Digital Photography Printing Workshop

Digital Printing

Seeing your hard won photographic images on a lovely bright computer screen is great, but there is nothing quite like a real print of your masterpiece to hang on the wall.  It feels more substantial and it’s the best way to supercharge your photography learning.

Explaining the print mystery

The price of high quality photographic printers has come way down; they are now within reach of most keen photographers.  But you know, the printers may be affordable, and there is no doubt they can produce amazing results, but they never seem to work quite the way you thought, the print just doesn’t look like it did on the screen!

In this workshop we will resolve this.

But why print in the first place?

The print was always the natural end product in the old film days, but now everything is digital can’t we just look at our images on the monitor?

Yes of course, but a well crafted print on lovely art paper is a beautiful object in itself.  

Plus, it’s one of the most effective ways of boosting your photography and post processing skills.  

Things you wouldn’t even notice on instagram become impossible to live with once you start making prints.  Printing will refine the way you process and it will change the way you shoot, as you find yourself shooting for that magical print to go on the living room wall! (Read More about this>>)

Colour Management the easy way

Colour Management is the key to translating your Images from your computer to your printer, but what is colour management and why do people cringe and roll their eyes when they hear those words?  

You don’t need to be a digital colour scientist to successfully print your photographs, but you will need to understand a few basic principles. Without these basic colour management principles your printing will always be random.

In this printing course we teach you these essential principles and provide a foundation for problem solving that relieves the frustration.

Getting the Monitor Right

The first step is getting your monitor to reveal the true colours of your photographs, only then can you really see what you are really working with.

Giving your images the Wow factor

The difference between what your monitor shows and how your prints look can be daunting. We show you how to tweak your images to make that print grab the viewers attention.  The difference between an award winning print and a forgettable flat image is often just a few subtle slider adjustments. We will show you how to fine tune those adjustments, and get your print right every time.

Paper, going beyond the basics

What paper is best?  There are some truly beautiful papers out there for digital printers, and really that is one of the main reasons for having your own printer.  We will be exploring some of the stunning papers available now and how to choose the right paper for your image.

Easy ways to get your image on the wall

It’s great to print, but do you just leave them in the bottom drawer? Really you want them on the wall, but framing is expensive. We give you some simple ways to get your images on the wall, looking fabulous and without costing a fortune.

The Notes, so you can remember it all

In this course there are a lot of new concepts and details to remember… far too many details to remember in fact, and if you spend the whole time taking notes you will miss half the course.

So we give you a complete and comprehensive set of course notes, all laid out with headings and graphics in point form and easy to read. So that when you read back over the notes later you will still find it all easy to follow.

The Important details

This workshop used to be a one day course at SHOOT Photography workshop in East Perth.  However, SHOOT is no more, another victim of the current economic situation. This course is now available as private tuition at reasonable rates with Adam directly. Click the email link on this page to enquire.

 Course Outline

1. Why Print? The single best way to improve your photography.
2. Colour management…  What is it and why do you need to know about it?
3. The Monitor: Why and how to calibrate it
4. RGB Profiles & Colour Spaces
5. Colour settings in Lightroom and Photoshop.
6. Image Preparation for printing, making it look sexy!
7. Soft Proofing Why and How
8. Special tweaks to make your image stand out from the crowd
9. All the print settings for Photoshop and Lightroom that make it work every time.
10. Final Sizing and sharpening
11. Sending your images to the printer
12. Easy affordable ways to get your images on the wall (without BlueTack)

The Outcome

At the conclusion of this course you will have a clear understanding of digital printing and the steps to get your prints on the wall and looking fantastic.  To help you remember it all, you will have a print of your own image done on the day, and you will have a complete set of easily understandable notes to take away.

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Who is Adam Monk, and what does he know about printing?

Adam Monk began his Photographic career way back in the film and darkroom days, with many years of working in professional darkrooms printing extensively!  Adam also has over 20 years of hands on digital printing experience with large format professional printers.

Adam Monk worked out of his own gallery in Fremantle, for 13 years printing all his own work that goes on the wall as well as professionally printing images for many of Perth’s other Photographers.  Adam’s work  hangs in countless homes and businesses the world over, having printed and sold literally thousands of large format images over the years.  In all that time Adam only ever had one image returned for a re-print, and that the result of a faulty batch of canvas.

Adam is not someone who has just read a few books and decided to teach, Adam is a full time professional photographer, professional printer and photography mentor of nearly 30 years experience.  Adam has used and owned many different digital printers over the years, beginning with the rather primitive Epson 4000 from 2002, to the more recent Epson 9900 & 4900 Pro printers. He has extensive experience with almost all of the current range of Epson and Canon professional photo  printers,  Adam knows what he is doing, and  how to teach it to you.