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Creative Retrofits: Digital Processes for Reinventing New Imagery out of Your Artistic Debris  

Photoshop and Photoshop Elements are not just for photographs!  As artists, we regularly work between realism and abstraction, nuanced texture and color and stark contrasts.  Explore how you use digital image processing to mine your stockage of works that are languishing in storage area.  By combining, cropping, modifying, and generally letting loose with the old we will create something new, which can either be printed as a digital image or used as a sketch for new work in any medium.   Enrollment is limited. Workshop requirements: No prior knowledge of Photoshop or Photoshop elements is required, participants should have basic computer skills. Laptop (Windows or Mac) Installed Photoshop or Photoshop Elements  (30 day trial is free - but must be downloaded and installed prior to workshop) 3-5 high resolution digital images of earlier work sketchbook images to finished works - any date recommended: Wacom tablet (includes Photoshop Elements) any size or version (Bamboo, Graphire, Intuos)

Where: City Gallery, 994 State Street, New Haven CT,  203/ 782-2489

When: Wednesdays -  October 14 and October 21  from 5:30pm to 8:30pm  (there will be a 1/2 hour break for dinner)
Cost- $120 for both sessions
To register - please write checks to "City Gallery" and send to:  Judy Atlas, 367 Hitching Post Drive, Orange CT 06477

For questions regarding  course content please contact: Cynthia Rubin  info@cbrubin.net


Rhode Island School of Design Full-time Students

Digital Nature

Wintersession Course: Schedule B

Many of the principles of natural form are unusually well suited to computer imaging: repetition, pattern, changes in scale, camouflage, etc. Using resources in the Natu
re Lab, we will find a way to infuse digital imagery with the organic fluidity found in nature. The primarily tools for the course are imaging programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter, but the emphasis of the course is on developing a strategy to create digital images reflecting a personal aesthetic. An overview of photographic collage and computer imaging are a part of the course; no prior computer experience is required

Workshops
on request

Please email for a list of workshops and individual mentoriing:
cbr at cbrubin.net