Learn From The Experts - An Intensive Image Editing Course

It goes with­out say­ing that you may have the best cam­eras and lens­es and be afford­ed the oppor­tu­ni­ties to trav­el into the best land­scapes, but if you can­not mas­ter image edit­ing you will nev­er achieve the results you deserve. We have been teach­ing image edit­ing for over a decade now, but we still see many tal­ent­ed pho­tog­ra­phers that present images to us that are not real­iz­ing their potential.

It’s very easy to get lured into the best plug-ins and sit for hours mak­ing notes watch­ing YouTube videos, but what you are often learn­ing is what the tools can do, not how and when to apply them, and if they are ever need­ed in the first place.

Paul Gal­lagher and Michael Pilk­ing­ton have changed the way they use the tools to process their images enor­mous­ly over recent years in reac­tion to mod­ern cam­era sen­sors improv­ing at break­neck speed along with image edit­ing plat­forms. They spend day after day see­ing pho­tog­ra­phers’ images and offer­ing advice on how to get the best from them. Their com­bined expe­ri­ence and work­flow is sec­ond to none and as up to date as they can be!

Dur­ing this course we will be pro­cess­ing your images because you are the peo­ple that want to learn how we do this. There will be demon­stra­tions, lec­tures and you will see Paul and Michael trans­form your files into an image that could com­fort­ably grace the pages of any pho­tog­ra­phy mag­a­zine or proud­ly hang on any wall. This course will con­cen­trate on how, why and to what extent you may need to use cer­tain tools, but also how to keep the process sim­ple allow­ing your­self to cel­e­brate your image com­ing to life rather than wor­ry­ing about com­pli­cat­ed menus and dia­logue boxes.

The meet­ings will take place between 4pm and 6pm GMT, Mon­day, Wednes­day and Thurs­day dur­ing the first week, Tues­day, Wednes­day and Fri­day the sec­ond week and Mon­day, Wednes­day and Fri­day the last week. For each meet­ing we will be shar­ing tech­niques of pro­cess­ing group mem­bers indi­vid­ual images and each ses­sion is record­ed and shared with the group. We will not be able to process every­one’s images dur­ing each ses­sion, so if you are unable to attend, we will process your images dur­ing ses­sions that you can attend.

We will be work­ing with your exist­ing library of images so there is no need to go out and get new images dur­ing this workshop.

There will also be three 1 to 1 ses­sions sched­uled dur­ing the course and we will have reg­u­lar inter­ac­tive online ses­sions as a group where you will be sent away to revis­it your image files and retrace what you have been shown. All ses­sions, both group and 1 to 1, will be record­ed and shared with you and will act as an up-to-the-minute learn­ing mate­r­i­al for your onward progression.

Even if you have attend­ed one of our image edit­ing work­shops in the past, and are still using those tech­niques, much has changed and there will be things you can take away from this course that will make your fin­ished images even more impressive.