tone?
• Does this correlate with how Photoshop edits colour and tone?
• Should brightness also alter with changes in saturation?
• How do I separate luminosity and chromaticity adjustments?
• What are the problems of working in CIE LAB?
• How can the behaviour of Photoshop tools be improved?

Colour Spaces and Profiles
This presentation covers the essential colour management strategies needed for an efficient, profitable and colour accurate photographic workflow. The myths and fairy tales surrounding working spaces, monitor profiles and printer profiles are debunked and replaced with simple, logical and effective workflow solutions. Real world case studies include proofing for clients, incorrect screen brightness settings, inappropriate profile conversions, chromatic adaptation errors in working and viewing environments, generic printer profiles, linearization errors, and other typical sources of colour inaccuracy.
Topics include:
• How is colour represented in a digital workflow?
• What is the relationship between an image and its colour space?
• How do I choose the most appropriate working colour space?
• Are there critical differences between assigning and converting profiles?
• What are out-of-gamut colours and what happens to them?
• Why are perceptual rendering intents not all the same?
• What are the errors and disadvantages of generic printer profiles?
• How do I properly calibrate and profile my monitor?
• Which white point, black point, contrast ratio and gamma curve should I use?
• How do I test if my profiles are accurate?
• How often should I recalibrate/reprofile my monitors and printers?
• Is my working and viewing environment causing me unnecessary problems?

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